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~
Julia Migenes is a ham. She loves opera and opera singers (especially those substantial Wagnerian Sopranos) and also loves poking fun at them. Diva on the Verge is Ms. Migenes’ saucy love letter to her chosen profession. At the outset, she tells the audience that, if they’re there looking for grand opera, they’re [...]
by Geoff Hoff~
It is, perhaps, a little daunting to be given a press kit and seeing on the front a memo from producer Orson Bean, the Broadway, television and movie actor and mainstay of gameshows and talkshows from the sixties and seventies, rather than the usual picture from or logo for the actual play. It [...]
by Joel Ellkins~
There’s no doubt Michael Altman has show business pedigree. He is the eldest son of award-winning director Robert Altman, and at the age of 14, already had written the lyrics to a movie song. The song was “Suicide is Painless” and the movie was M*A*S*H, directed by his father. [...]
by Geoff Hoff~
I have always had a kind of love/hate relationship with the Edmond Rostand’s play Cyrano de Bergerac. It is an exciting, witty play with some delightful characters but has at its heart a notion of romance, the idea that it is somehow noble to suffer your entire life for a lost or unattainable [...]
Slings & Arrows: The Complete Collection
Created by Susan Coyne, Bob Martin and Mark McKinney
Acorn Media (Blu-ray edition), 2010
by Robin Galen Kilrain~
The Blu-ray edition of Slings & Arrows: The Complete Collection was recently released, and I can’t think of a more worthy departure from a book being the Thing. If you haven’t yet experienced this witty [...]
by Ashley Steed~
Company: Company of Angels
Neighborhood: Downtown LA
Address: 501 South Spring Street 3rd Floor, Los Angeles CA 90013
Website: www.companyofangels.org
Seat capacity: 50
When founded: 1959
Parking: Street Parking and Underground Parking at the Alexandria as well as multiple parking lots on Spring Street.
Handicap accessible: Yes
Restrooms: Restrooms on the 2nd floor
Lobby: Yes, and it overlooks the historic [...]
by Joel Elkins~
On the way into Traveling Carnival Freakshow, now playing at the Eclectic Company Theatre, patrons are offered complimentary glasses of red wine. Given what awaits them, perhaps blotters of acid would be more appropriate.
The play, as can be expected, recreates a traveling carnival freak show. The fortune teller who [...]
by Geoff Hoff~
As is usually the case, Jeremy Aluma and the Urban Theatre Movement’s latest production was incredibly well mounted. The set was intriguing and evocative, the lighting was effective, the direction was confident and innovative, using an untraditional space very well, and the acting, for the most part, was superior. The problem I had [...]
