BeeJay Aubertin Clinton is Crumpet the Elf in “The Santaland Diaries” at the Henegar Center. Photo by Dana Niemeier Photography. By PAM HARBAUGH Get ready. It’s Crumpet the Elf as described by the irascible David Sedaris in his underground phenom, “The Santaland Diaries,” opening Thursday and running through Sunday at the...
RICK ROACH as a Holiday Favorite
Rick Roach as Ebeneezer Scrooge in A CHRISTMAS CAROL at Cocoa Village Playhouse. Photo by Jonathan Goforth. By PAM HARBAUGH Although this will be Rick Roach’s fourth time gluing on the mutton chops and wrinkling his otherwise smiling face into a snarl, he’s utterly delighted to be portraying Ebeneezer Scrooge for...
REVIEW: ORPHANS at Theater on the Edge
From left: Allan Whitehead, Zack Roundy and Adam Minossora in ORPHANS at Theater on the Edge. Photo by Monica Mulder Photographer. By JOAN TADDIE Guest Critic After a highly successful Season One, Theatre On the Edge opens its second season with Lyle Kessler’s dark comedy, “Orphans,” sensitively directed by Marco DiGeorge....
RUBBING ELBOWS on Broadway
By PAM HARBAUGH Members of the American Theatre Critics Association love being in that organization. It comprises nationwide critics and theater writers, most of whom are crazy smart, insightful, well educated, fun and very passionate about the theater. Being in that organization also brings a critic and arts writers to national...
THE MUSIC MAN at Titusville Playhouse
From left: Traci McGough (Mrs. Paroo), Cooper Mangini (Winthrop) and Mary Henderson (Marian) in THE MUSIC MAN at Titusville Playhouse. Photo by Chad Horne By PAM HARBAUGH In a world consumed by politics and fraught with fear, it’s hard to think of a time when one child’s disappointment could change hearts....
AUDITIONS November 2017
By PAM HARBAUGH If you’re auditioning for any of these shows, be sure to arrive early to fill out paper work. Most theaters like you to bring a resume and a headshot, although you’re not going to be shown the door if you don’t have a photo of yourself. You usually...
DESIGNERS of Surfside Spamalot
By PAM HARBAUGH Designers creating costumes and lights and prop masters insuring the actor has a sword when the script calls for it, are key to any show. But especially for “Monty Python’s SPAMALOT,” the raucous musical poking elbows in the side of the Arthurian Legend. It opens Friday at Surfside...
Review: HANK WILLIAMS LOST HIGHWAY
By PAM HARBAUGH From its upbeat tunes to soulful longings, “Hank Williams: Lost Highway” takes Riverside Theatre audiences on a revealing musical story about one of America’s most important country singers. It begins with Williams’ death at age 29 then speeds backward to a time where his no-nonsense mother, a marvelous...
ROCKY HORROR Lands Live at Titusville
By PAM HARBAUGH Richard O’Brien’s musical homage to B-movies of the sci-fi/horror genre, “The Rocky Horror Show,” has invaded Titusville Playhouse again in all its glam rock ‘n roll glory. And this is the live stage musical version of the cult classic — not the shadow-cast-performing-in-front-of-the-projected-movie verion. “It’s built up its...
SHERLOCK at MCT
By PAM HARBAUGH Peg Girard, director extraordinaire at Melbourne Civic Theatre, is no shrinking violet. Just because Orlando Shakes was opening its own Sherlock-y play, “The Hounds of the Baskerville’s” (on the same day, mind you,) as MCT’s “Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery.””Ms. Girard was far from unsettled. But she would...