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~
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 [...]
by Marcus Kaye-
It is no wonder that The Mystery of Irma Vep, as performed by Deconstructed Productions, is being mounted for the second time in a year. Directed by and starring Michael Lorre with Kevin Remington, The Mystery of Irma Vep, is one of those rare theatrical experience that is so utterly fantastic that one [...]
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by Marcus Kaye-
What started as a competitive entrée in the New York Musical Theatre Festival and ended with successful runs both on and off-Broadway and a Tony nomination for Best Book in 2009, [title of show] has finally arrived at the Celebration Theatre for its Los Angeles premiere.
And the Celebration Theatre, with its commitment to [...]
by Joel Elkins~
Johnny comes home from his first day at school, and his mother asks him how it went.
“It was a little confusing,” he responds.
Quizzical, his mother asks, “Couldn’t you follow what the teacher was saying?”
“Sure,” he answers.
“Was the math too hard?” she asks.
“Naw, that was easy.”
“How about the reading and writing?”
“Piece of cake,” he [...]
by Joel Elkins
The best way to describe Altar Boyz is a 90-minute “Saturday Night Live” skit. The irreverent high-voltage non-stop musical depicts the final performance in a national “Raise the Praise” tour of the “Altar Boyz,” a hip-hopping Catholic soul-saving boy band. The characters are stereotypical and one-dimensional. There isn’t much of [...]
by Joel Elkins
Trafficking in Broken Hearts takes you to the heyday of 42nd Street of the 1980’s (before then-mayor Giuliani set out to make it more tourist- and family-friendly), back to a time when every other shop was an adult book store, when policemen would stand around while homeless people urinated on the streets and [...]
