Monthly Archives: December 2011
Stage Door’s I Love A Piano Is Very, Very Familiar Berlin Revue
With such irresistible raw material as the Irving Berlin songbook, Broward Stage Door’s production of I Love a Piano can’t help but be mildly entertaining and this edition finally emits infectious joy during the last 15 minutes. But for frequent theatergoers who have seen songbook after songbook, year after year, decade after decade, the doctor diagnoses a new malady: revue fatigue.
Ken Clement Gives Tour de Force in Actors Playhouse’s Jacob Marley’s Christmas Carol
And in his current tour de force in the comical and touching Jacob Marley’s Christmas Carol at Actors’ Playhouse, Ken Clement reaffirms his ability to single-handedly mesmerize an audience. Both narrator and stand-in for the 17-member cast of characters, Clement is a master storyteller enthralling us around an invisible campfire with playwright Tom Mula’s 90-minute alternate take on Charles Dickens’ classic that many people have grown weary of.
Caldwell Gives Free Peek Behind The Scenes At Wednesday Open House
The Caldwell Theatre Company is offering a rare look behind the scenes Wednesday Dec. 14 during a free open house from 1 to 8 p.m. that will feature backstage tours of the facility, performances, discussions with the creative staff, door …
Zoetic’s The SantaLand Diaries Is Witty Satire, But Not For Kids
The SantaLand Diaries is a holiday tale – not a warm inspiring morality fable for Christmas, but a harrowing if hilarious horror story for Halloween.
In Zoetic Stage’s production, the satirical monologue of a would-be actor slaving as an elf in Macy’s SantaLand is a wry, acerbic riff on the desensitizing corporate commercialization not just of the holiday, but of genuine sentiment as well.
Musical Shrek Is Silly Fun But Not As Satisfying As The Film
Don’t go looking for the sassy charming movie Shrek in its musical incarnation now appearing in the Broadway Across Miami tour at the Arsht Center for one week only.
Streaks of imagination and wit surface frequently, but this generally unengaging mediocrity misses the effortless irreverence in Dreamworks’ animated romance between a large green ogre and a beautiful princess.
Theater Shelf: Lend Me a Tenor & The Trumpet of the Swan CDs
Brad Hathaway, our critic of CDs, DVDS and books related to theater, has been busy this fall looking at a large number of potential additions to your library. We’re going to start running several over the next two weeks as …
GableStage Plans Annual Outdoor Winter Shakespeare Festival With McCraney and Royal Shakespeare Company
GableStage has been given seed money to start an annual Winter Shakespeare Festival that would team with the Royal Shakespeare Company and Miami native Tarrell Alvin McCraney, and involve building a temporary outdoor amphitheater in Miami-Dade County.
New Theatre’s Twain and Shaw Not Engrossing Enough
Bill Schwartz as Twain listens to Stephen Neal as Shaw holding forth / Photo by Eileen Suarez By Bill Hirschman An intriguing premise and the words of two witty literary giants are not enough to build an engrossing evening in …
Promethean Sponsors Theater for Kids
The Promethean Theatre, best known for its thought-provoking and irreverent fare, is continuing its children’s programming this season with Jingles, Jokes & Jollies: A Tropical Holiday on Saturdays this month. The one-hour program is designed to appeal to children ages …
Flynn’s Play Color the Sky Gets NYC Reading
President of the Palm Beach Theater Guild Patrick Henry Flynn, who has been heading the effort to preserve and reopen the Royal Poinciana Playhouse in Palm Beach, is in New York to hear a free reading of his play Color …
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