Tag Archives: Beverly Blanchette

No Bull: Bridge Across The Pond’s Look At Women’s Movement

Before Suffs or Liberation looking at women’s rights movement, Bull in a China Shop gives another historical view of the fight of more than a century ago, now being staged by Bridge Across the Pond at Empire Stage

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To Go or Not to Go? to I Hate Hamlet at West Boca Theatre 

I Hate Hamlet at the West Boca Theatre Company sounds like a swashbuckling comedy, it’s actually an often clever “play within a play” dramady about learning to step out of your comfort zone and embrace your destiny.

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See Lakehousedotpng’s Heartbreaking Premiere {overlap} Before Closing This Weekend

Lakehouseranchdotpng has mounted a touching premiere of Erin Proctor’s {overlap}, a believable, humorous, and poignant production from the nonprofit, absurdist and experimental theater company

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Beverly Blanchette Receives Carbonell’s Bill Hindman Award

Beverly Blanchette, a theater artist and educator who has helped shape the cultural fabric of south Florida for over four decades, will receive the Carbonell’s Bill Hindman Award honoring significant, long-term contributions to the region’s cultural life and onstage career achievement by performing artists based in South Florida.

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All Too Timely: The Outsider Is Political Farce In West Boca

Just in time for a little after the election light-hearted fun comes the West Boca Theatre Company’s production of The Outsider, a farcical comedy by Paul Slade Smith that tells the story of a man who doesn’t think he wants to be king.

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The Taming of the Shrew at Thinking Cap Theatre

By Jan Sjostrom Is William Shakespeare’s bawdy comedy The Taming of the Shrew misogynistic or is it a forward-looking romp powered by strong women? That’s a question Thinking Cap Theatre takes up in its re-imagining of the play in its production …

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GableStage’s Comedy “Boca” Would Gladden The Golden Girls

GableStage takes a break from race relations and Arthur Miller to create Boca, a chuckle-fest as well-constructed and skillfully executed as any episode of The Golden Girls, the Mary Tyler Moore show or a Carol Burnett skit.

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Intersection Of Black Comedy And Tragic Compassion Suffuses ‘Between Riverside And Crazy’

Quirky denizens of Stephen Adly Guirgis’ Between Riverside and Crazy strive to find second chances in GableStage’s production.

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Outre’s The Violet Hour Is A Daring, Flawed Modern Medea

Sometimes the daring efforts of Outré Theatre Company work beautifully such as Back of the Throat, An Illiad and Thrill Me, sometimes not so well such as Bed and Sofa, and Othello. Often, it’s both as with the current world premiere of The Violet Hour, A Modern Medea.

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Looking Back At South Florida Theater’s 2015: Taking Chances Financially And Artistically

2015 produced a wild variety of snapshots to paste in the theatrical scrapbooks: a male Dolly Levi, a homicidal dimwit slicing carrots, a kidnapper forcing her captives to learn nonsense, a tsunami engulfing a Japanese village, a green-gunked survivor of toxic sludge singing love songs to his blind librarian girlfriend. You know, just another year for regional theater in South Florida.

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