Now in its 33rd year, Palm Beach Shakespeare Festival — the oldest professional theater company in continuous operation in Palm Beach County — is getting around to some of its namesake playwright’s less popular works. Plays like Measure for Measure, a dark comedy of judicial and sexual politics, categorized as a comedy chiefly because it concludes with couples sorted … [Read more...]
Lead performance lets FAU’s ‘Sabrina Fair’ get summer off to sparkling start
By Dale King Florida Atlantic University’s Department of Theatre and Dance has launched its two-play Festival Rep summer series with Sabrina Fair, a captivating mid-20th century romantic comedy. The play features delightful performances by FAU Class of 2020 master of fine arts students along with a couple of Actors Equity players who give them a taste of the real-world … [Read more...]
Student theater: Compelling ‘Mill Fire’ at FAU
By Dale King Mill Fire is a horrific, haunting and deeply emotional play, a story of Birmingham, Ala., a steel town on the skids circa 1977; a massive, deadly fire and explosion in an apparently malfunctioning steel mill furnace that kills five workers; and the chaos the disaster inflicts on a community whose populace is already at the edge of upheaval. The script, by … [Read more...]