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 Joel Elkins~
When a talented cast and thoroughly professional production team present an adaptation of a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, how can it miss? No, I’m really asking. The neophyte Nola Productions takes on the noble but perhaps quixotic task of staging Adrian Hall’s confusing and unfocused adaptation of All the King’s Men, now [...]
by Geoff Hoff~
It takes guts to compare your play with Noël Coward and Pirandello as Theatre Unleashed did with the production of the play Modern Drama, now being performed at Studio/Stage. The press release calls Modern Drama, “Private Lives meets Six Characters in Search of an Author“. Writer/director Bill Sterritt has won many awards [...]
by Joel Elkins~
Mental Creatures, finishing up its world premiere at the Lounge Theatre this weekend, is a flawed but at times riveting portrayal of the most foundational and raw human emotions. Randy Brenner directed and Jay Jacobson wrote and stars in this one-man show exploring human experience through the life crises of three separate [...]
~by Brian Sonia-Wallace
This is a tough play. Its language is gorgeous, much taken right from the pen of Federico Garcia Lorca, the Spanish poet and this play’s protagonist and muse. But its structure is sometimes infuriating, as Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Nilo Cruz decides that the best way to pay his hero homage is with [...]
by Tracey Paleo~
Are news and entertainment interchangeable?
In the West Coast premiere of Our House, currently being presented by Wasatch Theatrical Ventures at The Lounge Theatre, playwright Theresa Rebeck gives us a brilliant, gripping and darkly comic look at America’s obsession with reality television. The play shoots straight to the heart of the conflict between [...]
~by Brian Sonia-Wallace
Trio Los Machos is one of those tricky plays that straddles the line between community and professional theatre and so winds up with the strengths and shortcomings of both. On one hand, the mixed veteran and amateur Latino cast give a heartfelt account of a community’s under-told story with great humor and compassion. [...]
by Brian Sonia-Wallace
Kristina Wong is a natural performer, and though her show doesn’t entirely escape the stereotypes of a one-woman show, it mostly puts them aside to focus on her hilarious and often ill-fated adventures attempting to live a more eco-friendly life. Ms. Wong’s comedian persona has the charm and crass humor of a Sarah [...]
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 [...]
