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.
by Geoff Hoff~
The program for the play The Quarry, now playing at Moth Theatre, begins with a short piece by the playwright about finding an old family photo album amongst the other debris thrown into the Milford Quarry. It seems a very intriguing inspiration for a play, delving into the question of why someone would [...]
by Marcus Kaye~
It is a shame that instead of sitting through boring lectures in grade school, I couldn’t have been taught European history in a manner akin to Portrait of Churchill Production’s Churchill. The play, written by Andrew Edlin, tells the story of Winston Churchill’s rise to political power and of his eventual decision [...]
by Joel Elkins~
Via Dolorosa is a one-man play written by David Hare soon after his trip to Israel in 1997, where he met with various politicians, writers, and average citizens and discussed the issues that divide and the possibilities for peace in the region. Thirteen years later, I’m afraid to report, the work is not [...]
by Joel Elkins~
Hoboken to Hollywood (subtitled “A Journey Through the Great American Songbook”) puts you in the audience for the taping of a fictionalized television special, complete with commercials and behind-the-scenes drama. (The star of the show, a blue-eyed, fedora-wearing, hot-tempered crooner from Hoboken, is never mentioned by name, so I’ll call him “Frank.”) From [...]
by Sylvia Blush ~
Valiant effort by actors isn’t enough to save Two Small Bodies.
The success of any show is based upon the production elements coexisting seamlessly. When a production isn’t hitting its mark, the lines between where the text begins and the artistic interpretation ends become blurred. The shortcoming of this production then [...]
by Vince Duvall~
October. Kingdoms rise and kingdoms fall. But theater goes on. I don’t know what has sparked the blaze of original and provocative theatre in Hollywood but carrying the torch for every show I’ve seen there is the Theatre of NOTE on Cahuenga at Sunset. Really, how do they do it? The [...]
by Ashley Steed~
Company: Coeurage Theatre Company
Website: coeuragetheatre.com
When founded: December 2009
Current Location: The Space Theatre, 665 N Heliotrope Dr.
Neighborhood: East Hollywood / Silverlake
Seat capacity: 40
Parking: Street
Handicap accessible: The theatre is handicap accessible, but we would like to make it more handicap friendly. Right now, a person in a wheelchair only has the option of sitting in [...]
by Geoff Hoff~
In the two years I have been reviewing plays in Los Angeles, I have never been late to a curtain. I have often sharply judged those people who do arrive late and those companies who accommodate them with curtains that regularly and habitually go up as much as twenty minutes past the advertised [...]
by Geoff Hoff~
A young theatre company struggles with what it means to be successful artists with a fever dream of a play about a young artists straggling with what success means. This may sound a little self-referential and self-indulgent, but the Coeurage Theatre Company’s production of the (re)made play, Hats, Nudes & Immortality is [...]
by Marcus Kaye-
Some 41 years after publication, Kurt Vonnegut’s anti-war science fiction novel has been adapted to the stage by scribe Eric Simonson and the Action! Theatre Company.
Slaughterhouse Five tells the story of Billy Pilgrim, a World War II soldier who becomes “unstuck in time.” Through nonlinear story telling, Billy tells of his time in [...]
