Bevy of Sedaka tunes buttresses Catskills romcom to conclude 2021-22 season at Wick Theatre
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.
NSAL Star Maker Awards spotlight rising performers, two ‘achievers’
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.
GABLESTAGE’S ‘BOCA’ PONDERS LIFE & LOVE IN A SENIOR WORLD
By Christine Dolen
If you live in South Florida, you know these people — or maybe you are one of them. They could be your friends, neighbors, relatives, parents, grandparents.
FAU drama students wrap 2021-22 season with impressive performance of Shakespeare’s ‘Richard III’
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.
An Old-Fashioned And Elegant ‘My Fair Lady’
First produced in 1956 and based on an even earlier 1913 play by George Bernard Shaw, My Fair Lady has certainly been around long enough to have become a recognizable part of the cultural canon. But if you make it to the Kravis Center’s current production of the musical, which is playing there until this April 24th, you should come prepared for a few major surprises.
Troubled Twentysomethings Take A Wild Ride In “This Is Our Youth”
It’s hard to know quite what to make of a play like This Is Our Youth, Area Stage’s current theatrical offering. First staged in 1996 and set in 1982, it’s a play that is at once very much of its time, with references to the Reagan White House and a conspicuous lack of cell service, yet very much universal in its portrayal of the aching aimlessness of uncertain youth, a limited scope that is perhaps both a strength and a limitation.
Attorney-authored, ‘A Class Act,’ offers edgy take on lawyers battling to settle deadly ecological lawsuit
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.
LIVE FROM WESTCHESTER, IT’S ‘NOT READY FOR PRIME TIME’!
Originally Written By Michelle F. Solomon for ArtburstMiami.com