Jim Fletcher

Blogs
February 20, 2013
Director Richard Maxwell Has Amazed and Confused New York Theater Audiences for a Decade. Now He Makes His L.A. Debut
Richard Maxwell confesses that he had never even heard of Eugene O'Neill's S.S. Glencairn plays prior to getting a fateful call in 2011 -- "totally out of the blue" -- from the acclaimed Wooster Group director Elizabeth LeCompte. "She said, 'We've been kicking around these plays for a while,'" he re ... More >>
Stage
December 20, 2012
10 Most Memorable L.A. Theater Moments of 2012
Stage
December 6, 2012
Eight-Hour Gatz and Magic Act Nothing to Hide, Reviewed
Blogs
November 30, 2012
A Renowned Cardiologist Never Dreamed of Being an Actor...Until His Son Joined the Eight-Hour Play Gatz
When the actor Jim Fletcher talks about F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, it is with the same mixture of familiar intimacy, sublime awe and wary respect that an experienced Himalayan mountain guide might use to describe the shimmering icefalls and man-eating crevasses of that range's most famo ... More >>
Blogs
April 30, 2012
Are You High on Quix? In Laura Parnes' Fake Gated Community, This Drug is All the Rage
"These people don't have friends, Angel. They have interests, and don't you forget it," Tanya tells her co-conspirator Angel in the opening sequence of artist Laura Parnes' new film County Down. Angel, the precocious, rebel-genius played by Stephanie Vella, has just designed a pink hallucinogenic ca ... More >>