Email Author Dave Amber

2006 Stories by Dave Amber

• The Last Wives Club

  published July 6, 2006

  There's no doubt that into every marriage creeps, or perhaps floods, moments that inspire you to dream of snuff films with your mate in a starring... More >>

• If It Ain't Got That Swing

  published June 29, 2006

  It's ten years this month since songstress Ella Fitzgerald died. Fitzgerald, whose romantically distinctive voice has gently passed from... More >>

• Men in Black:

  published June 22, 2006

  Throw a fancy hardwood desk on top of a red Oriental carpet, tack a picture of the pope up on the wall, and you've got a church rectory, on stage,... More >>

• A Frenzy Within

  published June 15, 2006

  Things have definitely looked better for the Florida Frenzy and for indoor football in general. Since its freshman game on March 19 against the... More >>

• You're Killin' Me

  published June 1, 2006

  Even as the fine band for Beehive: The 60s Musical Sensation warmed up the crowd with an "It's My Party" infused medley, deep in my gut the... More >>

• She's Gotta Have It

  published May 25, 2006

  Fabulation Written by Lynn Nottage. Directed by Michael Yawney. With Crystal Murphy, Edgar Caraballo, Viviene Dawson, Andre L.... More >>

• The Impugnic Wars

  published May 18, 2006

  "George and Martha. Sad, sad, sad." For lovers of the Woolf, those six little words will induce Pavlovian joy. Such a cruel play. Such... More >>

• Astrophysics Lite

  published May 11, 2006

  When you get down to the nitty-gritty, even Nobel laureate physicists, despite their high-minded ambition to uncover the mysteries of the... More >>

• Lauderpocalypse Now

  published May 4, 2006

  Smell that? Vegetable oil. Nothing in the world smells like it. I love the smell of vegetable oil in the morning. You know it well, that... More >>

• Your Film Is Fired!

  published April 20, 2006

  The 11th-annual Palm Beach International Film Festival is upon us, and it's even Palm Beachier than ever, with the Donald in town to kick off the... More >>

• The Petit Dejeuner Club

  published April 20, 2006

  In the 2000 movie Pollock, a crucially transformative scene places Jackson Pollock in the cold of a late 1940s Long Island winter, breaking... More >>

• Capsule reviews of current area stage shows.

  published April 20, 2006

  Edge Theatre, which last year served up Men on the Verge of a Hispanic Breakdown, is now offering Family Secret, written and... More >>

• Daddy's Little Girl

  published April 13, 2006

  Anne Frank wasn't the only Jewish teenager hiding during World War II and the Holocaust, but she's certainly become the symbol of all of them.... More >>

• Poker Gets Dramatic

  published March 30, 2006

  In the evil galaxy of schadenfreude where theater resides, nothing's better than a darkly funny play about hopeless wankers full of big talk and... More >>

• Rita Unstoppable

  published March 16, 2006

  Palm Beach Dramaworks has been nominated for 16 of this year's Carbonell Awards, South Florida's theater honors that will be parceled out by... More >>

• This Is My Rifle, This Is My Gun

  published March 9, 2006

  Bold Girls Written by Rona Munro. Directed by Genie Croft. With Deanna Henson, Kathy Ryan, Tania Tesh, and Jennifer Gomez. Through... More >>

• Mud in Your Eye, Beowulf

  published February 23, 2006

  As you enter the Florida Renaissance Festival and hear the first bad English accent yell "G'day, my lord" coming from the first wench with... More >>

• Where's the Mummy?

  published February 9, 2006

  Back in December, New Times called the Museum of Art's King Tut exhibit — "Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs" —... More >>

• Lucy, You Can't Be in the Show

  published February 2, 2006

  Now, if never before, with intelligent design worming its way through academia, we could really use a good evolution play, one that looks at the... More >>

• Latino and P.O.'d

  published January 26, 2006

  Barefoot Boy With Shoes On, which opened last week at the Public Theatre of South Florida, is more a dance than a play. It's all emotion... More >>

• They're Poets, and They Know It

  published January 19, 2006

  In two short years, the Palm Beach Poetry Festival has evolved, like a rhyming Ebola virus, into a sort of iambic pentameter circus. Last year, it... More >>

• Hey Jude

  published January 12, 2006

  Thank God. A new play about Catholic priests that mentions neither pope nor pedophilia. It is about miracles, though, which might raise eyebrows.... More >>

• Million Quid Baby

  published January 5, 2006

  "Quadriplegics envy paraplegics. You think, 'Man, they've got it made,'" painter Chuck Close once said about his paralyzed life. Close's comment... More >>