Reviews
Theater Shelf: Gift Guide To CDs & Books For Your Theater Junkie
Puzzled what to give that theater fan for the holidays. Check out Brad Hathaway’s suggestions. And of course, a season subscription is always welcome.
Hilarious, Profane Yet Oddly Reverent Book of Mormon Returns To Arsht And Kravis
Hallelujah, children! We are delivered from the bondage of political correctness, the oppression of reactionary repression and the tyranny of the status quo. Raise up your voice and praise the bringer of these blessings — the national tour of the Broadway musical, The Book of Mormon now at the Arsht Center and en route to the Kravis Center (where it is already sold out).
Original Review Of Carbonell-Winning Timekeepers Being Reprised Intact In Boca JCC
Timekeepers bowed at Island City Stage in October 2013. In April, the production won Carbonells for best play, best director, best actor Michael McKeever, best sound, best lighting and best set design. The production is being remounted with all the …
Well-Acted If Flawed Look At Race In Gospel According To Jerry At New Theatre
Sometimes when the company is engaging, it doesn’t matter whether the journey itself is a little bumpy or overly-familiar. Such is the power of winning performances by Christina Alexander and John Manzelli under Stephen Neal’s direction in New Theatre’s production on The Gospel According To Jerry.
Strife Over Faith, Heritage Devastates A Family In GableStage’s Searing Bad Jews
As if it was even needed, molten lava in the guise of scalding verbal acrimony ravages the apartment where incendiary family strife already was poised to detonate into devastation in GableStage’s uproarious and upsetting Bad Jews.
The Phantom Rises Again In Retooled Edition, Still Lush And Lovely If Missing Something
For all the derision and adoration that the basic material has engendered over 28 years, the thoroughly-retooled The Phantom of the Opera gliding over a fog-shrouded lake into the Broward Center remains a sturdy craft buoyed by a soaring muscular score delivered by a talented crew.
Report From New York: Margulies Echoes Chekhov In Well-Built The Country House
Donald Margulies’ The Country House riffs on Chekhov’s The Seagull but stands as its own as a compassionately sad-funny portrait of an emotional landscape.
FGO’s Madama Butterfly Soars Thanks to Diva’s Performance
In 2014, no one should be able to make the ludicrous thrust of Madama Butterfly remotely credible, yet Florida Grand Opera’s 74th season opener produces a perfectly plausible tale of an abandoned woman’s impossible devotion to a love unworthy of her goodness. Much of this is due Kelly Kaduce’s enchanting performance.
Stage Door’s Old Jews Telling Jokes Is Catskills Cavalcade With A Bit Of Borscht Belt Blue
Old Jews Telling Jokes at Broward Stage Door is precisely what it wants to be and precisely what you think it will be. If it sounds mildly engaging, you will love it, for what they want to do, they do well. But if this isn’t your cup of kreplach, stay far away.
Boca Theatre Guild’s Everyday Rapture Captivates Musically, Speck of a Story Less Appealing
Boca Raton Theatre Guild’s Everyday Rapture is bliss and it’s the reason to get yourself to the Willow Theatre. Jodie Langel, Ann Marie Olson and Leah Sessa possess some of the best voices you’ll hear in Florida musical theater. Yet no matter how hard they try to sell it, the work itself never really hits a peak.
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