Reviews

Boca Stage’s Living on Love Is Lightweight But Full-Throttle Fun

Living on Love at Boca Stage aims for full-throttle fun. It has no truck with deeper meanings or intellectual stimulation.

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Mystic Pizza Offers A Slice of Fun at Riverside Theatre

Snowbirds from the northeast will find a slice of home in Riverside Theatre’s infectiously fun jukebox musical production of Mystic Pizza. But here’s any issue with any jukebox musical:. Nothing new is being told, not the story or the score.

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Maltz Jupiter’s Staged Frozen Musical Is Disney Turned To Gold

How superb is the Maltz Jupiter Theatre;s newest production? Just ask the opening night audience of Frozen the Broadway Musical, who were on their feet cheering well before Elsa and Anna sang the last note of the spectacular “Let It Go.”

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“Life is Less Terrible” With My Old Lady at West Boca Theatre

Rarely does a play come along where ieach character has a clearly defined story arc, or narrative path. Such is not the case with My Old Lady at West Boca Theatre Company, because when the figurative curtain comes down, all three individuals whose lives we’ve just been part of are markedly changed forever.

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Plucky Pompano Players Pleases With Herman’s Jerry’s Girls

One note-worthy addition in Pompano Beach’s evolution is the Pompano Players, a plucky new theater group offering Jerry’s Girls, a charming musical revue to tickle your funny bone and warm your heart.

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Walk the Walk Productions’ First Effort ‘From Brooklyn To Boca’ Is Struggling Comedy

From Brooklyn to Boca covers a lot of territory, geographically speaking. Not so much when it comes to the heavy-footed comedy making its world premiere at The Studio at Mizner Park in Boca Raton.

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POTUS Embraces Everything From Farce to Political Satire

Timing, of course, is a crucial element in comedy. But it doesn’t hurt that it occurs when the social-political world around you conveniently coincides as it dies in Zoetic Stage’s hysterical POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive.

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Anastasia is Gloriously More Entertaining Than Other Editions

By Oline Cogdill The myth that the Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna Romanova survived the Russian royal family’s execution by a group of Bolsheviks in 1918 has spawned numerous articles, books, movies, an animated film and the musical Anastasia, now enjoying …

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The Illusions of Theater Celebrated, Exposed in Dramaworks’ The Dresser

Illusions – those we create for others, those ones we create for ourselves, those we create for survival – are at the heart of Palm Beach Dramaworks’ laudatory yet merciless exposé The Dresser, a portrait swirling around the most illusory element of all: theater.

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Open a New Window in Handle With Care at West Boca Company

1.7 million packages a day get lost or stolen. If it’s your new hairdryer, it might not be so bad, but if the lost item is your dead relative’s body, that’s a completely different story. Such is the case in Jason Odell Williams’s Handle With Care romcom at the West Boca Theatre Company. 

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