Whatever would the theater do without dysfunctional families? They are the subject of so many rip-roaring dramas and dark comedies, from Long Day’s Journey into Night to August: Osage County to Deborah Zoe Laufer’s Catskills clan in The Last Schwartz. First seen at Florida Stage in 2002, the play has had an active life at regional theaters across the country and has come close … [Read more...]
Charming ‘Names’ charts unusual path to lasting love
A “political whore” with a noble cause and a shy Jewish scientist who worries too much about the avian flu meet, and last, in the French comedy The Names of Love (Le Nom des Gens), which is playing through Thursday at the Lake Worth Playhouse, Mos’Art Theatre and other area art houses. The buzz about these two eccentric characters, Baya Benmahmoud and Arthur Martin (played by … [Read more...]