“You can’t keep a good man down,” goes the saying, and Lou Tyrrell is the proof. After championing new work at Florida Stage, he moved his operation to Delray Beach with Theatre at Arts Garage, a smaller version of the company he ran for almost 25 years. Last season, he moved a little further south to the campus of Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, still introducing … [Read more...]
At GableStage: A career on the skids, told with triumph
GableStage produces plays year round, so it is often hard to tell where one season ends and the next one begins. Still, it is currently easy to sense that the summer is upon us by the lightweight, albeit entertaining, fare on view at the Coral Gables playhouse through the end of the month. The Carbonell Award-laden company usually goes in for hard-hitting, often political … [Read more...]
GableStage’s ‘Ruined’ is brutal but first-rate viewing
Pulitzer Prizes for drama are usually awarded for plays that reflect American life, yet Lynn Nottage’s Ruined, a remarkable and hard-edged tale of civil war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and its collateral damage inside a bar/brothel caught in the crossfire, won the 2009 Pulitzer for its view of the human — and inhuman — condition that knows no national boundaries. … [Read more...]
GableStage’s ‘reasons’ mines white-hot emotions
Neil LaBute’s reasons to be pretty, with which he made his overdue Broadway debut last season, is considered more gentle than his usual exercises in the gender wars. Maybe so, but you would never know it from the opening tirade by a young, attractive woman who goes ballistic at her boyfriend and breaks up with him. His crime? She heard from a girlfriend -- and he eventually, … [Read more...]