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Students’ Cappies Review of High School Theater Fall 2024

The most recent reviews will be at the top of the page, but all of them from this fall-spring season will appear here all year, plus a few from the season before. If you have questions of this site, email …

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Riveting, Intense Jesus Hopped the A Train at African Center

A riveting South Florida professional production of the gripping play, Jesus Hopped the A Train, by the Marshall L. Davis Sr. African Heritage Cultural Arts Center — a moving, intense, and believable production of Stephen Adly Guirgis’s fierce drama. T

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Take a Ride on A Streetcar Named Desire With the New City Players

By Britin Haller Arguably one of the greatest dramatic plays in American theatrical history, and certainly of its time, A Streetcar Named Desire has rolled onto the Island City Stage with a bang. Timothy Mark Davis, the producing artistic director …

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Dolly Levi Struts Before The Parade Passes By At LPAC

Mention Dolly Levi and most people visualize Broadway legend Carol Channing who originated the icon or Barbra Streisand who brought the role to life in the film. Avid theatergoers may recall Pearl Bailey, Dorothy Lamour, Betty Grable, Mary Martin, Phyllis Diller, Bette Midler or even Ethel Merman. Now, Florida theatergoers can add to their list Angie Radosh.  

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Actor’s Playhouse presents Affecting rendition of Caroline, or Change

  By Mariah Reed Winner of six Tony Award nominations, Caroline, or Change was created by Tony Kushner, who won a Pulitzer Prize for his play Angels in America, and Jeanine Tesori, recipient of six Tony Award nominations and one of the most …

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Wick’s Fiddler Suffused With Joy, Sadness & Memorable Tevye

the Wick has been trying for 10 years to acquire the rights to stage Fiddler. Well, the time has finally arrived. But tickets may be hard to obtain; Fiddler on the Roof is an immensely popular show. A large, talented cast of performers, several of them recognizable faces from other South Florida theater productions, invests the Wick’s mounting with joy and sadness.

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Future Work Bows at Perlberg Festival at Dramaworks

By Bill Hirschman Over 24 years, from its time in a compact storefront theater, Palm Beach Dramaworks has always produced a mix of classic titles, more modern works and a handful of debuts. But next month’s Perlberg Festival of New …

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Clyde’s launches Zoetic Stage’s 14th season

By Oline H. Cogdill A sandwich is more than ingredients between two slices of bread at Clyde’s, the truck stop diner that is the setting and title of Lynn Nottage’s deliciously insightful play now receiving a superb production at Zoetic …

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Slow Burn’s Practically Perfectly Delightful Mary Poppins

Of course, Mary Poppins does fly in Slow Burn Theatre Company’s glorious production at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts. As the song goes, this Mary Poppins is “Practically Perfect,”

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Complex Modern Relationships X-rayed In Island City’s “I Wanna F%&ing Tear You Apart”

The strength and vulnerability of non-sexual but emotionally intimate friendships are not focuses in 20th Century theater. But in works written by a new generation of playwrights, these relationships are increasingly in the spotlight. Such is I Wanna Fucking Tear You Apart, a dive into the deterioration  of the bond of two would-be writers.

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