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 Sylvia Blush~
Todd Waring triumphs as an actor yet falters in character development as a writer.
Undeniably, Mr. Waring is an excellent performer. He graces us with his committed presence and he traverses the parallel lines that somehow connect the individual stories. Out of uneasiness laughter is made through the [...]
by Sylvia Blush ~
A profound plan to uncover or discover what you believe to be true can in fact be nothing like what you imagined. Macho Like Me sets the stage to confirm writer/producer Helie Lee’s belief that men have it easier than women.
Subject: Helie Lee. Female. 29. A.K.A. “Harry”.
Objective: To live like a man [...]
by Sylvia Blush ~
Nightsong for the Boatman is your basic morality play. Playwright Jovanka Bach doesn’t bring up a new convention in the telling of the story, but the floorplan is laid out cleanly. Its non-linear set-up helps support her main character’s distorted view on his own righteousness.
Harry (played by John DiFusco) is [...]
by Sylvia Blush~
Wonderfully acted, The Sunset Limited, is a powerful demonstration of two actor’s ability to maintain an audiences attention within a semi-flawed script.
Rogue Machine Theatre has produced Cormac McCarthy’s second published play, The Sunset Limited at Theatre Theatre in Hollywood. The play is a philosophically religious debate about human existence and the [...]
by Sylvia Blush ~
Valiant effort by actors isn’t enough to save Two Small Bodies.
The success of any show is based upon the production elements coexisting seamlessly. When a production isn’t hitting its mark, the lines between where the text begins and the artistic interpretation ends become blurred. The shortcoming of this production then [...]
by Sylvia Blush ~
In an instant this seemingly quirky tale about a young man who believes he was abducted by aliens is turned by the obvious revelation that his recurring dreams are not what they seem. Presented by East West Players (EWP), Mysterious Skin, is a dark drama set in Kansas and New York [...]
by Sylvia Blush ~
Norman P. Dixon’s struggles are not any more gripping or action-packed than any one of ours, but the painstaking vulnerability in facing life’s fears is one we can all relate to.
Becoming Norman takes you on a spiritual journey of one man’s struggle to uncover his internal spirit; not to be confused with [...]
by Sylvia Blush ~
If one thing can be said about The Group Rep’s production of String of Pearls, it would be their artistic zeal. The four actresses, Michele Bernath, Katelyn Ann Clark, Lareen Faye and Sean Kathryn O’Connor, each performed with a sense of eagerness and gusto; 27 roles split amongst the fiery quad.
String [...]
by Sylvia Blush ~
The attacks on the World Trade Center on September 11th happened almost nine years ago, nearly three thousand miles away. The event that buckled the Big Apple and much of the nation continues to inspire new works in the arts. In its twenty ninth season of celebrated productions, Theatre of NOTE, [...]
by Sylvia Blush ~
The Ark Theatre Company has sought out and produced the Los Angeles debut of Oscar Wilde’s original intended work Lady Lancing “A Serious Comedy for Trivial People” Or, The Importance of Being Earnest, “A Trivial Comedy for Serious People”. For over one hundred years, this widely recognized classic has been [...]
