An Electrifying Journey In Zoetic’s Gripping ‘Next To Normal’
LAUGHS AND MOSTLY TEARS PREVAIL IN ‘MARTY’S BACK IN TOWN’ AT THE STUDIO IN MIZNER PARK IN BOCA RATON
Some laughs, but mostly sadness and tears best describes emotions felt after seeing “Marty’s Back In Town”, a two act play by playwright Norman Shabel, running from Friday, March 24 through Sunday, April 2 at The Studio at Mizner Park in Boca Raton.
The Women are all On Board in Female Version of Neil Simon’s ‘Odd Couple’
Neil Simon’s blockbuster comedy, The Odd Couple, has been packaged, repackaged, filmed, performed live, aired on TV and altered in a variety of ways. To bring its 2022-23 season to a close on a highly humorous note, Boca Stage presents a comic version of Simon’s 1980’s reworking of his original production – one that casts the two lead characters and all their working-class buddies as women.
Moments of Reckoning Given Soulful Voice In ‘Songs From The Brink’
It’s always exciting to find oneself stumbling upon a world premiere, especially one that shows as much promise as Songs from the Brink, a new song-cycle style musical by South Florida playwriting and composing team Robyn Eli Brenner and Mackenzie Anderson.
Zoetic Stage Finds A “Perfect Musical for These Times” In Upcoming Production of ‘Next To Normal’
If you’ve ever found yourself “living on a latte and a prayer” or wondering how you can keep it all together, you’ll probably find a lot to relate to in Next To Normal, the 2009 Pulitzer Prize winning musical that looks to be on its way to becoming a modern classic.
‘Damn Yankees’ comes to the Wick Theatre in Boca. The devil you say!
For the next few weeks, the Wick Theatre in Boca Raton can boast that it has assembled a crack ensemble of folks with intimate ties to the Great American Pastime – baseball – and who are truly worth their weight in rosin and chewin’ tobacco. The reason? The popular big league hit from the mid-1950s, the musical comedy, Damn Yankees, has come to the Wick stage with its plethora of idiosyncrasies – a dominant husband and wife romance theme, lots of devil-may-care antics and a terrific musical score.
A Flawed Fairytale Redeemed By A Winning Cast In ‘Pretty Woman’
Given its generally negative reception and outdated premise, I was not particularly expecting to have much fondness for Pretty Woman: The Musical, which you’ll find at West Palm Beach’s Kravis Center for only the rest of this week. But, first off, I’ll admit; at least while under the influence of swoon-worthy vocals, romantic allusions to destiny, and overpriced champagne, it was surprisingly easy to feel myself taken in by the show’s fairytale charms.
An Intimate Look At A Fracturing Friendship in ‘I Wanna F#%_king Tear You Apart’
Island City Stage scores again with I Wanna F#%*king Tear You Apart, a show far more tender and nuanced than you might expect based on its violent title. Though the ugly emotions the name implies do rear their head throughout, the subject of the play could probably be more accurately described as friendship than anger—though it also ultimately implies that the need for someone’s love and the desire to destroy them may not be as far apart as they sometimes seem.
Darkly Comedic ‘Cemetery Pub’ Digs Into Another Dysfunctional Family
To evoke the famous opening of Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina: while happy families may all be alike, there are countless ways in which each unhappy family is uniquely dysfunctional. Thus, it isn’t altogether surprising that playwright Tom Dugan has discovered a hilarious and original play by bringing together a few quirky family members in Cemetery Pub. Pigs Do Fly’s production at Wilton Manors venue Empire Stage is only the second of this new play, which has only been produced once before at a makeshift venue in the playwright’s backyard.
“Wicked” at the Arsht Center Defies Gravity
