Singer Chris Ruggiero at age 23 is from an era far removed from the vintage 1950s rock and roll sounds of The Duprees, Paul Anka, Frankie Valli and other musical stars of the era.
However, Ruggiero is a fervent fan of the rock and roll era and will showcase his love and skills in performing vintage songs ranging from the 1950s through early 70s at his concert on Friday, March 17 at Aventura Arts & Cultural Center in Aventura.
For the next few weeks, the Wick Theatre in Boca Raton can boast that it has assembled a crack ensemble of folks with intimate ties to the Great American Pastime – baseball – and who are truly worth their weight in rosin and chewin’ tobacco. The reason? The popular big league hit from the mid-1950s, the musical comedy, Damn Yankees, has come to the Wick stage with its plethora of idiosyncrasies – a dominant husband and wife romance theme, lots of devil-may-care antics and a terrific musical score.
Broadway actress and singer Liz Callaway will join the Symphony Of The Americas in a concert of music titled “Stephen Sondheim A Tribute! To Steve With Love” featuring the music of Broadway composer Stephen Sondheim on March 14 at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts in Ft. Lauderdale.
Given its generally negative reception and outdated premise, I was not particularly expecting to have much fondness for Pretty Woman: The Musical, which you’ll find at West Palm Beach’s Kravis Center for only the rest of this week. But, first off, I’ll admit; at least while under the influence of swoon-worthy vocals, romantic allusions to destiny, and overpriced champagne, it was surprisingly easy to feel myself taken in by the show’s fairytale charms.
Island City Stage scores again with I Wanna F#%*king Tear You Apart, a show far more tender and nuanced than you might expect based on its violent title. Though the ugly emotions the name implies do rear their head throughout, the subject of the play could probably be more accurately described as friendship than anger—though it also ultimately implies that the need for someone’s love and the desire to destroy them may not be as far apart as they sometimes seem.
Successful writer, notorious name dropper, and unapologetic social climber, Truman Capote was all these things and more. His closest friends were among the richest and most famous names in Hollywood and of the Park Avenue jet set. They loved and adored “Tru” until the day in late 1975 he allowed Esquire Magazine to publish a chapter from his unfinished semi-fictionalized novel “Answered Prayers” that exposed the deepest and darkest secrets of his nearest and dearest pals.
To evoke the famous opening of Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina: while happy families may all be alike, there are countless ways in which each unhappy family is uniquely dysfunctional. Thus, it isn’t altogether surprising that playwright Tom Dugan has discovered a hilarious and original play by bringing together a few quirky family members in Cemetery Pub. Pigs Do Fly’s production at Wilton Manors venue Empire Stage is only the second of this new play, which has only been produced once before at a makeshift venue in the playwright’s backyard.
Drink in the incredible vitas of Bolivia in that country’s Oscar submission, enjoy a Belgian piano virtuoso, take in a play largely performed in Arabic, celebrate Broadway and Hollywood with the hits of Barbra Streisand, travel to 1920s Chicago and learn a comedic lesson from Eastern Europe as the Aventura Arts & Cultural Center transports you around the world this April.
The Pembroke Pines Theatre of the Performing Arts (PPTOPA) presents a reimagined production of the classic musical Pippin April 15-30, 2023. With an infectiously unforgettable score from four-time Grammy winner, three-time Oscar winner and musical theatre giant, Stephen Schwartz, the PPTOPA production is set in the Summer of Love 1967, the year Stephen Schwartz wrote the musical while a student at Carnegie Mellon University for the Scotch & Soda Club.
To only solidify its place as the one of, if not the one, most recognizable musicals in the history of musicals, Wicked found its way to the Adrienne Arsht Center for the fourth time. Beginning February 16, and running until March 5, the infamous Elphaba and the famous Glinda share the stage to melt your hearts alongside your best friend’s. South Florida Theater Magazine was there for the run during the last days of February to see how the classic fared in 2023, and it did not disappoint.
