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.
For a show with a title as silly as Spamilton, the 2017 off-Broadway hit currently playing at the Kravis Center’s Rinker Playhouse until this December 5th, this spoof-tastic offering is a surprisingly smart one.
If you’re looking for some holiday oriented South Florida Theater fare this season, there’s no better place to start than with “Jacob Marley’s Christmas Carol,” starring British actor Colin McPhillamy and playing at the Adrienne Arsht Center’s Carnival Studio Theater from Dec. 2-19.
Middletown by Dan Clancy, which was first staged shortly before the pandemic, has arrived at Miami’s Actor’s Playhouse, as part of a rotating-cast tour co-produced by GFour Productions. This unapologetically sentimental show takes you on “the ride of your life,” at least as its roller coaster tagline would have it. That ride, though, is less a thrill-packed shocker than a mostly-comforting coast through two couples’ relatively average middle class lives, which they happen to be living in Middletown, New Jersey.
What does it really mean to fall in love? If you’re anything like the main and only two characters of Jennifer Lane’s To Fall In Love, Theatre Lab’s long-delayed post-pandemic offering, it means, or at least meant, being able to fill the “black hole” of your heart’s neediness with affection, being passionate enough to write hundreds of poems for someone, or feeling so strongly about someone that you can’t imagine being able to so much as survive without them.
As it prepares to open its 17th season shortly, the Symphonia Boca Raton is adding two Saturday concerts to accommodate additional audience members since both of its originally scheduled December and January Sunday afternoon productions are sold out.
The West Boca Theatre Company, sidelined for the better part of two seasons by a coronavirus shutdown, is back in business. The kickoff for its 2021-22 schedule is a frantically paced, one-man show called Fully Committed, a day-in-the-life, depiction of a person clearly overwhelmed by his demanding job.
Wherever you’ve come from to attend the touring production of Come From Away at West Palm Beach’s Raymond F. Kravis Center, you’re likely to come away from this production satisfied. The successful musical, which is still running on Broadway after a 2017 opening, takes place in 2001, during the immediate aftermath of the 9/11 attacks.
