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 David Jette~
[Editor's Note: This month, my Editor's Page is an article written by LATR writer David Jette for his own blog, "Sydiot". I liked it enough that I asked if we could post it here. He graciously agreed. After Mr. Jette's article are my comments regarding it. -GH]
Some of you may know that for [...]
by D. Jette~
When people asked me what kind of play I was going to be reviewing over the weekend I told them ‘a Katrina drama’ without even pausing to coin the term. Most people understood instantly what I meant, despite that such a label has no relevance to the actual content of a play, only [...]
by D. Jette~
Living in Los Angeles has afforded me the guilty pleasure of meeting countless has-been actors from all levels of bygone fame (especially in bars.) All of them have one thing in common: a connection to a show or a director or another actor who actually made it and probably no longer returns their [...]
by D. Jette~
Creative design and black humor triumph again in the very entertaining new comedy Wirehead, now in performance by the Echo Theater Company at STAGE 52. The plot is familiar Phillip K. Dick material, and the story has its serious moments, but for the most part director Larry Biederman has gone beyond the script to [...]
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Daniel Henning continues his quest to make The Blank Theatre Company Hollywood’s first regional theater with the west coast premiere of Christopher Durang’s Why Torture is Wrong, and the People Who Love Them. With a superb cast, an inventive production design and Durang’s timely and on-the-nose satire, he and the Blank have taken [...]
by D. Jette~
Director Stan Mazin has adapted the The City, a 1909 melodrama by Clyde Fitch, for the Group Rep now playing at the Lonny Chapman Theatre in North Hollywood. At the time, The City was scandalous, it used foul language and acknowledged adultery, moral relativism and the corrupt underbelly of the financial industry and [...]
by D. Jette~
British actor and playwright Tim Crouch has received international acclaim for his stage work for good reason: not only is he a captivating and compassionate performer, as a playwright he has demonstrated a fundamental understanding of what makes theatre different from all other narrative arts, an understanding that he puts to work in [...]
by David Jette
The sound of Casey Smith’s performance in his one-man show Violators will be Violated, playing at Son of Semele through Dec. 19, is disturbing in the best possible way. The sight is even more so. With all the grace of a drunken maniac, Smith abuses his body and his dignity [...]
by David Jette
Now running at the Lillian Theatre in Hollywood is Elephant Theatre Company’s world premiere of Block Nine, a same-sex noir by writer Tom Stanczyk. The play is performed by two alternating casts, one all male and the other all female, each with its own director and approach to the text. I [...]
by David Jette
The two year-old outfit Theatre Unleashed are presenting two commonly performed contemporary works in repertory at the Sherry Theater: Sarah Kane’s morbid 4.48 Psychosis and David Ives’ perennial favorite All in the Timing. The company calls their dual production ‘Contemporary Constructions’ and while they make a case for how these plays contrast in [...]
