Columns

  • It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play

    It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play Directed by Suzanne O’Donnell Adapted by Joe Landry Starring Duke Lafoon, David Edwards, Natalie Cordone, and Sarah French Orlando Shakespeare Theater Orlando, FL It’s the season for roasting chestnuts, and this is certainly one of them. Shakes last did this script about 4 years ago, and while

  • Paint A Tank #2: Military Mambo

    Paint A Tank #2: Military Mambo Rokaya Mikhailenko AHHA Dance Presenting at Emotions Dance Studio Casselberry, FL They say you need to “sing loud and stuff” to end the war; but this group prefers to dance it away. Drinks were cheap and the crowd small and mostly theater insiders, but the performance was intriguing. Out

  • Born Yesterday

    Born Yesterday By Garson Kanin Directed by Tony Simotes Starring Jamie-Lyn Markos, Duncan Bahr, and Mark “Gary” Miller Mad Cow Theatre Orlando, FL In politics nothing ever really changes except the names and the hair styles. Tonight, we find ourselves in post war Washington D.C. There’s big money in cleaning up the scrap metal left

  • Daddy Long Legs

    Daddy Long Legs Music and Lyrics by Paul Gordon Book by John Caird Based on a novel by Jean Webster Directed by Roy Alan Musical Direction by Chris Leavy Winter Park Playhouse Winter Park, FL This is NOT the Fred Astaire Musical from 1955, nor any of the other six similar sounding listings in IMDB.

  • Beach Blanket Bongo

    A post modern take on the old Frankie and Annette beach movies.

  • Sense and Sensibility

    Sense and Sensibility By Kate Hamill Based on a novel by Jane Austen Directed by Marianne DiQuattro Starring Anneliese Moon and Allison Furlong Annie Russell Theater at Rollins College Winter Park, FL The pre-women lib world was so quaint. You either “Had” income or you starved, no woman dare not talk to man without an

  • I Have Dreamed: The Songs of Richard Rodgers

    I Have Dreamed: The Songs of Richard Rodgers Featuring Larry Alexander Musical Direction by Christopher Leavy Additional Accompaniment by Ned Wilkinson Spotlight Cabaret Series November 29, 2017 Winter Park Playhouse Winter Park, FL I don’t think everything we heard tonight was the original lyric. But it still sounded great as we looked back to the

  • An Octaroon

    An Octaroon By Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Based on a play by Dion Boucicault Directed by David Reed Starring Arius West, Andrew Coleburn, and Mandi Lee UCF Conservatory Theater Orlando, FL Back in the old days, if you needed a black actor you put a white guy on stage in blackface. Today, if you can’t get enough

  • The House of Bernarda Alba

    The House of Bernarda Alba By Federico García Lorca A New Version by Emily Mann Directed by Nadia Garzón Starring Ibis Enid Rodriguez, Leonor Velosa, and Lisa Morales Seminole State College Lake Mary, FL Fortune is fleeting, and in this tense and claustrophobic tale its already two miles down the road. Senior Bernardo Alba is

  • Orphans

    Orphans By Lyle Kessler Directed by Marco DiGeorge Theater on the Edge Edgewater, FL If there’s one thing this place needs, it’s a light up sign you can see from the street. What it’s good at is stage intensity, and the ability to get wallpaper to look like cockroaches put it up in 1978. Meet

  • Red Black and Ignorant

    Red Black and Ignorant By Edward Bond Directed by Jeremy Seeghers Starring Daniel Cooksley, Sophia Anne Tretro, and Sean Kemp Valencia College Theater Orlando, FL It’s the end of the world, and these folks know it. There are no more theaters; all we have tonight is a bunch of chairs set out in the grass

  • Double Jeopardy

    Double Jeopardy The Trial of B. B. Wolf Music by Curtis Tucker Word by Nelson Sheeley and Trial By Jury By Gilbert and Sullivan Directed by Dee Axel Musical Direction by Nishaa Carson Central Florida Vocal Arts Presented at CFVA Black Box Theater 250 SW Ivanhoe Blvd Orlando, FL Courtroom procedurals can drag, but if

  • Debbie Does Dallas: The Musical

    Debbie Does Dallas: The Musical Book by Susan L. Schwartz Music by Andrew Sherman Additional Music and Lyrics by Tom Kitt and Jonathan Callicutt Directed by Adam McCabe Choreographed by Michelle Alagna Starring Takara Anderson Footlights Theater, Orlando FL The Footlights Theater continues to up its game; tonight we have both a proper overture to

  • Grounded

    Grounded By George Brant Directed by Monica Long Tamborello Featuring Cynthia Beckert Mad Cow Theater Orlando, FL Jet jockeying just isn’t like “Top Gun” anymore. Our unnamed flyer (Beckert) used to drive F-16’s around the sky, but that air frame is almost as old as I and our new war fighters might as well be

  • Love and Marriage

    Love and Marriage With Kelly Morris Rowan Musical Direction by Chris Levey Spotlight Cabaret Series Winter Park Playhouse Winter Park, FL I can tell we’re in for an evening of elegance as Ms. Rowan enters in a blue evening gown dripping with a formal style we rarely see today. Her theme is “Love and Marriage.”

  • Evita

    Evita Lyrics by Tim Rice Music by Andrew Lloyd Webber Directed by Paul Castaneda Starring Victoria Sol Del Agua, Brandon Munoz-Dominguez, and Freddy Ruiz Valencia State College Orlando, FL Even by musical theater standards, Juan Peron (Munoz-Dominguez) gets off easy tonight. Of course, he doesn’t get all the hits, either, so it looks like a

  • Of Thee I Sing

    Of Thee I Sing Book by George S. Kaufman and Morrie Ryskind Music by George Gershwin Lyrics by Ira Gershwin Directed by Mark Brotherton Musical Direction by Chris Endsley Starring Kyle Laing, Jennifer Totcky, Joseph Edward Herr Theater UCF Orlando, FL Politics never changes; it’s just that new crooks appear from time to time. Tonight,

  • The Odd Couple (Female Version)

    The Odd Couple (Female Version) – posted by Carl Gauze on October 15, 2017 23:30

  • Hand to God

    Hand to God – posted by Carl Gauze on October 15, 2017 10:22

  • The Hound of the Baskervilles

    The Hound of the Baskervilles – posted by Carl Gauze on October 15, 2017 10:18

Recently on Ink 19...

© Copyright Ink 19