Lots of people spend years wondering if they’ve chosen the right career path in life.
Niki Fridh isn’t one of them. “I’ve never questioned my decision to be an actor,” said the brown-eyed, brown-haired performing artist who has trod a vast expanse of proscenia since arriving in South Florida – with acting on her mind and in her heart — some 25 years.
The recent spike of coronavirus cases in the Sunshine State has taken a toll on the planned January openings of two major Palm Beach County performing arts festivals, according to social media postings from the sponsoring organizations.
When my wife and I moved to Florida from “up north” in 2000, I couldn’t locate my collection of vinyl “LPs,” so the array of titles heavy on Beatles, Beach Boys, Four Seasons and, yes, the Monkees, didn’t make the trip south.
One of the most recognizable and beloved women ever to walk the Earth – Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis – endured more in her short 64 years of life than any human being should face.
As if life hasn’t been difficult enough with the 20-month lockdown we endured due to the COVID-19 pandemic and additional stresses from the Delta strain that followed, now area theaters and their audiences are bracing for what challenges the new Omicron variant of this insidious virus will bring.
What is there to say about Dear Evan Hansen? Probably, not a lot that hasn’t already been said somewhere on the internet, considering both the show’s popularity and the intensity of the discourse that has surrounded it. After premiering on Broadway in 2016, the show won six of the nine Tony Awards that it was nominated for, including Best Musical, but has since suffered somewhat of a backlash after a widely critically panned movie version cast somewhat of a different light on its source.
Marilyn Monroe was clearly one of the most famous, yet least understood film stars in Hollywood history. The rationale – if there is one – for her untimely death in August 1962 has never been explained with certainty, only repackaged in books, films and conspiracy theories that continue to swirl 59 years later.
If your holiday spirit is a tad low, there’s a show in town that can truly perk up your seasonal sensibilities. Legendary entertainer Marilyn Maye and co-star Nicolas King are headlining “A Winter Spectacular” through Dec. 19 at Boca Raton’s Wick Theatre.
The People Downstairs, which is playing at Dramaworks until this December 19, isn’t the first play about theHolocaust I’ve come across in my reviewing days, nor even the first I’ve come across this season.
Elizabeth Price has been an actor and director in theatre and film in Los Angeles, New Orleans, Dallas, Austin, Atlanta and New Mexico. But since earning her Master of Fine Arts degree in Acting from Boca Raton’s Florida Atlantic University in 2014, she has called South Florida her home and main artistic venue.
