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 Sylvia Blush ~
Nightsong for the Boatman is your basic morality play. Playwright Jovanka Bach doesn’t bring up a new convention in the telling of the story, but the floorplan is laid out cleanly. Its non-linear set-up helps support her main character’s distorted view on his own righteousness.
Harry (played by John DiFusco) is [...]
by Geoff Hoff~
(Full disclosure: The director of Summer in Hell, David Jette, was once a writer for LATR.)
At Rumeneck Cove, the shore is partitioned off into private beaches for the well-healed owners of the vacation houses. The privileged offspring of money consider themselves entitled to whatever they want and will use whatever means at their [...]
by Sylvia Blush~
Wonderfully acted, The Sunset Limited, is a powerful demonstration of two actor’s ability to maintain an audiences attention within a semi-flawed script.
Rogue Machine Theatre has produced Cormac McCarthy’s second published play, The Sunset Limited at Theatre Theatre in Hollywood. The play is a philosophically religious debate about human existence and the [...]
by Joel Elkins~
As a general rule, plays should be judged solely by the product presented on the stage, but every now and then extenuating circumstances are worth noting. The Little Flower of East Orange, now playing at the Elephant Theatre, presents such a case.
For the play’s first staging outside of New York, Katherine [...]
by Ashley Steed~
Company: Sacred Fools
Neighborhood: East Hollywood/Los Feliz
Address: 660 N. Heliotrope Dr., Los Angeles, CA 90004
Website: www.sacredfools.org
Seat capacity: 74
When founded: 1997
Parking: We have a dedicated lot behind the theatre that we charge a small fee for on show nights. There is also ample street parking around the [...]
by Vince Duvall~
I admit that I don’t like to go over the hill if I don’t have to and NOHO is dangerously close to portions of the Valley that make me want to take prescription drugs. But it’s hard to deny that stretch of Lankershim near Magnolia - which has 15 plus theatres - as [...]
by Joel Elkins~
As a child, Tom Stoppard was forced to flee his native Czechoslovakia with his parents in 1939 and ended up in Britain (by way of Singapore and India), where he eventually achieved every Czech boy’s dream: British knighthood.
Stoppard’s 2006 play Rock ‘N’ Roll is reminiscent of his own life story. The central figure [...]
by Rachel Stoll~
Lucia Joyce is the daughter of esteemed writer James Joyce and his wife Nora, who are Irish exiles living in Paris. Due to James’s prominence as a writer, he and his wife frequently host other literary guests such as Irish playwright Samuel Beckett that are also in exile. Lucia, the apple of her [...]
by Geoff Hoff~
The script for the play Rocky Horror Show, written by Richard O’Brien (who played the role of Riff Raff in the original production and the movie) is incredibly decadent, dramatically problematic and a lot of fun. The production by the Coeurage Theatre Company currently playing at the Space Theatre is also incredibly decadent, [...]
by K. Primeau~
Hollywood Fringe is 8 months away; Ovation Awards aren’t til the new year. What’s a theatre artist to do between now and The Christmas Carol season?!
Attend the first-ever #LAThtr Tweetup of course!
Bring flyers for your latest show, info about your theatre company, ideas for The Theatre and #LAThtr community members, and cash for [...]
