Monthly Archives: September 2011
24-Hour Theatre Project Madness To Benefit Naked Stage and Promethean
The scrappy Naked Stage and Promethean Theatre and about 50 of their friends stage a coffee-fueled marathon jam for a mostly sleepless 24-hour period to produce and present from scratch an evening’s worth of skits, playlets, goofs and hoots. The curtain will rise on the fifth annual edition at 8 p.m. Monday, Oct. 3, in the Caldwell Theatre Company in Boca Raton.
Life and Death Hangs in the Balance in Provocative ‘night Mother at Alliance Theatre Lab
Marsha Norman’s powerful play, ‘night Mother, gets a moving production at the Alliance Theatre Lab.
Scenes from a (Mentally Ill) Marriage — Mosaic Scores with a Powerful Production About a Marriage in Crisis
Side Effects by Michael Weller, a raw, visceral look at a marriage at the mercy of the wife’s mental illness, comes to stunning life at Mosaic Theatre in Plantation.
News Briefs: Dramaworks Gets $2 Million; Gepner Goes to Papermill
The South Florida theater scene is so busy that often the news comes too fast for us to keep up with. From time to time, we’ll run a column like this one, containing several items. If we don’t get …
Deborah Sherman’s Role in Mosaic’s Side Effects Has Personal Resonances
Actors are accustomed to carving out the marrow of their lives to provide the psychic building blocks of a performance. But for Deborah L. Sherman, her role as a bi-polar housewife in Side Effects opening this weekend at Mosaic Theatre cuts awfully close to the bone.
Rising Action’s As Bees in Honey Drown Not As Sweet As It Should Be
As Bees in Honey Drown, the first Rising Action production under the leadership of new producing director Andy Rogow, is a few cuts above the company’s typical fare, but is not without its own missteps.
Theater Shelf: New Book Examines August Wilson’s Pittsburgh
A new book serves a sort of tourist guide through the real locations in Pittsburgh that correlate to the scenes in August Wilson’s plays.
Ground Up & Rising Opens Season Saturday with Readings
Ground Up & Rising, the tiny company that has produced outstanding drama across Miami-Dade County despite having no permanent home, is ramping up its new season of edgy and cutting-edge theater pieces aimed at younger audiences.
A New Day at Rising Action with Andy Rogow and As Bees In Honey Drown
By Bill Hirschman Supporters of Rising Action Theatre are hoping that its sly moniker will add a triple-entendre of meaning, that of a phoenix rising from, if not ashes, then a troubled past. The gay-centric company in Fort Lauderdale is …
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