Janice Hamilton and Alan Goodman contemplate an affair in "The Long Weekend "at Pigs Do Fly Productions / Photos by Carol Kassie
The gloves come off in "The Long Weekend" at Pigs Do Fly
Posted on November 15, 2024 by Bill Hirschman
By Britin Haller
What happens when one unhappily married couple invites another unhappily married couple to spend a holiday weekend with them in their country home...
Alan Goodman as Roger
... And last, but certainly not least, as the crowd favorite who gets the best lines, Alan Goodman is Roger, the lovable curmudgeon. Roger was a math teacher, but is now a wannabe screenwriter who once had writer’s block for three months just looking for the right word.
Alan Goodman is a former network TV executive who, to our delight, has returned to the world of acting after a long pause. Please don’t ever leave us again...
Britin Haller is a mystery author and an editor for Turner Publishing. Her latest short story “So Many Shores in Crookland” can be read in the 150th issue of Black Cat Weekly. Britin’s latest edit, a cozy mystery novel called Dumpster Dying is by Michelle Bennington and available where books are sold. Find Britin across social media.
Celine Hakoun and Alan Goodman argue about who should take possession of the French apartment in Israel Horowitz’s "My Old Lady"
“Life is less terrible” with "My Old Lady" at West Boca Theatre
Posted on January 16, 2025 by Bill Hirschman
By Britin Haller
Rarely does a play come along where it can be said that each character has a clearly defined story arc. Such is not the case with My Old Lady, now playing at the West Boca Theatre Company. ..
Former MTV television executive Alan Goodman has been making quite a name for himself on the South Florida stage recently, and his portrayal of the son of a man who detested and ignored him his whole life may be the most pitiful and self-pitying role of Goodman’s career...
Goodman’s monologue about his parents is heartbreaking, and his back and forth with Chloé showcases a man who fights back when he feels wounded. “Did you hunt with your father? Because you seem to have the killing spirit,” he tells her during one exchange. At one point, Mathias speaks of an incident where he needed twenty stitches. After the show, Goodman relays to this critic that the thespian repeatedly rubs that place on his hand in order to feel the depths of Mathias’s pain. Now that’s method acting.
Britin Haller is a mystery author and an editor for Turner Publishing. Her recent short story “So Many Shores in Crookland” can be read in the 150th issue of Black Cat Weekly. Britin’s latest edit, a cozy mystery novel called Dumpster Dying is by Michelle Bennington and available where books are sold. Find Britin across social media.
Alan Goodman, Zoe Kanter, Larry Chidsey, and Linda Drozdow in "Are the Lights Still On In Paris."
A misguided love story set in Paris brings out laughs in family comedy at the Michael-Ann Russell Jewish Community Center
Posted on May 6, 2025 by Bill Hirschman
By Norman Glassman
Although the play begins in a serious, dramatic tone about a young woman Laura (played by actress Aletta Kemp) coming to Paris with her parents to complete treatments to battle cancer, the initial dramatic scenes with Laura and parents Paul (Alan Goodman) and Alicia (Stephanie Manner) turn quickly into comedy.
Alan Goodman especially shines in the play, portraying Paul as a humorous Walter Matthau type personality. Paul is a grouchy husband and father who is suspicious of Alcia, Louis and Laura’s intentions. Goodman’s behavior, mannerisms and plenty of one-line jokes alone makes the play both funny and memorable. Goodman sets the tone for humor with his complaints and fits of jealousy that add fodder for the other characters.
Lory Reyes and Alan Goodman try to talk their bride-to-be daughter out of the bathroom in Neil Simon's "Plaza Suite."
Plaza Suite May Be 60 Years Old, But It Hasn’t Lost Its Charm
Posted on July 21, 2025 by Bill Hirschman
By Aaron Krause
The production, running one more weekend through July 27, stars Alan Goodman and Lory Reyes. They play three very different couples who occupy the same suite at New York’s Plaza Hotel during the late 1960s.
While Act One leans into melancholy, the second act focuses on regret, seduction, and self-delusion.
A potential trap in portraying Kiplinger is turning him into a stereotypical Hollywood caricature.
But while Goodman is charming in the role, he also conveys the producer’s frustration with how his life has turned out. In fact, he shakes with regret at one point.
To his credit, we never sense that Goodman’s character is anything close to a misogynistic bully. The performer, clad in a red jacket, black shirt, and black pants, lends Kiplinger an aura of flamboyance, stylishness, and seduction without making the character cartoonish.
The Fantasticks is simple, but perfect at the Wick Theatre
Posted on October 21, 2025 by Bill Hirschman
By Britin Haller
... When The Fantasticks opened off-Broadway in 1960, no one would have guessed it would go on a run of 17,162 performances, earning it the title of the world’s longest running musical with an incredible record that is still standing...
Alan Goodman and Troy J. Stanley as the fathers.
... What The Fantasticks is about is debatable, but the Wick Theatre in Boca, under the direction of South Florida favorite Bruce Linser, offers their own perspective in a clever version sure to captivate even the harshest cynic.