When was the last time you went to the movie theater? What about the last time you went to a play preformed by local high school students? The origins of theater date back thousands of years, and is arguably the most developed art form today. Today you pay 10 dollars or more for a ticket … [Read more…]
About a year ago, it was a very boring Friday evening. My husband and I had nothing to do. Two friends of ours asked us to go to the Great American Melodrama Theater in Oceano, California. We had not attended this sort of show before, but only lived a few miles away, and had heard … [Read more…]
If you’re looking for it, it’s not difficult to see the places where August Wilson the screenwriter added on to his original script that was meant for the stage. Only a handful of times do we see a scene that doesn’t take place in the house and those scenes are hardly vital to the movie. … [Read more…]
If you enjoy the trill of being onstage, you probably are involved with your local theater group. What makes you want to be a part of this kind of group can differ a lot from person to person. What can you do if you are in an area that has no theater group to speak … [Read more…]
You may be shocked and dismayed at the price of theater tickets nowadays. Besides the base price, you will often find extra fees if it is one of the ever-increasing number of 3D or IMAX films. Fortunately, there are different ways that you can save, and you should try as many methods as possible. Visit … [Read more…]
After exiting Kassar Theater after viewing Jan Fabre’s “Je Suis Sang: A Medieval Fairy Tale,” I think I maintained the same gaping jaw-drop as I did throughout the entire play. “Je Suis Sang” was indeed not like any other play I have ever seen. With a cast of several main characters, dancers, and musicians, as … [Read more…]
What responsibility do we have towards people? Or for that matter, what responsibility does a play have toward its audience? In the revival of Arthur Miller’s All My Sons, director Simon McBurney tries to answer the first question while failing in the second. All My Sons tells the story of an American family in 1947. … [Read more…]
If you follow Broadway at all then you have probably heard of the play “Wicked.” If you haven’t then you should know that it tells the story of how the Wicked Witch of the West became so and how Glinda became the Good Witch. As you might imagine, things are not exactly as they seem. … [Read more…]
Denver’s Impulse Theater is located in the Wynkoop Brewing Company. Operating for over 20 years, this theater has its own cast, which delivers regular performances guaranteed to get laughs. With regular showings, this place is a “hot” one in the area. Here’s a review of this unique entertainment spot. “Quick wit turned into humor.” The … [Read more…]