Page 20 - Boca Exposure - October '23

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Classic Thriller Wait Until Dark

Opens At Delray Beach Playhouse’s Cabaret Theater Oct. 26

Boca Stage’s first production in their new home at the Delray her blindness just might be the key to her escape, but she and triple-crosses, and some very challenging staging.
Beach Playhouse will be Frederick Knott’s classic thriller, Wait her tormentors must wait until dark to play out this dangerous Garsson has cast Rachel Whittington as Susan, Shane Tanner
Until Dark. The production will run in the Playhouse’s Cabaret situation to its chilling conclusion. as Roat, Rio Chavarro as Mike, Troy Stanley as Carlino, Michael
Theatre from Oct. 27 through Nov. 5. “The key to this play is the cache of diamonds that has been, Coppola as Sam, and Ellie Rose as Gloria.
In 2013, playwright and author Jeffrey Hatcher (Tuesdays through some very strange circumstances, placed somewhere in Tickets for Wait Until Dark range in price from $39 to
with Morrie), updated the 1964 script of this classic show, which Susan’s Greenwich Village basement apartment and the quest $69 and are available online at delraybeachplayhouse.com
became a hit film, by resetting its story in 1944, just at the end of some very bad guys to retrieve it,” explains Keith Garsson, or by calling (561) 272-1281. Performances are on Friday
of World War II, while keeping its New York City locale. the show’s executive producer and director, who is also the and Saturday at 2 and 8 p.m. and on Sunday at 2 p.m. There
The plot: In 1944 Greenwich Village, Susan Hendrix, a founder of Boca Stage. “Blood will be spilled, people will will also be a performance on Thursday, Oct. 26 at 8 p.m. All
blind yet capable woman, is imperiled by a trio of men in her die. Wait Until Dark represents our first time (stab?!) at a pure performances will take place at the Delray Beach Playhouse,
own apartment. As the climax builds, Susan discovers that thriller, a cat-and-mouse chase complete with double-crosses, 950 N.W. 9th Street.
Carey Crim’s Morning After Grace

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Pigs Do Fly Productions’ first show of the new theater “I am very familiar with Carey Crim’s amazing work
season is Morning After Grace, playwright Carey Crim’s and was thrilled to learn that Morning After Grace was
comedy that explores love, loss and new beginnings. The finally available for production in South Florida,” says the
production will run from Oct. 27 through Nov. 19 at Empire show’s director, Deborah Kondelik. “The play is hilarious
Stage in Fort Lauderdale. yet poignant, timely, and a perfect match for Pigs Do Fly’s
“This lovely play is a perfect example of what we at Pigs mission. I am happy to know that more plays are being written
are trying to prove,” says Executive Producer Ellen Wacher. about older yet vibrantly alive people. Pigs Do Fly Productions
“That people over ‘a certain age’ are as interesting in ‘the now’ has opened the door wide to showcase the more mature actor.
as they ever were. Morning After Grace is a funny, profound, Older actors bring a great deal of life experience to the stage.
and very hopeful example of life in general – no matter what After all, the most important trait of a good actor is the ability
age someone may be.” to move others and to truly connect with the character being
Angus, Abigail and Ollie, all residents in a Florida Deborah Kondelik Ellen Wacher portrayed. And there is no age limit on that!”
retirement community, gather together for the first time in Kondelik has cast Andre Gainey as Ollie, Peter Galman
Angus’s apartment the day after a funeral. During the course have accomplished these past eight years. We have featured as Angus, and Janice Hamilton as Abigail.
of the play, each one of them discovers something about and served a demographic that is often ignored, and I think Tickets for Morning After Grace are $45 and are available
themselves, and the others, and that no matter what might our patrons are extremely appreciative of that. And … it’s online at www.pigsdoflyproductions.com or by calling (954)
occur, there is always a morning after. also very gratifying to see not only my contemporaries in our 678-1496. Performances are on Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m.,
“This is our eighth season,” Wacher continues. “I am audiences, but younger people as well! It proves beyond a and on Sunday at 5 p.m.. All performances will take place at
extremely proud of how much we have grown and what we doubt that good theatre has no age limits!” Empire Stage, 1140 N. Flagler Drive, Fort Lauderdale.

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