Temple Israel of Greater Miami Cantor Rachelle Nelson will showcase the best of Jewish liturgical music and Broadway songs in her upcoming 90 minute concert titled “A Legacy in Melody and Song” on Sunday, April 27 at 4 pm in the sanctuary. The concert will feature, along with Nelson, more than 20 cantors, opera singers and soloists who will join Nelson for what will be her final concert at Temple Israel.
The National Society of Arts and Letters (NSAL) of Florida’s Star Maker Gala dazzled attendees at the annual event held in the Waterstone Resort & Marina in Boca Raton.
FORT LAUDERDALE – The Broward Center for the Performing Arts and South Florida Cappies Inc. proudly present the 23rd Annual Cappies Awards to recognize achievements in high school theater on Tuesday, May 20 at 7 p.m. in the Au-Rene Theater.
Tolstoy’s famous quote that “Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way” likely applies double to families of artists. Actually, both happy and unhappy parts tend to be exacerbated by artistic temperaments known for remarkable sensitivity, passion … but also selfishness.
No matter how many times you happen to have seen Hamlet, odds are likely low that you have ever seen anything like Fat Ham. And, assuming you are lucky enough to snag a highly sought after ticket, you would be missing out on a genuinely good time if you choose not to indulge in this delicious morsel of a BBQ-meets-Shakespeare tale at Wilton Manors’ Island City Stage, where it will be playing until only this May 4th.
From the moment we walk in to Palm Beach Dramaworks’ current production of Camping with Henry and Tom, we are ushered into the world of the play through Bert Scott’s stunningly detailed forest set. If not for a screen against the back wall of the stage, onto which are projected images and video designed by Adam J Thompson that further set the scene with period appropriate imagery, one could almost be fooled into thinking they were still outside!
The expression “opposites attract” does not always apply in the evolution of relationships. Playwright David Auburn’s drama “Summer, 1976”, running now through April 20 at GableStage in Coral Gables, is a dramatic story of how two women who seem to have nothing in common eventually come to appreciate their differences over a period of close to five decades.
Currently in its 78th season, the Delray Beach Playhouse just wrapped a production of Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express, which ran March 21st through April 13th, and it brought to life one of Agatha Christie’s most-famous detective novels, of the same name. Featuring local South Florida talent, the company produces classic theater for the Delray community, situated right on the edge of Lake Ida. For those that have not been to one of hidden gem’s performances yet, I highly recommend making an evening out of their final production of the season: The Bridges of Madison County.
“Some enchanted evening, when you find your true love…” For me that enchanted evening took place at the outdoor Jones Beach Theatre in Wantagh, NY. Many, many years ago, when I was 16. And the “true love” that I found was a lifelong passion for live theater (musicals in particular).
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – Island City Stage, Brévo Theatre and GableStage’s collaborative production of Fat Ham sizzles with a sold-out opening weekend! Audiences are eating up tickets for this smokin’ hot, imaginative and witty reinterpretation of Shakespeare’s Hamlet that tackles identity, belonging and generational issues. Fat Ham runs through May 4 at Island City Stage in Wilton Manors and moves to GableStage in Coral Gables from May 16 – June 15, 2025. This first-time historic partnership among three of South Florida’s leading theatre companies was made possible by a generous $250,000 grant from The Warten Foundation.
