By Dale King A half-century ago, playwright Neil Simon concocted slovenly Oscar Madison and paired him with neat-freak Felix Ungar to create The Odd Couple, a comic powerhouse that has endured across stage, film and television (where Felix’s last name was spelled Unger). Perhaps the oddest thing about The Odd Couple franchise is that the original Simon play, which premiered … [Read more...]
‘Three Tall Women’ shows off Albee in top form
He has never actually been to Palm Beach Dramaworks’ West Palm Beach theater, but with five of his plays produced there, Edward Albee is the company’s unofficial resident playwright. It might have been more in keeping with the troupe’s mission of presenting worthy, but neglected scripts had Dramaworks reached back for a less-seen Albee play like Tiny Alice or All Over, but in … [Read more...]