The Henegar Center for the Arts delivers what it promises with “Follies” – a production filled with beloved community theater veterans proving they’ve still got the stuff to stop a show. With music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by James Goldman, “Follies” revolves around two unhappily married couples who...
In review: “Art” at Titusville Playhouse
By PAM HARBAUGH In the tiny Emma’s Attic at Titusville Playhouse, three professional actors prove that the best things do come in small packages. It is their top-notch, emotion-packed Equity production of the Tony Award winning play, “Art.” In it, playwright Yasmina Reza uses a post-minimalist “white” painting as a catalyst...
Review: Henegar’s “Scrooge! The Musical”
By Cathy Mathias The Heneger Center for the Arts is treating us all this Holiday Season with “Scrooge! The Musical.” You don’t want to miss this fun, heart-warming show filled with lively, toe-tapping songs performed by a local cast and orchestra and directed in fine fashion by Bryan Bergeron. Based on...
In review: CVP’s “A Christmas Carol”
By Cathy Mathias If there is one theater in Brevard that knows how to do set design and lighting, it is the Cocoa Village Playhouse, as is shown by its current production of “A Christmas Carol: The Musical” which evokes several “wow’s” from the audience. This well-loved Charles Dickens story of...
Review: “La Cage aux Folles”
Review by CATHY MATHIAS Surfside is lighting up like a red-hot cabaret with a crazy collection of cross-dressing femme fatales in “La Cage Aux Folles” now running on weekends until November 18th. It’s about love conquering all odds against social conventions. Directed by Jennifer Wolf, it’s the love story between Albin,...
A review: “Million Dollar Quartet”
Whether you call it a jukebox musical or a lavish tribute concert, you have to agree that “Million Dollar Quartet” certainly entertains. The national tour of this Tony Award winning musical, which opened Tuesday at the Bob Carr Performing Arts Centre, has a songbook with some of the best 1950s rock...
Review: “The Foreigner”
Melbourne Civic Theatre relives classic comedy with its deliciously funny production of Larry Shue’s “The Foreigner.” This laugh riot delights throughout with the most drop-dead hysterical cast evoking the best of Jerry Lewis, Carol Burnett, Sid Caesar, Red Skelton…all the best rolled into one. The storyline revolves around Charlie Baker, an...
Review: “The Woman in Black”
The Henegar Center for the Arts gets us all in the mood for the spooky season with its hauntingly effective production of “The Woman in Black.” Set in London and among some desolate, fog shrouded Yorkshire moors, the story begins in the confines of an old, empty theater. Arthur Kipps, a...
Review: Henegar Center’s “Speech and Debate”
The pain of growing up different is revealed through deep secrets and fears in Stephen Karam’s winsome “Speech and Debate,” currently on stage in the intimate confines of the Upstairs at the Henegar venue. Directed by Michael Thompson, the story is played out on a spare black stage. Oversized alphabet blocks...
Review: Cocoa Village Playhouse “South Pacific”
A cherished chestnut of American musical theater, “South Pacific” became the ideal vehicle to open a cherished chestnut of Brevard community theater — Cocoa Village Playhouse. Indeed, after a 90-day hiatus, the busy Cocoa Village Playhouse reopened last night and showed off new grand chandeliers, new seats, a new ceiling, some...