Tag Archives: Margery Lowe

Upcoming Brighton Beach Memoirs Is Different Neil Simon

With the Maltz Jupiter Theatre’s upcoming Brighton Beach Memoirs, director J. Barry Lewis says people need to “come forward with a new perspective on what a Neil Simon play is, not just what you think.”

Posted on February 25, 2020 by Bill Hirschman

Posted in Features | Tagged Alexa Lasanta, Avi Hoffman, Brighton Beach Memoirs, J. Barry Lewis, Krystal Millie Valdes, Laura Turnbull, Maltz Jupiter Theatre, Margery Lowe, Neil Simon | Leave a comment

Premiere Of Ordinary Americans Details Still Resonating Issues Of Blacklist & McCarthyism

The world premiere of Joseph McDonough’s Ordinary Americans needs more work but it has enough promise and fine performances at Palm Beach Dramaworks that it’s worth the effort. The story of indomitable broadcast icon Gertrude Berg fighting the plague of the blacklist in the 1950s carries a clear warning to audiences today.

Posted on December 12, 2019 by Bill Hirschman

Posted in Performances, Reviews | Tagged David Kwiat, Elizabeth Dimon, Joseph McDonough, Margery Lowe, Ordinary Americans, Palm Beach Dramaworks, Rob Donohoe, Tom Wahl, William Hayes | Leave a comment

Funny & Tragic Pursuit Of Fame In The House Of Blue Leaves

The House of Blue Leaves gets as funny and touching a production from Palm Beach Dramaworks as anyone can ask for. Its virtues include superb direction, a flawless creative team and a wall-to-wall cast of actor-clowns willing to bury themselves inside the off-kilter and flawed characters.

Posted on May 18, 2019 by Bill Hirschman

Posted in Performances, Reviews | Tagged Bruce Linser, Elena Maria Garcia, Elizabeth Dimon, Irene Adjan, J. Barry Lewis, Jim Ballard, John Guare, Krystal Millie Valdes, Margery Lowe, Palm Beach Dramaworks, The House of Blue Leaves, Vanessa Morosco | Leave a comment

Wit And Wisdom, Life And Death Spar in Dramaworks’ Premiere of Edgar (Poe) & Emily (Dickinson)

Edgar & Emily, the premiere at Palm Beach Dramaworks, is a fascinating and funny fantasia about Edgar Allan Poe visiting Emily Dickinson late one night dragging his coffin behind him. Joseph McDonough’s wry play examines sensitive introspective artists’ challenge to be fully alive in the ever-present shadow of death – an evening laced with copious quips and witty banter.

Posted on April 1, 2018 by Bill Hirschman

Posted in Performances, Reviews | Tagged Bill Hayes, Edgar and Emily, Gregg Weiner, Joseph McDonough, Margery Lowe, Palm Beach Dramaworks | Leave a comment

So, The Dead Edgar Allen Poe Drops Into Emily Dickinson’s Bedroom With His Coffin….

Emily Dickinson is huddling in her bed when Edgar Allen Poe barges into her bedroom pulling his coffin behind him. This is even stranger than it sounds since Poe is believed to have died about 15 years earlier. Such is opening of the world premiere, Edgar and Emily, opening this weekend at Palm Beach Dramaworks.

Posted on March 29, 2018 by Bill Hirschman

Posted in Features | Tagged Bill Hayes, Edgar and Emily, Gregg Weiner, Joseph McDonough, Margery Lowe, Palm Beach Dramaworks | Leave a comment

GableStage’s If I Forget: Powerful Tale of Family Strife Over Cultural History

Raging family dysfunction played against an equally volatile backdrop of social upheaval makes for two seemingly separate but brilliantly acted and directed plays united in GableStage’s production of If I Forget — the emotional equivalent of a skiff tossed about in a raging tempest in the middle of a wintry ocean.

Posted on February 5, 2018 by Bill Hirschman

Posted in Performances, Reviews | Tagged Ame Livingston, David Kwiat, GableStage, George Schiavone, Gregg Weiner, If I Forget, Joe Adler, Margery Lowe, Matthew Ferro, Patti Gardner | Leave a comment

Don’t Let Esoteric Details Dissuade You; Let Dramaworks’ Arcadia Swirl Around You

Palm Beach Dramaworks’ production of Arcadia is Tom Stoppard’s love letter to the miracle of human intelligence’s pursuit of learning — with a gentle jab at the hubris of those who are so taken with that pursuit.

Posted on April 3, 2017 by Bill Hirschman

Posted in Performances, Reviews | Tagged Arcadia, Brian O'Keefe, Caitlin Cohn, Casey Butler, Cliff Burgess, Dan Leonard, Don Thomas, Gary Cadwallader, J. Barry Lewis, James Andreassi, Margery Lowe, Palm Beach Dramaworks, Peter Simon Hilton, Ryan Zachary Ward, Steve Shapiro, Tom Stoppard, Vanessa Morosco | Leave a comment

What Kind Of Year Was It? Our Critics’ “Best Of” 2016 Lists

Critics and award judges have been talking about it for weeks: The sheer amount of high quality work has made evaluating the last 12 months unusually challenging, but also an opportunity to remember one of the most rewarding calendar years in recent memory. So here’s a supremely subjective stab by all three critics here at Florida Theater On Stage at recognizing the shows and performances that stood out from a pack of productions.

Posted on December 29, 2016 by Bill Hirschman

Posted in Features | Tagged A Public Reading of an Unproduced Screenplay about the Death of Walt Disney, Actors Playhouse, After, Alex Alvarez, An Act of God, Andre' L Gainey, Anna Lise Jensen, Arts Garage, Arturo Rossi, Avery Sommers, Aygemang Clay, Barbara Bradshaw, Bessie Smith: The Devils’ Music, Betsy Graver, Buyer & Cellar, Charlie Cinnamon, Chris Crawford, Clay Cartland, Conor Walton, Dan Knechtges, David Arisco, David Nagy, Deborah Zoe Laufer, Elizabeth Dimon, Evening Star Productions, Feeding The Bear, Florida Grand Opera, GableStage, Genie Croft, Gregg Weiner, Gretchen Porro, Ground Up and Rising, Hand To God, Helen Gregory, I Love A Piano, Island City Stage, James Brennan, Jeni Hacker, Jim Gibbons, Jodi Dellaventura, John Harden II, Joseph Adler, Julie Kleiner Davis, Karen Stephens, Keith Garsson, Kevin Black, Kristian Bikic, Larry Buzzeo, Laura Hodos, Lindsey Corey, Long Day's Journey Into Night, Louis Tyrrell, Lourelene Snedeker, Mad Cat Theatre Company, Maltz Jupiter Theatre, Marco Ramirez, Margery Lowe, Maria Elena Garcia, Mark Duncan, Matt Loehr, Matthew Korinko, Maureen Anderman, Me and My Girl, Mia Matthews, Michael Aman, Michael McKeever, Million Dollar Quartet, Mud, Murdered To Death, New Theatre, Nicholas Richberg, Nicole Stodard, Niki Fridh, Our Lady of 121st Street, outre theatre company, Palm Beach Dramaworks, Parallel Lives Chris Crawford, Passion, Patrick Fitzwater, Paul Tei, Perfect Arrangement, Peter Galman, Peter Lovello, Putting It Together, Rapture Blister Burn, Ricky J. Martinez, Ron Hutchins, Roof, Rudi Goblen, Sarah Gracel Anderson, Shein Mompremier, Simply Simone: The Music of Nina Simone, Skye Whitcomb, Slow Burn Theatre Company, Smoke, Sondheim On Sondheim, Spring Awakening, Stuart Meltzer, The Flick, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Minister’s Wife, The Nether, The Passenger, The Realistic Joneses, The Royale, The Soul of Motor City, The Wick Theatre, The World Goes Round, Theatre At Arts Garage, Theatre Lab at Florida Atlantic University, Thinking Cap Theatre, This Random World, Three Sisters of Weekhauken, Toddra Brunson, Tom Wahl, Wesley Slade, West Side Story, William Hayes | Leave a comment

Hand To God Explores Man’s Baser Nature With Pitch Black Comedy — And Puppets

Okay, yes, Hand to God has cute obscenity-spouting puppets having sex on stage, but the similarities to Avenue Q stops dead right there. This scorchingly funny and aggressively irreverent play at GableStage is a pitch black comedy about using the fiction of religion to rationalize and excuse the baser natural instincts of Mankind.

Posted on October 3, 2016 by Bill Hirschman

Posted in Performances, Reviews | Tagged Casey Sacco, GableStage, Hand To God, Joseph Adler, Kristian Bikic, Margery Lowe, Robert Askins, Stephen G. Anthony, Wesley Slade | Leave a comment

What Happens When You Get What You Asked For: Zoetic Stage’s Rapture, Blister, Burn

Gina Gionfriddo’s Rapture, Blister, Burn is rooted in an wry examination of post-feminism. But Zoetic Stage’s finely wrought comedy-drama goes much farther and deeper in examining the complex interrelationship of dreams, choices, responsibilities and consequences applicable to human beings of all sexes.

Posted on January 16, 2016 by Bill Hirschman

Posted in Performances, Reviews | Tagged Barbara Bradshaw, Gina Gionfriddo, Lexi Langs, Margery Lowe, Mia Matthews, Rapture Blister Burn, Stuart Meltzer, Todd Allen Durkin, Zoetic Stage | Leave a comment