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  • Late Love In Life at West Boca Theatre’s The Last Romance

    West Boca Theatre Company;s The Last Romance is a play that does exactly what it’s supposed to do; remind us that love can find us long after we’re sure that door has closed.

  • Maltz’s Million Dollar Quartet Is “Great Balls of Fire” For Fans

    Jukebox musicals are not this critic’s thing, but as they go, Million Dollar Quartet, now playing at the Maltz Jupiter Theatre,the opening night audience didn’t go away disappointed starring performers who have done their roles many times..

  • Report From New York: Laurie Metcalf Is Stunning In Hunter’s Little Bear Ridge Road

     Visually, Little Bear Ridge Road is minimalist – solely a circular platform with a sofa – appropriate because the script calls for it to be surrounded by a black void. But emotionally, it uses that to focus on two troubled, difficult people reluctantly trying to connect to discover each other in physical, geographical and emotional isolation.

  • Report From New York: Don’t Miss Liberation: Simultaneously A Mirror And Mind-Opening Revelation

    For women, Liberation is a mirror that celebrates and reaffirms their complex challenges and triumphs. For many men, it’s a profoundly deep eye-widening, educational revelation — even if, especially if you think you already are socially-conscious and aware.

  • Thinking Cap Creates Shakespeare’s Multi-Genre Cymbeline This Month

    Thinking Cap Theatre is creating a reimagined version of Shakespeare’s Cymbeline opening Dec. 5, what its director terms “It’s Shakespeare’s most thrilling—and, in my opinion, his funniest—work.”

  • Report From New York: ‘Beau’ Kick-Butt Country Rock Musical

    Off-Broadway’s Beau the Musical successfully spins from endless kick-ass energy to moving introspection and back to tongue in cheek humor, melding country, rock and gospel in a basement temporarily converted into a honky-tonk.

  • 60-Year Old Man of La Mancha’s Relevance Resounds Today In Actors’ Playhouse’s Edition

    It’s 60 years old, but Actors’ Playhouse re-re-production of Man of La Mancha resounds loudly with undeniable resonances today, remaining a relevant clarion call for us to remain steadfast in our integrity to the principles we hold – regardless of the cost.

  • Love and Grief Explored in GableStage’s Left On Tenth

    Love and grief don’t have a timetable but can occur at anytime, often blindsiding.  Love can vanish too quickly while grief can linger too long. Both emotions are in full force in the sweet, poignant comedy-drama Left on Tenth, at GableStage,

  • Marriage in the Combat Zone: Gulfshore Playhouse’s Sublime Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

    Kristin Coury has directed an astounding production of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? that’s more a master class in acting than yelling. You’ve likely not seen a production as nuanced and as superb as Gulfshore Playhouse’,

  • Only One Out of Four Visits Lands, But California Suite is Not Neil Simon’s Best

    Neil Simon’s California Suite produced by Curtain Call Playhouse, is a series of four playlets revolving around guests at the Beverly Hills Hotel.
    Three vignettes are disappointments that don’t land at all, but one is the proverbial “diamond in the rough” that is worth the visit.