Performances
Torch Song Is Not What We Expected At Plays of Wilton
Fair warning to anyone going to The Foundry for Harvey Fierstein’s Torch Song because they want to see a play about a drag queen. Other than the lead works in drag for a living, but he could just as easily be a server, or a sales clerk, or a teacher, as is his on-again, off-again boyfriend. As it turns out, that’s the point. More on this later.
ASC’s Immersive Tarzan Musical Surrounds You In The Jungle
Area Stage Company’s (production is not your childhood Tarzan. Yet it is still the story and music you know and love. This gripping immersive staging surrounds you with the world of the show. The result is a visceral experience that reimagines the jungle not just as a set, but as a space you physically inhabit.
Big Ideas Abound in Main Street Players’ Revolutionists
When assassin Charlotte Corday declares, “We are all in a play that someone else is writing,” we know we’re stepping into a world steeped in existential tension. We brace ourselves for big ideas—and Lauren Gunderson’s The Revolutionists delivers. But it also surprises, infusing sharp wit and heartfelt humility into its bold exploration of the human condition in crisis running at Main Street Players.
Plaza Suite May Be 60 Years Old, But It Hasn’t Lost Its Charm
Plaza Suite may be more than sixty years old, but it hasn’t lost its charm. Little about it feels stale or outdated. Pembroke Pines Theatre for the Performing Arts’ (PPTOPA) current professional production breathes new life into Simon’s comedy and makes it feel fresh.
Distinctively Moving ‘Spy For Spy’ Engages With Unconventional Treatment
You never know what you’ll see when at Kutumba Theatre Project’s Spy for Spy. And that’s a good thing. Predictability causes us to disengage and leave the theater less than inspired. This production is an arresting depiction of individual moments of import that alternately shatter the soul and elicit bursts of laughter.
Racism and a Dozen Other Themes Dissected 160 Years Apart in The Confederates
The complex confluence of resonating past and present in Dominque Morisseau’s dense brilliant script interweaves with strong performances in New City Players’ well-titled The Confederates.
Slow Burn’s Bodyguard Musical Is A Welcome Surprise
It’s not necessary to be a fan of Whitney Houston’s music, or the film to enjoy The Bodyguard the Musical, wrapping up Slow Burn Theatre Co.’s fifteenth season, proving that just about anything can be made into a musical,, and a real audience pleaser from the get-go.
Latiné Theater Lab Debuts Unsettling Production of Mud
For its inaugural presentation, Latiné Theater Lab has chosen to mount María Irene Fornés’ Mud, a raw and unsettling drama that explores the limits of human aspiration in the face of poverty, ignorance, and control.
Pompano Players’ I Do! I Do! Returns To Follow Highs and Lows of a Half-Century Marriage
You are cordially invited to the wedding of Michael and Agnes at Pompano Players, just the beginning of the classic two-character musical I Do! I Do!, that tracks fifty years of the highs and lows of a typical marriage.
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