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  • Glimpse of Billie Holiday: ‘Emerson’s Bar & Grill’ at Gulfshore Playhouse

    Life was not kind to Billie Holiday, but she persevered, channeling her pain into her singing. Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill at Gulfshore Playhouse puts her in her element: onstage at a small South Philadelphia club just months before her death.

  • South Pacific is Enchanting at the Lauderhill Performing Arts

    Looking for somewhere to spend an enchanting afternoon or evening? Then look no further than South Pacific, now playing at the Lauderhill Performing Arts Center. With an almost perfect production, this classic Rodgers & Hammerstein musical is guaranteed to put several smiles on your face

  • Two Sides to Every Story in Pigs Do Fly’s Painting Churches

    The Church family does not put the fun in dysfunctional. This bothersome trio play out their convoluted story from the comfort of their living room in Pigs Do Fly Productions’ play, Painting Churches.

  • South Florida Cappies Lists All Nominees

    The Florida Cappies Inc. have announced the nominees from 28 Broward and Palm Beach schools recognition excellence Tuesday, May 20 at 7 p.m. in the Au-Rene Theater at the4 Broward Center for the Performing Arts.\.

  • M Ensemble’s Revival Knock Me A Kiss Is Present Day Look at People in Harlem Renaissance

    M Ensemble’s current revival of Knock Me A Kiss that it mounted in 2014 has different echoes in 2025.

  • A Century Later the Issues Remain in Dramaworks’ Camping With Henry and Tom

    Thirty years ago, Mark St. Germain wrote a play Camping With Henry and Tom fictionalizing an actual meeting among Ford, Edison and President Harding. Given the politics, religion, racism, civic responsibility, and technology issues set in 1921, then the production at Palm Beach Dramaworks this month, he might have written it last week.

  • Comic ‘Fat Ham’ Echoes Hamlet Thru African-American Prism

    Fat Ham, which tells of a young gay man at his Black family’s contentious backyard barbeque, is basically a huge grin. The fact that the ingenious plot intentionally echoes Hamlet does not cover up that this is simply a fun farce.

  • ‘Sylvia’ is a Bad Dog From Curtain Call Playhouse at the Willow

    If all of us liked the same things, it would be a truly dull world, but occasionally, like in Sylvia produced by Curtain Call Playhouse playing at the Willow Theatre, you have to wonder what a playwright was thinking when they took pen to paper.

  • Beliefs and Responsibility Grapple In Miami New Drama’s World Premiere Birthright

    How do deeply held beliefs – religious, social, moral — guide us, persist, deteriorate or see us mutate as time and events challenge their truth and erode the bond among those raised on them. Birthright at Miami New Drama is an overwhelming, dense, heroically ambitious study of young people defining their identity and grappling how it copes with the modern world.

  • Dealing With Crippling Grief Is At Center of Theatre Lab’s The Impossible Task of Today

    For some, grief is a long haul, the raw pangs never subsiding, but thriving, almost dictating a person’s daily actions even years later. At least that’s the way it is for Jack Jordan, the center of the emotionally gripping The Impossible Task of Today, a world premiere making its debut as part of Theatre Lab’s annual Owl New Play Festival.