Despite being on Broadway and various tours around the world for 50 years, the musical “Chicago” still endures. Written in 1975 with music by John Kander and lyrics by Fred Ebb, the latest incarnation of “Chicago” is still a razzle dazzle hit musical, playing only this week at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts in downtown Miami through Sunday, June 22.
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.
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 14Tony, 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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. The six-time Tony winner is up for another prize for her performance as Rose in Gypsy.
It’s Only Life, a revue featuring the sophisticated, deeply felt music and lyrics of John Bucchino, will be performed by six talented teenagers at Palm Beach Dramaworks from June 27-29. The show is being staged by theAcademy@pbd, a summer program that offers rigorous, professional-level training for both teen actors and stage managers and creates a safe and positive environment for optimal learning. In addition to the performers, two students are working on the production as assistant stage managers.
