By LOU HARRY There are expectations that come when a play explicitly centers on death – particularly a play with a doom-and-gloom title such as the one attached to Noah Diaz’s play You Will Get Sick, that played until recently in an extended run at Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre Company. The surprisingly funny play circumnavigates most…
Ann Reinking, a Tony Award-winning choreographer who performed on Broadway for 30 years, making a name for herself particularly through her work in the musical Chicago, has died at age 71. Reinking died in her sleep in a hotel room near Seattle, while visiting her older brother, said her sister-in-law, Dahrla King. Authorities have not yet…
By AARON KRAUSE MIAMI LAKES — Parts of Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tracy Letts’ Superior Donuts are as sweet as a sinful confection in the shop bearing the play’s title. Indeed, these moments will make you grin from ear to ear like the ambitious Franco Wicks, one of the main characters. The scenes, which for the…
By AARON KRAUSE WEST PALM BEACH — Characters down alcohol with an equilibrium-upsetting frequency in Billy and Me, a new, engrossing, thought-provoking memory play receiving its world premiere production at Palm Beach Dramaworks through the end of the year. One of the principle characters is, surprise, surprise, Tennessee Williams. The late, great playwright was known as…
By ALAN SMASON, Theatre Critic, WYES-TV (“Steppin’ Out”) There are many reasons why John Kander and Fred Ebb’s Chicago is the longest-running American Broadway show on the Great White Way. First of all, it is a thoroughly satisfying adult comedy with a remarkable book by the late Ebb and the immortal Bob Fosse. The songs…
