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~
Everyone is watching someone and in turn being watched by someone. This isn’t paranoia, it is simple fact. It has been so for some time, but more so now, with the interconnectedness that the Internet brings us. The play Puzzler, now in its world premier at Sacred Fools, begins in a brightly lit, [...]
by Joel Elkins~
It is said that critics at the time complained that in one of his comedies Shakespeare had stooped to the level of the masses, forsaking the high artistry of his earlier, more cerebral plays. Supposedly, in recognition of this, the bard tried to distance himself from the work by [...]
by Erin Daley~
“99 Impossible Things is not a perfect play, but it is hopeful” writer/director Chelsea Sutton explains in her program notes. “While it still may have some growing up to do, I hope you like what it has to say.” Right there in the first pages of the program, Ms. Sutton scooped [...]
by Sylvia Blush ~
A profound plan to uncover or discover what you believe to be true can in fact be nothing like what you imagined. Macho Like Me sets the stage to confirm writer/producer Helie Lee’s belief that men have it easier than women.
Subject: Helie Lee. Female. 29. A.K.A. “Harry”.
Objective: To live like a man [...]
by Erin Daley~
(Editor’s Note: We are pleased to welcome Ms. Daley, the newest writer to our site.)
If you find yourself staying up late into the night to watch Brit-coms on PBS, have all of Gavin and Stacey queued up on Netflix instant or maybe are tickled by words like ‘queue’ and ‘smashing’ then look into [...]
by Geoff Hoff~
I like to find something good about any play I see. The lighting (by David Graybill) in the production of the original play Nevermore, now playing at El Centro Theatre, was incredible, especially so given the limitations of the space and the set. The costumes (by Sarah Register) were also quite good and [...]
by Geoff Hoff~
I like my stories to make sense. If a story doesn’t make sense, I like them to at least have some compelling reason not to. An example; absurdist plays don’t often make a lot of sense, but that’s the whole point of absurdist plays and I would be hard pressed to find an [...]
by Joel Elkins~
I hate getting sick. When I’m sick, much of what I like to do is out of the question and the rest is rendered severely less enjoyable. It was in this mood that I pulled myself out of two-and-a-half days in bed and schlepped myself to opening night of the [...]
