Reviews
Slow Burn’s Wonderettes Is ’50s Prom Punch With a Bit Of A Kick
Slow Burn Theatre Company’s The Marvelous Wonderettes at the Broward Center is a sweet and tasty cotton candy confection of girl group standards from 1950s and 1960s delivered by four terrific actress-comedienne-singers.
A Wry Off-Beat Take On A Journey Toward The American Dream in Jamaica Farewell
Jamaica Farewell — Debra Ehrhardt’s semi-autobiographical comedy about her emigration to America – has passages of tension and tears, but it’s not exactly the heart-warming tale of a life-threatening journey that graces the front page of The Herald. It’s is a gently funny chronicle of Ehrhardt’s perilous journey – perilous in that she entered the country smuggling one million dollars,
I Love Lucy Stage Show Just Can’t Recapture The Original
I Love Lucy® Live On Stage is mildly amusing, mildly humorous, mildly pleasant and very mildly entertaining — phrases never attached to Lucille Ball or I Love Lucy. There is little evidence of the irrepressible vitality and downright hilarity of Lucy to be found in this reasonably well-intentioned, well-acted and well-produced offering.
Emotional Ravages, Changing Attitudes To Homosexuality In GableStage’s Mothers And Sons
GableStage’s production of Terrence McNally’s script Mothers And Sons surpasses the Broadway premiere by depicting close-up the devastating pain when deep emotional wounds inflicted decades earlier are ripped open again. And it depicts the process of rending apart the psychic scab in unforgiving real time.
Wildly Uneven But Creepily Intriguing Veronica’s Room
Halloween has arrived early with a wildly uneven but strangely intriguing production of Ira Levin’s 1973 exercise in creepiness, Veronica’s Room at Andrews Living Arts. The evening never quite lands as a whole, but there are undeniably flashes and even long stretches that do justice to Levin’s attempt to make the audience wonder what is real and exactly who is crazy.
Evening Star’s The Subject Was Roses Needs A Few More Thorns
Evening Star Production’s The Subject Was Roses underscores the insightful script, but the valiant effort leaves far too much crucial passion AWOL.
Don’t Trust Anyone Under 30: Pigs Do Fly’s A New Attitude Is 2nd Evening Of Short Plays
Pigs Do Fly’s second outing of short comedies Fifty Plus: A New Atttude is a mildly entertaining, pleasant diversion punctuated by several guffaws and chuckles. But the undemanding evening generates little electricity and too few stretches of outright hilarity.
What’s New Pussycat Is Surprisingly Effective Blast From The Past At Stage Door
The secret of the highly improbable but undeniable success of the new ‘60s musical revue What’s New Pussycat — The Soundtrack of an Era at Broward Stage Door is encapsulated in the second-to-last musical number.
Laura Ruchala & Evening Star: Tragedy Tomorrow, Rollicking Comedy Of Errors Tonight
Despite the death of director Laura Ruchala, Evening Star Productions’ The Comedy of Errors is a rollicking ebullient edition of Shakespeare’s farce of mistaken identities. Ruchala’s playful play-filled vision embraces every stripe of daft and deft comedy from Will’s word play to slapstick.
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