A House of Blue Leaves well worth visiting at Palm Beach Dramaworks
Photo by Samantha Mighdoll Bananas (Elena Maria Garcia) and Artie (Bruce Linser) pray during Pope Paul VI’s televised broadcast from Yankee Stadium in The House of Blue Leaves. By AARON KRAUSE WEST PALM BEACH — As anyone familiar with John Guare’s The House of Blue Leaves knows,...
Palm Beach Dramaworks’ Fences offers ample power, pathos
Photo by Samantha Mighdoll Rose (Karen Stephens) confronts her husband, Troy (Lester Purry) in Palm Beach Dramaworks’ riveting production of August Wilson’s Fences. By AARON KRAUSE WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Toward the end of Palm Beach Dramaworks’ breath-stealing, intense and all-together riveting production of August Wilson’s masterpiece, Fences, fierce thunder claps...
Dynamic ‘Memphis’ is a rousing hit at Actors’ Playhouse
Photo by Alberto Romeu Huey (Eddie Egan) and his mother (Margot Moreland) argue in a scene from Actors’ Playhouse’ production of Memphis: The Musical. By AARON KRAUSE CORAL GABLES, Fla. — About a year ago, Ft. Lauderdale-based Slow Burn Theatre mounted a dynamic production of the highly-charged, Tony-winning musical, Memphis. Today,...
‘Next Fall’ offers hope despite grim subject matter at Outre Theatre Company
Photo by Gina Fontana All the characters in Next Fall can do is wait. Pictured from left are Siobhan Nolan as Arlene and Zac Gowdie as Brandon in Outre Theatre Company’s current production of Geoffrey Nauffts’ bittersweet play. By AARON KRAUSE POMPANO BEACH, FLA. — If Geoffrey Nauffts had...
Panel: Despite challenges, live theater is here to stay
(from left) Eyring and Long By AARON KRAUSE WEST PALM BEACH — America’s regional theaters feature “extraordinary artistry,” a high-ranking advocate told a southeast Florida audience recently. In particular, “so many phenomenal writers” exist, producing “so much wonderful new work,” Theatre Communications Group Executive Director Teresa Eyring said during a...
