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~
The Spidey Project: With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility was originally conceived as a reaction to the behemoth Broadway production of Spiderman, which had huge cost overruns, cast injuries, delays, more cost overruns, law suits, departing artists, bad blood and scathing reviews. That production was the most expensive Broadway production in history, with [...]
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 Geoff Hoff~
(Full disclosure: The director of Summer in Hell, David Jette, was once a writer for LATR.)
At Rumeneck Cove, the shore is partitioned off into private beaches for the well-healed owners of the vacation houses. The privileged offspring of money consider themselves entitled to whatever they want and will use whatever means at their [...]
by Marcus Kaye-
Some 41 years after publication, Kurt Vonnegut’s anti-war science fiction novel has been adapted to the stage by scribe Eric Simonson and the Action! Theatre Company.
Slaughterhouse Five tells the story of Billy Pilgrim, a World War II soldier who becomes “unstuck in time.” Through nonlinear story telling, Billy tells of his time in [...]
by Joel Elkins~
Generally, after seeing a play, my first thought as a reviewer is “Now, what am I going to write about this?” I sit at the computer and the blank screen stares back at me while I resist the urge to channel my inner teenager and say, “Yeah, I guess it was okay.”
However, [...]
by Geoff Hoff
Photo by Meredith Donahue.
<3 is the emoticon for the heart, or love. It is also the mathematical notation for less than three. Both meanings pertain to the play <3 presented by the Brimmer St. Theatre Company, now playing at Studio/Stage in Hollywood.
I am always moved, impressed and inspired by anyone, or any group, [...]
