MUSICAL ‘CHICAGO’ STILL RAZZLES-DAZZLES AFTER 50 YEARS, CURRENT TOUR AT ARSHT CENTER ONLY THROUGH SUNDAY JUNE 22
Pompano Players Presents a Fabulous 2025 – 2026 Theater Season
The lights are up in Pompano Beach! Pompano Beach Arts, in a creative partnership with Arts Center Management (ACM), proudly present their 2025 – 2026 Theater Season with a glowing lineup of classic favorites, trendy turns and Pompano Beach culture. Six off-Broadway productions, from toe-tapping musicals to heartfelt comedies, will take over the Pompano Beach Cultural Center’s stage from October 2025 through May 2026.
FAU’s Festival Rep Opens with Neil Simon’s First-Class Farce ‘RUMORS’ – Rumor Has It, This is One Fast-and-Furiously Funny Show!
When America’s most recognized and awarded and prolific TV and theater comedy writer – I’m speaking, of course, of the incomparable four-Emmy and 14 Tony, plus Pulitzer Prize-winning giant Neil Simon – decides to cheer himself up while “going through difficult times” by writing his “first farce” … We can expect it to be a doozy. RUMORS opened on Broadway in 1988 and ran for two years. All the while (at least in my opinion) setting a new, high bar for fast-paced, zany drawing-room comedy.
The Carbonell Awards is Seeking Nominations for Seven Special Awards
Gary Schweikhart, president of the Carbonell Awards, today announced that “South Florida’s Theater & Arts Honors” is seeking nominations for up to seven Special Awards that will be presented at the 48th annual Carbonell Awards Ceremony on Monday, November 17, at 7:30 p.m. at FAU’s University Theatre in Boca Raton.
Where Country Meets Borscht Belt and Corny Quips are King, ‘SHUCKED: A New Musical Comedy’ Raises the Barn in Nonstop Laughter at Broward Center
Sometimes you just need to laugh. And laugh…and laugh. No matter how silly and, well, “corny” the humor. Even at puns, lots of puns – outrageously bawdy ones, at that. It was only a few years ago that SHUCKED: A New Musical Comedy created a gee-whiz stir on Broadway for being so unprecedentedly silly yet sweet, lewd but not offensive, and always absolutely hilarious! The musical received nine Tony nominations in 2023 and won an award for Best Actor.
DIANE LYNN CREATES STREISAND MUSIC IN RETURN TO BOCA BACK BOX ON FRIDAY, JUNE 13
Singer Diane Lynn sings 20 plus songs from the career of Barbra Streisand in her third Boca Black Box Center for the Arts show in Boca Raton for her 90-minute show titled “Hello Gorgeous: A Tribute to Barbra Streisand” on Friday, June 13, marking her third appearance at Boca Black Box over the past year.
Whitney Houston’s Greatest Hits Stalk ‘THE BODYGUARD: The Musical’ Slow Burn’s Upbeat Thriller/Popstar Concert Explodes in Song and Dance
Carnivorous houseplants. Homicidal barbers. Psychotic wives and mothers. Miserable lives lived in figurative and literal Hell. Sometimes it feels like there’s no place too dark or outrageous for contemporary musical theater. If presented well, with talent to match, audiences will embrace any “horror” and clamor for more. But sometimes what sounds like a scary plot (like a mad killer on the loose?) is packed with so much musical talent and yes, joy, that it defies classification. Unless one is looking for colorful, beautifully executed, concert-level escapist fun.
BRUTAL ASPECTS OF POVERTY DRAMATIZED IN ‘MUD’ BY NEW LATINE THEATER LAB
The brutality exposed by poverty and ignorance as experienced by three individuals is the focus of the 75-minute one act drama “Mud” by playwright Maria Irene Fornes. The play, running now through Saturday, June 14 at Empire Stage in Ft. Lauderdale, marked an impressive opening to Latine Theater Lab, the new South Florida regional theater company.
‘I’m Rooting for the Theatre’: Audra McDonald Sends Well-Wishes to Broadway Ahead of the 2025 Tonys
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Written by: Diep Tran
‘I’m Rooting for the Theatre’: Audra McDonald Sends Well-Wishes to Broadway Ahead of the 2025 Tonys. The six-time Tony winner is up for another prize for her performance as Rose in Gypsy.
theAcademy@pbd presents It’s Only Life Music and Lyrics by John Bucchino June 27 – 29
