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  • ON THE WHEELS OF A DREAM: PART THREE

    On The Wheels of a Dream: Part Three:  Actually putting bodies on the stage may be the most formidable issue. Starting just with pure numbers, interviewees disagreed whether there are plenty of actors, or a dearth of actors, or a shortfall in talented actors, or a shortage of experienced actors. And each might be correct within limits.

  • ON THE WHEELS OF A DREAM: PART TWO

    On the Wheels of a Dream: Part Two: The future of theater over the next three seasons will continue to be the result of the fragile juggling of balancing artistic vision and balance sheets,But part of the troubled aspect of the “artistic” equation is operating, administrative and production costs have risen steadily in recent years,

  • Dramaworks, Theatre Lab & Gulfshore Explore Work You’ve Never Seen

    Area theater-goers are about to encounter a wide spectrum of new theatrical work as three South Florida festivals present plays in the early stages of development.
    The region’s unofficial new play festival season kicks off with Palm Beach Dramaworks’ Perlberg Festival, Gulfshore Playhouse Next Wave Festival, Theatre Lab’s annual Owl New Play Festival.

  • ON THE WHEELS OF A DREAM: PART ONE

    On the Wheels of a Dream: Part One of an in-depth three-part series about the future of Florida theater. As the curtain cautiously rises again this year in South Florida, profound questions are dogging about what the next three seasons will provide as local theaters grapple with rising costs, a mercurial talent pool, fluctuating funding and deciding how far to nudge the edge of the envelope.

  • Report From New York: Re-Re-Re-Revamped Chess For Existing Fans Of The Score

    The new, improved Broadway musical Chess — based on the procession of earlier edtiond — is indeed new and improved. Whether that’s enough to get you to buy a ticket to the run at the Imperial Theatre is solely a question of personal affection for the score.

  • Report From New York: Superb Ragtime — Make Them Hear You

    In the superbly created heightened reality of the newest Broadway edition of Ragtime, not only are you inhabited by the seduction but you look around at the 1,000-plus compatriots in the auditorium and feel they are too. The themes and message painfully are even more resonating 28 years after its premiere,

  • New Tour of Les Miz at Broward Center Reassures You That Goodness Still Exists

    The newly-reimagined national E
    quity tour of Les Misérables at the Broward Center is alternately spectacle and moving theater. Even after multiple viewings, this beloved mega-musical reassures us anew that in a world full of pain and evil, goodness exists.

  • Pigs Do Fly Closing On Work Focused On’Over 50′ Plays

    Ellen Wacher is closing her Pigs Do Fly troupe which has produced plays for nine years focusing on characters and topics depicting people over 50 years old.

  • Theatre Lab Moves Next Season To A Real Theater Space At FAU

    When Theatre Lab moved into its space at Florida Atlantic University in 2015, the backstage of their new home for the next decade was a former red mango frozen yogurt shop in a dormitory.
    Next season, it will move to a true theater a few hundred yards away, complete with real rehearsal space and the luxury of actual dressing rooms that actually have private bathrooms and showers.

  • Slow Burn’s Frozen Enthralls, Clicking All The Boxes

    Slow Burn Theatre Company’s high standards for assembling top-notch talented cast glow red-hot in its enthralling presentation  of Disney’s Frozen, clicks all the boxes with superb singing and acting, sharp dancing choreographed by Cat Pagano, excellent stage craft including lighting, set design and projections and magnificent costumes.