City Theatre’s Summer Shorts returns with satire, scripts in hand, and a new venue
Jannelys Santos as Rhonda Sanchez in Summer Shorts Festival Hosted by Rhonda Sanchez. By AARON KRAUSE This year’s Summer Shorts Festival, presented by City Theatre, will look different from previous editions. For instance, this year’s version will run just four days—down from more than two weeks in 2024. Actors will...
Island City Stage Delivers a Precise, Potent ‘Dying Gaul’
Photo by Dennis Dean A complicated romantic triangle develops between (from left) Jeffrey (Amir Darvish), Elaine (Autumn Kioti) and Robert (Jorge Amador) in Island City Stage’s impressive production of Craig Lucas’s play, The Dying Gaul. By AARON KRAUSE The set design for Island City Stage’s (ICS) intense, believable, and...
‘Dangerous Instruments’ is a harrowing, human story we cannot afford to ignore
Photo by Curtis Brown Photography “Cool Mr. P” (Matt Stabile) comforts single mother Laura Hammond in Palm Beach Dramaworks’ world premiere production of Dangerous Instruments by Gina Montet. By AARON KRAUSE The determined and desperate mom in playwright and educator Gina Montet’s new play, Dangerous Instruments, shakes with despair....
‘South Pacific’ enchants at Lauderhill Performing Arts Center
Photo by Clifford Spulock Emile de Becque (Christopher Sanders) and Ensign Nellie Forbush (Casey Sacco) admire each other. By AARON KRAUSE “Don’t die Emile!” Nellie Forbush pleads toward the end of the Pulitzer Prize winning classic 1949 musical, South Pacific. And in a heartfelt and enchanting current professional co-production...
A camping trip well worth taking at Palm Beach Dramaworks
Photo by Curtis Brown Photography Henry Ford (John Leonard Thompson), Thomas Edison (Rob Donohoe), and President Warren Harding (Tom Wahl) discuss issues in Mark St. Germain’s funny and thought-provoking play, Camping with Henry and Tom. By AARON KRAUSE A U.S. president, a famous inventor, and a powerful business magnate...
Inaugural ‘Owl’ New Play Festival approaching
By AARON KRAUSE For a decade, Florida Atlantic University’s Theatre Lab in Boca Raton has offered a weekend-long series of new play readings. Now, the university’s professional resident theater company dedicated solely to new work has turned the annual event into a three-week festival featuring two full productions and...
Humor abounds in POW in the Park’s inaugural production of ‘Forum’
Photo courtesy of Plays of Wilton Lourelene Snedeker performs as Pseudolus in POW in the Park’s inaugural production of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. By AARON KRAUSE These days, many of us can probably identify a “lecherous, lewd, lascivious, loathsome, lying, lazy, dirty old...
‘A New Newer Normal’ delivers laughs at MSP
Photo by Sefanja Galon Kenneth (Malik Archibald) gets overly dramatic with his sister, Jules (Elizabeth Chavez) in Main Street Players’ fine world premiere professional production of A New Newer Normal. By AARON KRAUSE More than once, a character proposes a toast in John Mabey’s sweet, smart, funny, and invigorating...
New City Players imbues ‘All My Sons’ with skill, heart
Photo by Ryan Arnst Timothy Mark Davis, Laura Turnbull, and Michael Gioia appear in a scene from New City Players’ production of All My Sons. By AARON KRAUSE The opening scene of New City Players’ (NCP) first-rate professional production of Arthur Miller’s tragic masterpiece, All My Sons, is appropriately...
Free outdoor theater begins soon in Wilton Manors
By AARON KRAUSE For years, Plays of Wilton (POW) has wanted to produce free outdoor theater for South Florida residents and visitors. That dream by POW, a Wilton Manors-based nonprofit organization, has become a reality thanks to funding from the Warten Foundation and support from the City of Wilton...