REVIEW: ‘LIPSTICK’ IS PREDICTABLY HILARIOUS
What could possibly go wrong on an innocent “first date?” In Lane Michael Stanley’s silly comedy, “Lipstick,” receiving its world premiere at Island City Stage, well, [...]
STARMAKER PREMIERE AT ISLAND CITY STAGE BRINGS BACK OLD HOLLYWOOD
By Michelle F. Solomon for FLORIDA THEATRE ONSTAGE Michael Leeds’ world premiere play, Starmaker, ten years in the making, is getting its debut at Island City [...]
THE MANY FACES OF ROCK HUDSON
by Mindy Leaf for Around Town Island City Stage, about to celebrate its seventh season of great and perceptive theater, has raised the bar yet again [...]
NEW PLAY LOOKS AT MAN BEHIND HOLLYWOOD’S LEADING MEN
Playwright and director Michael Leeds, right, rehearses actors for the world premiere of his new play, “Starmaker,” at Island City Stage. Credit: Island City Stage. [...]
‘VERONICA’S POSITION’ ENTERTAINS, PROVOKES THOUGHT AT ISLAND CITY STAGE
By AARON KRAUSE - Theatrical Musings WILTON MANORS, Fla. — The senator proclaims his vision for America in a sunny, hopeful voice. However, the audience’s [...]
SPARKLING WIT SUFFUSES ISLAND CITY’S ‘VERONICA’S POSITION’
By Bill Hirschman for Florida Theatre Onstage Photo credit: Wentzler Photography One thing theater does better than any other art form – even film – [...]
‘VERONICA’S POSITION’ SPARKLES LIKE FINE CUBIC ZIRCONIA AT ISLAND CITY STAGE
By Christine Dolen for the Sun-Sentinel Rich Orloff’s “Veronica’s Position,” which had its premiere at Sarasota’s Florida Studio Theatre in 1994, is an original work [...]
ISLAND CITY STAGE’S FROM WHITE PLAINS PACKS AN EMOTIONAL PUNCH
By Aaron Krause WILTON MANORS, Fla. — William Faulkner wrote, “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” And in a devastatingly honest manner, [...]
FORGOTTEN CRUELTY SPARKS POWDER KEG THRILLER AT ISLAND CITY
Does time really heal old wounds? That’s the question Michael Perlman’s play, “From White Plains” attempts to answer in a new production opening March 21 [...]
BUYER & CELLAR: THE PRICE OF CELEBRITY AND CELEBRITY WORSHIP
Fitzgerald wrote, “The rich are different than you and me,” and if he was writing today, he’d probably amend it to “Celebrities are different than [...]