Tag Archives: Peter Amster

When It All Goes So Wonderfully Wrong: Noises Off at Gulfshore

You feel perturbed when things go wrong in real life, but it’s such delicious fun when it happens onstage. And Noises Off at Gulfshore Playhouse is filled with missed cues, forgotten and disappearing props, dropped lines, ad libs, costume failures and characters entering at the wrong time.

Posted on March 17, 2025 by Bill Hirschman

Posted in Performances, Reviews | Tagged Angie Januis, Brian Owen, Dan Fenaughty, Edward Staudenmayer, Gulfshore Playhouse, Jordan Sobel, Larissa Klinher, Michele Ragusa, Noises Off, Peter Amster, Tess Frazer, Tom Aulino | Leave a comment

Hoary, Dependable Mousetrap Springs Again At The Maltz

The Mousetrap at the Maltz is indeed a hoary old chestnut chock full of clichés which weren’t even new when it bowed in 1952. But director Peter Amster and his cast wisely don’t try to fight it or update it. Instead they embrace it with gusto and with hardly a post-modern wink other than playing up everyone’s suspicious facets with a gleeful melodramatic flair that is usually, but not always under control.

Posted on October 30, 2015 by Bill Hirschman

Posted in Performances, Reviews | Tagged Agatha Christie, Barbara Bradshaw, Barry Tarallo, Christian Pedersen, Eric Parks, Gail Rastorfer, Katherine Amadeo, Peter Amster, Richard Iverson, Roland Rusinek, The Mousetrap | Leave a comment