333 stories by "Kyle"
It's a 1st-person profile of one of my favorite Arkansas actors, Natalie Canerday. Here's a good excerpt.
The best acting advice I ever got came from two people. The first was Dr. Rosemary …
as a surprise, but a little play that I wrote continues to perform every Saturday night for the next three Saturdays. It's called "3 A.M. in the Morning," and has been going strong almost e…
It's apparently kind of a dumb thing to do.
Bob and I were in one car, Brandy and the Jennys were in another. Parking was going to be a disaster. We were all trying to get to Coachella in time for Amy Winehouse. She was only a litt…
Thursday afternoon I responded to a call for a last-minute replacement for the July occurrence of homo-centric's reading series. I was deciding what to present and reading over one of the t…
I'm pretty sure you'll get a chance to see this one in some sort of release or on DVD. You should. It's lovely.
The other San Francisco documentary I saw was Shut Up Little Man! An Audio Misadventure, about the underground phenomenon of Peter and Ray, the screaming elderly alcoholics of the Lower Heig…
I usually write about Outfest about this time every year, and I have been seeing a fair amount. I've still got Hit So Hard at the Ford, my third documentary, on schedule for tonight. There…
to Frank O'Hara. Here's the text:Fantasyby Frank O'Hara (1926-1966)(dedicated to the health of Allen Ginsberg)How do you like the music of AdolphDeutsch? I likeit, I like it better than Max…
conversation, it seems we missed this. The Wicked Stage linked to it and I'm just reading today. Michael Ritchie in conversation with Theresa Rebeck about programming the three theaters of…
theater fatigue by Saturday night by the time I was seeing my second show of the day, Brewsie and Willie; I have no idea how these TCG people or critics or more hardcore theater junkies than…
met at the new used bookstore across the street from the Alexandria Hotel downtown last night and I looked through the drama section for cool old hardback editions of plays I wanted to own b…
Charles McNulty's review of The Method Gun in the LATimes. Unless you plan on skipping it, that is. He gives away the whole show -- THE ENTIRE SHOW -- with mild condescension and thin anal…
at RADAR L.A. I have seen Neva (Monday night) and The Method Gun (Tuesday night), both of which were radical and familiar in their ways, and both of which offered a lot to think about. I fo…
The Method Gun at the Kirk Douglas in Culver City if you can. It's great fun. I'll write more about it in a bit.
and I'm seeing lots of it this week. Most of it Saturday. I think I might actually collapse from theatrical exhaustion on that day, but I'm seeing Neva tomorrow night and The Method Gun on…
on Saturday after attending a concert of George Crumb's song cycle, Winds of Destiny, sung by Dawn Upshaw. JW and I really liked the Crumb evening at the Green Umbrella earlier in the seaso…
is coming up, as you may know. There's a lot to check out, but I'm particularly excited by the following shows--Teatro en el Blanco: NevaThe Company: As you are now, so once were weRude M…
and link to L.A. lit blog The Elegant Variation a lot back in the early days of this page. I guess its author, Mark Sarvas, is losing his blogging steam. His latest post is from May 31, wr…
gets problematic for me is that Albee's method of defiance indirectly legitimizes everything the establishment insists on. And by establishment I mean critics, taste-makers, literary manage…
one thing worth noting is that he has a far less complicated relationship to class and race in his writing. His milieu is almost exclusively the white upper middle class. One could argue c…
been saying this sort of thing for decades, but I do find it interesting that people aren't exactly putting up with it this time (although Bilerico calls it the "most boring controversy ever…
to get to the best 99-seat show I've seen in Los Angeles since I don't know when. I saw House of the Rising Son this weekend; it's a big success on all fronts. It's an unapologetically gay…
They have NAMES! Can you believe that?
Art in the Streets at the MOCA Geffen Contemporary on Monday, which was more or less a mob scene. It's a giant bombastic mess of a show and is often quite entertaining, too. I didn't reall…
