As playwright Robert Anderson once put it about writing for the theater, “You cannot make a living, but you can make a killing.” It seems unlikely that he ever met Jeanie Linders, who penned the international phenomenon Menopause the Musical, but he inadvertently described her mega-success with the “girls-night-out” revue about the female life passage of middle age. The show, … [Read more...]
Judy Garland concert drama at Arts Garage unmissable
Why would Lou Tyrrell bring to his Theatre at Arts Garage a play that he presented at Florida Stage seven years ago? “We are really more in audience development mode than we are in play development mode,” he says of his fledgling Delray Beach operation. And if ever there were a show to attract and expand his audience, it is surely Beyond the Rainbow, a well-crafted biography … [Read more...]
What-if meeting of minds inspired ‘Freud’ playwright
A meeting between Sigmund Freud -- the father of psychoanalysis and a staunch atheist -- and C.S. Lewis, a convert to Christianity and author of the series of religious allegories, The Chronicles of Narnia. There is no evidence that such a match-up ever took place, but it is the basis of Mark St. Germain’s what-if drama, Freud’s Last Session, opening Friday at West Palm … [Read more...]