Connie Fernandez and Clay Cartland in Smoke. Sexual attraction can be benign, but more often than not — at least onstage — it is a prelude to a tug-of-war power skirmish. That is how it plays out in Kim Davies’ sadomasochistic Smoke, a kinky two-character tango which fittingly bookends a season that began with Sex with Strangers. We are starting to wonder about the personal … [Read more...]
Theatre at Arts Garage’s new boss plans move to edgier material
Get ready for some changes at the theater in Delray Beach’s Arts Garage. For starters, the storefront performance venue underneath a municipal parking garage is opening a black box second space, where two of the company’s four plays will be presented. But more importantly, there has been a changing of the guard, with Keith Garsson taking over as producing director of the … [Read more...]
Arts Garage’s ‘Ring of Fire’ conveys spirit of Cash’s America winningly
This is the summer of commercially unsuccessful musicals revived and reexamined on South Florida stages. There was High Fidelity at Slow Burn Theatre, and now the Johnny Cash revue Ring of Fire at Theatre at Arts Garage in Delray Beach, followed by Frank Wildhorn’s Bonnie and Clyde at Florida Atlantic University. Each show ran headlong into the brick wall of Broadway … [Read more...]
Delray postpones decision on Arts Garage space until April
Delray Beach will take a couple more months to decide how to satisfy the needs of the Arts Garage and that of a personal-injury law firm that wants to expand. The City Commission voted Tuesday night to table discussion about what will happen to the building now occupied by the Arts Garage until April 16. In Solomon-like fashion, Mayor Tom Carney suggested dividing the … [Read more...]
Kreisberg electrifies at Arts Garage
Jazz guitarist Jonathan Kreisberg has slowly and steadily increased his profile since graduating from the University of Miami’s acclaimed music program in the mid-1990s ― including moving back to his native New York City in 1997 and, stereotypically, becoming a bigger jazz star overseas than in the United States. Kreisberg’s quartet recently returned from a 10-show stint in … [Read more...]