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2001 Stories by Mia Leonin

• Funny Impression

  published September 13, 2001

  Is the stage half empty or half full? Depends on your improvisational skills, David Christopher would say. While some consider it theater's... More >>

• Not Just Cheap Thrills

  published September 6, 2001

  Skeletons in the corner, jittery women in crisply pressed nurses' uniforms, doors that are shifting entries to alternative realities ... if you... More >>

• Change, Change, Change

  published August 23, 2001

  This is not a common subject for the stage, screen, or most anyplace else. But Cuillo Centre for the Arts' current production, Menopause:... More >>

• Extreme Exhorts

  published August 16, 2001

  Chances are the woman sitting next to you has been raped: One out of three women in the United States are sexually assaulted by age... More >>

• Wit for Life

  published August 9, 2001

  It's not every day that a play about death resuscitates the English language. The word wit as a noun has all but vanished from the English... More >>

• The Vicious Circle in Song

  published August 2, 2001

  From Bosnia to Bessie Smith, Florida Stage's 2000-2001 season consistently has shown how music helps shape historical moments and our lives. The... More >>

• High Notes

  published July 26, 2001

  The audience at the 26th Street Theatre's production of William Finn's musical Falsettoland can be as idiosyncratic as the play... More >>

• Real-Time Car Talk

  published July 19, 2001

  The Mad Cat experience Here in My Car may not be for everyone, but it may be for you. The best way to tell is not whether you've... More >>

• Hollywood Gaming

  published July 12, 2001

  Most plays begin when the actors first appear, but Hollywood Playhouse's Game Show: The Comedy You Play starts the moment you... More >>

• The Naked Truth

  published July 5, 2001

  The plot of David Hare's The Blue Room might be described as "six degrees of penetration." In the play's opening scene, an off-duty... More >>

• The Necessity of the Absurd

  published June 28, 2001

  A bearded man in olive drab spews out a fist-pounding diatribe. A couple gyrates brutally as if trapped in a sadistic rumba. A young man stands... More >>

• Impotent Response

  published June 21, 2001

  Ominous techno music engulfs the expectant audience at the Museum of Art Auditorium in Fort Lauderdale. The stage is barren except for a black... More >>

• Up from the Ashes

  published June 14, 2001

  Like apparitions rolling in from the sea, four rafters descend down the aisles from the back of the darkened Colony Theater toward the stage.... More >>

• The Same Old Song

  published June 7, 2001

  When Sonia (Connie SaLoutos), an aspiring lyricist, meets successful composer Vernon (Dan Kelley) in They're Playing Our Song, she... More >>

• Speaking Private Parts

  published June 7, 2001

  Wherever there's a vagina holding forth, a penis in need of countering dialogue must be close by. It's no surprise, then, that on the heels of Eve... More >>

• A Time for Love and Romance

  published May 31, 2001

  Early on in Florida Stage's The Pavilion, the narrator looks out at the audience and declares, "This is a play about time." Normally... More >>

• Play It en Español

  published May 31, 2001

  With the first International Monologue Festival barely finished and the sixteenth International Hispanic Theatre Festival just beginning, South... More >>

• In-Your-Face Theater

  published May 24, 2001

  A TV turns to static. A young girl lies motionless on a bed. A man in a suit enters a dark kitchen, loosens his tie, and opens a refrigerator.... More >>

• Gone Camping

  published May 24, 2001

  Leave the tent and bug spray at home; there's a better camp already set up at Miami Light Project Light Box Studio. The theater is now hosting two... More >>

• From Ports to Puertas

  published May 17, 2001

  Perhaps it's sheer coincidence, but it seems largely appropriate that the first International Monologue Festival began with a voyage and... More >>

• Forest Dumped

  published May 10, 2001

  If playwright Stan Lachow could have seen the set that the Hollywood Playhouse was going to construct for the world premiere of Harry and... More >>

• Rebel with a One-World Cause

  published May 3, 2001

  Where were Howard Fast, Joe Adler, and Bob Rogerson when Mr. Nelson, my high school history teacher/wrestling coach, sidled up to the lectern to... More >>

• A Lighter Shade of Noir

  published April 26, 2001

  Classic noir is the color this season in West Palm Beach. The Cuillo Centre for the Arts' current production, The Betrayal of Nora... More >>

• Sidebar

  published April 26, 2001

  The stage, like a body of water, contains more than what appears on its surface. What rises from the depths of the theatrical ocean -- memory,... More >>

• College Try

  published April 19, 2001

  At best the revival of a classic stirs our sensibilities much like a remarkable piece of music. A chord is struck that reverberates from antiquity... More >>