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 Joel Elkins~
John Stuercke claims he wrote The Berlin Dig as a reaction to the recent rise in fundamentalism in the United States and even gives credit to Sarah Palin for inspiring it. We can now add this to the list of things she has inflicted us with.
First of all, the play, [...]
by Erin Daley~
Zombies are blowing up right now. These foul smelling, brain munching undead are everywhere in pop-culture from the recent action-comedy Zombieland to Danny Boyle’s apocalyptic 28 Days Later to the rehashing of Austen’s classic in Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. I swear, if the undead were sexier, there would be a Team Zombie [...]
by Ashley Steed~
Chaplin Stage
Company: Full Circle Theatrics DBA El Centro Theatre
Managing Partners Alice Ensor & Joe Koonce
Neighborhood: Hollywood
Address: 804 N.El Centro, Los Angeles, CA 90038
Website: www.elcentrotheatre.com
Seat capacity: 99 (The Circle) & 45 (The Chaplin)
When founded: The theatre itself was founded in 1946. Full Circle Theatrics took over the management of the space in 2007.
Parking: [...]
by Joel Elkins
Why is “quaint” almost always used in the past tense? Does history have a tendency to homogenize and trivialize events the farther back they occurred? If so, what would it feel like now to know that in a few generations, our world will be considered “quaint” and all [...]
by Joel Elkins~
Classic period pieces will never die. At least not if the Open Fist Theatre Company has anything to say about it. Its latest attempt to keep old genres alive is Room Service, the slapstick comedy immortalized by the Marx Brothers in the 1938 film by the same name.
The story, for those [...]
By Erin Daley~
Theater is so much more to me than just putting on plays. It’s the capital ‘T’ Theater, the cultural institution, the social force, the secular communion and the fullest way to tell a story. The work that I love, the work that really ignites me is theater that deals with this, exploring [...]
by Sylvia Blush~
Todd Waring triumphs as an actor yet falters in character development as a writer.
Undeniably, Mr. Waring is an excellent performer. He graces us with his committed presence and he traverses the parallel lines that somehow connect the individual stories. Out of uneasiness laughter is made through the [...]
by Geoff Hoff~
Two warring families in old time Verona. One has a son, rather a rake, the other a beautiful daughter. They meet and fall in love at a party he wasn’t supposed to attend, but the animosity between the families forces them to restrict the rest of their meetings to secret trysts in a [...]
Mis-directing the Play: An Argument Against Contemporary Theatre
Terry McCabe
Ivan Dee, 2001
by Robin Galen Kilrain~
Some people believe that directors rightly operate in a gray area between serving playwrights’ intentions and satiating their own creativity. Terry McCabe is not one of them. To him, the issue is black and white: The playwright is the only creative, in [...]
by Erin Daley ~
Edgar Lee Masters’ Spoon River Anthology holds a warm, cozy connotation for me. We used the text in a number of my early acting classes, I played a piece in high school band inspired by the poems and I’m a sucker for American history so I love to see any variation [...]
