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 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 [...]
by Tracey Paleo~
Managing to elude the creep factor of a vengeful, languishing apartment with its own personal opinion of cleanliness and living, a spiteful and troubled little girl with a death wish and a mom who can’t see past her own panic attack induced hysteria or the kitchen, Sacred Fools Theater turns in an amusing, [...]
by Tracey Paleo~
First impressions count. Isn’t that what we all hear growing up? Make sure you look good, look pretty, dress well, act nice, smile, so that everyone will like you – even your own parents. And so it was, walking into the Ensemble Studio Theatre in Atwater Village, met by a [...]
by Erin Scott~
Theatre is still magic for me. Going into a dark space and seeing a story unfold as a collective means something. The world premiere of Kathryn Graf’s Hermetically Sealed was an experience of interest. Katselas Theatre Company boasts of creating a place where play and experimentation can happen and here it did. [...]
by Tracey Paleo~
In 1947 George Orwell wrote Animal Farm, an allegory about events leading up to and during Stalinism. It contained a very human story played out by animals, who attempted to address corruption, wickedness, indifference and greed, doing so by liberating themselves from human bondage, but whose chief characters in the end become very [...]
by Danny Rangel~
The Missile Man of Peenemunde—don’t bother pronouncing that last part—is the story of German scientist Wernher von Braun and his lifelong ambition to build a rocket good enough to take a man to the moon. In the midst of scientific breakthrough, Mr. von Braun must reconcile his quest for discovery with the horrid [...]
by Joel Elkins~
The Leopard, a one-man play now playing at the Working Stage Theater, presents a compelling fictionalized picture of Ernest Hemingway’s final day.
Playwright Yabo Yablonsky presents a Hemingway not usually seen. Missing is the bravado and pompousness often associated with the man popularly known as “Papa.” During his last day filled with [...]
by Tracey Paleo~
Two women on a roof top, on a very cold New York evening, one a captor, the other captive crying and screaming unintelligibly something about ‘are you going to kill me’, (well, obviously because there is a gun pointed at your head), crawling gorgeously, mascara running, dressed to (gulp) kill and wriggling around. [...]
by Joel Elkins~
One of the problems with being a classical theater company is that eventually, inevitably you may have to put on a performance of Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice, arguably the most racist piece of literature still being performed in civilized society today.
While one could hardly imagine a contemporary restaging of “Song of the South,” [...]
by Tony Bartolone~
When dealing with sensitive subjects such as race, religion or sexual orientation far too often theatre comes off as preachy. How does a production avoid preachy and obtain compelling? Celebration Theatre’s What’s Wrong With Angry? is a prime example of how to engage a wide audience without over stepping it’s bounds, and dictating [...]
