Reviews
Wick Theatre Proves Itself With Solid Soaring Sound Of Music
To answer the question that most folks are wondering after The Wick Theatre’s bow Friday night: Yes, there is a credible, substantial new player in town. The inaugural production of The Sound of Music has the feel of a fully-realized no-excuses production because it is, indeed, a polished, three-dimensional work of theater.
REVIEW: You Made Me Love You Will Enchant Senior Patrons
The Plaza’s cabaret revue You Made Me Love You – a celebration of the music made popular by Al Jolson, Eddie Cantor and Fanny Brice – is comforting soul food for The Greatest Generation, delivered in a creamy concoction poured by a trio of smooth and sincere singers.
REVIEW: Empire Stage’s Silence Of The Clams Is Silly Sex Spoof
To know whether you will want to see The Silence of the Clams, the supremely silly spoof at Empire Stage, all you need to know is the title refers not to seafood, but to oral sex on anatomy specific to women. If the guys who wrote the movie Airplane and the guys who write South Park put an LGBT spin on the Hannibal Lecter flick, this would be the result.
Kutumba’s The Beebo Brinker Chronicles About Lesbians In The 1950s Doesn’t Quite Gel
The question nagging Kutumba Theatre Project’s The Beebo Brinker Chronicles was what did it want to be? Farce? Drama? Satire? Soap opera? A lampoon of 1950’s pulp novels? An homage to 1950’s pulp novels? If it was all of the above, it didn’t meld into a cohesive whole, even when isolated moments worked as farce, soap opera, homage or lampoon.
Energetic Topspin Helps Moon Over Buffalo Farce Rise Over Stage Door
It’s not the slamming doors, Marx Brothers chases or repartee that make Broward Stage Door’s farce Moon Over Buffalo an enjoyable afternoon laughing at the foibles of vainglorious creatures who, of course, bear no relation to our own imperfections. It’s the cast’s unflagging energy the topspin on a put-down, comic timing and scores of bits of business..
Mad Cat’s Blow Me Delves Into Surreal World of Doomed Fashionista Isabella Blow
Playwright Jessica Farr and director Paul Tei create a fever dream in Mad Cat Theatre Company’s Blow Me, depicting a tragic death spiral, relieved by copious droll dancing-at-your-funeral epigrams tossed off by Blow and her coterie like a latter day Algonquin Round Table, featuring a bravura performance by Erin Joy Schmidt.
Shorts Gone Wild Isn’t Particularly Wild, But It Is Consistently Funny
Shorts Gone Wild is pretty tame stuff for South Florida, but this outing of light comedies with a live-and-let-live LGBT message is more consistently entertaining than some of City Theatre’s earlier forays into an alternative adults-only version of its venerable Summer Shorts program.
Christmas in August: Slava’s Snowshow Returns To Miami
If anybody dares you to bet your sports car that it won’t snow in Miami in August, better go find your pink slip. There’s a blizzard inside the Arsht Center nearly every night that’ll have you picking white stuff out of your hair even if you sit in the back row. And that’s not even the mouth-dropping coda to Slava’s Snowshow, a Russian-based fantasia that showcases classic clown skills against the showmanship and stagecraft of a Cirque du Soleil production.
Theater Shelf: Jews Dominate Broadway! Teens in Appalachia! The French Writing Musicals?
Theater Shelf, a recurring feature, reviews recently-released books, CDs and DVDs of interest to theater lovers. Some are popular titles like a new Original Cast Recording, others are works you’ll be intrigued by, but didn’t even know about.
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