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~
Classic period pieces will never die. At least not if the Open Fist Theatre Company has anything to say about it. Its latest attempt to keep old genres alive is Room Service, the slapstick comedy immortalized by the Marx Brothers in the 1938 film by the same name.
The story, for those [...]
by Joel Elkins~
As a child, Tom Stoppard was forced to flee his native Czechoslovakia with his parents in 1939 and ended up in Britain (by way of Singapore and India), where he eventually achieved every Czech boy’s dream: British knighthood.
Stoppard’s 2006 play Rock ‘N’ Roll is reminiscent of his own life story. The central figure [...]
by Joel Elkins~
Stage Door was written by Edna Ferber and George S. Kaufman during the depths of the Depression and was later made into a movie starring, among others, Katharine Hepburn, Ginger Rogers, Lucille Ball, Ann Miller and Eve Arden. It takes place in the fictitious “Footlights Club,” a boarding house in Manhattan for aspiring [...]
