By Dale King Grad students in the Master of Fine Arts program at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton wrap up their 2016-2017 season this weekend with an intensely dramatic retelling of a 2,000-year-old-story with critical contemporary consequences. In fact, the play, The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, is steeped in passion, and unfolds at a slow, often painful pace, … [Read more...]
Raucous ‘Riverside’ at GableStage jolts, compels
Were it not for Joe Adler and his adventuresome GableStage, we would probably not be exposed to the raucous, humor-laced urban tales of Stephen Adly Guirgis and South Florida would be poorer for it. Adler has a taste for writers whose work is provocative and edgy, qualities he previously found in Guirgis’s Jesus Hopped the ‘A’ Train and The Mother*****r with a Hat. He is … [Read more...]