Theater: OK, procrastinators, this is the final weekend to catch the first-rate Palm Beach Dramaworks production of Eugene Ionesco’s Exit the King, the great absurdist playwright’s comic meditation on death. In it, the king of a shabby, rundown realm learns that he has only 90 minutes left to live ― not coincidentally the lengths of this one-act play ― so he takes stock of his … [Read more...]
Maltz’s first-rate ‘Yonkers’ a fine slice of Simon
This has not been a very good theater season for Neil Simon, who suffered a stunning flop with the revival of his Brighton Beach Memoirs in New York last month. Reviews questioned whether the most successful comic playwright in America’s history in still relevant, though I suspect the play’s failure to find an audience had more to do with the production’s lack of star power … [Read more...]