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Thu, 20 Nov 2008 13:44:00 EST Author: podmaster@kcrw.org (James C. Taylor) - Hit-the-Road Shows: Theatre for a New Economy (0mb)
Thu, 13 Nov 2008 13:44:00 EST Author: podmaster@kcrw.org (James C. Taylor)One of the powers that theater possesses, more so than literature, painting or even cinema, is the ability to speak directly to a particular time period long after a work was first created. Novels, poems, portraits or films can all gain new relevance (or more often, irrelevance) with time; but theater, because it is live and must be recreated in the present (and not merely preserved and observed anew) holds the special potential to connect the wisdom or folly of the past with the immediate present...
- Four More Days! (0mb)
Thu, 06 Nov 2008 13:44:00 EST Author: podmaster@kcrw.org (James C. Taylor)This week, theater followers and, well, followers of just about everything have been focused on the next four years; but this week, Theatre Talk is focused on four days that took place last month...
- Speech and Debate (0mb)
Thu, 30 Oct 2008 14:44:00 EST Author: podmaster@kcrw.org (James C. Taylor)There is nothing more exciting for theatergoers than watching new, theatrical talent blossom on stage in front of your eyes. Earlier this year, I experienced this thrill during the run of Stephen Karam's then-brand new play: Speech & Debate—and I experienced it in quadruple fashion as all of the play's young actors were so alive, so perfectly cast that I couldn't wait to see each of them in their next performance...
- Unstable and Unsubtle (0mb)
Thu, 23 Oct 2008 14:44:00 EST Author: podmaster@kcrw.org (James C. Taylor)Two well-worn, theatrical chestnuts are currently drawing big crowds on Broadway: the 61-year old Arthur Miller drama, All My Sons and the 35-year old Peter Schaffer drama, Equus. Both of these plays are revived with regularity all over the country in community theaters as well as schools...
- You've Come a Long Way: L.A.'s Broadway-Bound Babies (0mb)
Thu, 16 Oct 2008 14:50:00 EST Author: podmaster@kcrw.org (James C. Taylor)Last season was tough for musicals in Los Angeles. There were a number of big, local, world-premiere musicals (Ray Charles Live, Atlanta, Mask) all gunning for Broadway, but bad reviews and tepid audience reactions seem to have scuttled those plans. This season though is looking much better for musicals with LA pedigrees. Right now, two homegrown musicals are running in New York: 13 which premiered at the Taper two years ago and The Marvelous Wonderettes, which was a hit at the El Portal Theatre in North Hollywood...
- 'House' Renovations (0mb)
Thu, 09 Oct 2008 14:44:00 EST Author: podmaster@kcrw.org (James C. Taylor)Technically, the Mark Taper Forum was closed over the past year for renovations; but in fact, the venerable downtown theater has been closed for almost three years. Closed that is, to the type of thoughtful, professional, ensemble drama that has been the Taper's aim for so many years. Sure, there were new plays, but they all seemed to be just written or half-written pieces that...
- Teleportation vs. Inspiration (0mb)
Thu, 25 Sep 2008 13:45:00 EST Author: podmaster@kcrw.org (James C. Taylor)This past week I've thinking a lot about the uneasy relationship between theater and movies. This uneasiness was driven home while watching the recent film: The Women. The Women is very much a movie of our own times, so much so that it's hard to see its 72 year-old roots. The Women wasn't the first Broadway play written by a woman, but it was the first play written by a woman to become a smash success...
- Teleportation vs. Inspiration (0mb)
Thu, 25 Sep 2008 13:45:00 EST Author: podmaster@kcrw.org (James C. Taylor)This past week I've thinking a lot about the uneasy relationship between theater and movies. This uneasiness was driven home while watching the recent film: The Women. The Women is very much a movie of our own times, so much so that it's hard to see its 72 year-old roots. The Women wasn't the first Broadway play written by a woman, but it was the first play written by a woman to become a smash success...
- Chazz Solo, One More Time (0mb)
Thu, 18 Sep 2008 14:44:00 EST Author: podmaster@kcrw.org (James C. Taylor)Rags-to-Riches stories are few and far between in the history of Los Angeles Theater. Survival is usually the most that an L.A. Theater artist can hope for—but there are exceptions. The tale of Chazz Palminteri is one of those rare exceptions and it's worth retelling...
