Thursday, December 1, 2016
by HAYLEY HUNTLEY
*to be read in an Irish Brogue*
Dear Beauty Queen of Leenane,
It is Hayley Huntley and I’m writing from Reno on account of I’m still here leftover from Thanksgiv…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 06:00PMWednesday, November 16, 2016
by HAYLEY HUNTLEY
high school boyfriend broke up with me in a Barnes & Noble Starbucks a few days after my mom and I saw Jesus Christ Superstar. He delivered the bad news, we said go…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 03:45PMThursday, September 15, 2016
by HAYLEY HUNTLEY
friend is going through a breakup right now. That friend is also acting in Philip Dawkins’ Charm at Celebration Theatre right now. When I asked, he told me it was ok…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 04:46PMThursday, August 25, 2016
by HALEY HUNTLEY
Deb Debbie Deborah doesn’t make sense. Jerry Lieblich’s play skirts logic, defies pattern, and resists resolution. It knows it’s doing those things, though, and yo…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 07:10PMFriday, July 29, 2016
by HAYLEY HUNTLEY
the lights came up on Church & State at Skylight Theatre, I felt pressure to stand up and clap. This was no ordinary do-I-or-don’t-I standing ovation dilemma —…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 07:46PMTuesday, May 31, 2016
by HAYLEY HUNTLEY
up: “Cod, risotto, risotto.” Jorge swings the plates from the kitchen to the busboys’ table, clinking ceramic dishes on metal. Peter (the unofficial leader of the…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 06:03PMTuesday, April 12, 2016
by HAYLEY HUNTLEY
favorite part of acting — doing and watching — is the stuff in between the lines. They call it stage business (not to be confused with show business) — an actor�…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 06:01PMFriday, February 19, 2016
by HAYLEY HUNTLEY
set for Sheila Callaghan’s Bed, playing now at the Echo Theater Company, is a total mess. From the second you walk into the theatre, the set and all the play’s prop…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 04:15PMWednesday, November 25, 2015
by HAYLEY HUNTLEY
the same day I saw John Patrick Shanley’s Outside Mullingar at the Geffen Playhouse, Adele released her new album, 25. By then, though, a couple of Adele’s singles…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 03:26PMTuesday, October 13, 2015
by HAYLEY HUNTLEY
walked away from Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ Appropriate, now playing at CTG’s Mark Taper Forum, repeating a certain line in my head, the way you’d hum a song on the…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 01:00PMTuesday, September 22, 2015
by HAYLEY HUNTLEY
once saw a production of Urinetown: The Musical at an amphitheater in Carson City, Nevada. It was summer in a desert, so when it began to rain in the second act, that w…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 07:28PMFriday, August 21, 2015
by HAYLEY HUNTLEY
this scene that crash lands in the middle of Failure: A Love Story. It comes out of nowhere. It could almost not be in the play at all — it wouldn’t confuse the plo…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 03:35PMFriday, August 7, 2015
My favorite part of seeing live theatre is the conversation that happens afterward at a restaurant down the street. Fueled by coffee, french fries, strong emotional reactions, and bold opin…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 06:07AMMonday, July 20, 2015
by HAYLEY HUNTLEY
many pages make a play? In the case of Natsu Onoda Power’s Astro Boy and the God of Comics, the answer is eight. When Sacred Fools set out to produce the Astro Boy W…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 07:11PM 
