Konstantine Stanislavski Love art in yourself and not yourself in art.
Harold Clurman The stage is life, music, beautiful girls, legs, breasts, not talk or intellectualism or dried-up academics.
The Confessions of Edward Day
Valerie Martin
Random House, 2009
by Robin Galen Kilrain~
If you’re like me, the ominous aura and compelling foreshadowing will draw you in to this novel. Author Valerie Martin will seduce you, as the nighttime ocean does Edward Day at the beginning of his “confessions.” Swim parallel to the shore for a while — [...]
by Joel Elkins~
On November 27, 1978, I was sitting in my 10th grade French class when my teacher, Madame Pousey, came in looking like she’d seen a ghost. Clearly shaken, she somberly announced to the class that the mayor of San Francisco had just been shot and killed. Little did I know at [...]
by Geoff Hoff~
People are neurotic, manipulative, lonely, wounded, wounding, weirdly unpredictable and cruel in order to protect themselves. At least that seems to be the overriding theme of Love Sex & Violence Too, written by Helena Weltman, now playing at the Whitefire Theatre. It is a collection of five vignettes strung together with little [...]
by Geoff Hoff~
It is difficult to review The Birthday Boys, the Hollywood Fringe Festival hit now playing in an extended run at Theatre Asylum, without talking about the ending but I will do my best. It is the story of three soldiers in Iraq, all privates, who have been captured and are being held as [...]
by Sylvia Blush ~
In an instant this seemingly quirky tale about a young man who believes he was abducted by aliens is turned by the obvious revelation that his recurring dreams are not what they seem. Presented by East West Players (EWP), Mysterious Skin, is a dark drama set in Kansas and New York [...]
by Rachel Stoll~
The Birthday Boys generated some serious buzz by winning the 2010 Hollywood Fringe First Award for world premiere, and LA Fringe Award presented by LA Theatre Review Critic’s Choice. It is because of this buzz that Theatre Asylum‘s Matthew Quinn offered to extend writer Aaron Kozak’s play as part of Theatre Asylum’s [...]
by Marcus Kaye-
When she first took the stage, I had a hard time believing that the bubbly personality that was Jasmynne Shaye was capable of being anything else. However, in the same way Gabourey Sidibe was able to shed her giggly disposition to portray the downtrodden Precious in last year’s best picture nominee, Shaye had [...]
by Vince Duvall
Grand central, Hollywood and Highland – just east on the boulevard sweltering with late summer tourists and early evening vagrants. Up the stairs and down the hall, past two other theatres preparing for shows. Some crazy repertory action going on. I half expect to see a juggler and gymnast warming up [...]
by Geoff Hoff ~
To begin at the beginning. That is the opening line of Dylan Thomas’ lush, lusty “play for voices”, Under Milkwood, originally intended as a radio play. It is often performed live on stage, however (and once as a rather ill-advised movie), either in traditional “reader’s theatre” mode, with actors siting on [...]
by Marcus Kaye-
Waiting for Lefty at Theatre West is a play that should resonate with today’s audiences, given the current economic slump that many find themselves in the middle of. The play, about an impending labor strike in the 1930′s, finds its themes of unrest, poverty, and distrust in government are mirrored in today’s society. [...]
