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Not-So-Freaky Freak Show

Mosaic's Elephant Man is mostly art by the numbers

By Ronald Mangravite
Sep 8, 2005

The Mosaic Theatre's Richard Jay Simon is one of the most talented theater directors in South Florida. He's also one of the most versatile. His emotionally detailed hostage drama Someone Who'll Watch Over Me grabbed my attention in Mosaic's first season, when the company was playing to audiences of three...
Waking to Your Worst Nightmare

A claustrophobic tale of capture, nurture, and torture

By Ronald Mangravite
Aug 11, 2005

Horror meister Stephen King certainly knows a thing or two about the vicissitudes of fame. Like many a writer before him, King draws on personal experience for his short novel Misery, a grim fairy tale about a famous writer held captive by his "number one fan," now in production at...
Murder and Madness

A tragic tale that fails to triumph

By Ronald Mangravite
Aug 11, 2005

"So fair and foul a day I have not seen" goes the famous line in Macbeth and, may it be said, so fair and foul a play can now be seen in a recently opened production at New Theatre in Coral Gables. Shakespeare's shortest tragedy is one of his most...
Good Guys, Bad Guys

Florida Stage's The Good German skips the moral complexities

By Ronald Mangravite
May 19, 2005

Ever cruised the drama section of your local public library? Oftentimes you'll find collections of plays from the Forties and Fifties entombed on a back shelf, scripts that are well-crafted and thoughtful but rather timeworn and unlikely to pack much punch on a modern stage. That's the feel of David...
Two Plays Running

Ayckbourn's House and Garden run concurrently, with each spilling crazily into the other

By Ronald Mangravite
May 12, 2005

Here's a double bill you don't see every day: Alan Ayckbourn's two plays House and Garden are now in simultaneous production at the Actors' Playhouse in Coral Gables. Both are set during the course of one August day in the English countryside, sharing one large cast of characters and a...

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