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“Art” Gets Hung at the West Boca

We wish we could give a good review to Art noat the West Boca Theatre Company, but the award-winning script doesn’t seem to work despite the cast’s efforts.

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West Boca’s My Name Is Asher Lev Is Emotional Rollercoaster

Suffused with the environment of a young Jewish man in America. My Name Is Asher Lev may not be for everyone’s interest, but that doesn’t mean it’s not great theater at the West Boca Theatre Company, an adaptation of the 1972 semi-autobiographical book by Chaim Potok.

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“Life is Less Terrible” With My Old Lady at West Boca Theatre

Rarely does a play come along where ieach character has a clearly defined story arc, or narrative path. Such is not the case with My Old Lady at West Boca Theatre Company, because when the figurative curtain comes down, all three individuals whose lives we’ve just been part of are markedly changed forever.

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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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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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Asher Lev Is Moving Look At The Joy & Cost of Being An Artist

Across the face and embedded in the voice of the hero-narrator we can see a drive he can’t ignore, the profound costs and the unequaled joy of creating art in West Boca Theatre Company’s moving production of My Name Is Asher Lev. This tale of a Jewish boy maturing into a world-class painter incisively depicts the considerable price of heeding, pursuing and staying true to an artistic calling.

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West Boca’s Brighton Beach Memoirs Mostly Disappointing

The first half to two-thirds of the West Boca Theatre Company’s Brighton Beach Memoirs is sincere, but unsubtle and unsatisfying theater. Then this production slowly starts to ramp up with increasingly affecting, occasionally moving performances that you wish had been there in the previous 90 minutes of stage time.

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Responsibility Examined In McKeever’s New ‘The Camp’

The Camp, a world premiere drama from the West Boca Theatre Company does not advance the age-old discussion how “good” people can be passively complicit in horrors, but Michael McKeever’s insightful script and a solid cast under Michael Leeds’ direction expertly provide a three-dimensional illustration that forces the audience to query their own souls about their responsibility to oppose evil.

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News: Timekeepers to Return, Plus Double Down Your Donation At Broward Center

If you missed Island City Stage’s Timekeepers last October, the company plans to team up with the West Boca Theatre Company to remount the show around the end of this calendar year and run three weeks into 2015 at the Levis Jewish Community Center.

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West Boca Theatre Paints Beautifully Rendered Family Portrait in From Door to Door

From Door to Door, James Sherman’s generational play at West Boca Theatre Company, that’s a mix of past and present is a brilliant paean to family life, and a heartfelt portrayal of the bond between mothers and daughters, .

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