Kathy McCafferty and Patricia Kilgarriff in Outside Mullingar. (Photo by Samantha Mighdoll) Palm Beach Dramaworks sets aside the heaviness of Eugene O’Neill, Edward Albee and William Inge for an uncharacteristic comedy, a romantic comedy no less. And while plenty of theater practitioners will tell you that producing comedy is harder than drama, you would never know it from the … [Read more...]
Dramaworks takes on the ‘mountain’ of O’Neill’s ‘Long Day’s Journey’
Even for a theater company like Palm Beach Dramaworks whose mission is exploring the major plays of the American stage, it took them a decade and a half to approach Eugene O’Neill’s Long Day’s Journey into Night, one of the great works of the 20th century. “The organization had to be ready, I had to know for the most part who my cast was going to be,” says producing artistic … [Read more...]