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~
One of the problems with being a classical theater company is that eventually, inevitably you may have to put on a performance of Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice, arguably the most racist piece of literature still being performed in civilized society today.
While one could hardly imagine a contemporary restaging of “Song of the South,” [...]
by Erin Daley~
Zombies are blowing up right now. These foul smelling, brain munching undead are everywhere in pop-culture from the recent action-comedy Zombieland to Danny Boyle’s apocalyptic 28 Days Later to the rehashing of Austen’s classic in Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. I swear, if the undead were sexier, there would be a Team Zombie [...]
by Marcus Kaye~
It is a shame that instead of sitting through boring lectures in grade school, I couldn’t have been taught European history in a manner akin to Portrait of Churchill Production’s Churchill. The play, written by Andrew Edlin, tells the story of Winston Churchill’s rise to political power and of his eventual decision [...]
by D. Jette
Kudos to the Porters of Hell’s Gate who recently finished a solid Richard II at the Whitmore-Lindley. Their simple staging of this under-appreciated history had good performances in the play’s most demanding roles, including a very well grounded Jamey Hecht as John of Gaunt and a sympathetic Thomas Bigley in the title [...]
