If you intend to follow in the footsteps of powerful-voiced actress/singer Ethel Merman, you’d best do more than vocalize. You’ve got to BELT!
If you’re looking for a group of great belters and a show inspired by the likes of Ms. Merman and her flock, check out the Wick Theatre’s production of Gypsy that continues through Feb. 13.
You don’t have to get very far into Armature by Andrew Kramer before it is clear that the play is building towards an inflammatory conclusion. Eerie references to a “burning” emerge early on in this world premiere offering from Island City Stage, a burning that, when it finally occurs, seems to be a shocking yet inevitable result of threatening racial, sexual, and political tensions threaded throughout the story.
It’s good to see MNM Theatre Company back in business. Now having moved from its former location at the Kravis Center’s Rinker Playhouse and set up shop at the Lauderhill Performing Arts Center, the company makes a priority of casting Florida-based actors in its high quality productions, a welcome policy when some of the other bigger and flashier companies in the area are wont to bring in out of towners.
In today’s world, it’s pretty damn hard to be happy, and especially so if you happen to hate your job. So it’s difficult to imagine many modern day workers who would not hold some sympathy for Meena Pierotti, the depressed protagonist of RX, a charming dark comedy by Kate Fodor which first premiered in 2012.
Almost, Maineby John Cariani is certainly an interesting addition to Palm Beach Dramaworks’ 2021-2022 roster. After an acclaimed run in Portland in 2004, Almost Maine managed only a one month run off-broadway, but gained notoriety in its afterlife as its producibility, broad appeal, and flexible casting requirements resulted in the play becoming unexpectedly popular with high school and other regional groups.
If you’re in the mood for a moderately entertaining musical comedy sporting a tuneful country score, you’re likely to have an enjoyable night out atthe Lake Worth Playhouse’s current production of 9 To 5.
It was an honor to be in attendance at the first non-preview performance of a work as original, fresh, and vital as Zoetic Stage’s production of Gringolandia. This new work by Hannah Benitez, a playwright and performer with Miami roots, is the first commissioned piece from Zoetic, an intriguing new initiative for the company that got off to a great start with this past weekend’s world premiere.
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.
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.
