Everyone’s favorite ogre to rise again at Area Stage Company
Photo courtesy of Area Stage Company In the 2018 production, Shrek (Ryan Bauta) gives fair warning to anyone daring to enter his territory By AARON KRAUSE It really isn’t easy being green. In fact, in the fictional world, such characters as Wicked’s Elphaba, Jim Henson’s Kermit the Frog, and...
Island City Stage offers ‘Compensation’ as its next production
PHOTO BY MATT TIPPINS The cast of Island City Stage’s upcoming production of Compensation comprises (l-r) Stephen Kaiser, Gaby Tortoledo, and Israel Vinas. When Island City Stage (ICS) Artistic Director Andy Rogow discovered a new piece titled Compensation, “I knew right away this was a play...
Don your thinking caps for these theater programs
By AARON KRAUSE An African American gravedigger who loves, resembles, and impersonates Abraham Lincoln. A therapy session called “Antebellum Sexual Performance Therapy.” These are among the topics, individuals, and situations within three “groundbreaking, thought-provoking plays” that Ft. Lauderdale-based Thinking Cap Theatre (TCT) will use for “Race on the...
Thirty-year Broadway star Rebecca Luker dies at 59.
Photo by Alan Smason Rebecca Luker, a much-praised Broadway actress and singer who earned three Tony Award nominations during her 30-year career, died on Wednesday, Dec. 23 in a Manhattan hospital. She was 59. Luker’s agent, Sarah Fargo, confirmed her death. The Broadway star announced in February that...
Safe, live theater returns to Miami Beach with ‘Seven Deadly Sins’
Photo courtesy of Ernesto Sempoll Jessica Farr and Caleb Scott appear in the sultry Amsterdam Latitudes in Miami New Drama’s production of Seven Deadly Sins. By AARON KRAUSE MIAMI BEACH — You’ll rarely find people celebrating in purgatory. Then again, you probably won’t find elsewhere the kind of...
Palm Beach Dramaworks to read from ‘A Christmas Carol’
By AARON KRAUSE When Palm Beach Dramaworks (PBD) presents A Christmas Carol this year, the South Florida company will not stage one of the myriad adaptations available to theaters. Rather, performers will read from Dickens’ 1843 novella – just like the author read from his work. “No...
Broadway star Ann Reinking dies at 71
Ann Reinking Nov. 10, 1949 — Dec. 12, 2020 Ann Reinking, a Tony Award-winning choreographer who performed on Broadway for 30 years, making a name for herself particularly through her work in the musical Chicago, has died at age 71. Reinking died in her sleep in a hotel room...
A moving, scary ‘A Christmas Carol’ is streaming
Photo by Chris Whitaker Ebenezer Scrooge (Jefferson Mays) looks as though he’s freefalling in a streaming version of Charles Dickens’ classic A Christmas Carol. By AARON KRAUSE At times, one of the newest adaptations of A Christmas Carol sounds and looks more like...
Ring in the new year with new play development
By AARON KRAUSE If you’d like to participate in the process of writing new plays, Palm Beach Dramaworks (PBD) can give you that chance through its New Year/New Plays Festival. Indeed, while performers read the plays, audiences play their own part. “We will, as always, be soliciting your feedback...