Performances
Come From Away Still Remains A Life-Affirming Gift At Slow Burn
These are troubling times infected with angst and anxiety. But the never-fail elixir is nearly any production of Come From Away, one of the most life-affirming piece of theater of the past decade. Slow Burn Theater Company’s current gift to audiences earns its place on that roll.
Who Killed Joan Crawford? Proves Murder Can Be a Drag
The campy over-the-top Who Killed Joan Crawford? at Island City Stage is a tenth-anniversary revival, And what an outrageous revival it is. It makes no pretense to cure society’s ills. It is a bitchy, exaggerated and deliberately ridiculous fun little play,
New Take On Hedda Gabler Triumphs Including Superb Lead
Hedda Gabler makes a vain, manipulative woman if not empathic at least understandable as she slowly deliberately tears down those around her including herself. The Shakespeare Troupe of South Florida’s outstanding production of Hedda Gabler: A Life Arranged delivers all the nuances of this 135-year-old brilliant drama, and more.
Weather Girl: Dark Dizzying Rampage Into Warped Soul Of America Leavened With Humor
With sardonic humor and biting criticism, Weather Girl at GableStage is a dark warning of a disintegrating society, featuring a bravura one-woman performance and skilled imaginative direction.
Can We Get an Amen for Southern Baptist Sissies?
Southern Baptist Sissies, om ArtBuzz Theatrics, begins innocently enough with four young men in white shirts singing in lovely four-part harmony. Then playwright Del Shores and Director Larry Buzzeo get to work, and before it’s over, we realize we’ve been taken to church in more ways than one. Southern Baptist Sissies is one hell of a revival.
Baker Street Beginnings Is Elementary Fun At FAU’s Theatre Lab
The true life origin of Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes is the springboard for Baker Street Beginnings receiving its world premiere at Theatre Lab commissioned for their Heckscher Theatre for Families production — a smart, hilarious, and thoroughly charming piece of family entertainment.
Brevo’s Beauty Pageant Is A Hoot But Also Biting Censure
Fierce competition is a facet of even the funniest comedies about beauty pageants – and School Girls or The African Mean Girls Play certainly is an entertaining hoot. But Brévo Theatre’s production skillfully weaves in a condemnation of ego, ambition and obsessive entitlement that ravages everything in their way.
1922’s Forbidden! — First Major Gay Play Seems Contemporary
What do you do when who you are threatens to make you an outcast and shatter your family? That’s the question bedeviling a young man facing his homosexuality in Forbidden!, a 104-year-old play widely believed the first to portray an openly gay character as neither criminal nor amoral.
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