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~
The Charm of Making is a slightly surreal play about the final generation of an upper class family in modern day Mississippi, fallen on hard times. It is a “Southern Play” in the tradition of Tennessee Williams and William Faulkner. Although most of the people here are much more willing to talk about [...]
by Geoff Hoff~
On The Air, playing at the Whitefire Theatre, is a charming show, a murder mystery musical comedy, although it is not quite a full musical; there are only two songs in the first act and only two in the second. The murder mystery also takes a back seat to that shenanigans going on [...]
by Geoff Hoff~
(Full Disclosure: Slaughter City was produced by one of LATR’s newest writers, Ashley Steed.)
According to the program notes by director Barbara Kallir, Slaughter City, now playing at Son of Semele, is a play about how relevant the case for collective action and working class solidarity still is today. This is a valid and [...]
by Geoff Hoff~
Duel Citizens is actually two distinct plays with little in common besides that in each, all the characters are played by one person.
In Look, What I don’t Understand, a young family man from communist Bulgaria tries, with his family, to enter the United States as a political refugee in 1969. Through flashbacks we [...]
by Geoff Hoff~
John Fowles’ 1963 novel, The Collector, is an examination of class differences in Britain. In it, Frederick, a socially-inept, lower-class clerk who collects butterflies, has a distant obsession with an artistically inclined, upper-class student, Miranda, who he can never get the nerve to approach. He wins some money in a football pool, buys [...]
by Geoff Hoff~
The play He Who Gets Slapped was written by Russian playwright Leonid Andreyev in the early 1900s. The original play was about a down-on-his-luck intellectual who shows up in the anti-room of a run down French circus, insinuates himself into the ranks of the clowns and becomes “He Who Gets Slapped.” That play [...]
by Geoff Hoff~
Hamlet is considered by many one of the best plays written at any time, in any language. It is a play about revenge, actual and thwarted, about the consequences of action and inaction, about power and its abuse. The character of Hamlet is rich and complex. He moves from anger to lust, from [...]
by Geoff Hoff~
Robert Altman was one of my favorite movie makers. When making a movie, he always set himself up for a challenge. Sometimes the challenge was too grand and he didn’t reach it, as in Quintet. Sometimes it wasn’t very grand at all, as in Gosford Park, but he made it glorious. Sometimes the [...]
We have been working on a redesign of our on-line newspaper for some time. In the last several weeks, during the holidays, instead of creating new content, we concentrated simply and completely on building the new site. (And, of course, enjoying the holidays, we aren’t that altruistic!)
With this new design, we have added many features, [...]
by Geoff Hoff~
Fate is the notion that there is a power quite outside ourselves that controls the interactions and odd happenings of our lives, that there are outcomes and circumstance we experience that are pre-determined for us. The idea is that, when something unexpectedly wonderful or tragic happens, it was fated to happen. Fate can [...]
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