Reviews
End Of The Rainbow Focuses On Judy Garland’s Disintegration
End Of The Rainbow is not a Judy Garland tribute concert – it’s a dramatic play with music about her death spiral entering its final turn. Actors Playhouse’s production is shot through with witty gallows humor and compassion for a wounded soul.
Kutumba’s Julie Johnson Is Enchanting Synergistic Theater
Taking a play that could easily be average and creating an inspired work is a thing of theater beauty. It comes from a director’s ability to envision what they want and go full in and, then it’s having actors who can help to further that vision. When there’s that synergy, it’s like watching magic unfold onstage. Such is Kutumba’s Julie Johnson.
Maltz’s A Chorus Line Is Flawless Fresh Take On Classic Musical
The surprising strength of the Maltz Jupiter Theatre’s production of A Chorus Line is how it delivers everything that your memory recalls fondly of past productions but infuses it with a welcome freshness that makes you glad you ventured to see it again.
Island City’s Secrets Of The Trade Examines Adulation
As the season heats up, we enter a period with many openings in the same week. That means reviews will only be in the top four positions for four or five days. To see earlier reviews, check out the red …
World Ends With A Bang Not A Whimper In Arts Garage’s Satirical Hummingbird Wars
The world premiere of Carter W. Lewis’ jet black satire The Hummingbird Wars at Theatre at Arts Garage is hysterically funny but unnervingly upsetting because the depiction of a society disintegrating around and under you is too damn recognizable to allow unimpeded belly laughs.
Come And Meet Those Dancing Feet At The Wick ‘s 42nd Street
That percussive sound rolling through Boca Raton this weekend was the deafening echo of 32 tap shoes pounding the stage of The Wick Theatre’s glorious production of 42nd Street.
Tarell McCraney/GableStage Antony And Cleopatra Is An Exotic Vital Visceral Experience
Just as Shakespeare’s poetry nestles surprisingly smoothly in the cadences of Caribbean characters, Tarell Alvin McCraney’s vision transplanting Antony and Cleopatra to 18th Century Haiti is less jarring and more intriguing than doubters might expect. An exotic vitality vibrates through this production of GableStage, Royal Shakespeare Company and Public Theater.
Follow Yellow Brick Road To Oz As It Takes Best From Film, Adds Webber’s Ingredients
There may be a lack of originality in this The Wizard of Oz with additional songs by Andrew Lloyd Webber, but how can one top perfection? This is more of a wink to the marvelous magic of the original with some of its own ingredients tossed in. All in all, there’s plenty of reason to be off to see the Wizard.
Retooled Porgy And Bess Swells, Soars And Rips The Heartstrings
You know The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess at the Kravis Center is opera because you can’t understand a third of the lyrics even in English; you know it’s glorious opera because the swelling music and soaring voices make specific words unnecessary. This heart-stopping production reaffirms the genius of the Gershwin brothers and the 21st Century talents who reshaped it.
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