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...]
‘God of Carnage’ exposes the beasts within
There is a lot more carnage then there are signs of God in Yasmina Reza’s 2009 Tony Award-winning best play, God of Carnage, which opens this evening at the Caldwell Theatre Company in Boca Raton. As she did with her earlier acclaimed comedy Art, Reza enjoys conjuring up adults moved by circumstances to act childishly. In that earlier play, it was three men, long-time friends … [Read more...]
God of ‘Cassadaga’ is in the photographer’s details
The interstate is really the one road that leads to Cassadaga, I-4 to be exact, and it takes travelers from both the east and west coasts of central Florida to this small hamlet of spiritualists, mediums, psychics, and healers. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, this 116-year-old Volusia County community draws both believers and naysayers, those seeking … [Read more...]