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~
bash: latterday plays, now being presented by Coeurage Theatre Company at the Actors Circle Theatre, is a frustrating play. Actually, it is three related plays, all a bit frustrating in their own way, each dealing with Mormons and Mormonism (although the third one only peripherally so), and each echoing tragic Greek myths [...]
by Andrew Moore~
Robert Anderson’s 1968 play takes us inside the lives of the Garrison family. The father (Philip Baker Hall) is an overbearing boor. A self-made man who once was great struggles with his increasing irrelevance (and senility.) The affable wife and mother (Ann Gee Byrd) dotes on her son and their widower son (John [...]
By Erin Daley~
The Crucible is an incredible and indelible piece of Theater written by one of the most resonant voice of the American stage, Arthur Miller. It is so intrinsically American and calls upon such a powerful history, that it feels like the script performs itself, the printed words alone enough to stir emotion. Theater [...]
by Geoff Hoff~
Sean O’Casey’s Juno and the Paycock, to horribly misquote one of its own characters, is “a darlin’ play. A darlin’ play.” It is, like much Irish art, a fine and disturbing mixture of comedy and tragedy, of fantasy and reality. It could even be considered a precursor to the very American [...]
by Joel Elkins~
“Tiger, tiger, burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?”
William Blake 1784
It is quite obvious from the outset that something is not quite right at the Morris household. Son Clarence (Damien Burke) sneaks in at all hours of the night. Daughter Cille (DeShawn Barnes) [...]
by Joel Elkins~
Veronika Decides to Die, like its title character, has so much potential yet frustratingly fails to realize it. The play is an original adaptation of the novel by Paulo Coelho by producer/lead actress Beth Ricketson and director Taylor Ashbrook
Ricketson first had the idea of adapting the novel for the stage [...]
by Geoff Hoff~
Tennessee Williams loved wounded women and wrote about them often. He often used one-act plays to try out the characters and many of the people in the one-acts ended up in his bigger and more well-known works. The five one-act plays, collected under the title Five by Tenn, now playing at Theatre 68, [...]
by Joel Elkins~
If nothing else, Theatre West knows its audience. And doesn’t mind catering to it. Whether the play determines the audience or, as I suspect, the audience determines the play, the crowd last weekend had a definite Catskills feel, perfect for the world premiere of “Goodby, Louie . . . Hello!” [...]
by Geoff Hoff~
There’s a little bit of magic going on over at the Ruskin theatre. It’s small magic, gentle, nothing showy, no special effects or anything. It is the magic of a night of making love, or the morning after, the magic of a special brew of tea or piece of pie that can [...]
by Erin Daley ~
Lilting 50′s music played as I walked into the Lounge Theater for Rougue Machine’s production of I Wish I Had A Sylvia Plath. The bright and kitschy 50′s kitchen seemed perfectly accessorized with retro chrome trim, an authentically monstrous Frigidaire and a bright blue and red crinoline skirt protruding from an [...]
