Reviews
Demos-Brown’s Fear Up Harsh At Zoetic Is Explosive Inquiry Into Our Need For Heroes
Christopher Demos-Brown’s compelling world premiere Fear Up Harsh from Zoetic Stage is a penetrating interrogation of how our need for heroes can trump the values of truth, honor and loyalty that they fought to preserve. It’s like watching a Humvee drive toward an IED and be stunned by the explosion, first in slow-motion and then an annihilating blast.
Outre’s Ambitious Vision Of Much Ado About Nothing Only Works Part Of The Time
In keeping with Outré’s commitment to go-big-or-go-home, its Much Ado About Nothing is a valiant effort that only works some of the time. There are low comedy laughs, but the intricate word play and fleeting moments of verbal loveliness usually gets lost in the mouths of actors uncomfortable with Shakespearean speech.
Arts Garage Hosts Premiere of Daniel Mate’s Affecting “The Longing and the Short Of It”
Daniel Maté holds up a mirror so we can examine ourselves in his new musical The Longing and The Short Of It at the Theatre at Arts Garage. But his vision has such incisive clarity that he is more a chronicler whose work decades hence will enable our descendants to see how we lived in the early part of the 21st Century.
Stage Door’s Sophisticated Ladies Revels In Stylishness
Broward Stage Door’s Sophisticated Ladies resurrects a vibrant echo of that class and panache in their entertaining revue of Duke Ellington’s music. If the show doesn’t quite sizzle and snap, talented singer-dancers suffuse the production with the sultry, sassy verve that defined floor shows in uptown clubs in the 1930s and ’40s.
The D*Word From Creator Of Menopause The Musical Tries To Mine Similar Vein Of Sisterhood
The D*Word is a mélange of a Lifetime movie, Harlequin romance, Mamma Mia and the racy banter of Sex in the City. But if you can ignore feeling drowned with maxims from self-help books, the darn thing succeeds in its goal of being a pleasant, diverting girls’ night out with its share of chuckles and that feeling that someone knows exactly how you feel.
Homophobia and Anti-Semitism Clash In Island City Stage’s Triumphant The Timekeepers
Director Michael Leeds and stars Michael McKeever and Mike Westrich triumph in Island City Stage’s production of The Timekeepers by mostly navigating quietly and gingerly through the halting lessons in human connection that Fort Lauderdale playwright Dan Clancy has sketched for them
Beachy Keen: Fine Performances Highlight Brighton Beach Memoirs At Plaza Theatre
It’s hard to do Neil Simon well. The Plaza Theatre in Manalapan does not fall into that trap. They do Neil Simon very, very well. Earlier this year the Plaza produced a fine Chapter Two, and now they’ve raised the Simon bar with their current show, Brighton Beach Memoirs.
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