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~
Usually, the term “reliving your glory days” refers to men who are approaching or have reached middle age, reliving the triumphs they had as athletes in high school, triumphs they haven’t been able to recreate in a life outside that insular environment. In the musical Glory Days, now playing in it’s West [...]
The Shakespeare Riots: Revenge, Drama, and Death in Nineteenth-Century America
Nigel Cliff
Random House, 2007
by Robin Galen Kilrain~
Riots over Shakespeare. Well, more precisely, over two famous Shakespearean actors and the nations and classes of fan base they represented. Though it would be easier to blame the violent eruption on the curse of Macbeth, being performed inside New [...]
by Geoff Hoff~
I often avoid seeing evenings of one acts because they tend to be focused on showcasing actors rather than presenting an interesting or compelling night of theatre. Occasionally, a group of plays will be collected that have, when put together, an over riding emotional arc, and the evening can then be compelling, [...]
by Erin Daley~
The crew at The Mutineer Theater Company have clearly done an incredible amount of work on their world premiere of The Woodpecker, taking an original script from an emerging playwright and developing it into a fully realized production. I am such a fan of Mutineer’s mission to “create, develop and produce original material [...]
by Geoff Hoff~
The history of the musical The Cradle Will Rock is more intriguing and exciting than the actual play itself. Indeed, Tim Robbins wrote a book and made a movie about the original production, which was directed by Orson Welles as part of his 1937 Federal Theatre Project season that also included his famous [...]
by Erin Daley~
Porters of Hellsgate’s production of Oedipus the Tyrant is a shining testament to the quality of work that can be accomplished by a small, devoted theater company. The mood for the piece was already established as I walked to my seat, a droning music rumbling through the dim and smokily lit stage. There [...]
by Vince Duvall~
There are several plays going up on this block tonight. It’s cold. People are ducking in at the last minute. Friday night. Thankfully there is a guy smoking a cigarette out front and he knows where the lab is: “Right in there and take a right.” Thank you, my [...]
