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~
Two warring families in old time Verona. One has a son, rather a rake, the other a beautiful daughter. They meet and fall in love at a party he wasn’t supposed to attend, but the animosity between the families forces them to restrict the rest of their meetings to secret trysts in a [...]
by Geoff Hoff~
Everyone is watching someone and in turn being watched by someone. This isn’t paranoia, it is simple fact. It has been so for some time, but more so now, with the interconnectedness that the Internet brings us. The play Puzzler, now in its world premier at Sacred Fools, begins in a brightly lit, [...]
by Geoff Hoff~
I like to find something good about any play I see. The lighting (by David Graybill) in the production of the original play Nevermore, now playing at El Centro Theatre, was incredible, especially so given the limitations of the space and the set. The costumes (by Sarah Register) were also quite good and [...]
by Geoff Hoff~
I like my stories to make sense. If a story doesn’t make sense, I like them to at least have some compelling reason not to. An example; absurdist plays don’t often make a lot of sense, but that’s the whole point of absurdist plays and I would be hard pressed to find an [...]
by Geoff Hoff~
Julia Migenes is a ham. She loves opera and opera singers (especially those substantial Wagnerian Sopranos) and also loves poking fun at them. Diva on the Verge is Ms. Migenes’ saucy love letter to her chosen profession. At the outset, she tells the audience that, if they’re there looking for grand opera, they’re [...]
by Geoff Hoff~
It is, perhaps, a little daunting to be given a press kit and seeing on the front a memo from producer Orson Bean, the Broadway, television and movie actor and mainstay of gameshows and talkshows from the sixties and seventies, rather than the usual picture from or logo for the actual play. It [...]
by Geoff Hoff~
I have always had a kind of love/hate relationship with the Edmond Rostand’s play Cyrano de Bergerac. It is an exciting, witty play with some delightful characters but has at its heart a notion of romance, the idea that it is somehow noble to suffer your entire life for a lost or unattainable [...]
by Geoff Hoff~
(Full disclosure: The director of Summer in Hell, David Jette, was once a writer for LATR.)
At Rumeneck Cove, the shore is partitioned off into private beaches for the well-healed owners of the vacation houses. The privileged offspring of money consider themselves entitled to whatever they want and will use whatever means at their [...]
by Geoff Hoff~
The script for the play Rocky Horror Show, written by Richard O’Brien (who played the role of Riff Raff in the original production and the movie) is incredibly decadent, dramatically problematic and a lot of fun. The production by the Coeurage Theatre Company currently playing at the Space Theatre is also incredibly decadent, [...]
by Geoff Hoff~
The program for the play The Quarry, now playing at Moth Theatre, begins with a short piece by the playwright about finding an old family photo album amongst the other debris thrown into the Milford Quarry. It seems a very intriguing inspiration for a play, delving into the question of why someone would [...]
