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 K. Primeau~
Hollywood Fringe is 8 months away; Ovation Awards aren’t til the new year. What’s a theatre artist to do between now and The Christmas Carol season?!
Attend the first-ever #LAThtr Tweetup of course!
Bring flyers for your latest show, info about your theatre company, ideas for The Theatre and #LAThtr community members, and cash for [...]
by K. Primeau~
In accordance with our mission, LA Theatre Review wants to celebrate International Fringe artists who demonstrate an outstanding contribution to the local LA theatre community during the Fringe. Recipients will win a fancy-pants LATR International La Fringe (Ooh-la-la!) statue and six weeks of free advertising on the www.LATheatreReview.com website.
LATR’s goal is to provide [...]
by K. Primeau~
LATR is dedicated to providing coverage on everything pertaining to small theatre in LA. In accordance with our mission, LATR wants to celebrate Fringe artists whose work demonstrates an outstanding contribution to the LA theatre community during the Fringe. Recipients will win a fancy-pants LATR La Fringe (Ooh-la-la!) statue and six weeks of [...]
by K. Primeau~
Hollywood, CA – With more than 30 venues, 175 productions, and only 11 days to see it all in, guests at the upcoming Hollywood Fringe Festival have their work cut out for them. As LA’s seminal guide on everything pertaining to small theatre, LA Theatre Review will be easing the workload and delivering [...]
by K. Primeau~
Thursday night, June 3rd, 2010, The Three Clubs on Vine played host to the (soon to be annual) Hollywood Fringe Festival Fundraiser Bash. Fringe participants and local artists filtered in throughout the night, enjoying magic by Jon Armstrong, burlesque by Red Snapper, and dancing on the disco-ball lit floor. A silent auction proffered [...]
by K. Primeau~
I find it difficult to critique a play in which a technical malfunction knowingly disrupted the performance. In the case of Knightsbridge Theatre and The National American Shakespeare Company’s presentation of The Mystery Plays, that malfunction included a busted light board, resulting in last minute lighting cues thrown together in twenty minutes prior [...]
by K. Primeau~
When you walk into a theatre and the first question they ask is, “Would you like vodka? Or better vodka?” you know either way you’re a winner. If the play is a mess, at the very least you can enjoy the stiff drink. But when that introduction leads you through a worn-down circus, [...]
by K. Primeau~
Edward Allan Baker’s “sibling plays,” Dolores and North of Providence, now playing at Stephanie Feury Studio Theatre, may need to pull back for being a bit too fraternal. From production design to directing, writing to performance, twin themes and dramatic flaws unfolded like zygotes, multiplying and dividing to create a discomfiting headache of [...]
by K. Primeau~
Antaeus Theatre Company continues its tradition of bringing audacious, relevant classical theatre to Los Angeles with their world-premiere production of Cousin Bette, adapted by Jeffrey Hatcher from the original text by Honore de Balzac. The “deliciously wicked” tale of vengeance and lust effectively straddles post-Napoleonic France and contemporary wit with seamless grace and [...]
by K. Primeau~
Mutineer Theatre Company has done it again. After a successful run of their inaugural 2009 production, “Lie With Me,” the young company presents Ditch, a hilarious and intelligent dissection of the self-destuctive psychology we inevitably espouse in romantic relationships. From the pre-show announcement to the play’s final punch, the refreshingly raw new [...]
