Email Author Ronald Mangravite

2004 Stories by Ronald Mangravite

• Melting Ice

  published December 23, 2004

  Several questions are raised in Florida Stage's Ice Glen, but not ones the theater likely intends. The first is why this underrealized... More >>

• Gold Diggers 2004

  published December 16, 2004

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• Nightmare Motel

  published December 9, 2004

  Oh, how deceiving first appearances can be. At the start of Tracy Lett's Bug, now in its Florida premiere at GableStage, a leggy redhead... More >>

• Beauty and the Blimp

  published November 25, 2004

  It's pretty near impossible not to be impressed with the Actors' Playhouse's gangbuster production of Disney's Beauty and the Beast (yes,... More >>

• The Man That Got Away

  published November 11, 2004

  The official motto of the Coconut Grove Playhouse is "Broadway by the Bay," but its unofficial one should be "if it ain't broke, don't fix it."... More >>

• Our Friends and Neighbors

  published November 4, 2004

  If South Florida theaters were planets, Miami's Mad Cat would be off in a separate galaxy. The gritty, award-winning ensemble works out of a small... More >>

• To Jerusalem, with Laughs

  published October 28, 2004

  Comedy tends to bubble up from deep anxiety or perhaps even worse. "The secret source of humor," Mark Twain once remarked, "is not joy but... More >>

• Split Decision

  published October 21, 2004

  There have been plenty of plays and films about boxing, but the intense mano-a-mano conflict of the sport makes it an enduring subject for drama.... More >>

• Hack Stabber

  published October 14, 2004

  There are several good reasons why South Florida playgoers may want to trek out to Plantation to take in Amadeus, now playing at the Mosaic... More >>

• Cruz Does Cruz

  published October 7, 2004

  If there's an award for great theatrical moments, this year's prize will undoubtebly go to Nilo Cruz and his Anna in the Tropics, now... More >>

• Apocalypses Now

  published September 23, 2004

  Theater has long been praised for holding "the mirror up to nature" to reveal reality through the artifice of performance. Yet, remarkably, our... More >>

• Reluctant Messiah

  published September 16, 2004

  With hurricane season most decidedly upon us, questions of probability and fate are on the minds of many. How is it that some people suffer when... More >>

• Fascinating S.O.B.

  published August 19, 2004

  He was called, among other things, fascinating, abrasive, wise, vain, ruthless, tenderhearted, indefatigable, and contentious. His wife once... More >>

• U.S. of Scapegoat

  published August 5, 2004

  Americans can't seem to agree on much these days, but all must allow that these are tense, restless times. War, terrorism, a divided electorate,... More >>

• The Corporate Life for Me!

  published July 22, 2004

  Whew! Summer is here with a vengeance, a fierce season that is, in some ways, a little like winter up north. Most everyone starts spending more... More >>

• Rat Pack Revisited

  published July 8, 2004

  In the restaurant business, one classic mistake is to pay more attention to the presentation of the meal than to the cooking. Beautiful... More >>

• Leaden Lear, Golden Moments

  published July 1, 2004

  Let's begin with the bottom line: By any measure, The Shakespeare Project, the New Theatre's summer repertory of King Lear and A... More >>

• Bats and Balls

  published June 24, 2004

  Richard Greenberg's Take Me Out, now in its Florida premiere at the Caldwell Theatre, is nothing if not ambitious. Its subjects are... More >>

• Itsy-Bitsy Drama

  published June 10, 2004

  Has it already been a year since City Shorts was last in town? This festival of short plays (20 minutes max) has become a nationally... More >>

• Good Morning, Baghdad

  published May 13, 2004

  Watching Deborah Zoe Laufer's biting satire The Gulf of Westchester at Florida Stage is something akin to witnessing a hotshot skier... More >>

• Scratch a White Guy...

  published May 6, 2004

  If you're looking for a quick trip to a faraway place, Joseph Adler and GableStage can arrange a 90-minute journey to an entirely different planet... More >>

• A WASPy Place

  published April 29, 2004

  here's an adage in the writing business: "Write what you know." Albert Ramsdell Gurney Jr., known as A.R., certainly took that advice to heart.... More >>

• Cubist Confrontation

  published April 22, 2004

  Written by . Directed by . With . by the , or www.cgplayhouse.org. More >>

• White Frightens

  published April 22, 2004

  This just in: White people have a lot of secret racial prejudice. J.T. Rogers hammers home this theme in White People, now playing at the... More >>

• Kidneys for Sale

  published April 15, 2004

  How far will one friend go for another? In Trembling Hands, Ivonne Azurdia's grotesque, funny crime drama now in its world premiere by the... More >>