It’s the best time of the year: theater season-opening time. On Tuesday, October 29, the Kravis Center began its 2024-2025 season of Kravis on Broadway with the hilarious musical adaptation of “Mrs. Doubtfire.” The beloved role of Robin Williams takes the theatrical stage with new characters, a litany of songs, and removes the layer of transphobia present in the movie’s side characters. It expands on the plot, providing more context while modernizing things with hidden caller ID on cell phones and emails, and what is left is an incredible piece of art retelling one of your favorite childhood movies.
MJ The Musical is set to revive its beloved annual Halloween tradition on October 31, featuring a spectacular finale performance of Michael Jackson’s iconic “Thriller.” This event promises an unforgettable experience with the original choreography from the legendary music video, enhanced by unique one-night-only costumes, stunning lighting, and captivating projections.
Forget about Halloween Fright Nights. Nothing can compete with scary reality. Last night my Holocaust survivor parents (deceased for over two decades) suddenly appeared in my dreams. Not all that surprising as I’d just returned from FAUTheatreLab’s opening of THE LAST YIDDISH SPEAKERbyDeborahZoe Laufer. The last time I’d heard so much Yiddish – my first/only language till the age of 3 – was when they were still alive. My father also often quoted an Aramaic saying from the Talmud (we are a people schooled in many tongues), “Girsade-yankuta girsa,” which basically translates to “Lessons learned as a young child are lessons learned for life.”
Remember sitting around a campfire listening to ghost stories? For me, it was the pitch black of the forest of the Pocono mountains, each storyteller trying to top the one before them with a yarn even more horrific. Zoetic Stage’s season opener provokes a similar feeling with its in-the-round production of British playwright Martin McDonagh’s “The Pillowman” running through Sunday, Nov. 10 at the Carnival Studio in the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts, Miami.
With a grand statement, Miami City Ballet opens their 2024-2025 season with George Balachine’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” For those connecting the dots, Balanchine choreographed a ballet inspired by William Shakespeare’s ethereal play of the same name, scored by Felix Mendelssohn’s music also titled after the play. What Miami City Ballet has premiered before, they bring back with vigor and polish. Their own take on the woodlands of the Fairie Kingdom? An underwater, coastal plane, nodding to their Florida roots.
The Delray Beach Playhouse is excited to announce the nominees for the newly renamed 2024 DelLago Awards Gala, celebrating outstanding performances from the 2023-2024 season. The gala will take place on November 7, 2024, at 6:00 p.m. at the Delray Beach Playhouse. A limited number of seats are now available for the public at just $29 per person. The winners of the awards will be revealed and honored in-person at the event.
Audience members of all stripes are likely to find much to love in Island City Stage’s charming production of The Fantasticks. After first premiering off-Broadway in 1960 to mixed reviews, this little-show-that-could shocked even its investors by proceeding to run for a record-breaking 42 years. It has since had one major off-Broadway revival, during which it ran 11 more, and continues to be one of the most performed musicals around the world.
If anything, Broward Center-based Slow Burn Theatre Company knows how to pick their musicals and put on a spectacular show. They chose the perfect opener for their exceptional 15th Anniversary Season in THE WITCHES OF EASTWICK: A Musical Comedy, with book and lyrics by John Dempsey and music by Dana P. Rowe. The musical features a trio of sexy, unfulfilled women who discover their supernatural powers together, claim their right to happiness, then join in extinguishing the evil “influencer” they’d inadvertently conjured up to fulfill their deepest desires.
No less impactful for its understated nature, Thinking Cap Theatre’s current production of playwright Abi Morgan’s Lovesongis a beautifully bittersweet journey through one heterosexual couple’s 40 year marriage. Somewhat more down-to-earth than some of the company’s more experimental ventures, the play features the aforementioned couple as the only onstage characters. But, adding a stirring spark to what would otherwise be a fairly conventional domestic drama, the play intersperses scenes of the couple in their youth with snapshots of them in their old-age.
Today in West Palm Beach, FL, the iconic Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli joyfully announced that his eagerly anticipated 2025 North American tour will include a much-anticipated return to the Amerant Bank Arena in Sunrise, a performance presented by the esteemed Raymond F. Kravis Center for the Performing Arts. This special concert is scheduled for Sunday, February 16, 2025, and it will honor the spirit of Valentine’s Day, making it a perfect occasion for couples and music lovers alike to celebrate love through Bocelli’s enchanting melodies.