By PAM HARBAUGH Anyone out there want to add their names to our list of theater critics? If you want to remain anonymous, you can be a member of Brevard Culture’s “Spelvin Society of Critics.” FYI, George Spelvin is an honored theater tradition imbued with anonymity. George’s sister goes by the...
REVIEW: AMERICAN BUFFALO at Theater on the Edge
By JOAN TADDIE Guest Critic Don’s Resale Shop is stuffed aimlessly with discarded junk of little value. Pieces of American culture from the past hang precariously on the walls and are piled on every available metal shelf and empty space on the floor. It is in this claustrophobic setting that we...
REVIEW: Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time
Original Broadway Company of “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.” Photo: Joan Marcus By JOAN TADDIE Guest Critic When you walk into a theater looking for your seats and you find yourself suddenly immobile because you are staring at a big, white, dead dog stabbed by a pitchfork...
THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME
Adam Langdon and The Curious Incident North American Tour 2016 Cast. Detail. Photo Credit Joan Marcus. By PAM HARBAUGH Our guest critic, JOAN TADDIE, will file her review of this show later today. (And here is her review…just click here.) In the meantime, it sure sounds like you don’t want to...
AUDITIONS November 2016
By PAM HARBAUGH Best bake these into your schedule, since the holidays are beginning to loom. Oh yeah…you read that right. Nov. 6 & 7, Sunday and Monday: MELBOURNE CIVIC THEATRE will hold auditions 7 p.m. Nov. 6 and 7 for CALENDAR GIRLS. Needed are many women (woo hoo). Six of...
SPELVIN on WITCHES OF EASTWICK
By GEORGETTE SPELVIN Guest Critic This is being written on the last night of the hurricane-abbreviated run of “The Witches of Eastwick” at the Henegar. Revive it, Hank Rion. Bring this show back for a return engagement. It is that good. The musical, written by John Dempsey (lyrics and book) and...
REVIEW: Riverside Theatre RING OF FIRE
By PAM HARBAUGH In Riverside Theatre’s polished production of the musical revue “Ring of Fire,” four pitch perfect voices and a host of skilled musicians bring to life the legacy of America’s greatest home-grown troubadour, Johnny Cash. And what a gathering of talent. While the show, created by Richard Maltby, Jr,...
REVIEW: Actors Asylum ALL GIRL DRACULA
By WILLIAM RONAT Guest Critic Great fun. Creative production. Good acting. Ha! Had a blast. I guess I expected it to be a little “campy”, but The Actors’ Asylum “All Girl Dracula” playwright Bob Fisher’s great updated retelling of the classic tale played by an all-female cast. Given the ancient Greek...
SPELVIN on MAURITIUS at MCT
By GEORGETTE SPELVIN Guest Critic Imagine the fun to be had when your heart’s desire is a postage stamp or two. Or three. So it is in Teresa Rebeck’s “Mauritius,” named after the country in which were issued what became the world’s rarest stamps, because one of the characters in the...
AMERICAN BUFFALO Directors Discount Tickets
By PAM HARBAUGH You’ve got the chance to get some good discounts for tickets to the opening weekend of AMERICAN BUFFALO at the new Theater on the Edge company in Orlando. While AMERICAN BUFFALO opens Nov. 3 in Orlando, two of its three actors come from Brevard — Allan Whitehead and...