As GableStage audiences continue to assess what its new artistic director Bari Newport has in mind for the troupe, they are receiving mixed signals. Its recent production of the challenging, racially themed The White Card suggested it will be business as usual for the company that built its reputation on tough-minded, cutting-edge drama. But now it drastically switches gears … [Read more...]
Raucous ‘Riverside’ at GableStage jolts, compels
Were it not for Joe Adler and his adventuresome GableStage, we would probably not be exposed to the raucous, humor-laced urban tales of Stephen Adly Guirgis and South Florida would be poorer for it. Adler has a taste for writers whose work is provocative and edgy, qualities he previously found in Guirgis’s Jesus Hopped the ‘A’ Train and The Mother*****r with a Hat. He is … [Read more...]