The jukebox musical, Breaking Up is Hard to Do, now playing at the Wick Theatre in Boca Raton, offers the audience a double shot of nostalgia. Not only does it feature 18 terrific tunes written and/or sung by Juilliard-trained ‘50s and ‘60s rock star Neil Sedaka, but it also revisits the era of Catskills comedy with a couple of romantic love stories that blossom at Esther’s Paradise, a Borscht Belt hostelry about to wrap up its summer of fun with a tune-filled Labor Day spectacle.
The Wick Theatre and Costume Museum recently hosted the 2022 Star Maker Awards for the National Society of Arts & Letters (NSAL) of Florida, which raised more than $47,000 to support the Boca Raton-based nonprofit’s mission of supporting local emerging performing and visual artists.
In the years before the COVID pandemic, it wasn’t out of the ordinary for drama students at Florida Atlantic University to conclude their theatrical seasons with the production of a Shakespearean work.
A captivating play written by a lawyer with 50-plus years of experience – a drama encapsulating the essentials of a deadly environmental lawsuit — recently concluded a brief series of tautly-told productions at the Mizner Park Cultural Center in Boca Raton.
Legends 100.3, the privately owned and operate full power live and local FM radio station based in the Palm Beaches, has scheduled a “Legends Radio’s Benefit Concert for Ukraine” on Wednesday, April 13 from 6 to 8 p.m. in the Abacoa Amphitheater and Green Market, 1267 Main St. in the downtown Abacoa section of Jupiter.
The American Civil War was not a laughing matter. But if anything, even slightly humorous, took place during the bloody War Between the States, it probably had something to do with a true-to-life participant in that conflict, a major general in the Union Army named Benjamin Franklin Butler.
Not every theatrical troupe can handle the bold presentments, sexualized nuances and provocative, cutting-edge themes characteristic of a Tennessee Williams play.
A couple of familiar stars from ‘70s and ‘80s TV comedy series bring their talents to Pompano Beach this weekend for two stage performances of James Graham Bronson’s whimsical play, Willie & Esther.
Many so-called “oldies” shows that come crammed with nostalgic songs from the 1950s and ‘60s, but which offer little diversity otherwise, run a pretty tight gamut – from “so-so” to “just OK.”
