What could be more human than a family gathering at Thanksgiving, sharing a meal together, giving thanks, expressing hopes and the inevitable disappointments. So it goes at Palm Beach Dramaworks in Stephen Karam’s Tony Award-winning comic drama, The Humans, a jaundice-eyed look at the Irish-Catholic Blakes, Erik and Deirdre (Andy Prosky and Anne-Marie Cusson), of Scranton, … [Read more...]
Teacher-student dance strongly acted in Dramaworks’s ‘Collected Stories’
The symbiotic relationship between mentor and protégé — teacher and student —comes under the microscope in Donald Margulies’ cerebral two-character play, Collected Stories, now receiving a smart, impassioned production at Palm Beach Dramaworks. First performed in 1996, this tale of artistic and personal ethics has particular resonance these days with charges of plagiarism in … [Read more...]