Given so many stories of parental abuse, the film screening of the 2016 film “Look At Us Now, Mother” on Tuesday, Jan. 21 at 1 p.m. is a reminder that the family dynamic can look a lot different than what seems on the surface.
A cold front might be working its way through South Florida, but there’s no need to worry—The Maltz Jupiter Theatre’s production of Frozen is guaranteed to warm your heart even on the chilliest January day. Directed by Tony nominee John Tartaglia, the story (based on the beloved 2013 Disney film) follows sisters Elsa (Tristen Buettel) and Anna (Brooke Quintana), princesses whose once-unbreakable bond is now on thin ice, severed by isolation.
From George and Ira Gershwin to Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, from Irving Berlin to John Kander and Fred Ebb or from Jerry Herman to Stephen Sondheim and Leonard Bernstein, Jewish composers and entertainers have been an integral part of the Broadway and American pop lexicon for well over a century.
Prolific, award-winning and long-lived (he died in 2020 at the age of 81) American playwright/writer/actor/director Israel Horovitz boasts over 70 produced plays in the US and internationally. He’s also the most produced American playwright in France, ever, (where he often directed French versions of his work). Not all that surprising, given that he divided his time between France and the States for most of his life.
Since singing the songs of The Great American Songbook of the 1940s-70s with his grandmother in Connecticut as a young man, Drew Anthony was told for many decades how much he resembled and sounded like singer Dean Martin. Martin first starred as the musical half of a comedy/music duo with Jerry Lewis from 1946-56, before starring on his own until he passed away in 1995.
The world premiere of a riotously funny stage production co-authored by a couple of local writers — ex-northerners turned South Floridians — is about to open at The Studio in Boca Raton’s Mizner Park.
It is not only nostalgia, but a salute to the art of songwriting and the ability of making anecdotes come alive through melody that is most appealing of the South Florida premiere of “Both Sides Now’, starring singers Robbie Schaefer and Danielle Wertz, running now through January 5 at GableStage in Coral Gables.
Nothing beats a smashing musical to lift your spirits and banish those post-holiday blues! Happily, our local theater companies are providing this “public service” by ringing in the New Year with a bounty of musical offerings – both classic and new.
Many comedians, including actor/comedian Peter Fogel, will tell you that the funniest things that make people laugh are the absurd realities that happen to all of us every day.
For a special Christmas and New Year’s run, Slow Burn Theatre Company is in the midst of its 15th Anniversary Season, and their current production of “Anastasia the Musical” is perfect for December. A take on the beloved animated Disney movie from 1997 with the same name, the production features a wintery Russia and an aristocratic Paris; snowy and cozy both are general feelings with which you leave. Taking fairly major diversions from the movie musical with which we all fell in love with Anya and Dimitry, the musical encapsulates the feeling of family and December, but ultimately misses on the magic from the film.
