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~
Four Clown is probably the sweatiest play I have ever seen. The four young actors in it expend more energy in an evening than most actors expend in their entire career. It is also almost dystopian in its view of the human condition, contains a lot of buggary and is hysterically funny. [...]
by Joel Eklins~
Someday, when you really think you’ve got it hard, imagine being a closeted lesbian South American Muslim living in New York following 9/11. Such is the lot of Hanna Jokhoe, the main character in Wendy Graf’s one-act one-woman show No Word in Guyanese for Me, now making its world premiere [...]
by Erin Daley~
Voice Lessons by Justin Tanner follows the unlikely pairing of an uptight vocal teacher (French Stewart) and an off-the wall, tone-deaf, diva wanna-be (Laurie Metcalf). The humor of the set-up is clearly evident and Sacred Fools does a lovely job in its execution. Carried by two actors with incredible comic sensibilities, the [...]
by Joel Elkins~
The Pico Playhouse, once the location of the long-running show Bleacher Bums, now presents a different collection of passionate and frustrated people united for a single purpose in Twelve Angry (Men), a slight reworking of Reginald Rose’s classic stage and screen play. The “Men” is in parentheses because the production makes [...]
by Erin Daley~
Now this is Theater.
I’ve wanted to write those words in a review for so long and am thrilled to finally be able to ascribe them to Urban Theater Movement’s production of MASSACRE (Sing to Your Children) by José Rivera. I could bestow on it a number of other clichés like “Buy your tickets [...]
