Reviews

FAU Actors Celebrate Humanity with Powerful Performance of Musical, ‘Rent’

No Comments

Theater arts students at Florida Atlantic University are bringing their Summer Repertory schedule to an energetic conclusion with an unconventional musical production described by Director Kevin Covert as a “celebration of humanity and the human spirit.” Rent — a rock retelling of Giacomo Puccini‘s 1896 opera, “La Bohème” – taps an abundance of talented students, dresses them in meticulously crafted costumes and places them in the center of a stunningly designed set that portrays the seediness of a niche New York neighborhood circa 1996. 

Continue Reading

Reviews

A Musical Retelling of The Tortured Life Of A Legend in “Hank Williams: Lost Highway”

No Comments

Miami’s Actors Playhouse continues its commitment to mounting the productions it put off due to the pandemic with a production of Hank Williams: Lost Highway, a 1987 musical about the life of the titular country music legend. One of an array of biographical jukebox musicals probably chosen for the certainty the star’s name recognition will have, as far as attracting crowds. The show devotes much of its running time to recreations of the performances of Williams and his bandmates, who were together known as the Drifting Cowboys.

Continue Reading

Local News

RPM: A Night of One Acts

No Comments

Art ON in conjunction with Miami Arts Studio REP presents RPM: A Night of One Acts. Written by Miami native playwright Ozzie Quintana, we follow two stories of machismo and feminism with a Cuban backdrop; almost a hundred years apart in time, but timeless in their content.

Continue Reading

Reviews

Infinite Abyss’s Fun-Filled ‘Fright Night’ Revisits A Cult Classic

No Comments

Though the Halloween season may be a few months away, any impatient horror fans or theatre lovers can get a dose of spookiness a lot sooner than October thanks to Infinite Abyss’s Fright Night. Though the thrills the show offers are more in the campy vein than truly scary ones in this send up of the 1985 film of the same name, the relatively straightforward story is still genuinely creepy and suspenseful enough to easily keep audience attention for its two hour running time. 

Continue Reading

Reviews

A Murder Mystery Twist On The Classic Cabaret In ‘Love Is In The Air’

No Comments

Conundrum Stages and the Theatre Of Collaborative Arts recently partnered to present Love is in the Air: A Musical Mystery Show, a fun-filled performance that offered a twist on the time-tested genre of the cabaret by incorporating a mystery-themed frame story to make things a little more intriguing. Along with having migrated from an initial performance in West Palm Beach to Savor Cinema in Fort Lauderdale, the show was also adapted from an original dinner theatre format, a context that the style and silliness of the show were probably somewhat better suited to.

Continue Reading

Reviews

A High School Musical The Black Comedy Way In ‘Heathers’

No Comments

Though a musical that makes references to date rape, bulimia, child abuse and features not only multiple teen fatalities, but the prospect of a blown up school seems like an unlikely choice for a riotous night of comedy. However, there’s at least as many laughs as there are pathos in Heathers: The Musical. Based on the 1989 film, this zany high school musical is at once achingly earnest and outrageously risque, making for a slightly uneven but ultimately satisfying night of theatre in its current incarnation at the Lake Worth Playhouse.

Continue Reading

Movers & Shakers

Boca Woman’s Touching Musical Debuts July 15 at Kravis’ Rinker Playhouse

No Comments

Time Stops, A New Musical, a theatrical production venerating the bonds of unconditional love and the strength of the human spirit as it deals with the heartbreak and emptiness of loss, makes its world premiere later this month in the Rinker Playhouse at the Raymond F. Kravis Center for the Performing Arts, 701 Okeechobee Blvd., West Palm Beach. The performance that brings together a multi award-winning creative team to stage the piece that’s based on a book by Boca Raton resident Bonnie Logan opens July 15 and continues for a total of five showings through July 17.

Continue Reading
Close Menu