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Fine Performances, Chilling & Resonating Script Return in Timekeepers
Dan Clancy’s The Timekeepers underscores we share more in common with each other than the differences that separate us. Two concentration camp prisoners – a Jew and a non-Jewish gay find discussing [pera helps them get through each day during an unimaginably horrific time.
“Art” Gets Hung at the West Boca
We wish we could give a good review to Art noat the West Boca Theatre Company, but the award-winning script doesn’t seem to work despite the cast’s efforts.
Storytelling In Zoetic’s Pillowman Filled With Chills, Horror And Laughter
Zoetic Stage’s The Pillowman lives up to this masterpiece’s amalgam of a terrifying nightmare and black comedy. It is built around a half-dozen disparate themes so fused together that it is impossible to say what, if any, overarching theme exists. And as horror-laden stories intensify, the audience is within seconds alternately chilled — and chuckling with laughter. And back again.
Theatre Lab Premieres Edgy, Fun What’s Best for the Children
Theatre Lab bravely chooses to dedicate itself to presenting new plays to South Florida audiences. Inherent in such a bold mission is the chance of an occasional misfire. Happily, this is not the case with their latest presentation, Idris Goodwin’s What’s Best for the Children.
Mid-Life Crisis’ Pied À Terre is “Not Your Usual Love Triangle”
Pied À Terre is billed as “Not your usual love triangle.” They can definitely say that again. Rated R for good reason, it’s chock with enough adult content it should come with a trigger warning,
Barefoot in rhe Park Still Resonates at PPTOPA
By Mariah Reed Neil Simon’s longest-running hit, Barefoot in the Park opened at the Biltmore Theatre on Broadway on October 23, 1963. It was only the second play Simon had ever written, yet it was nominated for four Tony Awards, …
NCP’s Little Montgomery Morphs From Cute Comedy To Exam of the Human Comedy
New City Players’ Little Montgomery starts as a satisfyingly cute summer chuckle of a comedy, but morphs into a deeper examination of human beings struggling awkwardly to cope with the word “family.”
City Theatre’s Constitution May Be Season’s Most Important Play
The contradictions of what we say the Constitution is, what we want it to be, and what it really is, what it really does are at the heart of one of the most timely and important pieces of theater to be produced in South Florida this past year — City Theatre’s What the Constitution Means to Me.
Bent’s Horrors Go Beyond Homicidal Homophobia; Asks What Would You Do If Targeted
Bent deserves honor for putting recognizable human beings amid Hitler’s decimation of homosexuals during the Holocaust – and re-reminding the public of this horror. But rising above the gender topicality of Sherman’s script in Empire Stage’s uneven, but ultimately scorching production are universal issues about the challenge of preserving yourself basic humanity in such times.
Playwright-Actor Deray Tells of Real Inner Struggle in Premiere of Educating Asher
Eytan Deray’s courageous world premiere Educating Asher at Empire Stage – courageous not only because it has been drawn from the marrow of his being as playwright, but courageous because he also performs it, unreined and uninhibitedly without any self-serving censorship.
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