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Features | Regional Theatre | Southeast

A shattering ‘Streetcar’ at Palm Beach Dramaworks
October 20, 2019October 20, 2019

By AARON KRAUSE WEST PALM BEACH — Brutal reality shatters sensitivity, fragility and illusion with the force of a monster hurricane in the professional, non-profit Palm Beach Dramaworks’ highly intense, heartfelt and heartbreaking production of A Streetcar Named Desire. To be sure, in this first-rate mounting of Tennessee Williams’ Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece, Stanley Kowalski (an…

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Features | Regional Theatre | Southeast

Slow Burn’s less-is-more approach works with Tarzan
October 25, 2017October 25, 2017

By AARON KRAUSE FT. LAUDERDALE — There are lighting effects galore (some overdone, some mood-enhancing by Thomas Shorrock) in Slow Burn Theatre Company’s mostly commendable, high-flying production of Tarzan: The Stage Musical. It runs through Nov. 5 on Broward Center for the Performing Arts’ intimate Amaturo Stage. Fortunately, director/choreographer Patrick Fitzwater doesn’t forget to highlight…

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