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  • Developing New Works In Two Festivals: Theatre Lab’s Owl & New City Players’ Lauder Made

    Theater lovers in South Florida are about to experience double the pleasure with two festivals of new work this month. The Second Annual Owl New Play Festival in Boca Raton kicks off on April 11 and runs for two weeks, while Short Plays: Lauder Made Volume II in Ft. Lauderdale begins at the end of the month and runs for four days.

  • My Take On: Reviews of NYC Shows Including Dog Day Afternoon

    A fourth edition of new feature “My Take On::” Short reviews from New York shows by Nunzio Michael Lupo, veteran journalist and an insightful appraiser of the arts. Some of these are still running for you to see on your …

  • Sound the Trumpets for Camelot at The Wick Theatre

    There are musicals we enjoy, and then there are the ones we feel compelled to tell everyone within earshot about, so sound the trumpets because we’re convinced you’ll love the old-school revival of Lerner & Loewe’s Camelot, now playing at The Wick Theatre.

  • Small Town Couples Explore Relationships In Riverside Theatre’s ‘Almost, Maine’

    Declaring their feelings changes several small-town couples in one night in Riverside Theatre’s Almost, Maine, taking place in a small far Northern Maine town that might/not exist, as different couples navigate their feelings for each other.

  •  Comedic, Witty & Earnest: Wilde’s ‘The Importance Of….’ At Gulfshore Playhouse

    The Importance of Being Earnest playing at Gulfshore Playhouse has the singular quality of being both sly and …well, earnest. This comedy of manners builds absurdity upon absurdity.

  • Neil Simon’s Broadway Bound Finds Its Soul at PPTOPA

    Pembroke Pines Theatre of the Performing Arts has mounted a genuinely moving production of Neil Simon’s Broadway Bound, written in 1986, before an enthusiastic audience that clearly finds the subject matter and its richly drawn characters close to their own experience.

  • ‘Would You Sacrifice Your Identity’ Queried In GableStage’s Prayers for the French Republic

    Would we abandon our history, our nationality or our faith to maintain another part of our identity if we faced overwhelming social prejudice? GableStage’s Prayer for the French Republic depicts a family like your own struggling to sort out these issues as specific and inescapable as life and death.

  • Integrity and Honor Underscored In Maltz Jupiter’s Relevant Man of La Mancha

     Man of La Mancha is always a dependably affecting evening of theater and the Maltz Jupiter Theatre’s current production certainly delivers that. But there’s something nearly indefinable, something deeper landing this time that makes it special.

  • Boca or Bust: Pompano Players’ Hilarious Ode to the Second Act

    Pompano Players has unearthed a sparkling treasure in Jessica Provenz’s Boca, a wickedly fun comedy set in the sun-soaked retirement community of Boca Raton, where a band of New York transplants refuse to act their age, trading rocking chairs for a second shot at their wild teenage years.  

  • 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.