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...]
Funny, searing ‘Bad Jews’ features powerhouse lead performance
There are many ways to be a bad Jew. You could sneak a cookie during Passover. You could dishonor your grandfather by going on a skiing trip as he takes to his deathbed. Or you could propose to your shiksa girlfriend, with a gold charm that grandpa risked his life to retain during the Holocaust. In fact, a character in Joshua Harmon’s corrosive, and corrosively funny, play — … [Read more...]
‘God of Isaac’ funny, gripping at Broward Stage Door
By Dale King The “play-within-a-play” device has worked pretty well over the years. Even William Shakespeare used it to his advantage. Playwright James Sherman employs this literary mechanism deftly in his play, The God of Isaac, now at the Broward Stage Door Theater in Coral Springs. The Isaac of this show is not Isaac, son of Abraham and Sarah, and father of Jacob and … [Read more...]