Performances
Powerful Performances, Direction Make New City’s ‘Raisin In The Sun’ A Must See
Attention to detail in each element of New City Players’ Raisin in the Sun makes it truly spectacular on every level, and that especially goes for the directing and the acting.
Fresh Look At Fiddler Ditches Some Traditions, Keeps Others
There’s the tradition of Fiddler on the Roof, and then there’s the tradition of the musical itself. It’s a difficult task, this dual tradition of Fiddler on the Roof to carry it through in yet another revival of the now 55-year-old musical from Broadway Across America at the Broward Center. But Bartlett Sher’s new vision mostly succeeds.
Warm, Witty & Very Interactive: Every Brilliant Thing… Well..Is
The premise of Every Brilliant Thing might fool you into thinking that it’s kin to a “very special” Lifetime Movie of the Week: a boy tries to ease the pain of his suicidal mother and his own anxiety by making a list of “brilliant” things and leaving them for his mother to find. But themes hide just under the wry and warm exterior: highlighting aspects of life that can be beautiful and sustaining, as well as the damage that depression can wreak on an entire family.
Blonde Poison: Rationalization Of Evil Seen From The Inside
Blonde Poison asks whether a Jewish woman who identified about 3,000 other Jews to the Gestapo for “deportation,” is “villain or victim?” But playwright Gail Louw, Primal Forces director Keith Garsson and a tour de force performance by Lourelene Snedeker tell the story from inside the protagonist’s mind.
Love Among The Seniors: The Last Romance At Riverside
Riverside Theatre serves up the sentimentality with a ladle in its production of The Last Romance. The play concerns a trio of senior citizens struggling with loneliness, delving into the human condition of growing old.
A Tight Family’s Tragic Past Is Key In Meet Me At The Oak
The dominating vision of The Tree and its dark violent past is a theatrical masterstroke from writer-director Layon Gray that opens a stirring Meet Me At The Oak, posting yet another strong offering for a revitalized M Ensemble.
Theatre Lab’s ‘Silent’ Articulates Questions About Integrity
Although We Will Not Be Silent is suffused with a long dorm night’s worth of philosophical and moral gymnastics, playwright David Meyers and Theatre Lab inject the audience so deeply into such an almost tactile dilemma on stage that we must at least ask ourselves crucial questions about courage, conviction and integrity.
Jekyll & Hyde May Split Theater Lovers But Will Please Fans
Frank Wildhorn’s Jekyll & Hyde is one of those Continental Divides in musical theater: You either love it – or tolerate it. But if you’re going to perform a work by the pioneering prince of the pop power ballad, you have to go all in, and Slow Burn has done just that.
Fascinating But Flawed Fake Makes Promising Debut
Passions erupt as art, commerce and international politics collide and conflict in the world premiere of Carmen Pelaez’s intriguing Fake at Miami New Drama. This play centering on a possible forged masterpiece about to be auctioned needs a good deal of additional work, but its promise gleams and begs for further productions.
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