Reviews

New Pompano Beach Company Struggles With Debut Show: Love, Loss & What I Wore

The Pompano Beach Cultural Center’s new resident company Pompano Players works hard but is only intermittently successful with its debut production of Love, Loss And What I Wore with the show, which links women’s ambivalent feelings about clothes with the memories they evoke.

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Riveting, Intense Jesus Hopped the A Train at African Center

A riveting South Florida professional production of the gripping play, Jesus Hopped the A Train, by the Marshall L. Davis Sr. African Heritage Cultural Arts Center — a moving, intense, and believable production of Stephen Adly Guirgis’s fierce drama. T

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Sidekicked From Boca Stage Shows Us The Tears of a Clown

Acting is not easy, or more people would do it, but imagine having to create not just a make-believe character, but a person who not only existed in real life, but was loved and adored by fans around the world. And then imagine that person suffered from mental illness as well. Such is the task set before actress Irene Adjan, starring in a one-woman show as the legendary Vivian Vance in Sidekicked at the Boca Stage.

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Very Different Holmes & Watson At Main Street, Not 221B

Thanks to the tremendous energy of the actors at Main Street Players’ Ms. Holmes & Ms. Watson – Apt. 2B), there’s never a dull moment, but because of its confusing jam-packed script, it often feels like it doesn’t really know what it wants to be, and the ending comes across as simply preposterous.

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Scenes From My Love Life Looks Back at LGBTQ 30 Years Ago

South Florida’s actor/producer/playwright Ronnie Larsen demonstrates sharp sense of humor and a keen ear for dialogue, particularly between gay men. in a revival of his first play from 30 years ago, Scenes from My Love Life, which captures the vanities and joys of gay men, but also speaks to general audiences.

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Reimagined Little Mermaid Is Family-Friendly Celebration

Playwright Jacqueline Goldfinger’s new family-friendly adaptation of The Little Mermaid bears little resemblance to Disney’s animated film or Hans Christian Andersen’s dark fairy tale. Theatre Lab’s production at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton is a playful and imaginative celebration of family unity, courage and following your heart.

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Die Mommie, Die! Over-the-Top Hilarity on Island City Stage

When is the last time you went to the theater and enjoyed two hours of pure unadulterated fun and sheer frivolity? Die Mommie, Die! is that rare breed of entertainment that exists just for the camp of it. Trust us when we say there’s no message here. And that’s just the way it should be in Island City Stage’s production.

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Hundred Days Shows the Power of Love

By Oline H. Cogdill Love—no matter how strong, how all-encompassing, how overwhelming—can never last forever, even if we are sure it will. Death, a forced separation, a mental breakdown—all kinds of things can conspire to end that most wonderful of …

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Sweet 15 My Quinceañera!: Sweet and Whacky

by Raquel V. Reyes Sweet 15 My Quinceañera!, written and directed by award-winning screenwriter Rick Najera, is billed as an interactive comedic experience. Although it doesn’t fully live up to that interactive promise. Sweet 15 My Quinceañera! is messy fun …

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Take a Ride on A Streetcar Named Desire With the New City Players

By Britin Haller Arguably one of the greatest dramatic plays in American theatrical history, and certainly of its time, A Streetcar Named Desire has rolled onto the Island City Stage with a bang. Timothy Mark Davis, the producing artistic director …

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