Flamingo Gardens (specifically the 10 acres when you enter) that’s normally closed at night is now open – and all lit up! This year, South Florida’s renowned botanical garden and wildl…
SOURCE: southfloridatheater.com at 06:36AMWhen it comes to that all-American artform of “the musical,” you can’t go wrong by visiting or revisiting a blockbuster show from its heyday of the 1940s and 1950s. So when one happens…
SOURCE: southfloridatheater.com at 02:32PMWhat happens when you get a group of our most talented local divas together in a musical that’s notorious for skewering the very genre that made their name? You get a mind-blowing explosio…
SOURCE: southfloridatheater.com at 07:30AMPuppet shows for adults, anyone? You bet! Just ask Broward Center for the Performing Arts whose Au-Rene Theater has been taken over by puppets of late. And not just any puppets – realistic…
SOURCE: southfloridatheater.com at 01:10PMWhen the producing artistic director of one of the premiere new play destinations in the country can’t get a new play he’d read years back out of his head – we can be assured it’s go…
SOURCE: southfloridatheater.com at 11:31AMFirst I must extend my deepest gratitude and admiration to Florida Atlantic University Department of Theatre and Dance and its generous donors (including presenting sponsors Florida-Israel I…
SOURCE: southfloridatheater.com at 01:46PMThe natural order of popular theater tends to follow this formula: Find a best-selling book, turn it into a hit film, then get a top lyricist and composer to create the score for a smash Bro…
SOURCE: southfloridatheater.com at 11:39AMAt Wednesday’s matinee, Kimberly Wick’s (production supervisor/costumes/properties manager) upbeat words of welcome to The Wick Theatre & Museum Club’s 12th Season confirmed their …
SOURCE: southfloridatheater.com at 06:18AMThey say “truth is stranger than fiction” but if the plot of CATCH ME IF YOU CAN: The Musical were a work of fiction, it would never fly. I’m also using “fly” here literally for th…
SOURCE: southfloridatheater.com at 11:37AMLeave it to New City Players (NCP) to find the perfect “new” (to South Florida audiences) play to open their milestone Tenth Anniversary Season. The ambitious young theater company, whic…
SOURCE: southfloridatheater.com at 05:10PMThere’s a reason why some stories become timeless classics. They tend to feature truths about the human condition that resonate anew for each generation. Pulitzer-prize-winning author Larr…
SOURCE: southfloridatheater.com at 08:05AMNothing beats seeing a brand-new show by a brand-new theater company where you haven’t a clue (really) about what to expect and are completely blown away! I was instantly, and repeatedly, …
SOURCE: southfloridatheater.com at 10:48AMWe’ve come a long way since wedding vows always featured an officiant pronouncing the ominous words: “Should anyone present know of any reason that this couple should not be joined in ho…
SOURCE: southfloridatheater.com at 01:45PMIf the name “Trotsky” barely rings a bell, blame Stalin. Trotsky was a major player in Russia’s 1905 Revolution, 1917’s October Revolution, and on, a lifelong agitator for permanent,…
SOURCE: southfloridatheater.com at 01:32PMWe can all use a little more Harvey Fierstein in our lives. The multi-Tony (and more) award-winning actor and playwright who many of us recognize from recent local productions of “La Cage …
SOURCE: southfloridatheater.com at 09:39AMIn June, I reviewed FAU’s Festival Rep’s delightful production of Neil Simon’s rarely produced 1988 couples farce, Rumors. And now, in July, I have the privilege of reviewing Pembroke …
SOURCE: southfloridatheater.com at 12:24PM“History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes” is a maxim I’ve been hearing far too often. We live in a world that’s blasting headfirst toward what many see as a sci-fi futur…
SOURCE: southfloridatheater.com at 12:32PMWhen America’s most recognized and awarded and prolific TV and theater comedy writer – I’m speaking, of course, of the incomparable four-Emmy and 14 Tony, plus Pulitzer Prize-winning g…
SOURCE: southfloridatheater.com at 12:26PMSometimes you just need to laugh. And laugh…and laugh. No matter how silly and, well, “corny” the humor. Even at puns, lots of puns – outrageously bawdy ones, at that. It was only a …
SOURCE: southfloridatheater.com at 07:33PMDon’t miss our stars Ta-Tynisa Wilson & award-winning locally & regionally in-demand actor Gabriell Salgado (Blue Bloods & She’ll Come Back) who makes for the sexiest, cool-headed & meti…
SOURCE: southfloridatheater.com at 11:14AMCarnivorous houseplants. Homicidal barbers. Psychotic wives and mothers. Miserable lives lived in figurative and literal Hell. Sometimes it feels like there’s no place too dark or outrageo…
SOURCE: southfloridatheater.com at 12:37PMCompromise your principles for the almighty dollar. Would you do it? How far would you go? What about the repercussions? … For yourself? Your family? Society at large? Nowadays, it feels l…
SOURCE: southfloridatheater.com at 12:49PMOnly in South Florida (I admit I’m biased) are we lucky enough to experience spectacular world premieres, see the best of Broadway and off-Broadway, and also get to enjoy many local-talent…
SOURCE: southfloridatheater.com at 05:50AMLeave it Ronnie Larsen, POW! (Plays of Wilton) founder and artistic director, actor, producer, playwright and, dare I say hyper-creative mad genius? for coming up with original, out-of-the-b…
SOURCE: southfloridatheater.com at 05:41PMWhy are women who are overcome by passionate, sexual love so often depicted as tragic heroines? At least best-selling ones like Tolstoy’s 19th century novel, “Anna Karenina,” written i…
SOURCE: southfloridatheater.com at 11:12AMSo what exactly is “dry powder”? Those involved in the world of finance would recognize its “dry” definition as cash-on-hand reserves held by private equity funds (companies not list…
SOURCE: southfloridatheater.com at 07:00AMTolstoy’s famous quote that “Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way” likely applies double to families of artists. Actually, both happy and unhapp…
SOURCE: southfloridatheater.com at 11:22AM“Some enchanted evening, when you find your true love…” For me that enchanted evening took place at the outdoor Jones Beach Theatre in Wantagh, NY. Many, many years ago, when I was 16.…
SOURCE: southfloridatheater.com at 08:31AMIf New York Times deputy editor of culture and lifestyle Melissa Kirsch finds herself suffering from “the blues” attributed to too many hours spent scrolling and watching digital screens…
SOURCE: southfloridatheater.com at 11:46AMSlow Burn Theatre Company continues its fabulous 15th Anniversary Season with a somewhat lesser-known but absolutely hilarious musical that, once experienced, makes any lover of the genre a …
SOURCE: southfloridatheater.com at 11:40AMI had no idea when I stepped into the Charlotte Burrie Center in Pompano Beach on Sunday to see SYLVIA by A. R. Gurney that I’d also be witnessing history. But I’m so glad I was there to…
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