Performances

Heart and Humor Melt Pompano Players’ Steel Magnolias

Pompano Players’ Steel Magnolias captures all the heart and humor that made this story a classic with a strong ensemble, deft direction, and performances that spark both hearty laughter and heartfelt tears.

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Zoetic Stage’s The Mother Is Psychological Dark Comedy

Zoetic Stage’s season has opened with a tantalizing, psychological, playful dark comedy that has the audience second-guessing, laughing, and gasping in surprise. The Mother is described by the playwright as a black farce.

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Theatrical Artistry Catapults Maltz’s Breathtaking Misery

The acting is fine and the direction brilliant in Maltz Jupiter Theatre’s recreation of Stephen King’s classic Misery, but what ultimately catapults this stage version to a breathtaking production is the remarkable cohesion of its design team.

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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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