In March of 2020, Anthony Laura announced that he was not doing his play, THE GIRL WITH THE RED HAIR, at the moment. He did not announce that he as shuttung down. Quite the opposite. Face to Face Films, his stage and film company, produced a record-breaking three-dozen virtual readings…

Community theater has a really bad rap. The stereotype — so much of one that it even has a meme — is that community theater is filled with local admins and shopkeepers wearing their own clothes standing in front of bland sets doing Hello Dolly or The Odd Couple (over…

A memoir of Phoenix FearCon X: The tenth anniversary celebration of all things macabre in Phoenix Arizona at the [hopefully] tail-end of the pandemic of 2020–2021

MIDSUMMER: A SHAKESPEARIENCE presented by Variety Life Productions OPENING OCTOBER 13 Wednesdays thru Sundays at 8:00pm Loft 51 625 W 51st…

Roy Shellef, director of — what he thought was a deep character study (and it is) — was genuinely shocked to discover his film, Alone, was looked at as a horror movie. He was recently interviewed for Phoenix FearCon — where he will be a guest filmmaker for this film…

The pandemic laid waste to so much of the commercial arts of New York, but the arts of the independent scene ambitiously used this time of a level playing field to expand its personal horizons. One such company is Face to Face Films. What started as a small indie film…

As the pandemic guidelines are relaxing — or at least, relaxing for now — acting troupes are leaving the airwaves and trodding the board again. It is fitting and quite heartening that the worlds most enigmatic play, Hamlet, will be heard and seen live even before Broadway officially opens. The…

The human spirit can conquer most — if not all — boundaries. But it is the artist that can conquer these boundaries and make it look pretty. Take two ambitious and talented performers — Haley Ostir and Paris Martino. Both having played leads and featured roles in musicals, both competent…

It’s sadly too familiar to hear that women — while making up about half of the arts industry and 60–70% of its audiences — are not given the same spotlight as their male counterparts. It gets worse. These facts are basically for the commercial arena of the arts. Exact figures…