Tag Archives: David Nail

Musicals Make A Mark In This Year’s Round Of Summer Shorts

City Theatre’s Summer Shorts, which only recently began showcasing musicals, includes three this year including one by Lin-Manuel Miranda.

Posted on June 7, 2017 by Bill Hirschman

Posted in Performances, Reviews | Tagged Arsht Center, Cassandra Zepeda, Chisa Hutchinson, City Theatre, David McGregor, David Nail, Irene Adjan, Jessica Farr, Karen Stephens, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Lindsay Lavin, Margaret Ledford, Paul Tei, Robert Strain, Steve Yockey, Summer Shorts, Susan Westfall | Leave a comment

Motherland Is 2017 Riff On Brecht’s Heroine At Theatre Lab

The best art is a partnership between the creative mind and the viewer. That often requires the audience to expend some effort to get inside the artist’s mind or ethos or style. Witness the first full-fledged production of Allison Gregory’s Motherland at Theatre Lab, a tragedy shot full of the droll street humor.

Posted on January 28, 2017 by Bill Hirschman

Posted in Performances, Reviews | Tagged Allison Gregory, David Nail, Jordon Armstrong, Jovon Jacobs, Karen Stephens, Kent Barrett, Matt Stabile, Michael H. Small, Roderick Randle, Shein Mompremier, Troy Davidson | Leave a comment

Mad Cat’s The Flick Will Intrigue Some, Leave Others Unenthused

Sometimes critics use the words “ambitious” and “intriguing” as backhanded compliments or cowardly faint praise, but Mad Cat Theatre Company’s production of the Pulitzer-winning The Flick earns both adjectives as unironic compliments.

Posted on May 31, 2016 by Bill Hirschman

Posted in Performances, Reviews | Tagged Annie Baker, Chevi Hill, David Nail, Jessica Farr, Mad Cat Theatre Company, The Flick | Leave a comment

Mad Cat Takes On Pulitzer-Winning Marathon: The Flick

The characters and themes of The Flick — the newest production opening at Mad Cat Theatre next week — were so fresh and crucial that it kept director Paul Tei from abandoning straight theater.

Posted on May 21, 2016 by Bill Hirschman

Posted in Features, Performances | Tagged Annie Baker, Chevi Hill, David Nail, Jessica Farr, Mad Cat Theatre Company, The Flick | Leave a comment

Dramaworks’ Buried Child Is Harrowing Thrilling Theater

Palm Beach Dramaworks’ Buried Child is not a pleasant evening of entertainment; it’s more of scathing abrasion therapy that purges the mental palate with fare that is as harrowing as a plow etching a deep gash in the land. But it is theater at its best.

Posted on April 1, 2015 by Bill Hirschman

Posted in Performances, Reviews | Tagged Angie Radosh, Buried Child, Cliff Burgess, David Nail, J. Barry Lewis, Jeff Modereger, Kirk Bookman, Leslye Menshouse, Olivia Gilliatt, Paul Tei, Richard Szczublewski, Rob Donohoe, Sam Shepard | Leave a comment

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.

Posted on March 23, 2015 by Bill Hirschman

Posted in Features | Tagged Angie Radosh, Buried Child, Dan Leonard, David Nail, J. Barry Lewis, Olivia Gilliatt, Palm Beach Dramaworks, Paul Tei, Rob Donohoe, Sam Shepard | Leave a comment