Performances
Broward Stage Door’s Damn Yankees Is Just A Base Hit
With the upfront caveat that we saw an early preview, Broward Stage Door’s Damn Yankees is a base hit but no triple. The cast needs to pitch with a little more spin on the ball, even with talent in the dugout plus a delightful score that qualifies as a solid run batted in.
Gloucester Blue At Arts Garage Melds Sex, Murders, Laughs
Israel Horovitz’s Gloucester Blue, getting a gleefully mischievous world premiere at the Arts Garage, is a black comedy with all three Aristotelian verities – beer, blackmail and blood. The internationally honored playwright has penned an offbeat tale rooted in blue collar rage against the one-percenters as two workmen and two Brahmins interact in wildly varying ways that will leave dead bodies in their wake.
Neil Simon’s Chapter Two Masters The Meld Of Wit And Pathos At The Plaza
Director Michael Leeds and a solid cast at the Plaza Theatre in Manalapan have mastered Neil Simon’s challenging meld of witty comedy and throat-choking heartache, and make both perfectly plausible facets of life in Chapter Two.
Agatha Christie’s Radio Plays The BBC Murders Intriguing, Entertaining, But Not Riveting
There’s the canny germ of an idea in producer Zev Buffman’s pet project to fuse radio, theater and modern technology into a hybrid exemplified in his latest production, Agatha Christie’s The BBC Murders at the Parker Playhouse. The end result is undeniably entertaining in a quiet smile kind of way, although this is clearly an early foray into this genre and, arguably, not the most enthralling material to do it with.
Maltz’s Singin’ In The Rain Sure Dances Up A Storm, But It Doesn’t Touch The Soul
Assuredly, the Maltz Jupiter Theatre’s Singin’ In the Rain is a pleasant, skillfully executed, beautifully produced evening of cotton candy entertainment. The asterisk is that this Singin’ In The Rain has no soul. It’s a funny, diverting, two-dimensional cartoon.
McCraney’s Streamlined Hamlet Embraces The Music of the Bard
The miracle of Tarell Alvin McCraney’s streamlined Hamlet at GableStage is that even after surgically slicing two-thirds of the script, the result remains not only effective theater but pure if distilled Shakespeare. It honors the music of the Bard’s language, but places an equal premium on actors communicating a line’s meaning rather than being mindlessly captive to the poetry.
Zoetic Stage’s Funny, Poignant All New People By Zach Braff Scores As One Of Season’s Best
South Florida theater critics have to kiss a lot of comedy frogs before they find a prince, so we’re exhilarated when we discover one as magical as Zoetic Stage’s hilarious and touching All New People. What Zoetic Artistic Director Stuart Meltzer and his quartet of actors do with Zach Braff’s material is masterful in comic timing, narrative pacing, inhabiting characters, line readings, excavating meaning, variety of tone yet unity of approach, you name it.
News Briefs: Lost Girls Play Reading And Dramawork’s Concert Of Camelot
South Florida Theater has a full slate of special events this weekend in addition to the openings of Zoetic Theatre’s All New People, Maltz Jupiter Theatre’s Singin’ In The Rain, Cirque du Soliel’s Totem and Tarell Alvin McCraney’s Hamlet at …
The World Goes ‘Round Best When Everyone’s On Board At Broward Stage Door
A tribute show of sorts to two of Broadway’s most prolific composers, John Kander and Fred Ebb, is the foundation for The World Goes ‘Round
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