Reviews
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 …
Poignant and Powerful, All the Natalie Portmans Addresses Resilience in the Face of Tragedy
How do you deal with a deeply troubled family? You retreat into a rich fantasy life where famous white actresses befriend you and dreams lull you into something approaching hope. All the Natalie Portmans from Thinking Cap Theatre, depicts a poor, black family trying to survive a crushing lack of resources, opportunities, and advantages.
When It All Goes So Wonderfully Wrong: Noises Off at Gulfshore
You feel perturbed when things go wrong in real life, but it’s such delicious fun when it happens onstage. And Noises Off at Gulfshore Playhouse is filled with missed cues, forgotten and disappearing props, dropped lines, ad libs, costume failures and characters entering at the wrong time.
Not Quite Like Any Fiddler On The Roof You’ve Seen Before
No, Zoetic Stage’s production is not yet another Fiddler on the Roof. This re-imagined production infused with joy has imagination, power, vitality and a freshness that gifts you as if you’re almost seeing it for the first time. Yet, the spirit, the messages of the original classic remain intact, even underscored.
“Art” Gets Hung at the West Boca
We wish we could give a good review to Art noat the West Boca Theatre Company, but the award-winning script doesn’t seem to work despite the cast’s efforts.
Legally Blonde The Musical Bends and Snaps at LPAC
The jury is in, the gavel has come down, and Legally Blonde The Musical, now playing at the Lauderhill Performing Arts Center, is guilty, your honor. Guilty of being funny, silly, entertaining, and touching that is, so go see it.
Riverside Theatre’s Glorious Cause For Singin’ in the Rain
The ‘glorious feeling’ is hard to escape, even after final bows, for Riverside Theatre’s production of Singin’ in the Rain. ‘Having fun’ is what’s at the crux of the film. Riverside director Richard Stafford and the superb cast, captures this seamlessly more than 70 years later.
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