The Lake Worth Playhouse, a fixture in Palm Beach County since 1953, celebrates its 60th anniversary this month with a diamond jubilee Saturday night and its most famous alumnus, Burt Reynolds, the Oscar-nominated, two-time Golden Globe award-winning actor, scheduled to appear as the honored guest. The theme of the jubilee celebration is Decades, a retrospective of the past … [Read more...]
2012: A banner year for musicals and Pulitzer Prize-winning plays
Looking back on 2012, it seems that it was a year of standout musicals and Pulitzer Prize winners at the theater. Institutionally speaking, we lost the Caldwell Theatre, as well as Promethean and the Mosaic, but there were also gains, like Parade Productions, the Plaza Theatre, Outré Theatre Co. and The Theatre at Arts Garage. Here are my 10 favorites from the year: 1. … [Read more...]
Composer brings passion for stories to new Maltz children’s musical
Ask John Mercurio about way he approaches his craft as a composer of musicals, and one word keeps coming back: Storytelling. Partly that’s because he writes book and lyrics as well as music, but the idea also is central to his creative process. “I think for me, the way in, whether it be book writing, music writing or lyric writing, is always telling a story. That’s my thing. … [Read more...]