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 Sylvia Blush ~
If one thing can be said about The Group Rep’s production of String of Pearls, it would be their artistic zeal. The four actresses, Michele Bernath, Katelyn Ann Clark, Lareen Faye and Sean Kathryn O’Connor, each performed with a sense of eagerness and gusto; 27 roles split amongst the fiery quad.
String [...]
by D. Jette~
Director Stan Mazin has adapted the The City, a 1909 melodrama by Clyde Fitch, for the Group Rep now playing at the Lonny Chapman Theatre in North Hollywood. At the time, The City was scandalous, it used foul language and acknowledged adultery, moral relativism and the corrupt underbelly of the financial industry and [...]
by Geoff Hoff~
First off, be forewarned, the evening performances of the new musical version of A Christmas Carol at the Lonny Chapman Theatre start at 7:30, not the traditional 8 p.m. in order to make the evening early enough for the children in the cast and in the audience. Luckily, I got to the [...]
by K. Primeau
Editor’s Note: This is the first review from K. Primeau, our newest reviewer who will also be writing regular articles for us. Please welcome K. to our pages.
Perhaps I was sundowning, but The Lonny Chapman Group Rep Theatre’s production of Gerald Sibleyra’s Heroes bore striking resemblance to Beckett’s Waiting for [...]
by Geoff Hoff
The eight plays (actually seven the day I saw it) that make up the production called Misconceptions currently playing at Lonny Chapman’s Group Repertory Theatre are loosely connected sketches tied together by the notion that people have misconceptions about others and about themselves. The author, Art Shulman, called on the poster “the Neil [...]
By Geoff Hoff
I had a surreal experience today. I was in AOL (yes, I know, but I’ve had that email address for over fifteen years) and happened across one of those “Picture Gallery” articles (you know, the ones that open up in a new window and require you to scroll through a series of generic [...]
