Cleverness trumps profundity in a couple of new, brief plays currently on at area theaters. Neither Dave Hanson’s Waiting for Waiting for Godot at Thinking Cap Theatre nor Mad Cat Theatre’s Lazy Fair by Theo Reyna have that much to say, but they both know how to divert and entertain, which is saying a lot for them. Hanson clearly knows his way around Samuel Beckett’s seminal … [Read more...]
Archives for September 2015
Weekend arts picks: Sept. 4-7
Theater: Fort Lauderdale’s Thinking Cap Theatre has produced the area premiere of Dave Hanson’s clever Waiting for Waiting for Godot, a takeoff on Samuel Beckett’s highly influential existential comedy. Set backstage at a playhouse where Waiting for Godot is being performed, this wry tale stuffed with inside show business jokes focuses on two understudies who while away the … [Read more...]
Three-nation youth orchestra to perform in Delray
A youth orchestra concert with roots in a rural Mexican library comes to Delray Beach’s Crest Theatre on Sept. 19. The concert, called “Harmony Without Borders,” will feature children from the Imagina Symphonic Orchestra in León, Mexico; 24 children from the Siman Orchestral Foundation in Miami; and 10 children from the Pequeñas Huellas cultural project in Turin, Italy. They … [Read more...]
‘Best of Enemies’ chronicles a turning point in the media
The year was 1968, a turning point for American politics as well as for the way the three television networks covered politics and the political party conventions. ABC News, invariably third in the ratings, took the bold move of not broadcasting gavel-to-gavel coverage, in favor of a 90-minute summary of the Republican and Democratic confabs, plus a half-hour nightly analysis … [Read more...]
Editor unearths ‘new’ F. Scott Fitzgerald story
In 1999, a 21-year-old upstart never suspected that resurrecting a classic mystery magazine would turn him into a sleuth. No, Andrew Gulli does not solve murders, like some young, male Jessica Fletcher. Instead, his work as the founding editor of the revived Strand magazine has led him to become adept at locating and publishing lost stories by famous writers. His latest … [Read more...]
Miami’s Naked Stage relocating to West Palm’s Clematis Street
It has been a rough year for theater companies in Palm Beach County, with the demise of Boca Raton Theatre Guild, Women’s Theatre Project, Delray Square Performing Arts and the Plaza Theatre, as well as the move away by Slow Burn Theatre from Boca to the Broward Center. Suddenly, though, there is some positive news with the announcement that Miami’s Naked Stage Theatre Co. is … [Read more...]