Tag Archives: Margaret M. Ledford
Margaret Ledford Receives Carbonell’s Ruth Foreman Award
Margaret M. Ledford, who has directed at nearly every regional theater in South Florida and helped found several, has received the Carbonell’s Ruth Foreman Award, recognizing “outstanding contribution to development of South Florida theatre.”
City Theatre Turns 30 By Adapting Summer Shorts To Current Challenges
City Theatre successfully marks its 30th anniversary as a game-forging force but its champions are determinedly adapting to surmount fiscal uncertainty with changes such as a one-night Summer Shorts
Theater Lab’s INFERNA: Traditional Indoctrination Doesn’t Deal With Sexual Abuse
We all have scripts. In her INFERNA at Theatre Lab playwright’actress Joanna Castle Miller says they are values and mores inculcated since childhood especially by religion. But sometimes we have been indoctrinated in multiple scripts; some don’t sync, some counter each other, some which don’t even address issues.
Society’s Failure To Help Impaired Children Is At Heart Of Dangerous Instruments
Pain, despair and desperation deepen in a swirling descent into a dread-encrusted darkness in the premiere of Gina Montét’s Dangerous Instruments at Palm Beach Dramaworks.
Clearly, not a spring lark musical; instead, a grueling message drama with gallows wit that should be performed throughout the country.
Knowing Who We Are Is Central In Premiere ‘two of us on the run’
The fears, frustrations and universal questions of who we are—all of which are magnified when you’re 16 years old, on the cusp of being an adult—swirl in the provocative but uneven world premiere of two of us on the run, presented by Theatre Lab, the professional resident company of Florida Atlantic University.
City Theatre’s Constitution May Be Season’s Most Important Play
The contradictions of what we say the Constitution is, what we want it to be, and what it really is, what it really does are at the heart of one of the most timely and important pieces of theater to be produced in South Florida this past year — City Theatre’s What the Constitution Means to Me.
Summer Shorts Finally Gets to Celebrate 25th Anniversary
Like death and taxes, one of the few truly dependable things in life is that the venerable Summer Shorts from City Theatre is going to be a satisfying mix of light comedy with a few mildly serious moments. And its silver anniversary production remains a thoroughly entertaining source of 10-minute plays executed by a seasoned cadre of pros.
Post-Partum Woes Turn to Madness in Theatre Lab’s Bow Overactive Letdown
Buckle up if you’re attending the world premiere run of Overactive Letdown at Theatre Lab as a new mother spirals out of control in a harrowing descent into madness. Crumbling under the post-partum pressures of caring for an infant, aggravated by today’s tsunami of parenting dictates, our heroine Christine’s considerable intelligence, humor and charm evaporate.
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