Delray Beach-based author Rod MacDonald’s primary audience for his debut novel, The Open Mike, is likely to include many of the folks who have followed his primary career as a singer/songwriter. Considering that he got his musical start singing and playing guitar in Greenwich Village in the 1970s, where the book’s lead character (the similarly-named Reo MacGregor) does the … [Read more...]
Arts Garage’s ‘Ring of Fire’ conveys spirit of Cash’s America winningly
This is the summer of commercially unsuccessful musicals revived and reexamined on South Florida stages. There was High Fidelity at Slow Burn Theatre, and now the Johnny Cash revue Ring of Fire at Theatre at Arts Garage in Delray Beach, followed by Frank Wildhorn’s Bonnie and Clyde at Florida Atlantic University. Each show ran headlong into the brick wall of Broadway … [Read more...]
Theater roundup: ‘Hamlet,’ abridged; ‘Rain’; ‘Cat Lady’
We have to acknowledge that audience attention spans have decreased dramatically in recent years, which makes one wonder how Shakespeare’s plays would be different if he were writing for today’s impatient theatergoers. Offering an answer is Miami-born playwright-director (The Brothers Size) Tarell Alvin McCraney, a former writer-in-residence for Great Britain’s Royal … [Read more...]