Palm Beach Dramaworks is committed to producing modern classic theater, an ambiguous term that gets stretched even further in the summertime. Though the West Palm Beach company has succeeded with revues of work by Jacques Brel, Kurt Weill and Stephen Sondheim, this summer is it gambling on a move away from musicals to a classic comedy series, beginning with Noel … [Read more...]
‘Company’ sparkles at FAU Festival Rep
Whose plays would you say are more difficult to produce well, Shakespeare’s or Sondheim's?This summer’s Festival Rep at Florida Atlantic University features works by both stage giants, and Stephen Sondheim’s 1970 urban musical on relationships and marriage, Company, fares far better than the Bard’s Twelfth Night, the gender-bending comedy on similar themes.Although Company is … [Read more...]
Florida Stage gives look of love to soundtrack of the ’60s
Where were you from 1960 to 1965, and what were you listening to on the radio?That's what Florida Stage is asking audiences with its world premiere revue, Some Kind of Wonderful, opening Friday in Manalapan. In celebrating those Camelot years, the company reaches slightly further back in time than last summer’s Dream a Little Dream, its tribute to The Mamas and The … [Read more...]
Lake Worth’s Tomé brings ‘Babylon’ home, then Off-Broadway
Actor-writer Gregg Tomé is nothing if not persistent. For over a decade he has been writing, revising and performing his one-man show, Back to Babylon, his memory play of growing up in the Long Island town that draws tongue-in-cheek parallels to the Biblical city of the same name.Although many of the nine characters he becomes -- including a bong-smoking stoner, a pep … [Read more...]