Actors Frances Sternhagen and Richard Henzel, playwright Israel Horovitz and dramaturg Alison Maloof in a post-show discussion about Beverley. By Hap ErsteinNow five years old, Florida Stage’s annual 1st Stage New Works Festival got the most important thing right immediately.Where too many reading series elsewhere are dead ends for the scripts being unveiled, the … [Read more...]
Theater review: Searing ‘Sins’ a triumph at Florida Stage
Francisco Solorzano, foreground, and Gordon McConnell in Sins of the Mother. (Photo by Ken Jacques)By Hap ErsteinAthol Fugard sets most of his plays in South Africa, A.R. Gurney likes to explore the WASP culture of Buffalo, N.Y., and Israel Horovitz has cornered the market on tales of the rugged denizens of Gloucester, Mass.Of the 70-plus plays he has written so far, many are … [Read more...]