by Gary Landis | May 22, 2017 | Productions
THOUGHTS FROM THE DIRECTOR OF [TITLE OF SHOW] The New York Musical Theatre Festival was founded in 2004 to premiere new musicals for three weeks every summer. Its freshman class included an astounding seven musicals that ended up on Broadway or off-Broadway....
by Gary Landis | Jan 17, 2017 | Productions
AN INTERVIEW WITH AKEMI OKAMURA Of the many great joys Los Altos Stage Company has had in producing David Henry Hwang’s Yellow Face,perhaps the most rewarding is the large number of actors working with our company for the first time. One of those actors is Akemi...
by Gary Landis | Nov 22, 2016 | Productions
A THANKSGIVING CONVERSATION WITH VIRGINIA DRAKE, DIRECTOR OF CIRCLE MIRROR TRANSFORMATION Circle Mirror Transformation marks only the latest directorial credit in Virginia Drake’s storied theatrical career. Faculty Emeritus at West Valley College and a proud...
by Gary Landis | Aug 17, 2016 | Productions
This is the first line sung by the collection of assassins in Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman’s darkly comic American musical, Assassins. The line itself is a twisted riff on one of our nation’s bedrock notions; Thomas Jefferson’s famous declaration that we all have...