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  • Poignant and Powerful, All the Natalie Portmans Addresses Resilience in the Face of Tragedy

    How do you deal with a deeply troubled family? You retreat into a rich fantasy life where famous white actresses befriend you and dreams lull you into something approaching hope. All the Natalie Portmans from Thinking Cap Theatre, depicts a poor, black family trying to survive a crushing lack of resources, opportunities, and advantages.

  • When It All Goes So Wonderfully Wrong: Noises Off at Gulfshore

    You feel perturbed when things go wrong in real life, but it’s such delicious fun when it happens onstage. And Noises Off at Gulfshore Playhouse is filled with missed cues, forgotten and disappearing props, dropped lines, ad libs, costume failures and characters entering at the wrong time.

  • Not Quite Like Any Fiddler On The Roof You’ve Seen Before

    No, Zoetic Stage’s production is not yet another Fiddler on the Roof. This re-imagined production infused with joy has imagination, power, vitality and a freshness that gifts you as if you’re almost seeing it for the first time. Yet, the spirit, the messages of the original classic remain intact, even underscored.

  • “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.

  • Legally Blonde The Musical Bends and Snaps at LPAC

    The jury is in, the gavel has come down, and Legally Blonde The Musical, now playing at the Lauderhill Performing Arts Center, is guilty, your honor. Guilty of being funny, silly, entertaining, and touching that is, so go see it.

  • Riverside Theatre’s Glorious Cause For Singin’ in the Rain

    The ‘glorious feeling’ is hard to escape, even after final bows, for Riverside Theatre’s production of Singin’ in the Rain. ‘Having fun’ is what’s at the crux of the film. Riverside director Richard Stafford and the superb cast, captures this seamlessly more than 70 years later.

  • ‘Confessions Of A Retired Witch’ Bows With D’Jamin Bartlett

    Confessions Of A Retired Witch hit the ground running in a short run through this weekend at The Studio at Mizner Park written by and featuring experienced theater hands D’Jamin Bartlett and Mark Bornfield.

  • Comedy Tonight In Wilton Manors, But Bring A Blanket

    POW! in the Park’s inaugural production of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum this month is the culmination of the company’s dream to produce free outdoor theater in Wilton Manors’ Mickel Park.

  • Dynamic All My Sons Charts Domestic Descent Into Tragedy

    What New City Players’ ensemble achieves in its dynamic production of Arthur Miller’s classic All My Sons is making totally believable the slow descent from the warmth of family gatherings to explosions of pessimistic rage and sorrow, The Kellers harbor a secret rooted in the abandonment of taking responsibility for their actions as a web of lies infects hope for the future.

  • Maltz’s Lehman Trilogy Depicts Generations Who See Selves As “Merchants of Money”

    The Lehman Trilogy is the journey of a country pursuing a Dream viewed through the prism of financial acquisition, following generations of an immigrant family rising to economic triumph – and then tragedy. The Maltz Jupiter Theatre’s production nimbly delivers the personal and social complexities examined in one of this country’s most challenging dramas in recent years.