For its new home at the Broward Center and presumably a new audience, Slow Burn Theatre Company is remounting a couple of popular shows from its former West Boca venue. And in the case of the current Avenue Q redo, again directed and choreographed with assurance by Patrick Fitzwater, the more casual and intimate environment of the Adbo River Room helps the subversive puppet … [Read more...]
Slow Burn makes a success out of ‘Hunchback’
Now in its second season at the Broward Center’s Amaturo Theater, Slow Burn Theatre Company has grown assured enough to tackle four large-scale musicals, including Titanic, Big River and Aida. All three of those were long-running Broadway hits, the opposite of what the adventuresome company used to consider its mission to be, apparently a bow to more mainstream commercial … [Read more...]
2016-17 Season Preview: Theater
“You can’t keep a good man down,” goes the saying, and Lou Tyrrell is the proof. After championing new work at Florida Stage, he moved his operation to Delray Beach with Theatre at Arts Garage, a smaller version of the company he ran for almost 25 years. Last season, he moved a little further south to the campus of Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, still introducing … [Read more...]