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~
The Leopard, a one-man play now playing at the Working Stage Theater, presents a compelling fictionalized picture of Ernest Hemingway’s final day.
Playwright Yabo Yablonsky presents a Hemingway not usually seen. Missing is the bravado and pompousness often associated with the man popularly known as “Papa.” During his last day filled with [...]
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by Danny Rangel~
LA Theatre Review talked to Ezra Buzzington, the curator of this year’s Hollywood Fringe Festival [film] program.
Give us the genesis behind Fringe Film. How was this project conceptualized? What was the driving force and the rationale behind creating Fringe Film?
As Founder of the first Fringe Theatre Festival in the U.S. (Seattle) and [...]
by Tracey Paleo~
Two women on a roof top, on a very cold New York evening, one a captor, the other captive crying and screaming unintelligibly something about ‘are you going to kill me’, (well, obviously because there is a gun pointed at your head), crawling gorgeously, mascara running, dressed to (gulp) kill and wriggling around. [...]
by Joel Elkins~
One of the problems with being a classical theater company is that eventually, inevitably you may have to put on a performance of Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice, arguably the most racist piece of literature still being performed in civilized society today.
While one could hardly imagine a contemporary restaging of “Song of the South,” [...]
by Tony Bartolone~
When dealing with sensitive subjects such as race, religion or sexual orientation far too often theatre comes off as preachy. How does a production avoid preachy and obtain compelling? Celebration Theatre’s What’s Wrong With Angry? is a prime example of how to engage a wide audience without over stepping it’s bounds, and dictating [...]
by Tracey Paleo~
Quick Heart. Wonder. Heart Real. School Bell. Coat. Slow Heart. Wonder 2. Heartrests. Metronomes. …teenagers, teachers and sex experiments… oh my!
Certainly a thrill to behold is the wonderment of love and quite a lot of unabashed “gizzing” in the classroom, in the gym and nearly [...]
