Dennis Creaghan (left), Lena Kaminsky, Karl Hanover,Frank Converse, Declan Mooney in Palm BeachDramaworks' production of The Weir. (Photo by Shel Shanak)By Hap Erstein Put a handful of Irishmen in a bar and they will soon be drinking and swapping lyrical tall tales. It is a fact of life and of the theater, as evidenced by Conor McPherson’s simple, plotless, yet haunting … [Read more...]
Theater feature: Veteran TV, stage actor Converse makes local debut in ‘The Weir’
Declan Mooney, left, and Frank Converse in The Weir, at Palm Beach Dramaworks.By Hap ErsteinWhen stage, screen and television star Frank Converse was growing up, actors had two ways to go with their careers.“I came from a school where we were either going to be Marlon Brando or Laurence Olivier,” he says. “Those were the choices in the ‘60s. I went for the latter, I got into a … [Read more...]