Tag Archives: Ruthie Stephens

A Bloody Good Sweeney Todd Erupts At PB Dramaworks

Homicidal rage against a corrupt world spews into the audience in Palm Beach Dramaworks’ Sweeney Todd. But its singular spin is that the serial throat-slitting barber does not start as a vengeance-obsessed fiend. It it adds a dimension of, not forgiveness, but compassion to this cross between gleeful Grand Guignol and merciless condemnation of socio-economic inequity.

Posted on July 15, 2017 by Bill Hirschman

Posted in Performances, Reviews | Tagged Brad Pawlak, Brian O'Keefe, Christopher Holloway, Clive Cholerton, Donald Edmund Thomas, Evan Jones, Hannah Richter, Hugh Wheeler, Jennifer Molly Bell, Jim Ballard, Manny Schvartzman, Michael McKenzie, Palm Beach Dramaworks, Paul Louis Lessard, Ruthie Stephens, Shane Tanner, Shelley Keelor, Stephen Sondheim, Sweeney Todd, Terry Hardcastle | Leave a comment

Dramaworks’ A Little Night Music Is A Bittersweet Swirling Summer Night Of Sondheim

Life is bittersweet marked by rue and romance in which those foolish mortals submit and succumb to the whirling winds of love and lust in Palm Beach Dramaworks’ concert staging of Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler’s glorious A Little Night Music.

Posted on July 11, 2015 by Bill Hirschman

Posted in Performances, Reviews | Tagged A Little Night Music, Alex Jorth, Aloysius Gigl, Catharine League, Christina Flores, Clay Cartland, Georgia Mallory Guy, Hugh Wheeler, Joy Franz, Kevin David Thomas, Lillie Ricciardi, Linda C. Shorrock, Lynnette Barkley, Matthew Korinko, Palm Beach Dramaworks, Ruthie Stephens, Stephen Sondheim, Thomas Shorrock | Leave a comment