For the past three decades, Louis Tyrrell has been producing new, often American, plays at Florida Stage and more recently at its informal offspring, Theatre at Arts Garage in Delray Beach. On Monday, three days after he opened Allison Gregory’s world premiere, Uncertain Terms, the final play of the theater company within the performance venue’s fourth season, he unexpectedly … [Read more...]
Lou Tyrrell, still developing new works and new audiences
Three years into his new venture, Theatre at Arts Garage — picture a little brother of Florida Stage with fewer resources and a limited physical plant — artistic director Lou Tyrrell is facing the reality of less adventuresome theatergoers. “The audience for theater in general seems to be diminished, unless you are doing very familiar stuff,” he says. “Two of our pieces last … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: March 2-4
Film: If there were six best actress Oscar nominations instead of five, the sixth would probably have gone to androgynous Tilda Swinton, who plays the mother of an exasperatingly evil son in We Need to Talk About Kevin. It is kind of an update of The Bad Seed, about a defiantly rotten kid and the mother who cannot cope with him. Director-writer Lynne Ramsey wants us to consider … [Read more...]
Lou Tyrrell sees a great new future for Florida Stage at the Rinker
On Nov. 30, Florida Stage and the Kravis Center announced a partnership agreement in which the Manalapan theater company that specializes in developing new plays would move its operation to the Rinker Playhouse, a flexible “black box” performance space within the West Palm Beach complex, beginning in July 2010. In mid-December, Palm Beach ArtsPaper’s Hap Erstein sat down … [Read more...]