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.
(Fort Lauderdale, FL.) – Disney Theatrical Group and Bank of America Broadway in Fort Lauderdale Series with presenting Sponsor Nicklaus Children’s Hospital, announced today that tickets for the long-awaited return engagement of Disney’s The Lion King will go on sale to the public on Friday, October 18 at 10am. Fort Lauderdale’s most eagerly awaited return will once again leap onto the Broward Center stage on Thursday, March 6 for a limited four-week engagement through Sunday, March 30. The first performance is Thursday, March 6 at 2:00pm with opening night on Friday, March 7 at 7:30pm.
Back with another rockstar production, Lake Worth Playhouse’s “The Prom” is a testament to love, acceptance, and the magic that prom night can bring. As the second production in their 72nd season, “The Prom” is another facet in cultivating the next generation of theater-goers that this playhouse and so many others like it are doing. Lake Worth is giving performing opportunities to students, and few do. Students and adults alike who haven’t seen “The Prom” are going to love it.
Noted South Florida legends Avi Hoffman and Klezmer Company Jazz Orchestra Director Aaron Kula team with many dancers to perform in “Yiddish Tangos” on Saturday, October 19 at 8 p.m. at the Aventura Arts and Cultural Center in Aventura.
A person’s wardrobe can evoke just as many memories as their camera roll or scrapbook can. My own closet still boasts the cozy zip-up hoodie I gave my bat mitzvah guests as a party favor, the classic floor-length black dress I wore to my senior prom, and the chunky orange-and-green beads my university handed out at graduation. Love, Loss, and What I Wore takes this idea of one’s closet being a time capsule and brings it to life onstage, kicking off the Pompano Players’ inaugural season at the Pompano Beach Cultural Center in the most unforgettable, relatable, and of course, hilarious way possible.
