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~
There must be something in the air or the water in the town in Ireland where Martin McDonagh’s The Lonesome West, now playing at the Ruskin Group Theatre, takes place. The people all seem to be reprobates or depressives or both. There have been two, or is it three, murders of family [...]
by Geoff Hoff~
There’s a little bit of magic going on over at the Ruskin theatre. It’s small magic, gentle, nothing showy, no special effects or anything. It is the magic of a night of making love, or the morning after, the magic of a special brew of tea or piece of pie that can [...]
by Geoff Hoff~
I have always had a kind of love/hate relationship with the Edmond Rostand’s play Cyrano de Bergerac. It is an exciting, witty play with some delightful characters but has at its heart a notion of romance, the idea that it is somehow noble to suffer your entire life for a lost or unattainable [...]
by Ashley Steed~
Company: Ruskin Group Theatre
Neighborhood: Santa Monica Airport
Address: 3000 Airport Avenue, Santa Monica
Website: RuskinGroupTheatre.com
Seat capacity: 55
When founded: 2002
Parking: Yes, ample
Handicap accessible: Yes
Restrooms: Yes, 2
Amenities: Wi-Fi, heating, a/c, company rehearsal space.
Lobby: Yes
Concessions: Yes, food and drink allowed inside.
What’s nearby:
Typhoon Restaurant: 3221 Donald Douglas Loop S – [...]
by Geoff Hoff~
I realize that, over the few years I have been a theatre critic, I have become a bit jaded. I suspect it may be one of the inevitable consequences of the pursuit. I want every play I see to be brilliant, and enough aren’t that I no longer expect it, which is sad. [...]
by Geoff Hoff~
There’s no getting around it. I don’t like script for the play Jesse Boy, now playing at the Ruskin Group Theatre. However, I fear that explaining why I don’t won’t be easy without giving too much about the play away, and no matter how much I dislike something, I am loath [...]
by Geoff Hoff~
John Fowles’ 1963 novel, The Collector, is an examination of class differences in Britain. In it, Frederick, a socially-inept, lower-class clerk who collects butterflies, has a distant obsession with an artistically inclined, upper-class student, Miranda, who he can never get the nerve to approach. He wins some money in a football pool, buys [...]
by David Jette
The world premiere of Mutiny at Port Chicago at the Ruskin Group Theatre is a lopsided courtroom drama hybrid that features some very fine performances. Playwright Paul Leaf directs the production himself and draws upon some of the Ruskin Group’s fine company of actors to bring the story of a war-time tragedy and [...]
