Tag Archives: Peter Flynn
Maltz’s Lehman Trilogy Depicts Generations Who See Selves As “Merchants of Money”
The Lehman Trilogy is the journey of a country pursuing a Dream viewed through the prism of financial acquisition, following generations of an immigrant family rising to economic triumph – and then tragedy. The Maltz Jupiter Theatre’s production nimbly delivers the personal and social complexities examined in one of this country’s most challenging dramas in recent years.
Maltz’s Born Yesterday Is A Progressive Take On A Classic Didactic 1940s Comedy
Maltz Jupiter Theatre’s season-opening rendition of Born Yesterday can’t pave over the script’s glaring weaknesses, but it amplifies the source material’s progressive strengths. Director Peter Flynn has mounted a handsome and drum-tight production anchored by a pair of note-perfect leads.
Maltz’s Kiss Me, Kate Is Witty And Romantic Throwback
The Maltz’s 2016 production of a 1948 classic Kiss Me Kate is a skilled homage to that post-war period of theater when everyone knew which war you were talking about. A mixture of classic theater tropes leavened with a sophisticated satirical tone, this musical-within-a-musical-within-a-musical often lets its then-hip veneer slip to expose a lushly romantic soul.
Maltz’s Other Desert Cities Struggles In Arid First Half But Delivers Wrenching Second Act
All through the engrossing and ultimately wrenching second act of the Maltz Jupiter Theatre’s production of Other Desert Cities, one question screamed for an answer: Where were you people in the first act? The competent cast slogs through the exposition until they finally get create plausible characters in the second act.
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