By AARON KRAUSE MARGATE, Fla. — There’s a moment during the Tony-Award-winning musical Nine when a cacophony of voices drifts through the air, belonging to women speaking, or even shouting, on top of one another. The resulting noise vividly symbolizes the chaos racing through the mind of renown but struggling Italian filmmaker Guido Contini, an […]
By HARRY DUKE If you are a younger person who avoids theater because you think it doesn’t speak to you in a language of music or movement or story that you speak in, there’s a show you should see. If you are an older person who finds it difficult to appreciate the language of music […]
By AARON KRAUSE MIAMI, FL. — It’s not every day that famed magician and escape artist Harry Houdini flings playing cards at you, interacts with you and even calls you up as a volunteer to participate in one of his tricks. Then again, it’s not every day that you witness a play as unique and […]
By AARON KRAUSE FT. LAUDERDALE — “Love Transcends Death” is a poem by Naoimh Spence, but it’s also a powerful premise in several theatrical shows, including Elton John and Tim Rice’s “Aida,” a heartfelt, touching tale of honor, loyalty and forbidden love which is receiving a remarkable production by the Carbonell Award-winning, Ft. Lauderdale-based Slow […]
By AARON KRAUSE BOCA RATON, Fla. — With a Trumpian America in full swing, and the resulting uncertainty, fear and dread of many citizens, not just those of the U.S., perhaps it’s time to look at the much-analyzed and confounding “Waiting for Godot” through a dystopian, futuristic lens. Seeing Samuel Beckett’s 1953 existential masterpiece through […]
MARGATE, Fla. — There are times when we like bad, even horrible people. Look no further than musicals such as Peter Pan (who doesn’t like, or at least have fun with Captain Hook?) Chicago, A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder, and Sweeney Todd. Characters in these types of shows are usually either colorful, hilariously […]
The American Theatre Critics Association (ATCA) has selected Michael Cristofer’s Man in the Ring, the true story of a boxer who killed another man in a bout, as the winner of the 2016 Harold and Mimi Steinberg/American Theatre Critics Association New Play Award. This award, which recognizes playwrights for scripts that premiered professionally during the preceding […]
By AARON KRAUSE WILTON MANORS, Fla. — Like a speeding bulldozer crushing everything in its path, a nightmarish past comes barreling back into the lives of two lesbians about to get married in “Son,” a new work by playwright James L. Beller Jr. The promising new play, which needs work, is receiving its world premiere […]
Nate Eppler has won The American Theatre Critics Association’s (ATCA) 2017 M. Elizabeth Osborn New Play Award for an emerging playwright. The award was presented at the Humana Festival of New American Plays in Louisville on April 8. Eppler’s work The Ice Treatment premiered in July of 2016 and was presented by Actors Bridge Ensemble […]
By AARON KRAUSE CORAL GABLES, Fla. — Imagine that a bunch of folks have hoisted you into the air with your stomach facing down. They’re engaged in a tug-of-war of sorts with you and the groups oppose each other: One group pulls you hard by the right arm, another by the left arm, while the […]