It’s all about a nickel. American Buffalo, the 1975 play that made David Mamet a star and might well remain the American playwright’s best work, is a simple tale of a heist gone wrong. Three losers in a Chicago junk shop conspire to steal a buffalo nickel that is potentially…
Madagascar: In a hotel room overlooking the Spanish Steps in Rome, a lovely young woman dressed in pajamas sits on a bed and proclaims there is no such thing as coincidence. An elegant older woman emerges from the shadows in a timeless faux Chanel suit. She’s oblivious to the girl…
If you choose to vanish, we’re told early on in Madagascar, you probably won’t be found. Nine out of ten people who disappear most likely prefer to remain lost. What happens then? The answers are not easy, but they can be surprising, as is J.T. Rogers’s Madagascar. This delicate, ineffably…
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…
Misery: 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 novelist held captive by his “number one fan.” The 1992 play…
A play called If We Are Women in a place called the Women’s Theatre Project? Shocking but true. What sounds like scary Lifetime television, though, is actually entirely satisfying, even if you happen to sport one of those crazy penis things. It’s so satisfying that you should be prepared to…
Misery: 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 novelist held captive by his “number one fan.” The 1992 play…
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…
“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…
Sisters of Swing: The Andrews Sisters, who rose to megastardom during the World War II big band era, were the Dixie Chicks of their time. That is, if you replace the Chicks’ antiwar sentiment with patriotism and then add an unbridled popularity no girl group since the Andrews Sisters has…
Matt & Ben: Mindy Kaling and Brenda Withers’s little comedy receives its Florida premiere in this Mad Cat Theatre production. It’s a cute fantasy about talent, male bonding, and fame, based on the real-life story of Matt Damon and Ben Affleck’s overnight rise to stardom when they won an Oscar…
The recent off-Broadway hit Matt & Ben, written by Mindy Kaling and Brenda Withers, is having its Florida premiere in a Mad Cat Theatre production at the Light Box Studio, directed by Paul Tei. It’s cute. The plot is a simple fantasy about talent, male bonding, and fame, based on…
Men on the Verge of a His-Panic Breakdown: The good news here is Guillermo Reyes is a major voice in Hispanic and gay theater, and his 1994 comedy Men on the Verge of a His-Panic Breakdown is nothing short of brilliant. The really bad news, however, is the amateur show…
Rafael de Acha’s production of The Merchant of Venice is not perfect, but it also cannot be dismissed. It boasts gripping and often extraordinary performances by Steve Gladstone, Annemaria Rajala, Euriamis Losada, Nicholas Richberg, and Stephen S. Neal, as well as spectacularly lovely costumes by Estela Vrancovich and singularly touching…
The good news here is Guillermo Reyes is a major voice in Hispanic and gay theater, and his 1994 comedy Men on the Verge of a His-Panic Breakdown is nothing short of brilliant. The really bad news, however, is that the amateur show of the same name that EDGE/Theatre is…
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.” Modern Orthodox: Culture clash always makes for great comedy. It’s fun to poke fun at ourselves through the archetypes we witness…
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.” Modern Orthodox: Culture clash always makes for great comedy. It’s fun to poke fun at ourselves through the archetypes we witness…
The Andrews Sisters, who rose to mega-stardom during the World War II Big Band era, were the Dixie Chicks of their time. That is, if you first replace the Chicks’ antiwar sentiment with patriotism and then add an unbridled popularity no girl group since the Andrews Sisters has ever quite…
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.” Modern Orthodox: Culture clash always makes for great comedy. It’s fun to poke fun at ourselves through the archetypes we witness…
Culture clash always makes for great comedy. It’s fun to poke fun at ourselves through the archetypes we witness colliding on stage and screen. The resulting yin-yang battles have well-known, usually entertaining results, like neat freak Felix versus slob Oscar or straight-acting gay Will versus nelly gay Jack. In his…
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.” Romeo and Juliet: William Shakespeare needs no justification. And the Shakespeare Project 2005, an ambitious summer-long festival now onstage at New…
William Shakespeare needs no justification. And the Shakespeare Project 2005, an ambitious summer-long festival now onstage at New Theatre, holds the immense promise of some of the most exciting drama the world has known. Romeo and Juliet, which will be followed by The Merchant of Venice in July and Macbeth…
