Performances

Zoetic Gifts With Sondheim’s Glorious Merrily We Roll Along

Stephen Sondheim’s oft-revamped Merrily We Roll Along prevails in Zoetic Stage’s glorious production in a fresh vision of the musical, visually and passionately different than the acclaimed 2022-23 revival.

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High-Energy Hell’s Kitchen Delivers Invigorating Engrossing Alicia Keys Musical

Enjoy Hell’s Kitchen an engrossing, engaging, coming-of-age story about a sometimes fraught relationship of a mother and daughter, learning to find your purpose—in this case music—and the perils and heartbreak of growing up, based on Alicia Key’s music.

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Profound Unrest in a Family Mirrors Tumult in Detroit ’67

Dominique Morisseau’s compelling drama, Detroit ’67, rooted in that year’s violent unrest achieves mixed results as it deeply dissects exploring dreams, economic struggles, racial injustice, police brutality, and the enduring power of family.

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 Damaged Furniture Expertly Crafted by Boca Stage

After being shuttered for far too long, Boca Stage returns with a bang, literally and figuratively, with the outrageously dark and raunchy comedy Damaged Furniture, returning to the Willow Theatre where it got its start decades earlier.

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MSP’s Heart-Pounding Riveting Contemporary Take On Medea

Expect emotional whiplash in Main Street Players’ heart-pounding production of a lean and riveting modern adaptation of Euripides’ Greek tragedy, Medea. The dizzying contrast between moods—jarringly funny at first, then devastating—underscores how quickly our lives often return to normal following tragedies.

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Mysteries of Memory: Gulfshore’s Premiere of Deb Hiett’s ‘Circle Forward’

There are fond memories, distant memories, comforting memories, disturbing ones. In Deb Hiett’s Circle Forward, enjoying its world premiere at Gulfshore Playhouse, teenager Evan (Anthony Zambito) is dealing with some rather unusual memories: those of a past life.

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Good Night, Oscar Mixes Copious Sharp Humor With Spiraling Descent

The protagonist in the drama Good Night, Oscar is in a downward spiral, but audiences watching the Maltz Jupiter Theatre’s first-rate production will be fascinated with copious slashes of humor as it takes us into the soul of an outsider living among society’s insiders, accepted as an insider by them, yet not by himself.

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New City’s A Case for the Existence of God Explores Complexities Male Friendships

New City Players’ A Case for the Existence of God explores the complexities of male friendships by focusing on two men whose deepening relationship at a critical point in their lives shatters their protective shells; it crackles with emotional energy, fueled by electrifying performances along with propulsive pacing and a keenly insightful script.

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Slow Burn’s Carole King Bio BeautifuI Is Pure Enjoyment

Beautiful: The Carole King Musical in Slow Burn Theatre’s polished production is more than a story about how a teenager evolved into one of the first successful female rock singer/songwriters. For many of us, Beautiful is the soundtrack of our youth, the music a touchstone of the culture of the 1960s and 1970s and a trajectory of American rock music, going from light, teeny-bopper tunes to deeper lyrics.

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To Go or Not to Go? to I Hate Hamlet at West Boca Theatre 

I Hate Hamlet at the West Boca Theatre Company sounds like a swashbuckling comedy, it’s actually an often clever “play within a play” dramady about learning to step out of your comfort zone and embrace your destiny.

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