From left, Joshua Matheney, Mark Hetelson and Brianna Frank in Black Coffee, at the Delray Beach Playhouse. By Dale King Delray Beach Playhouse brings its 2015-16 season to an end with the first production that murder mystery maven Agatha Christie wrote for the stage. And it’s an excellent fit for both. The Playhouse engages 13 fine actors to perform Christie’s deadly drama, … [Read more...]
Community theater: Fine cast animates ‘Little Shop’ at Delray Playhouse
Audrey II (center) is flanked by Sergio Cannata (left) and Jim Tyminski in Little Shop of Horrors at the Delray Beach Playhouse. By Dale King The comedy rock musical Little Shop of Horrors has a way of growing on you, especially the production now being staged at the Delray Beach Playhouse. Veteran director and artistic boss at DBP, Randolph DelLago, has drafted a talented … [Read more...]
Community theater: Compelling ‘Inherit the Wind’ at LW Playhouse
By Dale King Those planning to see Inherit the Wind at Lake Worth Playhouse are admonished not to believe everything they see on stage. Even the play’s co-authors, Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee, say the drama is a “fictionalized” retelling of the famous 1925 Scopes “Monkey” trial that made a criminal out of a high school teacher bent on teaching evolution according to … [Read more...]
Community theater: Singing stands out in ‘High Society’ at LW Playhouse
By Dale King Lake Worth Playhouse goes all out for its first show of 2016, High Society, the tale of a Long Island socialite who waxes blasé on the night before her wedding when two suitors try to nudge her away from the groom-to-be. It’s an interesting mix of highbrow banter and scatterbrained hijinks that is well worth seeing. Jodie Dixon-Mears, the artist boss at the … [Read more...]
Theater roundup: ‘Daniel’s Husband’ and ‘Constellations’
What South Florida’s theater community has long needed were playhouses where a hit show could transfer for an extended run. Now suddenly, just in time for the holiday season, we have two such gifts. The Arts Garage has moved its sensual season opener, Sex with Strangers, to the new Palm Beaches Theatre, a/k/a the former Florida Stage and Plaza Theatre in Manalapan. And Fort … [Read more...]
Community theater: The play’s the very funny thing at LW Playhouse
By Dale King The latest production at the Lake Worth Playhouse, I Hate Hamlet, is a mixture of factoids and fantasy, a whimsical frolic that seems to encourage every performer to overact. Be prepared to suspend your disbelief for this skewing of Shakespeare at the downtown Lake Worth venue. IHH, which opened on Broadway in 1991, is an over-the-top tale of a successful but … [Read more...]
Community theater: ‘Come Blow Your Horn’ still amuses at Delray Playhouse
By Dale King Delray Beach Playhouse continues to hitch its wagon to Neil Simon’s star as it opens its 69th season with the famed playwright’s first Broadway comedy hit, Come Blow Your Horn. It closes with a matinee Sunday. The Playhouse closed its 2014-2015 season with back-to-back Simon works: They’re Playing our Song, the Marvin Hamlisch-Carol Bayer Sager collaboration … [Read more...]
Community theater: ‘Meet Me in St. Louis’ gets Lake Worth Playhouse season off to charming start
By Dale King Lake Worth Playhouse jumps spiritedly into the new theatrical season with a top-notch production of Meet Me in St. Louis, the 1989 musical drawn from the fabled 1944 same-name film starring Judy Garland and Margaret O’Brien. The show that has played on and off Broadway follows the Smith family — dad, mom, four daughters, a son and a grandpa. The comfortable, … [Read more...]
Armory Art Salons: Elle Schorr’s art of community
By Sandra Schulman Artist, photographer, community organizer, curator Elle Schorr gets to see everything — well, almost everything — while constantly searching out the best art and artists in Palm Beach County for her Art Salon talks at the Armory Art Center. She also shows her own work at various galleries including Arthouse 429 in Northwood. Her latest body of work — of … [Read more...]
Community theater: ‘Waist Watchers’ sparkles at Broward Stage Door
By Dale King Waist Watchers, the Musical is a delightful bit of tune-filled satiric comedy that pokes good-natured fun at women as they try to stave off the rigors of aging, weight gain, the loss of sexual appeal and other foibles of advancing years. The show that’s been bouncing around South Florida for some time is now playing at Broward Stage Door Theatre in Margate. The … [Read more...]