By Dale King Breaking up is hard to do, opined pop music legend Neil Sedaka in a hit tune he released in 1962, then re-issued in slower ballad style in 1975. The Broward Stage Door Theatre is not breaking up, but it is breaking away from the cement-walled, bunker-style, two-stage, former movie house behind a shopping plaza on West Sample Road in Margate that it has … [Read more...]
Gershwin score brings the bubbly to ‘Nice Work’ at Broward Stage Door
By Dale King Suppose you could write a great musical with songs a couple of other guys already composed? And suppose those other guys just happened to be George and Ira Gershwin? Creating a laugh-laden production from such enviable grist would be nice work if you could get it. But some other folks already got it. As a result, a “brand-new” Gershwin musical production hit … [Read more...]
Sagal’s ‘Most Wanted’ a triumph at FAU Theatre Lab
Welcome back, Peter Sagal. True, the host of National Public Radio’s current events quiz show, Wait, Wait … Don’t Tell Me!, has hardly been out of the public eye lately. Wait, wait, make that “out of the public ear.” But when he began the show 20 years ago, he stopped writing plays, and if you want to measure the size of that loss, head to Florida Atlantic University … [Read more...]
Radio’s Sagal returns to playwriting career with ‘Most Wanted’ at FAU
Longtime followers of Florida Stage may recall Peter Sagal, whose plays Denial and What to Say were produced in the 1990s by the now-defunct theater company that specialized in new American works. These days, however, Sagal is more widely known as the host of the popular National Public Radio current events quiz show, Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me. For the past 20 years, Sagal … [Read more...]
Broward Stage Door’s ‘Broadway Bound’ funny and moving
By Dale King Broward Stage Door Theatre wraps up its summer schedule with a humorous yet moving performance of Broadway Bound, the final installment of Neil Simon’s so-called “Eugene” trilogy, the semi-autobiographical plays written late in his career that trace his early growth years (Brighton Beach Memoirs) through his service in the Army (Biloxi Blues) and conclude with … [Read more...]