Revelations from the judges’ seats at the Players’ Talent Explosion.   By Kay Kipling   When I agreed to be one of several judges for the Players Theatre Talent Explosion 2008, I had no idea what I was getting into.   Well, maybe some idea. I had to figure that at some point in [...]

  There’s timely nostalgia in the Manatee Players’ The Will Rogers Follies.   By Kay Kipling   When Manatee Players artistic director Rick Kerby chose The Will Rogers Follies to open his 2008-09 season, he knew the production would coincide with a presidential election year and the August anniversary of humorist Rogers’ death. What he [...]

  The Banyan Theater Company finds the essential role of disorder in The Clean House.   By Kay Kipling   What a treat it is, in the dog days of August, to emerge from a theater feeling, well, sort of clean and perhaps even a little exhilarated. That’s “clean” as in The Clean House, the [...]