Tag Archives: J. Barry Lewis
Palm Beach Dramaworks To Unearth Shepard’s Buried Child
Director J. Barry Lewis has a way of approaching a play like Sam Shepard’s Buried Child, the Pulitzer Prize-winning work that gets a staging by Palm Beach Dramaworks beginning March 27 and through the month of April.
Maltz Sells Scorching, Atypically Profane Glengarry Glen Ross
The Maltz Jupiter Theatre delivers a courageous and skilled revival of Glengarry Glen Ross that depicts a group of foul-mouthed cutthroat Chicago real estate for whom nothing is out of bounds in order to make a sale.
Dramaworks’ Quiet, Insightful Our Town Is Worth Investing Your Attention, Imagination
For such a seemingly simple play, Our Town requires the audience to generously invest their attention and imagination. Thornton Wilder’s classic only works when its visitors travel more than halfway there. But for those willing to make that journey, the gossamer delicate play can vibrate the heartstrings and the synapses.
Tryst Plumbs Complexities Of A Scoundrel And His Prey
A swirling spiral of emotional DNA echoes the emotional dance in The Tryst at Palm Beach Dramaworks. It’s a psychologically-rooted tale of romance, albeit an unconventional definition of romance.
Dramaworks’ Season: Our Town, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Buried Child, Zorba, Lady Day,
Palm Beach Dramaworks’s 2014-2015 season will continue its tradition of presenting classic American and British dramas and musicals, a few familiar, some rarely if ever done by professional theaters in South Florida.
Pinter’s Old Times Challenges Audiences At Dramaworks
Anyone who tells you they understood every beat of Old Times at Palm Beach Dramaworks is probably lying. But investing close attention to Harold Pinter’s play will be rewarded with a theatrical experience to roll around the mind and debate over dinner for days to come.
Maltz’s Dial M For Murder Is Sturdy Piece Of 1950s Theater
If you wonder what theater was like back when it was as popular as film and far more influential than the upstart television, you can see a prime example in the Maltz Jupiter Theatre’s time machine production of the 1952 potboiler Dial M For Murder.
Palm Beach Dramaworks Kicks Off Dramalogue Series To Examine Lives In The Theater
Palm Beach Dramaworks is launching Dramalogue, a fresh program designed to provide theater enthusiasts with an entertaining and educational glimpse of various facets of theater production.
Dramawork’s Mice And Men Is Muted But Moving Revival
Human beings have to dream – no matter their likelihood, no matter the cost. This sampler cliché find its truth in the tactile tragedy that is Palm Beach Dramaworks’ muted but moving revival of John Steinbeck’s Of Mice And Men.
Dramaworks’ Dancing At Lughnasa Is Slow Sweet Elegy
Amid blockbuster musicals and dysfunctional family dramas, one of the disappearing genres of theater and much of art is the slow, sweet sad song. And as Palm Beach Dramaworks’ slow, sweet sad production of Brian Friel’s Dancing at Lughnasa shows, nobody sings them like the Irish.