The Miami City Ballet will present a rare performance of “The Moor’s Pavane” Friday in West Palm Beach – specifically, at the Norton Museum of Art, 1450 S. Dixie Highway.
Playing at the Pembroke Pines Performing Arts Theater through November 7th, this production of Cabaret doesn’t reinvent the wheel, but rather aptly presents the wheel as it was once famously reinvented. Following the original highly controversial production in 1966, a memorable acclaimed 1980s revival of Cabaret added a few shocking staging conventions that have become the standard for most productions that followed.
The National Society of Arts & Letters of Florida just celebrated 40 years of supporting the hopes and aspirations of young local artists through scholarships and competitions with a glittering event at The Wick Theatre in Boca Raton.
What makes the difference between a monster and a man? This seems to be the primary question posed by Zoetic Stage’s production of Nick Dear’s Frankenstein, a thought-provoking adaptation of the classic novel that first premiered in 2011.
The Wick Theatre in Boca Raton kicks off its eighth season with the kicky, colorful, tune-filled romantic comedy, Mamma Mia! the musical blockbuster propelled with tunes by iconic Swedish rock group ABBA. The show that runs through Nov. 14 has truly earned the exclamation point in its title.
Ambitious might be an understatement to describe the breadth or enormity of what the Lake Worth Playhouse has undertaken in its first official show of its 2021-2022 season. That would be Peter and the Star Catcher, a zany play by Rick Elice that first hit Broadway in the early 2010s.
Mary Shelley’s classic will get a fresh take in the South Florida premiere of Nick Dear’s theatrical adaptation of “Frankenstein,” which kicks off Zoetic Stage’s 10th season as part of the Arsht Center’s Theater Up Close series, taking place at the Carnival Studio Theater from Oct. 14-31.
October 2 marks the one-year anniversary of the tragic, untimely death of music director Paul Reekie, 48, whose South Florida theatre legacy of about 15 years’ worth of work on dozens of area musicals, concerts and cabaret shows came to a sad end following an accident in his Boca Raton home.
After a long pandemic intermission, the theatre season is getting back into swing, and as of today, October 1st, the Carbonell Awards’ eligibility period has officially begun as well. But, after four theatres withdrew from the awards and 11 more signed an open letter calling some of their practices into questions, they aren’t quite back to business as usual. After discussions with a special committee of theatre professionals, several changes were made, which were first announced publicly at a Town Hall about two weeks ago.
Not every actor gets to clash sword-to-sword with Zorro; perform all the works of William Shakespeare within a single stage production; endure torture at the hands of a dystopian ecosphere’s evil dictator or create the character of a vain, pompous steward in a Shakespearean comedy while, at the same time, directing the show.
