Reviews

Tyrrell’s Arts Garage Takes Final Bow With Uncertain Terms

The key to enjoying world premieres like Uncertain Terms at The Theatre at Arts Garage is to understand that you are seeing a work in progress. So picking out what works and what doesn’t is part of the reason to look in on Allison Gregory’s flawed but droll exercise in quirky whimsy about an extended family laying conflicting claims to the same home.

Posted in Performances, Reviews | Tagged , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Emotions, Not S & M Is The Real Attraction in Zoetic’s Trust

Even though chains hang from the rafters before Trust opens and the buzz will fixate on the S&M, sex is only the milieu for Zoetic Stage’s rollicking yet incisive study of how people’s need for dominance in a relationship is tied to their desperation to reaffirm their illusory self-worth.

Posted in Performances, Reviews | Tagged , , , , , | 2 Comments

Alliance Bathes Frankie and Johnny In Quirky Moonlight

The Alliance Theatre paints a lovely, off-beat love affair between two wounded souls in Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune

Posted in Performances, Reviews | Tagged , , , , , | Leave a comment

Can You Spell Hilarious Or Poignant? Slow Burn’s Bee Can

Slow Burn Theatre Company gives the perennial favorite The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee as excellent a production as we’ve seen of it, hitting the perfect balance between the hilarious and poignant, marked with a child’s exuberance for living and an adult’s compassion for the angst over the process of losing innocence.

Posted in Performances, Reviews | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Words Have Special Meaning In Guild’s Tuesdays With Morrie

Boca Raton Theatre Guild’s production of Tuesdays With Morrie has increasing resonance for Boomers caring for their parents.

Posted in Performances, Reviews | Tagged , , , , | Leave a comment

Minor Quibbles Aside, Success Still In The Cards For Gin Game

More so than the play’s sudden violence or its firecracker bursts of profanity, it’s The Gin Game’s references to nursing homes as God’s waiting rooms that stick with you in Evening Star’s production.

Posted in Performances, Reviews | Tagged , , , , , | Leave a comment

Florida Grand Opera Dives Into Georges Bizet’s Pearl Fishers

The audience is not likely to be emotionally transported by the Florida Grand Opera’s production of Georges Bizet’s The Pearl Fishers, but the skills of the principal singers exuding unusually convincing passion make the evening worth a visit

Posted in Performances, Reviews | Tagged , , , , | Leave a comment

Uplifting Man Of La Mancha Sallies Forth At The Wick

We’re still in the height of the theatrical season with many productions opening during the next two weeks. To find reviews of all the current productions, click on the “Reviews” tab in white letters in the teal bar in the …

Posted in Performances, Reviews | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment

Powerful Motown The Musical Burns Down the House

They had me from hello, or at least from the wailing wall of distinctive sound given unprecedented power in the opening bars of Motown the Musical. It erupted like molten lava from the pit at the Broward Center: driving percussion, ripped out bass line, brassy horns, warbling guitars, muscular strings.

Posted in General, Performances, Reviews | Tagged , , | Leave a comment

Don’t Scratch This Itch At MTC

We want theaters to take chances and Miami Theater Center has bravely invested its artistic vision into classics like Three Sisters. But MTC has missed the target so badly in its misbegotten revival of the 1952 sex comedy The Seven Year Itch that you only thing you want to scratch is your head.

Posted in Performances, Reviews | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment