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 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 [...]
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. [...]
