Ray Hollister

1 week ago | jaxplays.org | Ray Hollister

The 5 & Dime’s, The Baltimore Waltz opens with Kristen Walsh as Anna, an elementary school teacher blindsided by a devastating diagnosis that she is terminally ill. Instead of resignation, Anna decides she will seize every pleasure Europe has to offer. Her plan is to embrace life in the most hedonistic way possible, abandoning her old rules and letting desire set the itinerary.

2 weeks ago | jaxplays.org | Ray Hollister

In the dim, cluttered recesses of a Chicago junk shop, three men circle a scheme like wolves around a carcass. There’s the shop’s owner, Donny Dubrow, trying to stay one step ahead of poverty and moral compromise. His young protégé, Bobby, skittish and uncertain, wants to prove his worth. And then there’s Teach, a walking powder keg with a leather jacket and a mean streak, who sees every slight as an excuse to seize power. This is American Buffalo, David Mamet’s 1975 pressure cooker of a play.

2 weeks ago | jaxtoday.org | Ray Hollister

June 2, 2025Huge plume of Saharan dust is headed toward FloridaThe dust layer suppresses tropical cyclones, but it can cause health concerns among some people.…A closeup image of a Thor Guard Lightning Prediction System shows the multiple horns mounted under its rim.

2 weeks ago | jaxplays.org | Ray Hollister

ABET - All Beaches Experimental Theatre’s The Fantasticks takes on one of musical theater’s most curious relics — a minimalist fable of young love and life lessons that has charmed audiences for decades. Whether its particular blend of whimsy and earnestness holds up for modern viewers is debatable, but ABET’s production finds genuine moments of charm amid the show’s quirks.

3 weeks ago | jaxplays.org | Ray Hollister

Desperate Measures is a sly and spirited musical adaptation of Measure for Measure, Shakespeare’s morally knotty comedy about justice, mercy and the abuse of power. Rather than Elizabethan Vienna, the action here unfolds in the Arizona Territory during the late 1800s, where saloons and six-shooters replace dukes and friars.