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~
Could you write a play if someone held a gun to your head? When someone did this to Doug Haverty, the unfortunate result was Next Window, Please, now making its theatrical debut at the Lonny Chapman Theatre.
While working as the manager at a Crocker Bank in Hollywood, Haverty was robbed at gunpoint. As [...]
by Tracey Paleo~
Dancing at Lughnasa is the Chrysalis Stage, at The Complex Theatre in Hollywood, remounting Irish dramatist Brian Friel’s internationally acclaimed and multiple Tony Award winning play for local Los Angeles audiences.
Brian Friel is considered to be the greatest living English-language dramatist, hailed by the English-speaking world as an “Irish Chekov” and “the universally [...]
by Erin Scott~
Sun Sisters is a new play by Vasanti Saxena that asks the questions, do we ever know our parents? What life did they have before they were a parent and are there underlying reasons for their reaction to an adult child’s life choices?
The show opens with Edward (Peter Kwong) giving a lecture on [...]
by Tony Bartolone~
Poison Apple is a twisty little play about two strangers that becomes progressively stranger. Seemingly innocent anecdotes are woven into an increasingly suspicious situation as Jerry (Sean Galuszka) meets Paul (Chris Sams), and they develop an endearing rapport with one another. An unexpected love story is what draws the audience like flies into [...]
by Tracey Paleo~
Love and the Iraq war break out in an LA Restaurant during the world premiere of Counter Men, a play with music by Chuck Faerber, and equipped with a heavy hitting cast of seasoned thespians, at the Whitefire Theater in Sherman Oaks, CA, offering a most refreshing and entertaining chronicle where the country’s [...]
by Joel Elkins~
Watson, now playing at the Sacred Fools Theater, tells the tale of the last adventure of Sherlock Holmes and his famous sidekick. Written and directed by Jaime Robledo, it is an homage to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s timeless stories of London’s greatest detective.
In Robledo’s version, however, Holmes is more of a comic figure, [...]
