From left: Caroline Brown, Angel Santiago, Cathy Moubray in Cocoa Village Playhouse production of A GENTLEMAN’S GUIDE TO LOVE AND MURDER. Photo by Jonathan Goforth. By KEENAN CARVER Brevard Culture Theater Critic Cocoa Village Playhouse’s Broadway on Brevard series is back with another astounding show and cast. During the “Prologue,” from...
NEWS from ACTORS THEATER and HUMANA
By PAM HARBAUGH The Actors Theatre of Louisville has a couple of substantive announcements: It has appointed a new artistic director, Robert Barry Fleming, who replaces Les Waters, who brought such artful productions to ATL and its Humana Festival of New American Plays (Mr. Fleming has quite the resume, which you...
TEAM TARZAN has HEART
Corinne Marie and Joe Horton in The Henegar’s production of TARZAN The Musical. Photo by Niko Stamos. By PAM HARBAUGH My heart is full. How could you watch “Tarzan” the stage musical at The Henegar and not get a little verklempt by the sheer love and determination of the cast, crew...
GET OUT! March 8 to March 10
By PAM HARBAUGH It’s okay, c’mon out….it’s only our theater scene’s warring themes: Primitive Man and Gentlemen, Bordellos and Castles, Mad Women and Fair Ladies. Read below about those shows plus other weekend events by our vital arts community. And be sure to click on their ads, which helps Brevard Culture...
Review: BEST LITTLE WHOREHOUSE IN TEXAS at Surfside
By KEENAN CARVER Brevard Culture Theatre Critic When looking for musicals to see on a typical weekend, not many titles catch your eye like “THE BEST LITTLE WHOREHOUSE IN TEXAS” by Carol Hall, Larry L. King, and Peter Masterson. Just as the name alludes, Director Bryan Bergeron gives the audience a...
CVP outta the gate with GENTLEMAN’S GUIDE
From left: Caroline Brown, Angel Santiago, Cathy Moubray in Cocoa Village Playhouse production of A GENTLEMAN’S GUIDE TO LOVE AND MURDER. Photo by Jonathan Goforth. By PAM HARBAUGH The Cocoa Village Playhouse opens one of the most challenging, and most funny, new musicals, “A GENTLEMAN’S GUIDE TO LOVE AND MURDER.” It...
GET OUT! March 1 to 3
By PAM HARBAUGH You’ve got quite the variety of goodies to add flavor to your weekend. Read about weekend events by our vital arts community and be sure to click on their ads, which helps Brevard Culture abide: COCOA VILLAGE PLAYHOUSE, HEIDI’S JAZZ CLUB, MELBOURNE CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY, MELBOURNE CIVIC THEATRE,...
AMERICA’S GOT TALENT at HEIDI’s JAZZ CLUB
By PAM HARBAUGH Here’s something that should bring a new demographic to the sweetest night spot in Brevard: Sixth season winner of America’s Got Talent, Landau Eugene Murphy, Jr., appears 6:30 and 8:30 p.m. tonight at Heidi’s Jazz Club in Cocoa Beach. Murphy and his band will perform crooner classics from...
MAN OF LA MANCHA at TPI
Patrick Ryan Sullivan is Don Quixote/Cervantes in MAN OF LA MANCHA at Titusville Playhouse. Photo by Niko Stamos. By PAM HARBAUGH Dreaming the impossible dream has become rather de rigueur for Titusville Playhouse. Having revisioned itself seven years ago, and now in the midst of bringing an ailing Henegar Center under...
Review: GLORIA at MAD COW
From left: Zack Roundy, Patrick A. Jackson, Jen Chia and Kristin Shirilla in GLORIA at Mad Cow Theatre in Orlando, FL. Detail of a photo by Tom Hurst. By Keenan Carver Brevard Culture Theater Critic In its quest to produce compelling plays, Mad Cow Theatre brings to its stage the Obie...