It’s been a few years since I last attended a show by Florida Atlantic University’s Department of Theatre and Dance. I do recall their students being quite good and I especially enjoyed how they’d often produce rarely staged gems. So I was nostalgically delighted to discover that after the long pandemic absence nothing has changed – if anything they are better than ever! The plays are still staged at their main Boca campus in the lovely Marleen Forkas Studio One Theatre with free garage parking and an impressive art gallery that’s open to the public (at least it was during Saturday’s matinee) and entices you to enter as you make your way down the long, white art-laden hall to the theater’s entrance.
The concert will feature a sneak peek performance of Broadway’s upcoming revival of The Wiz.
Michael James Scott (Aladdin, Something Rotten!)hosts the return of the annual Broadway Celebrates Juneteenth Concert June 18. The event, set for Times Square beginning at 11 AM, will feature a sneak peek performance from the upcoming Broadway revival of The Wiz.
In 1994, 22-year-old actress Jodie Langel was a wannabe Broadway star, receiving positive reviews for her performances on The Great White Way in a stellar production of “Les Miserables,” followed by national Broadway in America touring productions of “Cats” and “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat,” among other musicals.
Laughs and familiar scenes of Miami were memorable in the 2023 “Summer Shorts Homegrown Edition” of eight 10 minute plays, running now through June 25 at the Carnival Studio Theater at the Adrienne Arsht Center in downtown Miami.
Broadway in Ft. Lauderdale has found its closing show for the 2022-2023 in Beetlejuice, the musical retelling of the cult classic movie. At the Broward Center, this show promises to make you laugh, maybe feel a little comfort in however you define your sexuality, and the cast and crew deliver the experience of being dead. South Florida Theater Magazine was there on opening night to report back that this is a show that aspires, and achieves, to be better than its source material. Yes, this musical improves on the movie in several ways, and that’s why it’s worthy of a closing slot.
The Raymond F. Kravis Center for the Performing Arts celebrates its 15th season of Kravis On Broadway. The 2023 – 2024 Kravis On Broadwayseason showcases Broadway’s finest hits with a subscription package power-packed with 23 Tony Awards® among them. The 2023 – 2024 Kravis On Broadway eight show subscription series includes six West Palm Beach premieres featuring Broadway’s biggest blockbusters and the return of one of Broadway’s longest-running musicals and an all-time fan favorite. As a special addition, this season will also feature Broadway’s most successful play.
Theater Lab, the professional resident performance company at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, will travel north to Martha’s Vineyard off the coast of Massachusetts later this summer to present one of its most critically acclaimed, award-winning productions, To Fall in Love.
The rich thematic landscape of Topdog/Underdog is evident from the first moment that would-be dealer Booth, as he practices, and seems to engage the audience in, a rousing game of Three Card Monte. At least to me, combined with what vague knowledge I had of the play’s themes going in, it was impossible not to notice the dark implications of a line like “if you pick the black card you pick a loser.”
