A 33-year-old mother of three, Rachel Pedeaux, remains in a coma at a South Florida hospital after experiencing a sudden cardiac arrest attributed to an undiagnosed congenital heart condition, as reported by her family.
Rachel collapsed the morning after Thanksgiving while visiting her parents in South Florida, having traveled from her home in New Orleans. Subsequent medical examinations revealed that she has Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome, a condition that interferes with the heart’s electrical conduction system and often goes unnoticed for years.
From Arlen and Harburg (“Over the Rainbow”) to Bacharach and David (“Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head”); from Rodgers and Hammerstein (Carousel) to Jerry Herman (La Cage Aux Folles) and from Stephen Schwartz (Wicked) to Bock and Harnick (Fiddler on the Roof), Jewish composers and artists have contributed tremendously to the Great American Songbook, to Broadway musicals, to pop music and to theatre and the arts in general.
The David Posnack Jewish Community Center’s The Overlap is excited to announce that tickets are on sale for Speaking Up in Every Key: A Musical Celebration featuring Broadway stars Seth Rudetsky, Lillias White, and Arielle Jacobs. Taking place on February 22, 2026, at 7pm at the Miramar Cultural Center, the event will blend musical theater performances from all three stars with stories to explore how the arts spark empathy, connection, and true allyship.
On December 23, The Choir of Man arrived at the Kravis Center as part of its official U.S. tour, transforming the Dreyfoos Hall stage into a working pub, inviting the audience to order a pint. Nine men gather in a bar, they drink, they sing, they tell stories, and they invite the audience into the ritual. Over the course of ninety-some minutes, the show presents a sequence of musical numbers drawn from rock, folk, and pop, each loosely anchored to one of the men, the Joker (Conor Mellor), the Hard Man (RJ Griffith), the Poet (Conor Hanley), the Bore (Lewis Bennett), the Romantic (Tristan Whincup), the Beast (Rob Godfrey), the Handyman (Adam Hilton), the Barman (Mark Loveday), and the Maestro (Lee O’Reily). There is no narrative arc in the traditional sense. Instead, the evening unfolds as a night at the pub would, with songs, banter, toasts, moments of vulnerability, and a collective closing number and last call.
Looking to extend some holiday cheer? You can’t do better than take the whole family to see Slow Burn Theatre Company’s magical, brrr…shivery, snowy (bring sweaters – if anything, the suggestive power of winter is real!) production of Disney’s FROZEN: The Broadway Musical. But you need to act fast! This extremely popular show closes on January 4. Happily, because all Slow Burn musicals are mounted in Broward Center’s midsize Amaturo Theater, no seat is too far for a great view of all the magic onstage.
Singer Diane Lynn sings 20 plus songs from the career of Barbra Streisand in her 90 minute two act Boca Black Box Center for the Arts show on Sunday, Dec. 28 at 2 p.m.in Boca Raton titled “Hello Gorgeous: A Tribute to Barbra Streisand.” Lynn will be making her fourth appearance at Boca Black Box.
“I love the Boca Raton audiences and I met so many people after the past shows who tell me how much Barbra Streisand has moved them over the years. It is always an honor to pay tribute to Barbra and it never gets old for me,” said Lynn from her home in Weston.
Connor McPherson’s “The Seafarer,” now on stage at Palm Beach Dramaworks, arrives as a fitting addition to the company’s season, offering audiences a work that is as unsettling as it is humane. Set on a bleak Christmas Eve in a small seaside town in Ireland, the play unfolds largely in one room, yet its emotional and metaphysical reach extends far beyond its modest physical confines. McPherson’s text blends folklore, existential dread, and dark humor, creating a quiet but persistent tension that lingers long after the final scene.
Given our daily international news shockers, homeless and addiction numbers, soaring unemployment, not to mention the constant threat of gun violence, climate disasters, pandemics and poverty, many in our country would say we currently live in “miserable” times. Why rush to see more misery in LES MISÉRABLES, despite its exalted reputation as the “world’s most popular and beloved musical”? The musical is based on renowned French writer and activist Victor Hugo’s sensational (and banned by the Catholic Church) 1862 novel about the mistreatment and hopeless lives endured daily by the French underclass – especially, the number-tattooed, and thus marked-for-life as felons, incarcerated “criminals” who are routinely debased and used for slave labor.
Hundreds of festive philanthropical guests turned out to honor local community leaders during Galleria Fort Lauderdale’s inaugural “Spirit of Giving Night” at Dillard’s on December 4. More than $18,000 was raised to support seven nonprofit organizations: Children’s Diagnostic and Treatment Center, FLITE Center, Florida Children’s Theatre, Handy, Henderson Behavioral Health, Leadership Broward Foundation, and South Florida Symphony Orchestra.
Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, the author’s celebrated tale of a wretched skinflint named Ebenezer Scrooge who finds lifesaving redemption with help from a bevy of ghostly apparitions on a fateful Christmas Eve in mid-19th century London, has returned for his attitude adjustment.
Only this time, the makeover is filled with song and dance. The version at the Wick Theatre in Boca Raton is a dynamic musical adaptation of Dickens’ original novella. The production, told in a single act split into multiple scenes, is drawn from a book by Mike Ockrent and Lynn Ahrens. It features a dozen delightful songs by master composers Ahrens and Alan Menken.
