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~
“Tiger, tiger, burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?”
William Blake 1784
It is quite obvious from the outset that something is not quite right at the Morris household. Son Clarence (Damien Burke) sneaks in at all hours of the night. Daughter Cille (DeShawn Barnes) [...]
by Vince Duvall
Grand central, Hollywood and Highland – just east on the boulevard sweltering with late summer tourists and early evening vagrants. Up the stairs and down the hall, past two other theatres preparing for shows. Some crazy repertory action going on. I half expect to see a juggler and gymnast warming up [...]
by Freddy Puza~
What is the price of racial equality in America? At what length do we have to go to achieve it? More interesting, what, if anything, must be covered up in order to protect it? The Good Negro at the Stella Adler Theatre opens up a much-needed conversation about these fundamental issues as the [...]
by Geoff Hoff~
The United International Peoples Experimental Circus (UIPEC) production of Romeo and Juliet, now playing at the smallest theatre at the Stella Adler, is a lusty, vivacious, decadent, wholly theatrical experience. The press release calls it a re-imagining. It’s not a re-imagining – West Side Story is a re-imagining. In this production, once you [...]
by Joel Elkins~
The Towne Street Theatre Company, formed in the aftermath of the LA riots with the mission of healing wounds through theatre, seems the natural venue for the world premiere of Langston & Nicolas, the story of the relationship between Langston Hughes and Cuban poet laureate Nicolás Guillén. Through fictionalized conversations between the two, [...]
by Geoff Hoff~
The Charm of Making is a slightly surreal play about the final generation of an upper class family in modern day Mississippi, fallen on hard times. It is a “Southern Play” in the tradition of Tennessee Williams and William Faulkner. Although most of the people here are much more willing to talk about [...]
by D. Jette~
Daniel Henning continues his quest to make The Blank Theatre Company Hollywood’s first regional theater with the west coast premiere of Christopher Durang’s Why Torture is Wrong, and the People Who Love Them. With a superb cast, an inventive production design and Durang’s timely and on-the-nose satire, he and the Blank have taken [...]
