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 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 Vince Duvall~
There are several plays going up on this block tonight. It’s cold. People are ducking in at the last minute. Friday night. Thankfully there is a guy smoking a cigarette out front and he knows where the lab is: “Right in there and take a right.” Thank you, my [...]
by Joel Elkins~
As a general rule, plays should be judged solely by the product presented on the stage, but every now and then extenuating circumstances are worth noting. The Little Flower of East Orange, now playing at the Elephant Theatre, presents such a case.
For the play’s first staging outside of New York, Katherine [...]
by Joel Elkins
Unlike most theatre-going folks, apparently, I have never had formal aviation training. So I had to do a little research just to understand the title of this play. I discovered that an airplane wing cutting through the air creates an updraft known as “lift” as well as air resistance known as “drag.” Being [...]
by Geoff Hoff~
Mabel Davies has a work-a-day husband who is distant and doesn’t like her son. Her “best friend” neighbor, Fran, is an alcoholic divorcee who, it seems, will sleep with anyone, including Mabel’s son, who is a neo-Nazi who really hates his father. And Mabel moves forward in life pretending all is well. She [...]
by Ashley Steed~
“Does anyone have any concept of what’s going on here?” asks Mason (Mark Sande), an executive of some vague corporation.
No, I think to myself. And I don’t think this production knows either.
Don Ponturo’s Survival Exercise satirizes corporate life through the office entanglements of the glib corporate tool Mason, his uneasy mentee Andrew (Michael [...]
