Title: Us Director: Sam Hancock Starring: Alanna Ubach, Michael Navarra, Patrick Russell, Rolf Saxon, Barbara Niven A recent world premiere at the 16th annual Dances With Films, the Los Angeles-set “Us” offers up an unusual yet sympathetically pitched examination of mental illness through the rubric of a weird love triangle. Anchored by a superlative lead turn from Alanna Ubach, this micro-budgeted, worthwhile indie feature could, given a wide enough audience, serve as an important pivot-point for the actress, leading her into more dramatic terrain. At first glance, Margaret (Ubach) seems like just a garden variety alcoholic — another thirtysomething wounded bird who drowns her unhappiness in booze and unfulfilling sexual [ Read More ]
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- 6/13/2013
- by bsimon
- ShockYa
As the summer season officially begins, it looks like another web show will be going on hiatus. Exit Stage Left, that loveable web series featuring an off-Broadway theater troupe and the troubles they face will end its first season June 25th, but in a most unusual way. Live. Sinohui Hinojosa, the creator of Exit Stage Left, said in a recent press release that viewers can get free tickets to the finale which will also stream live at 7 Pm (Pt). The show uses the documentary-style of story-telling that is popular with the web series’ crowd and centers around the fictional Lowry Theater Company and its attempt to put on a successful play. Play director Ronny Simons (Michael Navarra) and stage manager Jill Baynor (Terri J Freedman) are seen through the eyes of Pam William (Katie Kimball), a documentary filmmaking student from Nyu.
- 6/8/2009
- by Jacob Nahin
- Tubefilter.com
Exit Stage Left is a web series by, for, and about theater people. This is not a knock on the project, just a point that needs to be made. In my day job I deal with a fair number of people whose lives revolve around the stage. They’re driven like any other artists, but nearly all that I’ve befriended have that “theater tick”: everything, even the most banal of scenarios, has to be turned into a dramatic situation. It’s taxing, especially for someone outside the theater world who doesn’t know if/when you’re supposed to call Hamlet ‘The Scottish Play’. Fortunately, though the atmosphere of Exit Stage Left is thick with that sort of constant melodrama, it is the only negative I’ve encountered. And, realistically, such an element should be viewed as necessary. This new series is an account of the fictitious Lowry...
- 1/23/2009
- by Alex Crowley
- Tilzy.tv
Stories of backstage intrigue are as old as the stage itself, as writers have brought them to plays such as Noises Off! and films such as Waiting For Guffman. Now, Emerging Artist Productions brings such a tale to the Web in Exit Stage Left, a web series that follows the trials and tribulations of an off-Broadway theater troupe attempting to mount a new play while not killing themselves or each other. The series follows the exploits of the Lowry Theater Company, from director Ronny Simons (Michael Navarra) all the way to stage manager Jill Baynor (Terri J Freedman). All of it is seen, in many ways, through the eyes of Pam William (Katie Kimball), a documentary filmmaking student from Nyu, who also maintains a blog at pamwilliamsNYU.blogspot.com.
- 1/14/2009
- by Robert Spuhler
- Tubefilter.com
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