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 Tracey Paleo~
Sometimes the actors just have too much to do. There’s too much going on and it’s hard to follow as is the case with the west coast premiere of Early and Often, written by Barbara Wallace and Thomas R. Wolfe, currently playing at the Open Fist Theatre.
It’s Chicago, 1960. The election of JFK [...]
by Tracey Paleo~
IT ALL COMES DOWN TO REALITY. IT’S FINE WITH ME. ~ Pre-Show Music, Billy Joel, New York State of Mind
How do you deal with your father murdering your mother, then marrying your mother’s sister – your aunt – and discover without warning that you are no longer daddy’s little girl. Shakespeare of [...]
by Tracey Paleo~
Sometimes, the course of true love just isn’t smooth. “Sweet love don’t do nothin’ but give you the blues.” And, in a raw, gritty, Mississippi shanty town, Hoodoo Love is no less than a recipe for disaster.
Set in 1930′s Memphis, Tennessee it is a time travel to the past in the Black American [...]
by Tracey Paleo~
The wind is blowing ferociously. Sounds of whales can be heard within and without. A storm is coming and not just across a frozen land but for two people who are about to face their personal fears about connection.
A distraught young woman bursts into a remote cabin in the wilds of Alaska, dressed [...]
by Tracey Paleo~
In a brand new social drama, filled with darkness and humor, Innocent Flesh, a one act play written and directed by NAACP winner Kenyetta Lethridge, exposes the realities of the sexual exploitation, teen prostitution and domestic trafficking of children in America. Innocent Flesh is loosely based on the real stories of four [...]
by Tracey Paleo~
How does one even possibly sum up a lifetime of rebelliousness, happiness, savoir fare fashion sense and all around joie de vivre? Well, apparently Leslie Jordan (The Help, Will and Grace, Ugly Betty) does it quite devilishly and most properly in his own unique story-telling style – and, might I add, a [...]
by Tracey Paleo ~
Tsunami Relief and All That Jazz
A moonlight serenade turns into a visitation from the angel of death, times three.
It’s not often that a play creates a kind of intimacy that makes you feel like you are standing in the room with it, or rather hanging out like a “buddy” with it. As [...]
by Tracey Paleo~
Managing to elude the creep factor of a vengeful, languishing apartment with its own personal opinion of cleanliness and living, a spiteful and troubled little girl with a death wish and a mom who can’t see past her own panic attack induced hysteria or the kitchen, Sacred Fools Theater turns in an amusing, [...]
by Tracey Paleo~
First impressions count. Isn’t that what we all hear growing up? Make sure you look good, look pretty, dress well, act nice, smile, so that everyone will like you – even your own parents. And so it was, walking into the Ensemble Studio Theatre in Atwater Village, met by a [...]
by Tracey Paleo~
Two women on a roof top, on a very cold New York evening, one a captor, the other captive crying and screaming unintelligibly something about ‘are you going to kill me’, (well, obviously because there is a gun pointed at your head), crawling gorgeously, mascara running, dressed to (gulp) kill and wriggling around. [...]
