Reviews

Dramaworks Takes Us To The Mountaintop With Dr. King

 Death, race and dreams intersect in Palm Beach Dramaworks’ stirring, powerful The Mountaintop. This profound drama leavened with a bit of humor imagines the night Martin Luther King Jr. spent in the Lorraine Motel where he was assassinated the next evening.

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Just In Time: Little Shop of Horrors at Riverside Theatre

Just in time for Halloween, Riverside Theatre’s production of Little Shop of Horrors in Vero Beach is a treat.

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Vivid Life Of Pi Captures Imagination At Broward Center

There are moments in Life of Pi during which the realistically-looking, ferocious-sounding, life-sized Bengal tiger may prompt audience members to grab their arm rests or companions or gasp in this play about a teenager and a tiger adrift in the ocean. Superb stagecraft, superior production values envelop the audience

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‘Lizzie’ (Borden) , A Killer Musical, At Thinking Cap Theatre

Thinking Cap Theatre presents Lizzie, a gothic rock musical based on the infamous 1892 double homicide This edgy production reimagines Lizzie Borden, Told through dreamlike projections, sensual choreography, and a blistering punk-rock score, the show immerses us in the pressure cooker of secrets, repression, and rage that leads to bloodshed—and Lizzie’s haunting acquittal.

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The Fantasticks is Simple, but Perfect at the Wick Theatre

The nearly indestructible The Fantasticks gets a run at The Wick Theatre with its own perspective in a clever version sure to captivate even the harshest cynic.

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Deathtrap Is Old Reliable From New ‘Upstage Productions’

The brand new Upstage Productions mounts the old reliable comedy-thriller Deathtrap doing an admirable job entertaining although there are shortcomings.

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Lively ‘Catch Me If You Can’ Kicks Off Slow Burn’s Season

Slow Burn Theatre Co. soars into its 16th season with a lively production of the musical Catch Me If You Can, a highly entertaining production that benefits from its young cast enhanced by South Florida veteran actors and on point choreography of Cat Pagano.

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Wonderettes Entertain With Blasts From The Past

If you dream of reliving your high school prom, Pompano Players can help you approximate the experience. The new theater company invites audiences to attend the Springfield High School Class of 1958 prom — the setting for the 1999 jukebox musical The Marvellous Wonderettes, by Roger Bean.

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GableStage’s Penetrating Harry Clarke Asks Us Who We Are

The answer to the question posed by the title character of who is “Harry Clarke?” is to us, of course, who are we individuals in the audience.  With considerable humor, banked anger and penetrating insight, the powerful 80-minute monologue Harry Clark at GableStage depicts how we choose and craft an identity separate from whatever is our true inner self.

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The Spitfire Grill Is Rewarding Evening Of Joy And Hope

Profound joy, infectious joy, genuine joy emerging out of prosaic life, out of darkness, out of life-scraped people, that joy in musical theater is rare and precious. Arguably nowhere can audiences mesh with the expert evocation of joy and hope than in Actors’ Playhouse’s glorious The Spitfire Grill.

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