Actors/singers Natalie Cordone and Shawn Kilgore team to perform in the cabaret show “Vegas Baby: Hits of the Headliners” on Saturday, August 5 at Aventura Arts & Cultural Center in Aventura.
As I’ve been hearing since before this season even started as the company’s blogger-in-residence, all the New City Players’ ensemble members set to reprise their roles from our 2020 podcast adaptation of Stephen Brown’s Little Montgomery have expressed nothing but enthusiasm at the prospect of revisiting their larger-than-life characters IRL in our upcoming production.
In 1994, 22-year-old actress Jodie Langel was a wannabe Broadway star, receiving positive reviews for her performances on The Great White Way in a stellar production of “Les Miserables,” followed by national Broadway in America touring productions of “Cats” and “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat,” among other musicals.
For 32 years, Karen Peterson & Dancers (KPD) have been conducting stage performances aimed at focusing public attention on physically integrated dance presentations. Her ensemble will celebrate that multi-decade milestone with a very special production of “Repertory Favorites,” a multidisciplinary dance concert, May 27 and May 28 at The Dennis C. Moss Cultural Arts Center’s Lab Theatre in South Florida.
The Deborah & Larry D. Silver Center for Jewish Engagement, a program of the Jewish Federation of South Palm Beach County, will host a concert, called “Echoes of Hope,” featuring the music of composers who survived/endured the Holocaust.
Five years ago, singer/songwriter Neil Diamond gave a sold-out concert at FLA Live Arena in Sunrise in honor of his 50th anniversary as a recording artist in 2017. Less than a year later, the then 77-year-old Diamond announced, to the dismay of his fans, that he will no longer tour after he was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease.
Next month, South Florida playwright Luis Roberto Herrera (who also happens to be a frequent contributor to our magazine!) is hoping to take on the world in more ways than one. If he is able to successfully raise the funds to showcase his new semi-autobiographical one man show in the slot to which it has been accepted at the Frigid New York Fringe Festival, Herrera will then quite literally attempt to consume that world as the play’s main character.
This is just the beginning of an ongoing conversation.
Theatre is an art that cannot exist without intimacy – and that word has a whole spectrum of life that goes beyond just physical touch between two people. With the development of intimacy direction, actors and creators are not only given more room to explore, but an intimacy director can help tell a story in a way that maybe they had never even considered outside the very obvious route.
