Tag Archives: Laura Turnbull
Dramawork’s Lost In Yonkers Is Profound, Trenchant Drama
The 1991 Pulitzer Prize-winning Lost in Yonkers with its intersection of culture and families shows Simon at his most profound and makes a fitting launch for Palm Beach Dramaworks’ 25th season.
A Rock Sails By lands at Actors’ Playhouse at the Miracle Theatre
By Raquel V. Reyes A Rock Sails By is a star vehicle for Laura Turnbull, the actor playing the lead role of astrophysicist Dr. Lynn Cummings in the drama running through June 9 at the Actors’ Playhouse at the Miracle …
Zoetic’s Cabaret a game changer
By Oline Cogdill When the John Kander/Fred Ebb musical Cabaret opened on Broadway in 1966, it was a gamechanger in its staging, tone and story. Certainly, other musicals tackled politics in specific eras—such as Sound of Music (1959) and …
Rooted at Theatre Lab
By Jan Sjostrom Something magical is happening at Theatre Lab, the new-play incubator based at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton. Deborah Zoe Laufer’s play Rooted is a not-to-be missed experience. The show is both a love letter to female …
Dramaworks’ Devastating, Searing August: Osage County
You don’t want to go home again. Certainly, that’s the Weston family manse in the desolate prairie of Oklahoma as depicted in Palm Beach Dramaworks’ searing, devastating portrait of toxic family dysfunction in Tracy Lett’s masterpiece, August: Osage County, featuring as superb an ensemble as anyone could ask for, expertly molded by director William Hayes.
Dramaworks Takes On Ultimate Epic of Family Dysfunction: August: Osage County
Remarkable for raging family furor, recriminations, love, regret, pain and torrents of alcohol-fueled vitriol, August: Osage County is accepted as one of The Great American Plays. Palm Beach Dramaworks is deep into weeks of rehearsal for this epic three-act, three-hour comic-tragedy with 13 cast members, director William Hayes, and a creative team taking on a Mount Everest of theater
Like the Country It Unravels, ‘American Rhapsody is Complicated, Ambitious & Flawed
American Rhapsody, Michael McKeever’s sprawling premiere at Zoetic Stage, is a history play, a bildungsroman, a tribute to fluid families, a cautionary tale about where the zeitgeist might be headed. It spans more than 60 years and feels, perhaps like the American experiment itself.
Milk and Honey Is Charming Musical, But Very Much the ’60s
Unabashed charm is not a quality one associates with modern musicals, but it is the predominant and reasonably satisfying virtue if you take the Wick Theatre’s time machine back 61 years to the opening of Milk and Honey, the first full-length musical by promising newcomer Jerry Herman.
Can’t Tell You Why, But Savor ‘Now and Then’ When You Can
I am begging every critic colleague, everyone who has seen Actors’ Playhouse’s Now and Then to NOT give away anything! One of the many pleasures in this drama laced with humor is watching the story unfold bit by bit, knowing something is going on underneath but enjoying how layers are peeled away by a quartet of superb actors and director.
Rx: The Cure For What Ails You
For older audiences who see the number of expensive pills they take each morning magically multiply over the years, the wicked satire of Big Pharma in the otherwise romantic comedy Rx is welcomed at Boca Stage. But as cutting as Rx can be (one dotty scientist says “If I knew what we were doing, it wouldn’t be called research”) the Rx that playwright Kate Fodor prescribes for the modern malaise is, yes, love.
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