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.
Here are our final eight reviews for 2012 Hollywood Fringe Festival: Before the Red Trees Come, Diary of a Sociopathic Freakazoid, Lolera, Making Love Over There, The Last Five Years, Leprechauns and Lies and The Collector and an extra review of Cycles:
Before the Red Trees Come
~by Brian Sonia-Wallace
Before the Red Trees Come is a [...]
The Fringe Festival ended yesterday. Here are three more reviews. We will post more as the final reviews are turned in. In this post: Sister Cities, The Black Glass and I Do Card Tricks and I’m Funny
Sister Cities at The Underground Theater
by Tony Bartolone~
STAGES Theatre brings us a psychological deconstruction of four sisters and their [...]
Today, we review eight shows: Michael’s Daughter, On the Rag to Riches, There’s No Place Like… , Poe and Mathews, Drunk With Hope in Chicago, If Water Were Present It Would Be Called Drowning, Gumshoe McMonocle and D Is for Dog:
Michael’s Daughter @ The Complex Flight
by Tracey Paleo~
Michael’s Daughter is based on actress/writer Ciera Payton’s [...]
Today, we review seven plays: The Crucible, OOHLALA , 30 Minute Musicals, Follow, Four Clowns presents That Beautiful Laugh, The Secret of Sherlock Holmes and Pacific Conference:
The Crucible at The Elephant Stages
by Marcus Kaye ~
Arthur Miller’s intense look at fear culture and blind faith gets another chance (outside the apathetic one I gave it in [...]
Today, we review four shows: That Old Black Magic, Confessions of a Cat Lady, Anaconda and First Love/Worst Love:
That Old Black Magic at Theatre Asylum and Open Fist
by Joel Elkins~
Jacquetta Szathmari wrote and stars in this one-person show about two black women who become improbable friends as they try to make it in show [...]
Today we have five regular reviews and two extra reviews: Rue Royal, Virginia City, Rise, Piano Man, Button Wagon and extra reviews for Richard Parker and Gentle Passage
Rue Royale at The Complex
by Tatyana Gelfond
If you’re an actor, one of the oldest rules of delivering a line is not to look like you’re delivering a line, [...]
We are well over half-way through the 2012 Hollywood Fringe Festival. So far, there have been some great shows, but we expect nothing less. Today, we review three shows: Richard Parker, INTERNment and Love Is A Battlefield
Richard Parker at Fringe Central Mainstage
by Tony Bartolone~
The ultimate indication that Richard Parker is a brilliant play is the [...]
Today, we review three shows: Puppet Mayhem,The Inventor, The Escort, The Photographer, Her Boyfriend and His Girlfriend and This Vicious Minute
Puppet Mayhem at iO West
by Tony Bartolone~
Imaginative, fresh and edgy, Puppet Mayhem mixes short and long form improv with fun music and precocious puppets. From the games found in the playbill to the prizes in [...]
Today, we review three shows: Round Rock, I Get Knocked Down and In Dream
Round Rock at the Complex Theatres
by Marcus Kaye ~
Mixed up with the likes of outlaw Sam Bass and three members of his gang, Round Rock is a Western drama that reads like a history textbook. Slow and fact driven, Round Rock spends [...]
Today, we review six plays: Fierce: LA Streets at Underground Theater, The Love Potion, The Nina Variations, Lost Moon Radio: Episode 12, Confessions of the World’s Worst Missionary and Red Bastard
Fierce: LA Streets at Underground Theater
By Tatyana Gelfond~
Fierce: LA Streets, a compilation of three short plays, Dusted, The Pool Of Gold In the Sky, and [...]
