Performances

Report From New York: A Wonderful World Begun In Miami Bows On Broadway

To begin with, yes, A Wonderful World is an exuberant trumpet call of a musical tracking the life of the legendary Louis Armstrong that will entertains tens of thousands of people as it remains a welcome option for Broadway audiences likely for years. That said, if you are looking for an in-depth incisive inquiry into the complex artist, this is not it.

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Wick’s Joseph Production Is As Multi-Faceted As His Coat

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, playing into next month at the Wick Theatre & Museum Club in Boca Raton, has something for everyone, or as Donny Osmond would tell you, it’s a little bit country, it’s a little bit rock ‘n roll. But to be fair, it’s also not for everyone.

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Report From New York: Hills of California Intersects Ambition, Dreams & Family Relationships

The Hills of California Intersects driving ambition, dreams and family relationships deteriorating over time; Catch it now before it closes next month because with a cast of 22 and a challenging script, this superbly acted, directed and authored piece will not tour and will likely not be picked up by many, if any, regional theater

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ASC’s Third Beauty & The Beast Is Just As Fine As Earlier Ones

Mere inches from you, the titular characters dance slowly and gracefully to the soothing title song in Area Stage Company’s (ASC) multi award-winning professional immersive and participatory production of Beauty and the Beast.

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‘Every Brilliant Thing’ At Gulfshore Playhouse Lists What Makes Life Worth Living

Every Brilliant Thing at the Gulfshore Playhouse in Naples is a moving and often funny one-man show in which the Storyteller comes up with a list of “every brilliant thing” that makes life worth living with us following his life from childhood to adulthood as he keeps adding to his list.

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Compelling Tale of Artistic Anxiety In Jonathan Larson’s Pre-Rent ‘tick, tick… BOOM!’

Jonathan Larson’s semi-autobiographical pre-Rent musical tick, tick…BOOM! compellingly injects us deep into the agonized guts of a young man teetering on the Great Divide of pursuing his artistic dream or compromising for a “normal” life.

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The Gloves Come Off in The Long Weekend At Pigs Do Fly

What happens when one unhappily married couple invites another unhappily married couple to spend a holiday weekend with them in their country home? As the claws come out, long-buried resentments resurface, and dirty little secrets are exposed in Pigs Do Fly Productions’ The Long Weekend,

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Pompano Players Promises Future With Delightful I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change

If I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change, from The Pompano Players, a new resident theater company, is an indication of what’s to come, we have an exciting new theatrical organization that is chock-full of seasoned and talented professionals that are sure to delight South Florida audiences.

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All Too Timely: The Outsider Is Political Farce In West Boca

Just in time for a little after the election light-hearted fun comes the West Boca Theatre Company’s production of The Outsider, a farcical comedy by Paul Slade Smith that tells the story of a man who doesn’t think he wants to be king.

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It’s the Top: Sublime ‘Anything Goes’ Opens Gulfshore Playhouse’s new Baker Theatre

Anything Goes is the just what it needed in our difficult times: upbeat and optimistic. It’s celebratory tone fits the opening of the Gulfshore Playhouse in Naples first show in the newly opened $72 million Baker Theatre and Education Center.

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