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 Vince Duvall~
There are several plays going up on this block tonight. It’s cold. People are ducking in at the last minute. Friday night. Thankfully there is a guy smoking a cigarette out front and he knows where the lab is: “Right in there and take a right.” Thank you, my [...]
by Vince Duvall~
I admit that I don’t like to go over the hill if I don’t have to and NOHO is dangerously close to portions of the Valley that make me want to take prescription drugs. But it’s hard to deny that stretch of Lankershim near Magnolia - which has 15 plus theatres - as [...]
by Vince Duvall~
October. Kingdoms rise and kingdoms fall. But theater goes on. I don’t know what has sparked the blaze of original and provocative theatre in Hollywood but carrying the torch for every show I’ve seen there is the Theatre of NOTE on Cahuenga at Sunset. Really, how do they do it? The [...]
by Vince Duvall
Grand central, Hollywood and Highland – just east on the boulevard sweltering with late summer tourists and early evening vagrants. Up the stairs and down the hall, past two other theatres preparing for shows. Some crazy repertory action going on. I half expect to see a juggler and gymnast warming up [...]
by Vince Duvall~
What have Nick Mills and Vitality Productions built over at the Theatre Asylum on Santa Monica in Hollywood? Outside of the stale, albeit established style of companies like The Actors’ Gang or the steady stream of money that usually doesn’t make it outside the Geffen or downtown, Still Standing by Shyla Marlin is [...]
by Vince Duvall~
A few minutes earlier, in the cozy little lobby of The Space just off Melrose, I chatted with Coeurage Theatre’s a artistic director Mr. Jeremy Lelliot about the company’s recent move from the valley to Hollywood and their experience at the Hollywood Fringe Festival – year one, which seems to have sparked something [...]
by Vince Duvall~
1995. Toy Story is number one at the box office, the Dow hits a record 5000 and in the little town of El Monte, 20 miles southeast of the Hollywood sign, on August 2, a multi-agency task force raided a seven-unit apartment complex and freed 72 undocumented Thai immigrant workers, most of them [...]
