Monthly Archives: January 2011
Not high art but “High Dive” provides an amusing evening at New Theatre
High Dive is the shaggiest of shaggy dog stories, but with Barbara Sloan as the storyteller Saturday at New Theatre, it was akin to spending a delightful hour listening to an unusually entertaining luncheon partner. Sloan is the narrator …
“Spider Woman” needs work to ensnare audience in its web
The performing arts are among the few serious creative endeavors that operate under a stopwatch—the endless gestation of Moscow Art Theater drama or Spiderman: Turn Off the Dark apart. At some prearranged point, the show must go on, ready or …
Jewish wiseguy comes to life in Aventura
While Meyer Lansky may not have become a household name like Al Capone or “Lucky” Luciano, the Jewish-American mobster is consistently ranked as one of the Top 10 gangsters of all time. Yet if you listen to his side of …
Critic’s Choice
A large-scale song and dance musical set in a tiny prison cell and a story of a woman’s search for the meaning of her entire life while stuck on a diving board are the headliners this weekend. Kiss of the …
The not-so-Big Easy
Another piece of major casting news: Ever since New Theatre announced it would mount Tennessee Williams’ iconic A Streetcar Named Desire to close its season in May, veteran theatergoers and actors sat around various bars guessing who was going to …
Fort Lauderdale native nabs starring role in a LaBute Broadway debut
When Heather Jane Rolff was trying to make it in New York City in 2004, she and a friend went to see Neil LaBute’s off-Broadway biting social satire Fat Pig. ‘I remember sitting in that theater bawling my eyes out,” …
Sanchez play up next at Promethean Theatre
‘ The scrappy Promethean Theatre in Davie is careful not to announce the dates for a new show, let alone a title, until it has the money to bankroll the production show. So, hot off the press: Promethean will hold …
Miamian Westfall to have play published in anthology
Theater may be an ephemeral art form, but playwrights have a slightly better shot at immortality if they can get their work published. Susan ‘Susi’ Westfall , one of the founders of City Theatre and its Summer Shorts program, will …
“Spelling Bee” proves wry and endearing, even with appallingly ignorant audience members
The authors of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee know that inside the most self-assured, accomplished adult are hidden the whispers we endured on the cusp of adolescence that insisted we were misfits eternally doomed to be outsiders. The …
“Les Miz” revival is a show not to miss at the Broward Center
Is it worth buying a ticket to the 349th road show of the allegedly retooled production of Les Miserables that opened Tuesday at the Broward Center where there’s likely an entire wall with graffiti from companies that have trundled to …
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