Jason Cottrell

While the effort behind The Secret Life of Walter Mitty is plain to see, the Delray Beach Playhouse's production just can't breathe life into this boring 1964 musical about a boring man. Walter is a husband and father taking stock of his life on his 40th birthday. Unsatisfied as a...

The four secretaries who are the characters in Hold Please, the Women's Theatre Project's current comedy, work in drearily uninspiring confines. We see their paltry break room and its minifridge, their small desks littered with stuffed animals and figurines. We see them hoard half-and-half and steal one another's Nutter Butters...

Here's a musical that overcomes an uninspired, predictable storyline with solid songs and vibrant production. Originally staged off Broadway in 1997 and making its South Florida debut, The Last Session tells the story of Gideon (Gary Waldman), a singer/songwriter who's given up his fight with AIDS. All that's left to...

In the era of American Idol and Fear Factor, TV watchers have never before been privy to such a smorgasbord of other people's humiliations and vulnerabilities. Playwright Jim Tommaney offers a suggestion for raising the bar even farther. His satirical comedy Reality TV, now at EDGE Theatre, tells the story...

Eight days, 150 films, you know the drill. It's the tenth year for the Palm Beach International Film Festival, with movies from Boca to Belle Glade and Lake Worth to Jupiter. The festival opens with When Do We Eat? -- a Sabbath meal, a tough father, and a son perhaps...