When F. Scott Fitzgerald declared that “there are no second acts in American lives,” he surely was not referring to Lou Tyrrell. The founder of Florida Stage (formerly known as The Pope Theatre, formerly known as Theatre Club of the Palm Beaches) has recently begun his third act, opening yet another theater organization. After an ill-advised move to the Kravis Center in … [Read more...]
Lou Tyrrell stepping down from Theatre at Arts Garage
For the past three decades, Louis Tyrrell has been producing new, often American, plays at Florida Stage and more recently at its informal offspring, Theatre at Arts Garage in Delray Beach. On Monday, three days after he opened Allison Gregory’s world premiere, Uncertain Terms, the final play of the theater company within the performance venue’s fourth season, he unexpectedly … [Read more...]
Lou Tyrrell, still developing new works and new audiences
Three years into his new venture, Theatre at Arts Garage — picture a little brother of Florida Stage with fewer resources and a limited physical plant — artistic director Lou Tyrrell is facing the reality of less adventuresome theatergoers. “The audience for theater in general seems to be diminished, unless you are doing very familiar stuff,” he says. “Two of our pieces last … [Read more...]
Tyrrell returns to the field with new Arts Garage series
Do not expect the high level of production values that Lou Tyrrell, founding producing director of the late, lamented Florida Stage, delivered with regularity at Manalapan and at the Kravis Center, when he unveils his new venture -- The Theatre at Arts Garage -- this Tuesday night. Still, his commitment to American playwrights and to developing new work for the stage will be … [Read more...]
Lou Tyrrell sees a great new future for Florida Stage at the Rinker
On Nov. 30, Florida Stage and the Kravis Center announced a partnership agreement in which the Manalapan theater company that specializes in developing new plays would move its operation to the Rinker Playhouse, a flexible “black box” performance space within the West Palm Beach complex, beginning in July 2010. In mid-December, Palm Beach ArtsPaper’s Hap Erstein sat down … [Read more...]