Performances

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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Joni Mitchell-Leonard Cohen Revue Freshly Re-Covers Precious Music Of Decades Ago

The magic of Both Sides Now: The Music and Lives of Joni Mitchell and Leonard Cohen is that of a time machine. It instantly regenerates feelings and visions a half-century old as if they are happening here for the first time.

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Once Again, Broadway’s Fifth Our Town Remains A Worthy Tale Despite Time And Place

As the newest New York production of Our Town proves — yet again over 86 years –this work is a reliable property whether it’s being done by this Broadway cast led by Jim Parsons or by your kid’s high school drama class.  Its appeal t lies in a title still resonant in the public consciousness; in its accessible universal theme; in its many easy-to portray and distinct characterizations.

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End of a Trilogy, Or Is It? New City Players’ The Last Christmas

New City Players; premiere The Last Christmas by Tyler Johnson Grimes is the supposed final installment in a trilogy of annual holiday comedies revolving around radio station WNCP in Fort Lauderdale. It’s Christmas Eve, 1999, and a little thing by the name of Y2K is on everyone’s mind, but before the employees have to worry about that, they must make it through this night first.

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Once is Not Enough In ‘Once’ At The Maltz Jupiter Theatre

People come into our lives for a reason, a season, or a lifetime. Just ask the characters in Once – A Musical who would no doubt agree. At the Maltz Jupiter Theatre, Once tells the story of two young people who meet-cute and quickly add value to each other’s lives. But what happens then?

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Black Santa:  A Timely And Thoughtful Start To The Season

City Theatre’s Black Santa peels the shiny veneer off the holiday season with its clever examination of unconscious racial bias present in America’s cultural traditions

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