In the opening to “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum,” the prologue promises “Comedy Tonight.” And Riverside Theatre’s brilliant artistic team delivers it big time, from beginning to end in a thoroughly professional production. This is led by director James Brennan, whose credits include Broadway, Off-Broadway, Paper...
Review: “The Gin Game”
Riverside Theatre brings a rich intimacy to the stage in its eloquent production of “The Gin Game.” The Pulitzer Prize winning 1976 drama by D.L. Coburn holds a position of prestige in American drama. It was famously acted by Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy and directed by Mike Nichols. It uses...
Review: “The Drowsy Chaperone”
A big Broadway musical has bloomed on Melbourne Civic Theatre’s small stage. It’s “The Drowsy Chaperone,” and boy, is it packed with talent and entertainment. With book by Bob Martin and Don McKellar, and music and lyrics by Lisa Lambert and Greg Morrison, “The Drowsy Chaperone” is a Tony Award winning,...
“A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum” a review
Last week, in FLORIDA TODAY, Steven Heron was quoted as saying he hoped that eventually, entertainment-hungry people throughout the county would ask what’s going on at Titusville Playhouse. That wish is closer to becoming reality with shows like “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum.” TPI’s production, which...
“The Music Man” a review
Ah, to live in a world where the most dastardly thing about to spoil society is a pool table. Where people dress nicely and behave with some decorum. And where harmony is all about. You can step into that picture for at least for a couple hours or so, at Riverside...
In Review: “A Tuna Christmas” at Titusville Playhouse
Titusville Playhouse fires on all cylinders with its very funny, wacky and endearing production of “A Tuna Christmas.” Starring a couple of stage pros — Patrick Sullivan and Steven Heron — the shows is packed full of what you have come to expect of “A Tuna Christmas.” Written by Jaston Williams,...
Titusville Playhouse grows up with “The Graduate” a review
There’s no going back. Titusville Playhouse takes a giant step into contemporary American theater with it’s funny, sweet, endearing production of “The Graduate.” And really, the nudity (both frontal and backal) is only a minor part. What’s that? Nudity you say? Why, yes. Right here in the city by the river....
Orlando Shakes’ “Importance of Being Earnest” in review
What is it about a man playing a grande dame, especially Lady Bracknell in Oscar Wilde’s “The Importance of Being Earnest?” Do we believe that only a man can put on the spelunking gear and plumb the depth of a social snob’s biting comments about life, the universe, and everything? Or...
“The Woman from the Sea,” in review
TITUSVILLE — There’s something rare in the small Emma’s Attic, Titusville Playhouse’s alternative space. It comes in the form of “The Woman from the Sea,” written by Spence Porter and based heavily on Henrik Ibsen’s 1888 “The Lady from the Sea.” Here, Porter places the story in the late 1950s, when...
“Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” in review
Before the action begins in “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,” the sounds of children set a tonal backdrop to this theatrical lament about birth and death, love and hate and all points of emotion in between. It also serves as springboard for the entrance of childless Maggie, the so-called “cat”...