Monthly Archives: October 2013
Stage Door’s Sophisticated Ladies Revels In Stylishness
Broward Stage Door’s Sophisticated Ladies resurrects a vibrant echo of that class and panache in their entertaining revue of Duke Ellington’s music. If the show doesn’t quite sizzle and snap, talented singer-dancers suffuse the production with the sultry, sassy verve that defined floor shows in uptown clubs in the 1930s and ’40s.
The D*Word From Creator Of Menopause The Musical Tries To Mine Similar Vein Of Sisterhood
The D*Word is a mélange of a Lifetime movie, Harlequin romance, Mamma Mia and the racy banter of Sex in the City. But if you can ignore feeling drowned with maxims from self-help books, the darn thing succeeds in its goal of being a pleasant, diverting girls’ night out with its share of chuckles and that feeling that someone knows exactly how you feel.
New Theatre Postpones “My First” A Week; Four Openings This Week; Six Next Week
New Theatre is postponing opening night one week for its world premiere of Megan Breen’s My First, My Fist, My Bleeding Seeded Spirit, moving from Nov. 8 to Nov. 15.
24-Hour Theatre Project Gets “Plenty Scary” For Halloween
Time is not always kind to continuing enterprises like The Naked Stage’s annual fundraiser The 24-Hour Theatre Project. But the seventh edition on Monday proved once again to be stronger and more consistent than each previous year while preserving its ambiance of camaraderie amid the chaos.
Homophobia and Anti-Semitism Clash In Island City Stage’s Triumphant The Timekeepers
Director Michael Leeds and stars Michael McKeever and Mike Westrich triumph in Island City Stage’s production of The Timekeepers by mostly navigating quietly and gingerly through the halting lessons in human connection that Fort Lauderdale playwright Dan Clancy has sketched for them
Maltz Jupiter Theatre’s Major Makeover Marks Next Stage
When the finished $2.5 million project is unveiled at an open house Monday, the transmogrified Maltz Jupiter Theatre will serve as a valediction and validation of its decade growing from Burt Reynolds’ local dinner theater into one of the premier producing houses in the state.
National Arts Institute Signs Lease To Re-Open Royal Poinciana Playhouse
The Royal Poinciana Playhouse may yet rise again as a professional regional theater. A non-profit group known for its youth programs signed a long-term lease with the property’s landlord, according to the group’s producing artistic director.
20 Honored With Silver Palm Awards For Theater Excellence
Twenty of the most respected and beloved figures who have built South Florida theater — from impresario Jan McArt to critic/arts journalist Christine Dolen — have been selected to receive the regions Silver Palm Award later this year.
August Wilson’s Fences Is Moving But Not Volcanic Edition
The power of storytelling – swapping tales on the porch or watching a familial drama unfold on stage – is the keystone of AAPACT’s production of August Wilson’s Fences. The earnest edition noticeably lacks the Shakespearean power of other productions, but the accretion of calamities grows through its second act until the audience is moved by the tragedy.
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