Jake Ehrenreich.Theater: The multi-talented, ingratiating Jake Ehrenreich has returned to West Palm Beach’s Cuillo Centre for another winter season of his nostalgic one-man show, A Jew Grows in Brooklyn. He draws on his memories of his East Flatbush neighborhood in the 1960s in an evening that is part stand-up comedy, part musical and part tribute to his family — both … [Read more...]
Theater review: In ‘Looped,’ Tallulah Bankhead and Valerie Harper both deserve better
Valerie Harper as Tallulah Bankhead in Looped.By Hap ErsteinOh, what an intermission can do.After one act of Tallulah Bankhead, the off-color, inebriated comedienne, she returns after a 15-minute break and is suddenly lucid, compassionate and dramatic. In both cases she is two-dimensional, but just different dimensions in the two acts of Looped, the Valerie Harper vehicle now … [Read more...]