Why is To Life 4 different from all other previous editions, asks director/writer/narrator Shari Upbin in a phrasing that brings to mind a Passover seder. The answer is that it isn’t at all different and that seems to please the show’s fans just fine. The revue celebrating Jewish songwriters and performers, currently playing at the Willow Theatre in Boca Raton’s Sugar Sand … [Read more...]
‘Almost, Maine’ at Dramaworks: Dramatic fare takes pleasant backseat to whimsy
Palm Beach Dramaworks likes to say that it traffics in “theater to think about.” But if you are looking for an entertaining night out without much thinking required, the West Palm Beach stage company has a lightweight slice of whimsy on view now that certainly fills that bill. Called Almost, Maine, it consists of nine brief vignettes on the subject of romance, … [Read more...]
Dramaworks’s ‘Sweeney Todd’ will have a steampunk sensibility
Over the past eight years, Clive Cholerton has directed several of Stephen Sondheim’s challenging musicals, first at the now defunct Caldwell Theatre and more recently at Palm Beach Dramaworks. Although he considers the 1979 “musical thriller,” Sweeney Todd, The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, to be the composer-lyricist’s masterpiece, Cholerton had shied away from producing … [Read more...]