Performances

Better Late Proves It’s Never Too Late at Pigs Do Fly

An actress dealing with guilt from of her first marriage as she copes with her second marriage is the core of Better Late, a present-day dramady from Pigs Do Fly Productions.

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Ambition Never Looked So Good As In  Ruthless!

Island City Stage’s Ruthless! The Musical fires on all cylinders, literally everything clicking be it the cast, the direction, the design, the music, the choreography, or the costumes. This is theatrical excess in the best, and worst, way: is a perfectly choreographed train wreck, and that’s a compliment.

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Heart and Humor Melt Pompano Players’ Steel Magnolias

Pompano Players’ Steel Magnolias captures all the heart and humor that made this story a classic with a strong ensemble, deft direction, and performances that spark both hearty laughter and heartfelt tears.

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Zoetic Stage’s The Mother Is Psychological Dark Comedy

Zoetic Stage’s season has opened with a tantalizing, psychological, playful dark comedy that has the audience second-guessing, laughing, and gasping in surprise. The Mother is described by the playwright as a black farce.

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Theatrical Artistry Catapults Maltz’s Breathtaking Misery

The acting is fine and the direction brilliant in Maltz Jupiter Theatre’s recreation of Stephen King’s classic Misery, but what ultimately catapults this stage version to a breathtaking production is the remarkable cohesion of its design team.

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Dramaworks Takes Us To The Mountaintop With Dr. King

 Death, race and dreams intersect in Palm Beach Dramaworks’ stirring, powerful The Mountaintop. This profound drama leavened with a bit of humor imagines the night Martin Luther King Jr. spent in the Lorraine Motel where he was assassinated the next evening.

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Just In Time: Little Shop of Horrors at Riverside Theatre

Just in time for Halloween, Riverside Theatre’s production of Little Shop of Horrors in Vero Beach is a treat.

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Vivid Life Of Pi Captures Imagination At Broward Center

There are moments in Life of Pi during which the realistically-looking, ferocious-sounding, life-sized Bengal tiger may prompt audience members to grab their arm rests or companions or gasp in this play about a teenager and a tiger adrift in the ocean. Superb stagecraft, superior production values envelop the audience

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‘Lizzie’ (Borden) , A Killer Musical, At Thinking Cap Theatre

Thinking Cap Theatre presents Lizzie, a gothic rock musical based on the infamous 1892 double homicide This edgy production reimagines Lizzie Borden, Told through dreamlike projections, sensual choreography, and a blistering punk-rock score, the show immerses us in the pressure cooker of secrets, repression, and rage that leads to bloodshed—and Lizzie’s haunting acquittal.

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The Fantasticks is Simple, but Perfect at the Wick Theatre

The nearly indestructible The Fantasticks gets a run at The Wick Theatre with its own perspective in a clever version sure to captivate even the harshest cynic.

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