By Dale King The Delray Beach Playhouse doesn’t often delve into heavy drama. But its latest offering, Other Desert Cities, certainly pushes the confrontational envelope, pitting family member against family member in a challenge that seems hell-bent on destroying already tenuous relations. Director Randolph DelLago calls on three DBP veterans and a couple of theatrical … [Read more...]
Sundays: Other eyes are keeping score
By Myles Ludwig All Hail Snowdenia, as Groucho might have said. The Angry Birds have been de-flocked and added to the No Fly list. Just when we thought this tawdry, lingering spy story might be coming to an end — finally — we learned this week that you folks (and you know who you are) who’ve been playing Angry Birds to wipe away the previously unoccupied hours have been … [Read more...]
Hap’s fearless Tony picks: ‘Other Desert Cities,’ ‘Newsies’ will win
There seems to be no clear favorite for most of the categories in this year’s 66th annual Tony Awards, with winners expected all over the map. So tune in this Sunday at 8 p.m. on the CBS network to see my unscientific projections and out-and-out guesses proven wrong: Play: Other Desert Cities, by Jon Robin Baitz Musical: Newsies, book by Harvey Fierstein Book of a Musical: … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: Oct. 8-11
Theater: Palm Beach Dramaworks opens its new season by continuing to take the high road, giving its audience “theater to think about,” the triangular comedy Candida by the all-too-rarely produced in South Florida George Bernard Shaw. Kim Cozort stars in the title role, the wife of a “moralist and windbag” reverend, who attracts the romantic attentions of a young, blithering … [Read more...]