By ALAN SMASON, Theatre Critic, WYES-TV (“Steppin’ Out“) The Rivertown Theaters for the Performing Arts has typically pulled out all of the stops for their summer show every year. Last year they had Disney’s “Beauty and the Beast,” while in its most previous years the company produced “Disney’s ‘The Little Mermaid’” last year, a staged […]
By ALAN SMASON For 52 years, Summer Lyric Theatre at Tulane has presented quality productions that can equal or excel what one would expect to find in a Broadway or national touring show. The amazing thing is that they manage to put on three quality presentations every summer at whirlwind speed each with a full […]
By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic (“Steppin’ Out“) In 2013, Joyce Pulitzer realized a dream she had begun some 15 years previous when she and her friend David Seelig first set pen to paper to begin writing Freedom, a piece intended to celebrate America’s diversity as a welcoming haven for immigrants of all stripes. Her […]
By AARON KRAUSE WILTON MANORS, FL. — The senator proclaims his vision for America in a sunny, hopeful voice. However, the audience’s reaction is shades darker. In fact, the groans sound like die-hard fans of a beloved home team reacting with pavlovian jeers as soon as they see the arch-nemesis’ uniforms. Of course, the senator […]
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By AARON KRAUSE CORAL GABLES, Fla. — No doubt, sparks fly quickly and furiously in Actors’ Playhouse at the Miracle Theatre’s combustible, searing, suspenseful, must-witness production of John Patrick Shanley’s explosive drama, Doubt: A Parable. The 2005 Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning play is running through June 9. And we can say, without question, that […]
By AARON KRAUSE WEST PALM BEACH — As anyone familiar with John Guare’s The House of Blue Leaves knows, Hollywood songwriter wannabe Artie Shaughnessy poses a question in one of his songs. Specifically, he wonders, “Where is the devil in Evelyn?” Well, here’s another question – where is the darkness in Palm Beach Dramaworks’ production […]
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By AARON KRAUSE FT. LAUDERDALE — Awww, isn’t it cute how the little monkey with sad, puppy-dog eyes is sucking on a pacifier? It’s just precious! Surely, you can’t miss the image on the cover of Thinking Cap Theatre’s program for its current, impressive production of the odd, yet intriguing and relevant play, Precious Little. But […]
By HERBERT W. SIMPSON It seems that Geva Theater Center’s long devotion to creating a worthy theater piece devoted to the history of Son House has reached a temporarily completed form in this rich, complicated show that dazzled the opening night audience. Geva commissioned the work more than four years ago, and at this point […]
By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic (“Steppin’ Out“) Just before every performance of The Pianist of Willesden Lane, the one-woman play based on the book she wrote with Lee Cohen (“The Children of Willesden Lane”), Mona Golabek holds onto a Star of David that hangs from her necklace. As she grasps the golden artifact (which […]
By AARON KRAUSE He is entering his 50th and final season as TheatreWorks Silicon Valley’s Artistic Director and has garnered many awards for his work with the Bay Area company. And to top off Robert Kelley’s five decades at its helm, one of the longest of any professional regional theater, the founding artistic director recently […]