Pamela Roza, Dave Corey, Erik Fabregat and Nick Duckart in Why Torture Is Wrong, and the People Who Love Them.By Hap ErsteinPlantation’s Mosaic Theatre has excellent taste in playwrights, but it is much more erratic when it comes to selecting plays from their catalogues. The result is second-rate work from such first-rate writers as John Patrick Shanley (Dirty Story), Neil … [Read more...]
Theater review: Mosaic’s ‘Rock ‘n’ Roll’ a heady evening of Stoppard
Antonio Amadeo, left, and Gordon McConnell in Rock 'n' Roll.(Photo by George Schiavone) By Hap ErsteinMore than 40 years ago, Czech-born journalist-turned-playwright Tom Stoppard burst onto the world stage with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, his hommage to Samuel Beckett and the emptiness and impotence of his characters.Ever since, however, Stoppard (at right) has been … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: Sept. 10-13
Dogluver I, by Nancy Spielman.Art: The South Florida Cultural Consortium Media and Visual Arts Fellowship offers stipends of $7,500 and $15,000 to its winning fellows, and the $15,000 awards are the largest such awards given to individual artists by any local arts agency in the United States. Tomorrow night at Florida Atlantic University's Boca Raton campus, an exhibition of … [Read more...]
ArtsBuzz: GableStage, Mosaic win big at 33rd Carbonells
The Mosaic Theatre's The Seafarer won the 2008 Carbonell for best play.By Hap ErsteinFORT LAUDERDALE -- In a year that saw a near-revolt among some of the participating theaters, several of whom charged that South Florida’s Carbonell Awards were broken and badly in need of repair, the 33rd annual awards for excellence in professional theater in South Florida were handed out … [Read more...]
Theater reviews: ‘Defiance’ and ‘Dead Man’s Cell Phone’
Paul Tei, left, and Reiss Gaspard in Defiance.By Hap ErsteinDoubt: It is both the title of John Patrick Shanley’s 2006 Pulitzer Prize-winning drama and the theatrical element that he has been exploring of late.Its shadow can be seen hovering over Defiance, his follow-up play and second part of a projected trilogy, currently on at GableStage.While it is not up to its predecessor … [Read more...]