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~
Duel Citizens is actually two distinct plays with little in common besides that in each, all the characters are played by one person.
In Look, What I don’t Understand, a young family man from communist Bulgaria tries, with his family, to enter the United States as a political refugee in 1969. Through flashbacks we [...]
by D. Jette~
British actor and playwright Tim Crouch has received international acclaim for his stage work for good reason: not only is he a captivating and compassionate performer, as a playwright he has demonstrated a fundamental understanding of what makes theatre different from all other narrative arts, an understanding that he puts to work in [...]
by Geoff Hoff~
Fate is the notion that there is a power quite outside ourselves that controls the interactions and odd happenings of our lives, that there are outcomes and circumstance we experience that are pre-determined for us. The idea is that, when something unexpectedly wonderful or tragic happens, it was fated to happen. Fate can [...]
by Geoff Hoff~
~Mercy Warren and Abigail Adams~
Few Americans know anything more about Benedict Arnold than his name, which has become synonymous with the word “Traitor”. Fewer still know anything at all about the women of the American revolution besides, possibly, Betsy Ross, who had something to do with a flag.
Mercy Warren was a playwright, [...]
by Geoff Hoff
Pinter is difficult. The best Pinter is the most difficult. I did not know No Man’s Land before I saw it tonight at the Odyssey Theatre. I still don’t know it. I don’t think knowing it is possible. Experiencing it, however, was wonderful. It is, like much [...]
by Geoff Hoff
I’m going to go about this review a bit backwards, talk about the actors, then about the play. One of the big draws, after all, is Megan Mullally. Megan Mullally is a hoot. She was a hoot as Karen on Will & Grace, she was a hoot in another small theatre [...]
by Geoff Hoff
I have been a fan of Culture Clash since I first encountered them at the Los Angeles Theatre Center in their production of The Mission some time in the eighties. I have admired every show of theirs that I’ve seen since. It was, then, in great anticipation when I saw on [...]
by Geoff Hoff
Itamar Moses’s play, Bach at Leipzig, is an exquisite spider web of a fugue, the fustiest and most rule laden musical form, he tells us in the beginning of the second act. But also, as he also tells us through his noble, stalwart character Johann Friedrich Fasch (played by the noble, stalwart [...]
by D. Jette
Alot of plays are made about the events leading up to the Holocaust, and with good reason. My partner in last Saturday’s viewing of The Accomplices, a rehashed production by The Fountain Theatre, remarked that “If most of my relatives were murdered not fifty-odd years ago, I wouldn’t make plays about anything else.” One of [...]
Blood and Thunder at Hyperion Station
Dialogue Between a Prostitute and Her Client at The Fremont Centre Theatre
Kharmful Charms of Daniil Kharms at Art/Works
Oedipus El Rey at Theatre @ Boston Court
On The Air at the Whitefire Theatre
The Unexpected Man at Lounge Theatre 2
Slaughter City at the Son of Semele
Dolores/North of Providence at SFS Theatre