Tag Archives: Julie Rowe

Maltz’s Steel Magnolias Wilts

The perennial tear-jerking Steel Magnolias, now at the Maltz Jupiter Theatre ought to work, but doesn’t succeed this time.. But those objectivity. Those seeking theater that provokes or stimulates, that questions our biases or expands our worldviews — catnip to critics and adventurous audiences — will find little nourishment in Robert Harling’s provincial 1987 dramedy.

Posted on November 6, 2018 by Bill Hirschman

Posted in Performances, Reviews | Tagged Alison Fraser, Crista Moore, Julie Rowe, Kim Cozort, Maltz Jupiter Theatre, Marcia Milgrom Dodge, Paige Silvester, Steel Magnolias | Leave a comment

Dramaworks Explores Enduring Relevance of a Plains Populist

Woody Guthrie’s American Song is most decidedly a people’s musical, at least in its vivifying production at Palm Beach Dramaworks is more of a communal hoedown with Guthrie’s music as the soundtrack. Even the songs about poverty, death and hard living hide notes of hope, if we can only come together to find them.

Posted on July 15, 2018 by Bill Hirschman

Posted in Performances, Reviews | Tagged Bruce Linser, Cat Greenfield, Don Noble, Jeff Raab, Julie Rowe, Sean Powell, Woody Guthrie's American Song | Leave a comment

Stunning Excoriating Equus Gallops Across Dramaworks

Mere hours before the opening night of Equus at Palm Beach Dramaworks – a drama prompted by the true story of a troubled teen who blinded five horses – another troubled teen murdered 10 people in a nightmarish school shooting. But independent of that, its Equus stands among the most effective, perfectly executed productions that this company has wrought in its mission to deliver “theater to think about.”

Posted on May 19, 2018 by Bill Hirschman

Posted in Performances, Reviews | Tagged Anne-Marie Cusson, Domenic Servidio, Equus, Frank Vomero, J. Barry Lewis, John Leonard Thompson, Julie Rowe, Mallory Newbrough, Meredith Bartmon, Nicholas Lavalvo, Palm Beach Dramaworks, Peter Simon Hilton, Robert Richards Jr., Steve Carroll | 1 Comment

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.

Posted on May 25, 2013 by Bill Hirschman

Posted in Performances, Reviews | Tagged Brian Friel, Cliff Burgess, Dancing at Lughnasa, Gretchen Porro, J. Barry Lewis, John Leonard Thompson, Julie Rowe, Margery Lowe | Leave a comment