One would not think that an actress currently starring as the lead characters in the musicals “Camelot” and “My Fair Lady” at the Wick Theatre in Boca Raton for a lengthy three month run would have to be concerned about finding another job.
However, actress Allyson Rosenblum learned early on that life in show business, despite earning many standing ovations for her acting and singing, would not guarantee her a 40 hour work week, a two week paid vacation or a 401k retirement plan.
Playwright Nicholas Griffin refreshed South Floridians, especially those residing in Miami-Dade County, on the conflicting times in 1980 in his one act drama “English Only”, a Miami New Drama production running now through February 22 at the Colony Theatre in Miami Beach.
Playwright Nilo Cruz challenges audiences to use their imagination in recreating a tragic love story set in 1939 in a two act drama “Sotto Voce”, running now through February 15 at GableStage in Coral Gables.
Legendary singers Frank Sinatra and Barbra Streisand have never performed live on stage over their long careers, but an imagined concert titled “The Way We Were” featuring singers Dorian Clara and Frank Frizalone will team the duo performing the music of Streisand and Sinatra in two dinner concerts starting at 6 p.m. this weekend on Friday, Jan. 16 and Saturday Jan. 17 at The Wick Theater Supper Club in Boca Raton. Tickets for each show is $180 which includes dinner, gratuities and the concert The Saturday Jan. 17 show is sold out.
Singer Diane Lynn sings 20 plus songs from the career of Barbra Streisand in her 90 minute two act Boca Black Box Center for the Arts show on Sunday, Dec. 28 at 2 p.m.in Boca Raton titled “Hello Gorgeous: A Tribute to Barbra Streisand.” Lynn will be making her fourth appearance at Boca Black Box.
“I love the Boca Raton audiences and I met so many people after the past shows who tell me how much Barbra Streisand has moved them over the years. It is always an honor to pay tribute to Barbra and it never gets old for me,” said Lynn from her home in Weston.
Playwright Delia Ephron’s openness to finding love in her 70s after a long 35 year marriage ended is the central focus of her autobiographical one act drama LEFT ON TENTH, running now through Dec. 21 at GableStage in Coral Gables.
On the surface, ‘Clue: Live on Stage’ appears to be a story about solving a murder mystery and sounds like it will be a whodunit dramatic mystery with the audience being on edge until the mystery is solved.
Except the reality of this play is different as audiences will see as “Clue: Live on Stage” is running now though Sunday, Dec.7 at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts in downtown Miami as part of the Broadway in Miami series this season.
Despite thousands of books, films and plays written about The Holocaust and specifically the deaths of millions of Jews in the Auschwitz concentration camp in Nazi Germany from 1933-45, one would think that all that needs to be expressed about Auschwitz has been accomplished. But there is evidence that changes that perspective. The one act drama “Here There are Blueberries” by playwright Moises Kaufman and Amanda Gronich, running now through December 14 at Miami New Drama’s Colony Theater in Miami Beach, focuses on the Nazi Germany perpetrators. The central focus of the play is on the discovered Hocker photo album, a scrapbook of photos taken by a Nazi officer stationed at Auschwitz during the 1940s.
On the surface, the story behind playwright Larry Gelbart’s (who is most well-known for creating the television series “M.A.S.H.) two act comedy “Better Late”, running now through November 30 at Empire Stage in Ft. Lauderdale, is about how husband Lee (played by actor Geoff Freitag) and wife Nora (Patti Gardner) have to cope with having a new resident in their home, Nora’s ex-husband Julian (Peter W. Galman) on a temporary basis.
Although known largely for her comic roles, actress Jeni Hacker conveys anger, laughter and sadness as the quirky mother “Anne” in playwright Florian Zeller’s one act drama with comic overtones titled “The Mother”, running now through Sunday, Nov. 23 at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts in downtown Miami.
