Monthly Archives: March 2011
Critic’s Choice
It’s a very quiet week for openings, although the schedule starts filling up once again after April 1. But one major bow is promising: The Maltz Jupiter Theatre closes its regular snowbird season by investing its customary lush production values …
Learning the craft
Alex Lacamoire, a 1992 New World School of the Arts grad and the Tony Award winner for orchestrations for’In The Heights, is offering a master class in the career theater business for high school and college students at 1 p.m. …
A Wicked cure for high ticket prices
Can’t afford the $154 orchestra seat ticket to the musical’Wicked playing March 30 to April 24 in Fort Lauderdale?. A limited number of tickets will be sold for $25 each in a lottery before each performance at Broward Center for …
Deadly exposition, uneven cast prove toxic in Curie drama
When you’re a playwright like Shirley Lauro, fascinated by the passionate and flawed human beings under the veneer of textbook history, your enemy is exposition ‘ essential but bloodless information that threatens to clog up the works like hairballs in …
“Addams Family,” “Shrek” and “Lion King” among the Broadway shows next season at Arsht Center
A mildly creepy family will move into Miami just before Halloween this year, that bizarre collection of seeming refugees from a television series and more recent comic horror movie known as The Addams Family. The oddball musical of the same …
“Billy Elliot,” “Beauty and the Beast” coming to Broward Center next season
It took more than two years, but one of Broadway’s biggest hits,’Billy Elliot, is coming to South Florida as the headlining slot in the Broadway Across America-Fort Lauderdale’s tour schedule for 2011-2012. The uplifting musical about a working-class English boy …
The restless and passionate Angelica Torn looks forward to creating a new Madame Curie
Fascinated by what’s below the surface, hard-working, passionate, simultaneously guarded and vulnerable. Actress Angelica Torn is describing the scientific icon Marie Curie who she will play in the world premiere of Shirley Lauro’s play, The Radiant, at New Theatre this …
Cirque Dreams brings Broadway and the circus to Broward Center
Fusing circus acts and show tunes, Thursday’s one-night-only world premiere of Cirque Dreams Broadway is both a tailor-made celebration of the Broward Center for the Performing Arts’ 20th anniversary and a very expensive backers’ audition. For two hours, acrobats, aerialists …
Hilarious “Brothers Beckett” is an “Odd Couple” for Generation Z
Brothers Beckett is a scruffy teddy bear of a play about twenty-somethings struggling to find something satisfyingly real and emotionally sustaining in a cold world. It’s also nearly as funny as anything South Florida has produced this season. The world …
Critic’s Choice
Something old and something new graces local stages this week. With the world premiere of Beckett Brothers, David Michael Sirois affirms his place among the burgeoning ranks of Florida playwrights that encompass Nilo Cruz, Michael McKeever, David Caudle, Marco Ramirez …
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