I guess it’s true what they say, time really does FLY when you are having fun.
As I sit here and try to reflect on the past year of South Florida Theater Magazine and life in general, I have trouble wrapping my head around the fact that it really has been a full year.
The Wick Theatre and Costume Museum recently hosted the 2022 Star Maker Awards for the National Society of Arts & Letters (NSAL) of Florida, which raised more than $47,000 to support the Boca Raton-based nonprofit’s mission of supporting local emerging performing and visual artists.
If you live in South Florida, you know these people — or maybe you are one of them. They could be your friends, neighbors, relatives, parents, grandparents.
In the years before the COVID pandemic, it wasn’t out of the ordinary for drama students at Florida Atlantic University to conclude their theatrical seasons with the production of a Shakespearean work.
First produced in 1956 and based on an even earlier 1913 play by George Bernard Shaw, My Fair Lady has certainly been around long enough to have become a recognizable part of the cultural canon. But if you make it to the Kravis Center’s current production of the musical, which is playing there until this April 24th, you should come prepared for a few major surprises.
It’s hard to know quite what to make of a play like This Is Our Youth, Area Stage’s current theatrical offering. First staged in 1996 and set in 1982, it’s a play that is at once very much of its time, with references to the Reagan White House and a conspicuous lack of cell service, yet very much universal in its portrayal of the aching aimlessness of uncertain youth, a limited scope that is perhaps both a strength and a limitation.
PRETTY WOMAN: THE MUSICAL, based on one of Hollywood’s most beloved romantic stories of all time, is now on tour! Starring Broadway superstar and Tony Award®-nominee Adam Pascal as Edward Lewis and rising star Olivia Valli as the charming and charismatic Vivian Ward, PRETTY WOMAN: THE MUSICAL springs to life with a powerhouse creative team led by two-time Tony Award®-winning director and choreographer Jerry Mitchell (Hairspray, Kinky Boots, Legally Blonde).
Somewhere in Philadelphia, Elliot has returned from Iraq and is struggling to find his place in the world. Somewhere in a chat room, recovering addicts keep each other alive, hour by hour, day by day. The boundaries of family and community are stretched across continents and cyberspace as birth families splinter and online families collide. This beautiful Pulitzer Prize winning play is a heartfelt meditation on lives on the brink of redemption.
A captivating play written by a lawyer with 50-plus years of experience – a drama encapsulating the essentials of a deadly environmental lawsuit — recently concluded a brief series of tautly-told productions at the Mizner Park Cultural Center in Boca Raton.
