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.
The last production the Main Street Players will offer in their current space before moving to a new location across the street later this year starts its provocations with its title. And Shakespeare is a White Supremacist, the new play by Andrew Watring that will be playing there through October 17th, definitely is taking them out on a high note.
Seeing as “mastodon undertaking” isn’t exactly common parlance, “mammoth undertaking” is probably the term I should use to describe the unique ambitions of Theatre Lab’s current production.
The morning before I arrived at the Miracle Theatre to see “¡Fuácata!or A Latina’s Guide to Surviving the Universe,” the funky one-woman show by Stuart Meltzer and Elena Maria Garcia that will be running there until this September 12th, I happened to be feeling very out of place.
Even if you already know all there is to know about Florida history, you still have plenty of reason to check out Florida: Her Stories, a unique digital production that “explores the stories of women who made and are making Florida.”
(Note: Assuming that nobody needs a spoiler warning for a 400 year old play here…)
Fittingly enough for a show that is perhaps most famous for the dejected Duke Orsino’s request that his musicians play on in the name of love, Palm Beach Shakespeare’s production of Twelfth Night lavishly leans into love and music alike.
Main Street Players is coming back from the pandemic with a bang with Wolf And Badger, the first of two world-premiere new plays that will make up the company’s abbreviated 2021 season.
Ironically enough for a play as funny and fun-filled as Off Balance, its world premiere is now taking place at Empire Stage under some uniquely tragic circumstances. The show is among the last works completed by the late local playwright Michael Aman, who died of brain cancer last May.
Towards the end of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Theseus asks, “What revels are in hand? Is there no play, to ease the anguish of a torturing hour?”
