Performances

Open a New Window in Handle With Care at West Boca Company

1.7 million packages a day get lost or stolen. If it’s your new hairdryer, it might not be so bad, but if the lost item is your dead relative’s body, that’s a completely different story. Such is the case in Jason Odell Williams’s Handle With Care romcom at the West Boca Theatre Company. 

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Joni Mitchell-Leonard Cohen Revue Freshly Re-Covers Precious Music Of Decades Ago

The magic of Both Sides Now: The Music and Lives of Joni Mitchell and Leonard Cohen is that of a time machine. It instantly regenerates feelings and visions a half-century old as if they are happening here for the first time.

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Once Again, Broadway’s Fifth Our Town Remains A Worthy Tale Despite Time And Place

As the newest New York production of Our Town proves — yet again over 86 years –this work is a reliable property whether it’s being done by this Broadway cast led by Jim Parsons or by your kid’s high school drama class.  Its appeal t lies in a title still resonant in the public consciousness; in its accessible universal theme; in its many easy-to portray and distinct characterizations.

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End of a Trilogy, Or Is It? New City Players’ The Last Christmas

New City Players; premiere The Last Christmas by Tyler Johnson Grimes is the supposed final installment in a trilogy of annual holiday comedies revolving around radio station WNCP in Fort Lauderdale. It’s Christmas Eve, 1999, and a little thing by the name of Y2K is on everyone’s mind, but before the employees have to worry about that, they must make it through this night first.

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Once is Not Enough In ‘Once’ At The Maltz Jupiter Theatre

People come into our lives for a reason, a season, or a lifetime. Just ask the characters in Once – A Musical who would no doubt agree. At the Maltz Jupiter Theatre, Once tells the story of two young people who meet-cute and quickly add value to each other’s lives. But what happens then?

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Black Santa:  A Timely And Thoughtful Start To The Season

City Theatre’s Black Santa peels the shiny veneer off the holiday season with its clever examination of unconscious racial bias present in America’s cultural traditions

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Did the Butler Really Do It? In ‘The Butler Did It’ At The Willow

Produced by Curtain Call Playhouse,,, The Butler Did It is billed as “an evening of mystery, hoopla, and outrageous hijinks.” They’re not kidding, because it’s all that and more.

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Time Is A Crucial Element In Dramaworks’ Upcoming Return Of ‘The Dresser’

Time’s implacability and theater’s ephemerality seem inherently antithetical. Yet time is imbued several ways in Palm Beach Dramaworks’ upcoming production this month of the decades-old English backstage drama leavened with wry humor, The Dresser.

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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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