‘REFUGE’ Review
As the play starts, lead by Krystal Millie Valdes, you can already tell something is different. Not only is this performer giving some sort of house speech, but she’s doing so while accompanying herself on guitar and switching back and forth between English and Spanish – letting us know right out the gate that this play is not like most we have seen in South Florida.
Fifteen Students to Participate in Play Contest at Palm Beach Dramaworks
Palm Beach Dramaworks announces that 10 students from Bak Middle School of the Arts and five from Eagles Landing Middle School are the winners of the inaugural Young Playwrights 1-Minute Play Contest.
‘Newsies’ Strikes Some Great Chords at the Lake Worth Playhouse
If you didn’t happen to pick up on the pun I tried to pull off in the title of this review, then I suppose you may not be familiar with the plot of Newsies, a 2011 musical based on a 1992 film that was itself inspired by the true story of the newsboys strike of 1899.
From Black Box to Jewel Box
Written By: Mindy Leaf
Ronnie Larsen has been busy making a name for himself as an actor, director, playwright and producer for three decades now – to growing acclaim locally, nationally and abroad. He was often seen staging plays and acting in his home turf of The Foundry in Wilton Manors, whose kitschy flexible space was known for its avant-garde horror shows, hard-core LGBT fare, and immersive Off-Off Broadway-type experiences rarely found elsewhere in South Florida.
Solomon Still Funny in 20th Year of His One Man Play About His Jewish/Italian Family
The title of Jewish actor/comedian Steve Solomon’s one man play My Mother’s Italian, My Father’s Jewish & I’m In Therapy , taking place from April 20- 21 at 7:30 P.M. at the Broward Center For The Performing Arts in Ft. Lauderdale, provokes audiences to laughter even before Solomon performs.
‘To Kill A Mockingbird’ Q&A with Mary Badham
CM: Hello, I’m Christopher from South Florida Theater Magazine, the reviewer for tonight’s show of To Kill A Mockingbird. I like to write about art, art in the community, and things like that, so thanks for chatting with me.
A Destined Debut for Director Marlo Rodriguez in NCP’s ‘Cry Old Kingdom’
Though it took wading through a “rabbit hole” of plays for director Marlo Rodriguez and the rest of the New City Players (NCP) artistic team to settle on Cry Old Kingdom for their second mainstage production of their 22-23 season, she ultimately couldn’t be happier that this was the play that would go on to become the one with which she is now making her professional directorial debut.
Florida Intergenerational Orchestra’s Musical Salute to America on April 23
For an exciting day of music, the Florida Intergenerational Orchestra is offering a “Musical Salute to America” Sunday, April 23 at 3 p.m. at O’Shea Hall on the campus of Our Lady of Lourdes Church, 22094 Lyons Road, Boca Raton.
Songs of Our Southern Border in ‘Refuge’
Written By: Mindy Leaf