Tag Archives: Jim Ballard

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.

Posted on November 1, 2013 by Bill Hirschman

Posted in Performances, Reviews | Tagged Claire Brownell, Colin McPhillamy, Dan Leonard, Dial M For Murder, Frederick Knott, Gregg Weiner, J. Barry Lewis, Jim Ballard, Maltz Jupiter Theatre, Marty Mets, Michael Amico, Paul Miller, Todd Allen Durkin | 2 Comments

Actors Playhouse Rated P For Parenthood Is Frothy Fun

Rated P For Parenthood at Actors Playhouse is a 90-minute hoot that bowed off-Broadway last year strings together almost 30 vignettes that chronologically trace the joys and absurdities of raising a child from conception to empty nesting.

Posted on July 13, 2013 by Bill Hirschman

Posted in Performances, Reviews | Tagged Actors Playhouse, Amy Miller Brennan, David Arisco, Henry Gainza, Jim Ballard, Julie Kleiner, Rate P For Parenthood | Leave a comment

Play Reading Series Kick Off At Plaza Theatre & Playgroup LLC

At The Plaza The Plaza Theatre in Manalapan will inaugurate Fresh Pages, a series of staged readings of new and unpublished scripts, at 7:30 p.m. Monday, April 29, with the new comedy Can I Really Date a Guy Who Wears …

Posted on April 25, 2013 by Bill Hirschman

Posted in News | Tagged Beth Dimon, Deborah Sherman, Gregg Weiner, Howard Elfman, Jim Ballard, Julie Kleiner, Playgroup LLC, The Plaza Theatre | 2 Comments

Mortality Is Funny As Well As Terrifying In Superb Absurdist Exit The King At Dramaworks

The word “hilarious” rarely applies to a bleak unblinking play about mortality, but Palm Beach Dramawork’s superb production of Eugene Ionesco’s Exit The King earns it, along with “profoundly thought-provoking” and other accolades. Simply, it ranks among the best work that the company has mounted in its 13 seasons.

Posted on March 30, 2013 by Bill Hirschman

Posted in Performances | Tagged Angie Radosh, Claire Brownell, Colin McPhillamy, Elizabeth Dimon, Eugene Ionesco, Exit the King, Geoffrey Rush, Jim Ballard, Lynette Barkley, Rob Donohoe, William Hayes | 1 Comment

Maltz Leaves Little Doubt

The Maltz Jupiter Theatre production under J. Barry Lewis’ direction merits being seen for three finely-crafted performances by Maureen Anderman, Jim Ballard and Julie Kleiner, plus an outstanding portrait by Karen Stephens. But thematically, it’s thrown out of whack because the deck seems stacked toward one truth and then irreversibly stacked the other way. Few people will leave this production indecisive about the priest’s guilt or innocence.

Posted on February 8, 2013 by Bill Hirschman

Posted in Performances, Reviews | Tagged Doubt: A Parable, J. Barry Lewis, Jim Ballard, John Patrick Shanley, Julie Kleiner, Karen Stephens, Maltz Jupiter Theatre, Maureen Anderman | Leave a comment

Doubt Is The Point At The Maltz

Audiences members should leave the Maltz Jupiter Theatre’s production of Doubt: A Parable arguing whether Father Flynn did or didn’t abuse a child, and some will be unable to make up their minds — which is the theme of the play and the reason for the title. Doubt is the point.

Posted on February 6, 2013 by Bill Hirschman

Posted in Features | Tagged J. Barry Lewis, Jim Ballard, John Patrick Shanley, Julie Kleiner, Maltz Jupiter Theatre, Maureen Anderman | Leave a comment

Silver Palms & Theatre League Remy Recipients Announced

Eighteen Silver Palm Awards honoring theatrical excellence in South Florida during the 2011-2012 season will be presented Dec. 3, as well as two Remy Awards from the South Florida Theatre League.

Posted on October 29, 2012 by Bill Hirschman

Posted in News | Tagged Actors Playhouse, Alliance Theatre Lab, Amy London, Caldwell Theatre Company, Christopher Demos-Brown, David Arisco, Empire Stage, GableStage, Gregg Weiner, Iris Acker, Island City Stage, Jim Ballard, Jodie Langel, Joseph Adler, Katherine Amadeo, Ken Clement, Kim Ehly, Kutumba Theatre Project, Laura Turnbull, Lindsey Forgey, Maltz Jupiter Theatre, Margaret M. Ledford, Mark Della Ventura, Michael Amico, Michael McKeever, Mosaic Theatre, Naked Stage, Palm Beach Dramaworks, Promethean Theatre, Ron Levitt, Stuart Meltzer, The Turn of the Screw, Todd Allen Durkin, Tony Finstrom, Zoetic Stage | Leave a comment

Dramaworks’ Fantasticks Is Cool Drink of Summer Lemonade

By Bill Hirschman A gentle, compassionate smile at human folly suffuses The Fantasticks when it’s produced as well as Palm Beach Dramaworks has. Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt’s classic chamber musical is a refreshing tumbler of iced lemonade on a …

Posted on July 14, 2012 by Bill Hirschman

Posted in Performances, Reviews | Tagged Barry Tarallo, Cliff Burgess, Craig D. Ames, Dennis Creaghan, J. Barry Lewis, Jim Ballard, The Fantasticks | 2 Comments

Working Is A Successful Labor of Love At Caldwell Theatre

By Michelle F. Solomon When Grammy-winning composer Stephen Schwartz (Godspell, Wicked, Pippin) first adapted Studs Terkel’s 1974 book Working for Chicago’s Goodman Theatre it was 1977. Terkel’s book was an oral history of working life; its complete title was …

Posted on March 4, 2012 by Bill Hirschman

Posted in Performances, Reviews | Tagged Barry Tarallo, Caldwell Theatre Company, Jim Ballard, Laura Hodos, Melissa Minyard, Working | Leave a comment

Dramaworks’ All My Sons is Triumphant Bow for New Space

Palm Beach Dramaworks opens its new home with a production with the scope and magnitude of All My Sons, Arthur Miller’s first Broadway hit. Directed here by J. Barry Lewis, All My Sons is a family drama of epic proportions, dealing with the responsibility, honor and the ultimate cost of buying into the American Dream.

Posted on November 14, 2011 by Bill Hirschman

Posted in Performances, Reviews | Tagged All My Sons, Arthur Miller, Cliff Burgess, Elizabeth Dimon, J. Barry Lewis, Jim Ballard, Kenneth Tigar, Palm Beach Dramaworks | Leave a comment