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 Geoff Hoff~
What was scandalous in the 60s is slightly less scandalous now. Casual attitudes toward homosexuality, infidelity, corrupt politicians and medical professionals, all presented in the guise of a light-hearted, door-slamming farce, were concepts that were shocking to audiences then. Now they seem almost quaint.
Joe Orton wrote What the Butler Saw, his final play, [...]
by Joel Elkins~
Oswald, now making its West Coast premiere at the Write Act Repertory Theater, dramatizes the interrogation of Lee Harvey Oswald by Dallas Police Captain William Fritz during the chaotic 48 hours following the assassination of President Kennedy. LA playwright Dennis Richard has used publicly recorded statements (such as Oswald’s meeting with reporters) [...]
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 Bree Long~
Dance duo Liz Casebolt and Joel Smith meld deconstructed modern dance and narrative storytelling in the premier of O(h), a provocative and witty commentary that confronts gender and sexuality politics while poking fun at the overly self-important world of modern dance.
Founded in 2006, the dance company duo of Casebolt & Smith recently wrapped [...]
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 Joel Elkins~
“Fasten your seatbelts—it’s gonna be a bumpy night!” Bette Davis’s classic line from All About Eve applies equally to – and provides the title of – Seatbelts Required, a new play by Kimberly Demmary, now playing at The Actors Workout Studio.
Seatbelts has three half-sisters gathering at their mother’s house (depicted in classical [...]
by Joel Elkins~
Baby Doll, now playing at the Lillian Theatre, is a play based on a movie based on a play. Tennessee Williams adapted his one-act 27 Wagons Full of Cotton (with the help of Elia Kazan) for the 1956 movie Baby Doll, directed by Kazan and starring Karl Malden, Caroll Baker and Eli Wallach.
The [...]
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 Joel Elkins~
The Elephant Theatre has “re-opened” its production of Love Sick, a brand new play by first-time playwright Kristina Poe, following a successful first run. Don’t get fooled by its teen-flick title. It is not a romantic comedy. It’s a dark, surreal treatment of real issues suffused with bits of humor, [...]
by Tony Bartolone~
Theatre is most important when it affects the way people feel. If nothing else, Diana Son’s Stop Kiss has the relative power to make people reevaluate how they think. At times getting lost in idle conversation but ultimately the play succeeds in raw moments that penetrate any guards the audience had posted against [...]
