1100 Miles off Broadway

Tampa Bay is 1100 miles from Broadway, and the local theatre there is alive and thriving in a place more famous for its sports teams than its greasepaint and curtain calls. The book 1100 MILES OFF BROADWAY features the theatre reviews of the past decade by Peter Nason, renowned drama teacher, actor, director, and the Tampa Bay area's critic for Broadway World.  In his theatrical critiques, Nason is notorious for being both fair and honest, tough and kind, serious and funny, with an...
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Tampa Bay is 1100 miles from Broadway, and the local theatre there is alive and thriving in a place more famous for its sports teams than its greasepaint and curtain calls. The book 1100 MILES OFF BROADWAY features the theatre reviews of the past decade by Peter Nason, renowned drama teacher, actor, director, and the Tampa Bay area's critic for Broadway World.  In his theatrical critiques, Nason is notorious for being both fair and honest, tough and kind, serious and funny, with an element of wit, wisdom and wackiness.  He wants you, the reader, to have the same enthusiasm as he had in watching and adoring many of the shows in question.Plays and musicals like WEST SIDE STORY, LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT, IN THE HEIGHTS, RENT, A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM, FUN HOME, THE NORMAL HEART, HAIRSPRAY, AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY, VAMPIRE LESBIANS OF SODOM, SWEENEY TODD, Disney's ,BEAUTY AND THE BEAST and the August Wilson Century Cycle are just some of the shows included, where Nason casts his eagle-eye on the good, the bad and the extremely bizarre.  In this collection, he has included more than150 shows that meant the most to him or the reviews that he believes resonate the most, whether the production was worthy or infamously wretched.  As Nason says, "Theatre criticism is an art form, and my goal has always been to tell you how I react to a particular show, what works and what does not, and why I feel the way I do.  I try to let kindness be my guide in every review.  And to tell the truth, always, but with only love in my heart."   1100 MILES OFF BROADWAY throws the Bay Area theatre scene into the spotlight where it belongs.