BURNED BY AMBITION

Sometimes the bravest artistic choice
is asking for help.

In Theft of Fire, Garrett Hildebrandt is presentable, well-spoken, talented, and smart. However, he’s not as talented as he believes himself to be and not smart enough to recognize that. (It’s excusable; he’s young.) Hildebrandt strides the stage at The Actors Company Let Live Theatre, clutching a red throw rug about his neck, enacting the tale of Prometheus’s theft of fire for man.

What was good about Hildebrandt withered in the creative isolation of his own making. He needed a director, the script needed help, the staging needed a producer with some artistry, or just the sense to say, “Garrett, lose the towel.”

Hildebrandt’s show is audacious, ludicrous, stupid, and bold. It is also ambitious to a fault. Literally.

Can’t give Theft of Fire a good review. Wish I could.

But I can give Hildebrandt a good quote:

“Ah, but a man’s reach should exceed his grasp,
Or what’s a heaven for?”
— Robert Browning

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Theft of Fire
The Actors Company – Let Live Theatre, 916 N. Formosa Ave. in Hollywood
20 minutes
ends June 25, 2026
for tickets, visit Hollywood Fringe Festival

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