Reviews

Pompano Players’ Beehive Satisfies As Musical Journey

A sextet of talented performers energetically presents Beehive: The Original 60s Musical. presented by Pompano Players, a jukebox revue capturing the “Swinging Sixties” from the innocence and playfulness early on to the cultural unrest, female empowerment, and activism.

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Greed, Extreme Ambition, Pure Hatred Combine In The Little Foxes

The trifecta of toxicity—greed, extreme ambition and pure hatred—combines in a sophisticated plot in Lillian Hellman’s classic drama The Little Foxes, receiving a stunning production through Feb. 1 at Island City Stage.

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Anger, Wit, Growth, Loss Overwhelm In Zoetic’s Masterful The Inheritance Part 1

Suffused throughout the epic length, depth and breadth of the masterpiece The Inheritance Part 1 gifted here by Zoetic Stage is a profound sense of searching, With fierce anger, incisive wit, inestimable growth and eroding loss, the company elevates, expands and injects lifeforce into the award-winning text.

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Maltz Jupiter’s Popular Come From Away is “Life-Affirming”

Come From Away at the Maltz Jupiter Theatre, is a Tony Award-winning musical that comes with quite a reputation, and while it’s not for everyone, it’s fair to say its reverence is well-deserved.

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Laughs Aplenty In Golden Girls Gone Wild! Part 2

Keith Dougherty brings his unique interactive murder-mystery genre to Fort Lauderdale with his hilariously goofy production The Golden Girls Gone Wild! Stan’s Back, currently playing at Empire Stage.

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Report From New York: Re-Re-Re-Revamped Chess For Existing Fans Of The Score

The new, improved Broadway musical Chess — based on the procession of earlier edtiond — is indeed new and improved. Whether that’s enough to get you to buy a ticket to the run at the Imperial Theatre is solely a question of personal affection for the score.

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Report From New York: Superb Ragtime — Make Them Hear You

In the superbly created heightened reality of the newest Broadway edition of Ragtime, not only are you inhabited by the seduction but you look around at the 1,000-plus compatriots in the auditorium and feel they are too. The themes and message painfully are even more resonating 28 years after its premiere,

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New Tour of Les Miz at Broward Center Reassures You That Goodness Still Exists

The newly-reimagined national E
quity tour of Les Misérables at the Broward Center is alternately spectacle and moving theater. Even after multiple viewings, this beloved mega-musical reassures us anew that in a world full of pain and evil, goodness exists.

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Slow Burn’s Frozen Enthralls, Clicking All The Boxes

Slow Burn Theatre Company’s high standards for assembling top-notch talented cast glow red-hot in its enthralling presentation  of Disney’s Frozen, clicks all the boxes with superb singing and acting, sharp dancing choreographed by Cat Pagano, excellent stage craft including lighting, set design and projections and magnificent costumes.

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Uneven Difficult Production of The Seafarer at Dramaworks

Spending an evening with the Irish men at Palm Beach Dramaworks could try the patience of any sober audience member. On top of that, the show takes a long time to pick up steam and reveal the flashes of brilliance that might make the wait worthwhile.

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