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 Tony Bartolone~
Theatre is most important when it affects the way people feel. If nothing else, Diana Son’s Stop Kiss has the relative power to make people reevaluate how they think. At times getting lost in idle conversation but ultimately the play succeeds in raw moments that penetrate any guards the audience had posted against [...]
by Tony Bartolone~
When dealing with sensitive subjects such as race, religion or sexual orientation far too often theatre comes off as preachy. How does a production avoid preachy and obtain compelling? Celebration Theatre’s What’s Wrong With Angry? is a prime example of how to engage a wide audience without over stepping it’s bounds, and dictating [...]
by Tony Bartolone~
Poison Apple is a twisty little play about two strangers that becomes progressively stranger. Seemingly innocent anecdotes are woven into an increasingly suspicious situation as Jerry (Sean Galuszka) meets Paul (Chris Sams), and they develop an endearing rapport with one another. An unexpected love story is what draws the audience like flies into [...]
by Tony Bartolone~
Louie is a writer down on his luck (as most writers are) and desperate to launch his next project. A cast of characters including his housekeeper, Ana, his young, attractive housemate, Scott and his agent, Ross, encourage and distract him from re-obtaining some success from better days. The show was funny enough and [...]
by Tony Bartolone~
A good play is one that asks more questions than it answers. And there were too many questions to be answered in the ambitious Theatre Unleashed production of Steven Dietz’s playfully pretentious and poetically precarious play. We meet the chief characters, Linda and Michael, as they meet each other in a Paris café. [...]
