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Not-So-Freaky Freak Show

Mosaic's Elephant Man is mostly art by the numbers

By Ronald Mangravite
Sep 8, 2005

The Mosaic Theatre's Richard Jay Simon is one of the most talented theater directors in South Florida. He's also one of the most versatile. His emotionally detailed hostage drama, Someone Who'll Watch Over Me, grabbed my attention in Mosaic's first season, when the company was playing to audiences of three...
Stagebeat

Capsule reviews of current area stage shows.

By Ronald Mangravite
Aug 25, 2005

Misery:Horror meister Stephen King certainly knows a thing or two about the vicissitudes of fame. Like many a writer before him, King draws on personal experience for his short novel Misery, a grim fairy tale about a famous novelist held captive by his "number one fan." The 1992 play is...
Stagebeat

Capsule reviews of current area stage shows.

By Ronald Mangravite
Aug 11, 2005

Shakespeare's shortest tragedy is one of his most magnificent, but it's quite a task to stage, perform, and watch. Director Rafael de Acha's stark, modern-dress staging of Macbeth solves some but not all of the play's formidable problems. Purists may grit their teeth at the many textual cuts and revisions...
Good Guys, Bad Guys

Florida Stage's The Good German skips the moral complexities

By Ronald Mangravite
May 19, 2005

Ever cruised the drama section of your local public library? Oftentimes, you'll find collections of plays from the 1940s and '50s entombed on a back shelf, scripts that are well-crafted and thoughtful but rather timeworn and unlikely to pack much punch on a modern stage. That's the feel of David...
Bitter Lemon

Wallace Shawn's characters take a twisting stroll through history at the Sol Theatre

By Ronald Mangravite
May 5, 2005

If you were ever in doubt about theater's ability to provoke, check out Aunt Dan & Lemon, a creepily ambivalent play about sex, fascism, and the malevolent power of ideas, now at the Sol Theatre in Fort Lauderdale. But be warned: While the show asks some troubling questions, it's up...

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