The Rude Mechanicals, in Palm Beach Shakespeare Festival's A Midsummer Night's Dream.By Hap ErsteinAs it turns 19, the Palm Beach Shakespeare Festival eases into its new home, the Seabreeze Amphitheatre at Jupiter’s Carlin Park, and it also eases into a more relaxed style of performing the Bard’s work.Earlier in its history, the Festival would reflexively select an exotic … [Read more...]
Theater review: FAU’s ‘Twelfth Night’ proves conceptually challenged
FAU's staging of Twelfth Night is set in 1920s Hollywood.By Hap ErsteinFlorida Atlantic University's 12th annual summer Festival Rep has romance on the brain this season, leading off with William Shakespeare’s comedy of gender confusion, mistaken identity and the resilience of love, Twelfth Night.On now in a production that is uneven at best, it will be joined at the end of … [Read more...]