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~
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 Erin Daley ~
Lilting 50′s music played as I walked into the Lounge Theater for Rougue Machine’s production of I Wish I Had A Sylvia Plath. The bright and kitschy 50′s kitchen seemed perfectly accessorized with retro chrome trim, an authentically monstrous Frigidaire and a bright blue and red crinoline skirt protruding from an [...]
by Andrew Moore~
Photo by Gerhard Clausing
In Cornelius Schnauber’s new play, The Beverly Hills Psychiatrist, a writer with abandonment issues submits himself to an existential psycho-merry-go-round at the hands of a befuddled and lackadaisical head shrinker. Scenes of their absurd analysis sessions build to a few comic peaks, but ultimately dissolve to an unfunny and [...]
by Geoff Hoff~
Wilfred Owen was a young soldier in World War One (the first war to end all wars), sent to the Craiglockhart War Hospital for the Mentally Disabled because he suffered from shell shock, which his commanding officer called “Cowardice”. There he met poet and decorated war hero Siegfried Sassoon who befriended him and [...]
by Joel Elkins~
It takes a lot of courage to write a play like The Unexpected Man, and just as much courage to stage a production of it. A play with only two characters is daunting enough, but when those characters, for the most part, don’t even interact, keeping the audience involved requires a tight rope [...]
by K. Primeau~
Mutineer Theatre Company has done it again. After a successful run of their inaugural 2009 production, “Lie With Me,” the young company presents Ditch, a hilarious and intelligent dissection of the self-destuctive psychology we inevitably espouse in romantic relationships. From the pre-show announcement to the play’s final punch, the refreshingly raw new [...]
by K. Primeau~
A first full-length production is a bit of a milestone for a theatre company. In it, the young collective establishes their identity, carving their place within the theatre-drenched LA scene. Months of fundraising and mission statement tweaking leads up to this moment, when personality and production meet the unpredictable public. As such, with [...]
