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My Take On: More NYC Reviews From Nunzio Michael Lupo

My Take On:: Short reviews from New York shows by our critic Nunzio Michael Lupo, Today: Every Brilliant Thing, Meat Suit, Zack and Krammer/Fauci,

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My Take On: Our NYC Critic On Two Strangers, Data, High Spirits and Chess

A new feature “My Take On:: Short reviews of New York shows by Nunzio Michael Lupo, veteran journalist and an insightful appraiser of the arts. These pieces were first posted on his page at https://www.show-score.com/member/mrstrategery.  This edition: Chess, Data, High Spirits and Two Strangers

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Pompano Players’ Beehive Satisfies As Musical Journey

A sextet of talented performers energetically presents Beehive: The Original 60s Musical. presented by Pompano Players, a jukebox revue capturing the “Swinging Sixties” from the innocence and playfulness early on to the cultural unrest, female empowerment, and activism.

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Greed, Extreme Ambition, Pure Hatred Combine In The Little Foxes

The trifecta of toxicity—greed, extreme ambition and pure hatred—combines in a sophisticated plot in Lillian Hellman’s classic drama The Little Foxes, receiving a stunning production through Feb. 1 at Island City Stage.

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Seatbelts Advised For Theatre Lab’s Roller Coaster Ride in The City in the City in the City

Theater Lab ‘s world premiere of Matthew Capodicasa’s kaleidoscopic, fantastical The City in the City in the City is a roller coaster ride, full of twists, turns, blind corners and about-faces. To keep up you’ll have to glue your eyes to the stage for a gripping 100 minutes.

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Esteemed Theater-Film Critic Hap Erstein Died Saturday

The theater community, our community as a whole has lost a force who helped forge all of them for decades. Hap Erstein, 74, died Saturday at an Aventura hospital where he had been since Monday when he collapsed in a movie theater where he had gone to do a review.

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Truth Does Not Stop In Actors’ Playhouse’s The Girl on the Train

Actors’ Playhouse’s thrilling theater version of The Girl on the Train — bringing voyeurism to a new level — has a history, .

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South Florida Cappies Lists All Nominees

The Florida Cappies Inc. have announced the nominees from 28 Broward and Palm Beach schools recognition excellence Tuesday, May 20 at 7 p.m. in the Au-Rene Theater at the4 Broward Center for the Performing Arts.\.

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A Sweet Slice of Theater: “Waitress” at Actors’ Playhouse

By Mariah Reed Waitress follows the story of Jenna, a talented pie maker working in a small-town diner who is trapped in an unhappy marriage. Haunted by her mother’s legacy of hardship, she finds refuge in baking, pouring her emotions into imaginative, …

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Respect: A Musical Journey of Women at Pompano Beach Cultural Center

  By Jan Sjostrom   Respect: A Musical Journey of Women mixes potholes with well-maintained pavement. A checklist from a recent road test of the Pompano Players’ production at the Pompano Beach Cultural Center might read like this: A truck-load …

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