Performances

Report From New York: Re-Re-Re-Revamped Chess For Existing Fans Of The Score

The new, improved Broadway musical Chess — based on the procession of earlier edtiond — is indeed new and improved. Whether that’s enough to get you to buy a ticket to the run at the Imperial Theatre is solely a question of personal affection for the score.

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Report From New York: Superb Ragtime — Make Them Hear You

In the superbly created heightened reality of the newest Broadway edition of Ragtime, not only are you inhabited by the seduction but you look around at the 1,000-plus compatriots in the auditorium and feel they are too. The themes and message painfully are even more resonating 28 years after its premiere,

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New Tour of Les Miz at Broward Center Reassures You That Goodness Still Exists

The newly-reimagined national E
quity tour of Les Misérables at the Broward Center is alternately spectacle and moving theater. Even after multiple viewings, this beloved mega-musical reassures us anew that in a world full of pain and evil, goodness exists.

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Slow Burn’s Frozen Enthralls, Clicking All The Boxes

Slow Burn Theatre Company’s high standards for assembling top-notch talented cast glow red-hot in its enthralling presentation  of Disney’s Frozen, clicks all the boxes with superb singing and acting, sharp dancing choreographed by Cat Pagano, excellent stage craft including lighting, set design and projections and magnificent costumes.

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Uneven Difficult Production of The Seafarer at Dramaworks

Spending an evening with the Irish men at Palm Beach Dramaworks could try the patience of any sober audience member. On top of that, the show takes a long time to pick up steam and reveal the flashes of brilliance that might make the wait worthwhile.

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Report From New York: Oh Mary Thrives With Jane Krakowski

There is a difference having CIS actress Jane Krakowski play the lead that non-binary Cole Escola wrote and played in Oh, Mary. But this edition is easily one of the most hilarious evening this critic has seen in theater in years.

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A Christmas Carol: The Musical Delights Kids of All Ages

Coming in with a capital M for Merry is A Christmas Carol: The Musical now playing at the Wick Theatre in Boca Raton. Trust us when we say this recreation of the hit musical of Charles Dickens’ classic tale is the holiday event of the season.

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Blue Skies, Snow and Music Reign in Gulfshore Playhouse’s White Christmas

If the world’s been getting you down and you’re finding it difficult to get in the holiday mood, here’s your antidote: go see Gulfshore Playhouse’s production of White Christmas in Naples. You’ll feel so much better.

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Late Love In Life at West Boca Theatre’s The Last Romance

West Boca Theatre Company;s The Last Romance is a play that does exactly what it’s supposed to do; remind us that love can find us long after we’re sure that door has closed.

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Maltz’s Million Dollar Quartet Is “Great Balls of Fire” For Fans

Jukebox musicals are not this critic’s thing, but as they go, Million Dollar Quartet, now playing at the Maltz Jupiter Theatre,the opening night audience didn’t go away disappointed starring performers who have done their roles many times..

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