Reviews
‘A Comedy of Tenors’ Is Welcome Sequel to ‘Lend Me A Tenor’
Those needing a good hearty laugh will find the right medicine in Riverside Theatre’s achingly hilarious production of A Comedy of Tenors. The show is awash with impeccable split-second timing, zany, over the top half-clad characters, mistaken identity and jokes galore.
Maltz’s Good People Asks How We Turned Out The Way We Did
The path we take in life and the place we end up – how much of that is a matter of luck, socio-economic circumstance, and how much is a matter of choices ? The insight-laden Good People at the Maltz Jupiter Theatre intentionally doesn’t directly answer the questions. Instead, it lays out the conflicting philosophies for audiences to debate on the way home.
“Come On Along And Listen To…..” In Lauderhill-ACM
If you’ve got a competent, committed team as the Broadway at LPAC series does for 42nd Street, you’re nearly guaranteed a rousing gift of pure hallelujah as the love of musical theater grows into the triumphantly cresting cakewalk of “Lullaby of Broadway.”
Unrequited Yearning For Dreams Deferred In Grand Horizons
Boca Stage’s Grand Horizons has A-list cast for an unusual mélange of considerable domestic comedy intersecting with serious themes about aging, dreams deferred and unrequited yearning.
M Ensemble’s 1972 River Niger Captures Conflict in Black Lives
M Ensemble Company revives the 1972 award-winning The River Niger capturing a crossroads in Black life in America with a depiction of passionate, intelligent people debating diametrically opposed philosophies of how Black citizens should fight for justice in a racist world.
Kravis Musical Tootsie Changed From Film But Remains Fun
The tour of the musical Tootsie, which makes large changes from the film, isn’t a deep show and falls short of scoring points in the battle between the sexes. But it sure is fun.
Delightful Honeymoon In Vegas Is Classic Musical Comedy
From Slow Burn Theatre Company’s brass-unleashed overture with a live band, to an ebullient cast, to winning music and witty lyrics, this musical version of the film Honeymoon in Vegas is the kind of full-fledged fully-entertaining classic musical comedy you thought no one wrote anymore.
Actors’ Playhouse Delivers A Margaritaville That Jimmy Buffett Would Drink To
Escape to Margaritaville at Actors’ Playhouse accomplishes what its title suggests. Specifically, the show conjures the kind of laid-back escape during which you might sport a hat and sunglasses, and hold a tall drink topped with a cherry or pineapple. In between sips, you snap, clap, tap, and/or sing along to Jimmy Buffett’s greatest hits.
No Exit: Dramaworks Bows Lewis’ Look At Blue Collar Youths’ Blocked Dreams
If the 1920s gave birth to The Lost Generation, then the 2020s saw the taking root of The Trapped Generation. Palm Beach Dramaworks’ premiere of Carter W. Lewis’ The Science of Leaving Omaha depicts a world in which the The American Dream no longer exists as a viable possibility in the minds of 20-somethings and their younger siblings.
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