As it prepares to open its 17th season shortly, the Symphonia Boca Raton is adding two Saturday concerts to accommodate additional audience members since both of its originally scheduled December and January Sunday afternoon productions are sold out.
The West Boca Theatre Company, sidelined for the better part of two seasons by a coronavirus shutdown, is back in business. The kickoff for its 2021-22 schedule is a frantically paced, one-man show called Fully Committed, a day-in-the-life, depiction of a person clearly overwhelmed by his demanding job.
Wherever you’ve come from to attend the touring production of Come From Away at West Palm Beach’s Raymond F. Kravis Center, you’re likely to come away from this production satisfied. The successful musical, which is still running on Broadway after a 2017 opening, takes place in 2001, during the immediate aftermath of the 9/11 attacks.
The Lake Worth Playhouse is at it again with a production of the 126-year-old Oscar Wilde classic The Importance Of Being Earnest. Director Daimien Matherson has put a modern spin on the famous farce by setting the production in today’s South Florida rather than 1890s London and by casting a non-binary female-presenting performer as protagonist Jack “Ernest” Worthing.
At the beginning of Gablestage’sThe Price, you can’t quite tell if the protagonist Victor (Gregg Weiner) is laughing or crying. He’s arrived in his father’s attic and put on a novelty “laugh record,” and hides his face as he shakes and vocalizes along.
Before I say anything about Old Tricks, the new play by Michael Bush now premiering at Empire Stage, the first thing I should probably note is that I was not quite a member of the target demographic. The play, which is marketed as a “gay comedy,” appeared to be succesfully attracting a plethora of older gay men, but I think I might’ve been the only woman in the whole theatre!
Politics is a nasty business. Its sinister entanglements are not confined to smoke-filled back rooms in hideaways scattered here and there within the Capital Beltway. They slink into the fancy steakhouses of Baltimore and the elaborate suburban New York abodes of upwardly mobile, would-be office seekers.
Long-time writer, director, actor and comedian Peter Bisuito was on the verge of fulfilling the dream of launching a television sitcom when “the coronavirus pandemic shut down the entire project.”
As a young girl growing up in Leavittown, N.Y., Diane Nardolillo Tyminski wasn’t outwardly expressive about her vocal talent. “I sang in secret. I was a frustrated singer,” said the woman who grew to be a frequent performer at community theaters in Lake Worth and Delray Beach, Florida. She moved to the Sunshine State 25 years ago, “alone,” she said. “My parents urged me to go on my own to get a start in school,” though they later followed.
