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 – An energetic crowd of performance artists, dancers, directors, producers, playwrights, theatre companies, and local council members waited in line to participate in the Hollywood Fringe Festival’s community assembly last evening. The first public meeting to discuss the festival, set for June 17 to the 27, has been three years and one [...]
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A first full-length production is a bit of a milestone for a theatre company. In it, the young collective establishes their identity, carving their place within the theatre-drenched LA scene. Months of fundraising and mission statement tweaking leads up to this moment, when personality and production meet the unpredictable public. As such, with [...]
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We all know what it is like to go to the theatre and feel like an actor is simply talking AT you. Whether they didn’t do their homework, or the director wanted to try something out, or whatever the reason, the lack of real communication with the audience is the stuff bad theatre [...]
By K. Primeau
Standing around outside of Santa Monica Playhouse’s The Other Space, chatting up cast members and munching on mini cream puffs on opening night of Love in Bloom, I couldn’t help but be reminded of Theatre’s tradition as a meeting space within a community. The playhouse, which will be celebrating its 50th Anniversary next [...]
by K. Primeau
Rogue Machine Theatre’s promise of “complex, ambiguous” theatre was certainly fulfilled in Saturday’s performance of Never Land. The national premiere of the play, written and directed by Phyllis Nagy, wins the award for the most challenging theatre I’ve seen thus far in Los Angeles, a distinction that refers to Nagy’s content as much [...]
by K. Primeau
Editor’s Note: This is the first review from K. Primeau, our newest reviewer who will also be writing regular articles for us. Please welcome K. to our pages.
Perhaps I was sundowning, but The Lonny Chapman Group Rep Theatre’s production of Gerald Sibleyra’s Heroes bore striking resemblance to Beckett’s Waiting for [...]
