“He did a lot of movies and TV, but I think his great presence and power
was on the stage,” Paul Koslo, an actor and director who worked with
Gammon at the MET, said Saturday. “He always had something unexpected,
riveting and real. “

In 1978 Gammon appeared in his first Shepard
drama, “Curse of the Starving Class,” at the Public Theater in New
York. The playwright called Gammon “astounding” after seeing him reprise
the role of Weston in the West Coast premiere at the MET a year later.

Said theater critic Sylvie Drake in a review in The Times of the MET
production: “His is a performance cut from flesh — a riveting, drunken,
brawling, blind portrayal of a man at sea in a life he had abandoned
years before, too long ago to ever hope to find it again.”
……

We’ll miss you, Jimmy.

http://articles.latimes.com/2010/jul/18/local/la-me-james-gammon-20100718

Before the Stones vs. the Beatles, before Metallica vs. Megadeath, before Biggie vs. Tupac, before Christina vs Britney…

before them all, there was…

WHAT: “Richard and Felix: Twilight in Venice.” A play.

WHO: Written by Cornelius Schnauber. Translated from the original German by Tom Schanuber. Directed by L. Flint Esquerra.

Presented by the MET Theatre and the Max Kade Institute for Austrian-German-Swiss Studies at USC. Co-sponsored by the German-American Cultural Society.

WHERE: The MET Theatre, downstairs in the Great Scott Theatre, 1089 N. Oxford Ave., Hollywood, CA 90029.

The theatre is located one block east of Western Ave. and a few steps south of Santa Monica Blvd. Secured parking is available ½ block east of the venue on Santa Monica Blvd. in the Earl Scheib lot ($5).

WHEN: March 26- April 25, 2010. Fri. & Sat. at 8, Sun. at 3.

ADMISSION: $15. Students and seniors $10.

RESERVATIONS: (323) 957-1152.

WEBSITE: www.theMETtheatre.com

CONSUMER ADVISORY: Some adult content.