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 Addison DeWitt~
One balmy evening last week I found myself standing outside a small theatre passionately discussing with my companion all the various pitfalls of theatrical ineptitude to which we had just been subjected when a casual acquaintance, standing off to the side and sucking down the last bit of chemically enhanced mentholated smoke into [...]
A TREATISE NAILED TO THE DOORS OF THE AMERICAN THEATRE
(in no particular order)
By Addison DeWitt
An under-educated audience.
A passionless existence lived by artists who must, by nature, lead the masses away from a passionless existence.
Political correctness of any kind for any reason.
Believing that the director is always right.
Pulled punches.
Fear of offending someone.
Pulled punches for fear of [...]
Blood and Thunder at Hyperion Station
Dialogue Between a Prostitute and Her Client at The Fremont Centre Theatre
Kharmful Charms of Daniil Kharms at Art/Works
Oedipus El Rey at Theatre @ Boston Court
On The Air at the Whitefire Theatre
The Unexpected Man at Lounge Theatre 2
Slaughter City at the Son of Semele
Dolores/North of Providence at SFS Theatre