Blogcritics Author: Dennis Baker

Book Review: Acting Class - Take a Seat by Milton Katselas

Dennis Baker — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 14:58:28 EST

Notes about acting, and the knowledge and tools that have impacted actors, from famous Beverly Hills Playhouse teacher Milton Katselas.
“The study of acting is the study of life,” Milton Katselas states in his book, Acting Class: Take a Seat. He expounds on this thought with a quote from Stella Adler: “I’m not teaching acting… I’m teaching actors to be people.”Previously only available to his students at the Beverly Hills Playhouse, this...

Theater Review (NYC): Blue Before Morning

Dennis Baker — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 14:31:23 EDT

Three people escaping from their pasts meet on a fateful road trip.
The blue of the morning just before the sun breaks the horizon can be a quiet, peaceful time, a time of peace that can be hard to find in the other hours of the day.Blue Before Morning by Kate McGovern centers on the journey of three characters who are escaping from their pasts. As the story unfolds the characters find themselves on an unexpected...

Theater Review (NYC): Fifty Words

Dennis Baker — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 15:55:12 EDT

Michael Weller's play is an expansive look at marriage, seen through the looking glass of one couple�s long night�s journey into day.
In Michael Weller’s new play Fifty Words, Jan and Adam are in their Brooklyn brownstone reveling in the freedom of their first night home alone in nine years without their son, Greg. While this might be a time for great passion, it also leads to years of built-up tension finally being revealed.Adam states that “There is no stress in...