Presentational acting and Representational acting

In the Musical play, Jamaica, by Harold Arlen, Yip Harburg, and Fred Saidy. Directed and Choreographed by Keith Lee Grant. I enjoyed watching this musical, the story was good where the audience was able to see the racial conflict between white and blacks and how gaining land, power, and wealth was important. Many African Americans were suffering from hunger. However, I felt like the actors in the play did a great job playing their roles everyone was confident. They had good speech, action,…

On what felt like one of the longest days I went to see a play with my best friend. I didn’t tell her what it was about or any of the details, the play was titled The Boy Who Loved Monsters and the Girl Who Loved Peas. I had wanted to see it since it first came out in the early summer. The play did so well that they did a holdover, which meant that I finally had my chance to see it. When we first walked into Spongberg Theatre music was playing that filled the atmosphere with an outer space…

On October 28, 2017, I attended Desert Hot Springs High School’s theatrical performance, Love Sick, a play produced by John Cariani. Mr. Landmann is the head director of the theater department at DHSHS and was able to execute a great show with the help of his students: Matilde Alejandro, Megan Johnson, Bethany Navarro, Luis Salazar, Nathaniel Esparza, Natalia Martinez, Angel Limas, Esmeralda Hernandez, Esmeralda Salazar, Nicholas Jacob Gamboa, Baylee Bryant, Jonathan Calderon, Erika Aleman,…

The 2013 biopic written and directed by John Ridley, Jimi: All Is By Your Side, diverges in many ways from the cliched and highly stereotypical musical biopics. Ridley’s film highlights key events from 1966 to 1967, the year before ‘the greatest guitarist,’ Jimi Hendrix, rose to fame. The film differentiates from many of the typical conventions that are seen in musical biopics, especially those over rock and pop musicians. For the most part, biopics while not always boring, tend to be highly…

Broadway's director Arthur Penn and actress Anne Bancroft got the idea. It all started in the 1950's when the show Miracle Worker was on broadway. Hays was the set designer of the show and was fascinated by the way sign language was involved with the acting. After that, they really got the ball rolling. It took a while for someone to book them, but once someone took a chance, the audience was hooked. Ever since then it has increased the interest in interaction and the studying of sign language. …

The hills are alive again -- revitalized “Sound of Music” production comes to Louisville Measuring up to the exacting standards set by Rodgers and Hammerstein’s iconic musical “Sound of Music” is no small feat. After its Tony-winning introduction in 1959 followed by the 1965 movie production starring Julie Andrews, “Sound of Music” quickly grew to be one of the most widely recognized shows of all time. However, decades later, esteemed director Jack O’Brien still managed to give the production a…

The musical I went to was “Heathers; The Musical”, lyrics and music by Kevin Murphy and Laurence O’Keefe. Which is about a high school girl named Veronica Sawyer who was nobody until one day, three of the popular girls at her high school decided to she would fit perfect with them. Funny thing was that they were all named Heather. After being whisked away from her boring life and put into the Heather click, she meets a boy named JD who she falls in love with. Veronica, later in the year,…

For millennium, live theatre, reading books, plays, and even viewing film has acted as a way for men and women alike to escape their dull lives, to get away from a world saturated with daily tribulations and see through the eyes of an observer rather than a participant. People could get away from the identity of the weaver, the miller, or even the all-powerful aristocrat to become a spectator. This is the point however, where the live theatre and the other forms of “escape” from reality separate…

The thought of ever becoming an actor or musician was always a dream, but now I know that after googling myself, I've learned that if I would ever want to become a famous actor or a musician I would not be able to use my real name or else it might be mixed up with Brian Nash, an actor from the 1960's or another Brian Nash, a famous British musician. Brian Nash the actor, was born in Glendale, California on May 20th, 1956. He was most famous for roles in 1960's T.V. series such as Please Don't…

the sake of acting— at least I hope that is not the case. Personally, I view the arts (both performing and visual) as highly effective in promoting…