Monthly Archives: February 2011
“Dinner with Friends” shines a glaring light on relationship facades at Dramaworks
Dread festers just underneath the confident facade of Gabe and Karen’s picture book life. The couple may not even know why, but they are treating the disintegrating marriage of their best friends Tom and Beth like a virulent disease. On …
Caldwell’s “Next Fall” examines love and religion in powerful production
Ever since Next Fall became an off-Broadway hit in 2009, audiences have debated whether the comedy-drama is about the travails of gay life or the challenges of religious faith in the 21st Century or the improbable coexistence of the two …
Jolson lives again at the Maltz Jupiter Theatre
The world premiere of Jolson at the Winter Garden at the Maltz Jupiter Theatre Thursday was exactly what you’d expect: a well-produced songbook revue jammed with familiar crowd-pleasing tunes and featuring a bravura turn by Mike Burstyn as the self-styled …
Michael Hall returns to Caldwell to helm “Next Fall”
Extensive travelling, photography, and writing books: Michael Hall’s non-retirement as head of the Caldwell Theatre has been full and satisfying since he turned over the reins to Clive Cholerton in May 2009. Although he never ruled out directing again, serendipity …
Young actress’s breakout performance highlights shattering “Eclipsed”
The physically and emotionally ravaged Liberian women in Eclipsed are reminiscent of raw wounds with still-forming scabs. When fresh outrages rip them away, harrowing agonies bleed out in a torrent of scathing emotion. Dania Gurira’s script and The Women’s Theatre …
Even with flaws, Promethean’s new play of Cuban sisters is compelling and hilarious
A Bearded Lover turns on the revelation of secret after secret ‘ secrets that three sisters keep from each other, other secrets that playwright Juan C. Sanchez keeps from the audience and parcels out over two hours. The secrets …
Actor goes from Zero to 70 in Mostel play
Not since George C. Scott has an actor impersonated righteous outrage with the skill and intensity that Jim Brochu brings to Zero Mostel’s paint-blistering jeremiad against colleagues naming names during the 1950s in Zero Hour. Brochu’s railing against the betrayal …
Timeless choreography and humanity make for an energized “West Side Story” at the Broward Center
What still stuns in this revival of West Side Story, 54 years on, is how Jerome Robbins uses the movement of human bodies to tell stories. For the huge percentage of Broadway audiences unfamiliar with modern dance or ballet, Robbins”genius …
Carbonell nominations spread the wealth this year
[Updated with complete list of nominations] The Carbonell nominations announced today honored the breadth of South Florida theatrical fare, ranging from the traditional musical Miss Saigon that brought patrons to their feet at one end of the spectrum to the …
Stage Door’s “Plaza Suite’ scores its comic points
Plaza Suite has been staged a multitude of times since its Broadway debut in 1968, the subsequent introduction to the masses on film in 1971, and a television adaptation in 1987. The challenge today for any theater group that …
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