Category Archives: Theatre

The Phrase “Wild Horses Couldn’t Drag Me Away” Comes To Mind

Posted on August 23, 2010 by sheila

… when I think of NOT attending the following event. Are you kidding? I am so there. It makes me think of my friend Guy, who passed away far too young on May 12th of this year, after a long … Continue reading →

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Balm IN Gilead

Posted on May 27, 2010 by sheila

Someone keeps searching for the term “balms and gilead” in my Search box. I don’t know what they are finding, but it seems they are coming up empty, since the searching for that term continues – and I figure I … Continue reading →

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Scott Caan’s Two Wrongs: a “delightful production”

Posted on May 2, 2010 by sheila

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Two Wrongs, a new play by Scott Caan

Posted on April 27, 2010 by sheila

Is there such a thing as too much self-knowledge? Is the pursuit of love helped by therapy, or hurt by it? There is a crazy and chaotic element to falling in love that perhaps does not fit into the “rules” … Continue reading →

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Sick, by Erik Patterson: The Los Angeles Theatre Center

Posted on April 26, 2010 by sheila

What a joy it was to attend the world premiere of Sick, award-winning playwright Erik Patterson’s latest, playing at The Los Angeles Theatre Centre through May 16. It is funny, personal, brutal at times, and deeply profound. From the first … Continue reading →

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Two Wrongs, by Scott Caan – world premiere

Posted on April 23, 2010 by sheila

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“family drama with a side of hypochondria and alcoholism”: Sick, by Erik Patterson

Posted on April 23, 2010 by sheila

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One of the reasons I love John Lahr

Posted on April 4, 2010 by sheila

… son of Bert Lahr, as well as long-time theatre critic for The New Yorker (his profiles have been compiled into a wonderful book: Show and Tell: New Yorker Profiles) is because of paragraphs like this one, in his recent … Continue reading →

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Plot

Posted on April 2, 2010 by sheila

“Aristotle says that plot is the most important factor of a play but I’d rather have a bad plot with interesting characters than a good one with a bunch of stooges.” – Tennessee Williams, college paper

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“Why I do theatre”

Posted on April 1, 2010 by sheila

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Today in history: March 24, 1955

Posted on March 24, 2010 by sheila

Tennessee Williams’s Cat on a Hot Tin Roof opened on Broadway. It was directed by Elia Kazan and starred Ben Gazzara and Barbara bel Geddes. Williams was tormented by the writing of this play. He found it “messy”, and wrote … Continue reading →

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“a fatally mistaken premise”

Posted on March 8, 2010 by sheila

Now I like Thornton Wilder a lot (not only because of Our Town and all the others, but because of this and also this anecdote – which should be memorized by every actor/director planning on doing Our Town, because THAT … Continue reading →

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Shakespeare makes people crazy, example 1

Posted on February 16, 2010 by sheila

This exchange just gets more and more delightful as it goes on. Max Beerbohm writes a letter to the editor in regards to a recent edition of Shakespeare’s Sonnets. A Shakespeare expert, Mr. Thomas Tyler replies, sending his own letter … Continue reading →

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“Forget about the boy”

Posted on December 18, 2009 by sheila

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Today in history: December 3, 1947

Posted on December 3, 2009 by sheila

A Streetcar Named Desire opened in New York at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre. Scene 5, Streetcar Named Desire BLANCHE: Young man! Young, young, young man! Has anyone ever told you that you look like a young Prince out of the … Continue reading →

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“White Christmas” in Cincinnati (and other pitstops)

Posted on November 17, 2009 by sheila

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Performing Revolution in Central and Eastern Europe

Posted on November 17, 2009 by sheila

Awesome: an ongoing arts festival (through March 31) celebrating the role of artists in “ripping holes in the Iron Curtain”. I want to see every production, go to every reading. Daniel Gerould, author of an anthology of plays from this … Continue reading →

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As You Like It, Act III,sc.5

Posted on November 11, 2009 by sheila

ROSALIND (to the mousy little Phebe) Who might be your mother, That you insult, exult, and all at once, Over the wretched? What though you have no beauty,– As, by my faith, I see no more in you Than without … Continue reading →

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The end of the road: Camino Real

Posted on October 11, 2009 by sheila

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“Hamlet is a tragedy where there is a part left open”

Posted on October 11, 2009 by sheila

Excerpt from W.H. Auden’s lecture on Hamlet, February 12, 1947, at the New School for Social Research in NYC: If a work is quite perfect, it arouses less controversy and there is less to say about it. Curiously, everyone tries … Continue reading →

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