Performances

POW To Bow Second Open Air Show: Sound of Music

“You will sit in a swivel chair and the show will take place all around you, all over the park,” Director Ronnie Larsen said about its upcoming free outdoor theater production of The Sound of Music

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Fine Performances, Chilling & Resonating Script Return in Timekeepers

Dan Clancy’s The Timekeepers underscores we share more in common with each other than the differences that separate us. Two concentration camp prisoners – a Jew and a non-Jewish gay find discussing [pera helps them get through each day during an unimaginably horrific time.

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Glimpse of Billie Holiday: ‘Emerson’s Bar & Grill’ at Gulfshore Playhouse

Life was not kind to Billie Holiday, but she persevered, channeling her pain into her singing. Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill at Gulfshore Playhouse puts her in her element: onstage at a small South Philadelphia club just months before her death.

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South Pacific is Enchanting at the Lauderhill Performing Arts

Looking for somewhere to spend an enchanting afternoon or evening? Then look no further than South Pacific, now playing at the Lauderhill Performing Arts Center. With an almost perfect production, this classic Rodgers & Hammerstein musical is guaranteed to put several smiles on your face

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Two Sides to Every Story in Pigs Do Fly’s Painting Churches

The Church family does not put the fun in dysfunctional. This bothersome trio play out their convoluted story from the comfort of their living room in Pigs Do Fly Productions’ play, Painting Churches.

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M Ensemble’s Revival Knock Me A Kiss Is Present Day Look at People in Harlem Renaissance

M Ensemble’s current revival of Knock Me A Kiss that it mounted in 2014 has different echoes in 2025.

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A Century Later the Issues Remain in Dramaworks’ Camping With Henry and Tom

Thirty years ago, Mark St. Germain wrote a play Camping With Henry and Tom fictionalizing an actual meeting among Ford, Edison and President Harding. Given the politics, religion, racism, civic responsibility, and technology issues set in 1921, then the production at Palm Beach Dramaworks this month, he might have written it last week.

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Comic ‘Fat Ham’ Echoes Hamlet Thru African-American Prism

Fat Ham, which tells of a young gay man at his Black family’s contentious backyard barbeque, is basically a huge grin. The fact that the ingenious plot intentionally echoes Hamlet does not cover up that this is simply a fun farce.

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‘Sylvia’ is a Bad Dog From Curtain Call Playhouse at the Willow

If all of us liked the same things, it would be a truly dull world, but occasionally, like in Sylvia produced by Curtain Call Playhouse playing at the Willow Theatre, you have to wonder what a playwright was thinking when they took pen to paper.

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Beliefs and Responsibility Grapple In Miami New Drama’s World Premiere Birthright

How do deeply held beliefs – religious, social, moral — guide us, persist, deteriorate or see us mutate as time and events challenge their truth and erode the bond among those raised on them. Birthright at Miami New Drama is an overwhelming, dense, heroically ambitious study of young people defining their identity and grappling how it copes with the modern world.

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