Tagged With Stage

Collision of Cinema and Stage Reaps Benefits in "Urban Death" "Entropy" and "Big Shot"

Had the opportunity to catch a few shows over the last couple of weeks. The standouts for me were Zombie Joe’s Urban Death, Theatre of NOTE’s Entropy and Bootleg Theatre and Theatre Movement Bazaar’s Big Shot. Each shares a love and influence of the cinematic qualities of theater, or perhaps more appro...

Voices from the Fringe: Penny Pollak

Making its West Coast debut at this year’s Fringe is Penny Pollak’s acclaimed one-woman show, No Traveler: A Comedy About Suicide.Bringing welcome humor to such a grim subject, Penny has performed the show off Broadway, in Edinburgh and even the wilds of Winnipeg. She’s currently working on the motion picture adaptation with American History X director Tony Kaye.Penny was kind enough to take some time out from her busy pre-Fringe schedule to answer a few question...

Help Jacqueline Wright's "Eat Me" Go From Stage to Screen

Jacqueline Wright is a longtime friend and colleague of mine and I remember watching this play Eat Me develop in the cramped rooms of EST/LA and Theatre of NOTE. I was actually asked to be a part of the original Note production but begged out. Can’t remember why really.Now Jacqueline and her creative partner Adrian Cruz and their team of filmmakers are taking it to the screen and they need some help with post production costs.I’m happy to offer some of that help in my own special way.</...

Cabaret Director Bella Luna Takes on HFF17 Social Media Manager Position

Hellloooo Fringe! My name is Bella Luna and, despite being quite strange, I am no stranger to Hollywood Fringe. In fact, I’ve been involved with the festival since 2011. I started off simply stage managing a production that was going to be performing in a festival. I had no idea what Hollywood Fringe was! Through some well placed karmic connections, I ended up performing at the Opening Night party, helpin...