For complete up-to-date South Florida stage listings, click on Culture on the navigation bar to the left, scroll down to the Listings Search and “Category” pulldown, then select “Stage.” A Bad Friend: Jules Feiffer’s memory play about Brooklyn in the Fifties resounds as a cautionary tale for the United States…
For complete up-to-date South Florida stage listings, click on Culture on the navigation bar to the left, scroll down to the Listings Search and “Category” pulldown, then select “Stage.” A Bad Friend: Jules Feiffer’s memory play about Brooklyn in the Fifties resounds as a cautionary tale for the United States…
Miami, where a short drive can transport you from Little Havana to Little Buenos Aires and beyond, is the ideal spot in which to celebrate the vast and thrilling human quilt that is Hispanic culture. And some of the happiest celebrations are happening right here and now during the XX…
Jules Feiffer’s memory play about Brooklyn in the Fifties resounds as a cautionary tale for the United States in the 21st Century. Now at GableStage in a terrific production directed by Joseph Adler, A Bad Friend is ambitious and intimate, a provocative series of family snapshots that evokes the history…
For complete up-to-date South Florida stage listings, click on Culture on the navigation bar to the left, scroll down to the Listings Search and “Category” pulldown, then select “Stage.” House and Garden: Alan Ayckbourn’s two comedies share one large cast of characters and myriad plot lines comprising failed marriages, adultery,…
Few new plays are this important and this beautiful, and fewer still are done this well. Jonathan Lichtenstein’s The Pull of Negative Gravity won the top prize for new writing at the 2004 Edinburgh Fringe Festival and is now premiering for American audiences simultaneously off-Broadway in New York and at…
For complete up-to-date South Florida stage listings, click on Culture on the navigation bar to the left, scroll down to the Listings Search and “Category” pulldown, then select “Stage.” The Good German: David Wiltse’s 2003 drama depicting a German couple who shelter a Jewish publisher during Hitler’s era features plenty…
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…
Scratch and Burn really shouldn’t work, but it does. Teo Castellanos’s gripping and immensely entertaining dance-theater work staged at the Byron Carlyle over the weekend is overwhelming. Its intentions are epic and its execution exhilarating yet disarmingly naive. The result is a sweet success. Miami Light Project commissioned Scratch as…
For complete up-to-date South Florida stage listings, click on Culture on the home-page navigation bar, scroll down to the Listings Search and “Category” pulldown, then select “Stage.” House and Garden: Alan Ayckbourn’s two comedies share one large cast of characters and myriad plot lines comprising failed marriages, adultery, and other…
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…
It’s not perfect and it needs work, but there’s a lot to enjoy in Nefertiti: A Musical Romance. Billed as a new musical, but an entire generation in the making, this production bears a history as fascinating as the ancient Egyptian love story it traces. The creation of Nefertiti has…
There’s a moment toward the middle of Louie and Ophelia when the newly enamored title couple gets into a verbal fight. Then Louie turns on the television and the theme to All in the Family begins to play. It’s definitely humorous to hear the song, and the allusion to the…
Aunt Dan and Lemon: Wallace Shawn’s dark, provocative tale of sex, nihilism, and the seductive appeal of raw power has to do with one woman’s malevolent influence on a reclusive young girl in the London of the swinging Sixties. The play is a talkathon, but an intriguing one, and there’s…
Children’s theater isn’t given a lot of respect here in South Florida. First-class productions often receive very little public attention, and few shows are reviewed, much less considered for awards. Some sloppy performances by badly directed, inexperienced actors may have given the genre a bad reputation, but the Actors’ Playhouse…
Although the quality may fluctuate, EDGE Theatre productions are often doused with wit and commentary as they confront issues affecting our collective social psyche. Reality TV, in which writer/director Jim Tommaney challenges the corrupt television industry, is no exception. The result is a largely successful, thought-provoking, and satirical presentation of…
Derek Jarman’s Blue may be that weird and wonderful filmmaker’s weirdest and most wonderful film. Striking imagery informs all of his movies, from Sebastiane right through the queer classic Edward II, but Blue is literally about 80 minutes of nothing but a blue screen, with the bells and whispers of…
Aunt Dan and Lemon: Wallace Shawn’s dark, provocative tale of sex, nihilism, and the seductive appeal of raw power has to do with one woman’s malevolent influence on a reclusive young girl in the London of the swinging Sixties. The play is a talkathon, but an intriguing one, and there’s…
If you were ever in doubt about the theater’s ability to provoke, check out Aunt Dan and Lemon, a creepily ambivalent play about sex, fascism, and the malevolent power of ideas, now at the Sol Theatre in Fort Lauderdale. But be warned: Although the show asks some troubling questions, it’s…
Comedy of Errors: This uneven take on Shakespeare’s early comedy is an odd mingling of the hapless and the intriguing. The old tale of mistaken identity among not one but two sets of identical twins is given a film noir look from the Forties, a choice that has visual appeal…
It’s difficult to decide which moment is the most disturbing in The Loman Family Picnic, now in a masterful production at the Caldwell Theatre in Boca Raton. Is it the opening, with a haggard housewife continuously repeating her desperate mantra — “Ilovemylife, Ilovemylife, Ilovemylife” — as she stares at a…
Kyle, a likable young man with a slightly geeky aura, sits alone at the edge of the stage and talks disarmingly to the audience. He is an astronomer, so he talks about the stars. He loves poetry too. Most of all, though, he loves Zoe — his first high school…
