Reviews
Holiday Spirit Litmus Test: The Grinch Returns To Broward
The tour of Dr. Seuss’ How The Grinch Stole Christmas is a reliable litmus test of just how deep into or disaffected you are with the holiday spirit.
This definitively children’s musical with a few sugar plum crumbs thrown to the adults in tow will likely increase the cheery level of those already in a cheery mood and do little to make merry those fighting the holiday blahs
Report From New York: Allegiance The Musical Could Have Been Far More Incisive
Allegiance, the story of a Japanese-American family rent apart by their internment in World War II, has the potential to be a great play. Unfortunately, it’s a musical.
Fledgling Marquee Theater’s Songs For a New World Bares The Souls Of Young Adults
Marquee Theater Company’s production of Jason Robert Brown’s Songs For A New World slices open the studied flat affect of the “Whatever” generation to expose inner lives as vibrant, complex and tumultuous as that of any group before them.
Kinky Boots Has Hot Star But Otherwise Not Much Of A Kick
The national tour of Kinky Boots was a well-polished evening of musical comedy with soulful ballads and glitzy production numbers, but this construction felt so manipulative, so by-the-numbers as if it, too, came off a factory production line.
Hard-Working Cast Can’t Save The Trial Of Ebenezer Scrooge
Actors Playhouse’s production of The Trial of Ebenezer Scrooge has a talented cast working hard under the direction of David Arisco, but good grief, what a waste of the resources of Mark Brown’s lame script. For one hours and forty minutes (including intermission), the audiences waits and waits for a single new riff in the Scrooge story, even a shred of logic explaining Brown’s basic premise.
Maltz’s Reimagined Billy Elliot Flies Like The Spirit Of Its Hero
The Maltz Jupiter Theatre has successfully re-imagined Billy Eliot the Musical into winning edition that is more effective than the national company that toured South Florida a few seasons back.
Report From New York: Yeah, Hamilton Is The Game Changer
From the defiant, fierce and joyful opening phrases about a bastard immigrant destined to become “a hero and a scholar,” Hamilton proves itself an electrifying game changer in the world of musical theater – and then continues to do it for another 2 hours and 45 minutes.
Our Holiday Gift List For The Theater Buff In The House
Theater buffs are the easiest people to shop for on your holiday list, as our Brad Hathaway proves in his annual roundup.
Ann Marie Olson’s Performance Rescues Stage Door’s ‘Gypsy’
Any production of Gypsy that spotlights Ann Marie Olson’s golden voice can be forgiven nearly anything. But otherwise, much of this production is as thin as the tinny tracks and high school quality scenery, and sits there as unenthusing as Electra’s intentionally lackluster bump-and-grind.
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