Reviews
Our 2013 Holiday Gift Guide For The Theater Fan On Your List
Wondering what to give your theater lover this holiday season – besides season tickets, of course. Our media reviewer Brad Hathaway listens to, reads and sees nearly everything, and he makes his annual suggestions.
Nicky Silver’s The Lyons Scores As Jet Black Satire Of Dysfunctional Family
Nicky Silver’s wickedly hilarious satire The Lyons about self-centered souls in the most dysfunctional family ever seen, on display at The Women’s Theatre Project, hides a deeper portrait of wounded people still seeking the affirmation that they never got from the people who society says should have been their primary nurturers.
Bravura Lion In Winter Is Family Battle Royal As Blood Sport
To summarize The Lion in Winter as a drama about a dysfunctional family is to facilely devalue this examination of just how base the human animal can be in the grip of power and ambition. Director William Hayes and a fine cast make the most of the acerbic gallows humor in Palm Beach Dramaworks’ bravura production, but they also build Goldman’s underlying case for the less than laudable aspects of our nature.
Home For The Holidays: Comedy In Making God Laugh Morphs Into Poignancy At Playhouse
Put Actors’ Playhouse production of Making God Laugh pretty much in the insightful column. Playwright Sean Grennan uses our recognition of the laughter and pain common to most familial relationships and uses it as a building block in his farcical comedy that transmutes into poignant drama.
SantaLand Diaries Good For Seasonal Laughs, But Has Its Share Of Bah-Humbug Moments
While David Sedaris’ The SantaLand Diaries has its share of funny, when his script stoops low for laughs, he dashes all the other precious gifts he doles out in this very inventive one-person show. Yet there are reasons to see Empire Stage’s production of the adult-tinged, bah-humbug holiday theater tradition.
Kravis ‘ Radio City Christmas Spectacular Is, Indeed, A Pretty Spectacular Holiday Present
The Radio City Christmas Spectacular at the Kravis Center is, unlike much in life, precisely what its reputation promises. Start with spectacular, derived from the word spectacle. Nearly 40 people on stage tapping, swirling or gracefully gesticulating while crooning to familiar tunes played by a lush if not live orchestra through 12 scenes.
Sacrilegious And Sweet, The Book Of Mormon Is Both Hilarious And Profane
Hallelujah, children! We are delivered from the bondage of political correctness, the oppression of reactionary repression and the tyranny of the status quo. Raise up your voice and praise the bringer of these blessings — the national tour at the Broward Center of the Broadway musical, The Book of Mormon.
My Name Is Asher Lev Is Compelling Work Of Art
Like walking toward a great work of art at the end of a hallway, the magnificence of GableStage’s production of My Name Is Asher Lev grows slowly as you approach it, as you spend time with it, delving deeper until the accumulated detail of its brushstrokes reveals its full splendor.
The Last Night Of Ballyhoo Examines Prejudice Among Those Discriminated Against
A solid cast molded by director Hugh M. Murphy adds Alfred Uhry’s The Last Night of Ballyhoo to the quietly growing list of solid productions that Broward Stage Door has been accumulating in recent years.
News
GableStage Tries Funding McCraney’s Shakespeare Through Cyberspace
Archive of BECON-TV’s Panel Show: Spotlight On The Arts
Theatre League Announces Remy Award Recipients
New Theatre Postpones “My First” A Week; Four Openings This Week; Six Next Week
24-Hour Theatre Project Gets “Plenty Scary” For Halloween
National Arts Institute Signs Lease To Re-Open Royal Poinciana Playhouse
Reviews
Our 2013 Holiday Gift Guide For The Theater Fan On Your List
Nicky Silver’s The Lyons Scores As Jet Black Satire Of Dysfunctional Family
Bravura Lion In Winter Is Family Battle Royal As Blood Sport
Home For The Holidays: Comedy In Making God Laugh Morphs Into Poignancy At Playhouse
SantaLand Diaries Good For Seasonal Laughs, But Has Its Share Of Bah-Humbug Moments
Maltz’s Appealing Annie Has Adorable Orphans, Skill & Polish, But Little Magic Or Heart
Features
15 Years, 4 Productions And 400-Plus Performances Later, Wayne LeGette Returns to Role
A Quiet, Lazy Holiday: 29 Shows Play South Florida This Month
Photos From Tarell McCraney’s Antony And Cleopatra
The Gleefully Irreverent Romp The Book Of Mormon Opens This Week At Broward Center
Back From Exile, Levy’s Mourning Becomes Electra Finally Gets Local Bow At Florida Grand Opera
Photo Slideshow of Renovations at the Maltz Jupiter Theatre
Stagebill Blog
StageBill: If The Carbonells Only Had A Couple More Slots
StageBill: Why Passing On Attending Opening Night May Be A Better Idea
StageBill Blog: Here’s To Savoring The Joy Of Discovery
StageBill Blog: It’s Not All Darkness Out There
StageBill Blog: Carbonells and How Your Sausage Is Made
StageBill Blog: Looking Back At The Year of the Sea Change
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