Monthly Archives: May 2012
The Lion King Will Roar Again Tonight At The Arsht
Cleanup of the watery aftermath of a burst pipe joint will continue at the Arsht Center for the Performing Arts this week, but it is not expected to interfere with the next performance of The Lion King road show on Tuesday, an Arsht spokesman said.About 2,300 patrons were evacuated Sunday just after the start of the second act when heavy rain burst open the join of two pipes that carry water from the roof through a drainage system, the spokesman said.
Report From New York City: Nice Is Exactly the Word for “Nice Work If You Can Get It”
Charm, in fact, does go a long, long way, especially when it’s partnered with large dollops of professional polish. A classic example is this classic production of this faux classic musical Nice Work If You Can Get It with Gershwin tunes, the winsome couple Kelli O’ Hara and Matthew Broderick, and helmed by Kathleen Marshall.
New Theatre’s New Season: Two Premieres & Two Edgier Shows But No Shakespeare For Now
New Theatre, which weathered eviction from its Coral Gables home late last year, has announced two world premieres and a late night program as part of its upcoming season at its new home at the Roxy Performing Arts Center. But none is likely to be a work by Shakespeare because of the economic burden of the Bard’s large casts, said Managing Director Eileen Suarez.
Love Burns Is Off Beat Comedy About Modern Relationships
Seeing life through the prism of offbeat characters such as the oddballs populating the absurdist comedy Love Burns sometimes helps us perceive the modern world more clearly than any naturalistic drama.The two daffy playlets produced by Thinking Cap Theatre are bitingly funny and sharply critical in their depiction of what passes for romance among twenty-somethings in the 21st Century. We’re laughing at them, but we’re also a little worried at the characters’ shallow definition of love.
See One Man, Two Guv’nors Without Leaving Florida
Floridians can see London/Broadway shows (kind of) without paying for a plane ticket. A film of the original London incarnation of the current New York comedy hit, One Man, Two Guv’nors is playing at 1 p.m. May 19 and 20 at the Coral Gables Art Cinema, 260 Aragon Avenue.
Report From New York: Visit “Other Desert Cities”
Playwright Jon Robin Baitz’s Other Desert Cities takes that staple, the dysfunctional family drama, and amps up the thematic value by linking the group’s shortcomings to the social-political landscape of the past few decades. With a scientist’s observation and a cleric’s compassion, Baitz dissects the same elements of ethics, truth, family and loyalty as Arthur Miller did in All My Sons.
StageBill Blog: It’s Not All Darkness Out There
As the music swelled Monday at Outré Theatre Company’s concert production of tick…tick…BOOM!, a thought kept interfering with my becoming completely lost in Jonathan Larson’s chamber musical. There’s hope.
Take A Ride In Wry & Rueful Becky’s New Car At Playhouse
Steven Dietz’s insightful script, David Arisco’s assured direction and a deceptively deft cast led by the ever-engaging Laura Turnbull deliver a thoroughly entertaining comedy in Becky’s New Car at Actors Playhouse that will give your mind something substantial to mull over long after the house lights come on.
Actors Playhouse Fills Inside Straight With Parenting Musical
Rated P for Parenthood, an Off-Broadway musical comedy revue, will close out the 2012-2013 mainstage season at Actors’ Playhouse in Coral Gables July 10 – August 11, 2013. The theater described the 90-minute show in which a quartet of performers …
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