Florida Stage had one of its biggest successes in its penultimate season with Israel Horovitz’s gritty drama, Sins of the Mother. And it seemed headed for another hit with the playwright’s Fighting Over Beverly, set to feature two-time Tony Award winner Frances Sternhagen, but the company closed its doors before that could happen. Still, as artistic director Louis Tyrrell says … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: July 29-Aug. 2
Theater: OK, you’ve procrastinated long enough. This is the final weekend for the world premiere production of Stuff at Boca Raton’s Caldwell Theatre. This cautionary tale of two eccentrically wasted lives, wealthy Harlem hermits Homer and Langley Collyer, is not only Davie playwright Michael McKeever’s best script in quite a while, but he gives a remarkably accomplished … [Read more...]
Hopes high for world premiere ‘Academy’ at Maltz
The Maltz Jupiter Theatre’s artistic director, Andrew Kato, has had some major successes in his five years in the job, assembling impressive talent -- onstage and off -- for such well-received existing musicals as The Boy Friend, Barnum and Anything Goes. But what he really wants to become known for is directing and producing new work. “When I started here as artistic … [Read more...]
Theater roundup: A fine ‘Candida,’ an incomplete ‘Desire’
Candida Palm Beach Dramaworks, which recently announced plans to move into the vacant Cuillo Centre space a block away from its Banyan Blvd. playhouse, continues to take the high road of offering up the towering writers for the stage that other South Florida troupe shy away from. Think O’Neill, Ibsen and now George Bernard Shaw, whose early work Candida is the young socialist … [Read more...]