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Roy Berko
(Member, American Theatre Critics Association, Cleveland Critics Circle)
Thurgood Marshall has been called the “greatest lawyer of the 20th Century,” “Mr. Civil Rights,” and is credited with doing “more than any other American to lift the burden of racism from our society.” It is only appropriate that his life and judicial story be told during Black History month. Ensemble is doing exactly that by presenting multi-award winner George Stevens, …more…
It may have once seemed an “Impossible Dream”, but Broadway performers are now regularly gracing the stage of The Wick Theatre in Boca Raton. For their production of Man of La Mancha they will be bringing in veteran actor George Dvorsky as Don Quixote. Dvorsky recently starred in New York’s longest running musical The Fantasticks and has appeared on Broadway as The Scarlet Pimpernel.
Man of La Mancha opened on Broadway …more…
The Broward Stage Door Theatre announces their upcoming production of I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change. Nominated for Best Musical by both the Outer Critics Circle and the Drama Desk, I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change became the second-longest running Off Broadway musical in theater history (6,000 performances).
The show has a timelessness that consistently appeals to audiences of all ages. With book and lyrics by Tony Award-winner Joe …more…
Roy Berko
(Member, American Theatre Critics Association, Cleveland Critics Circle)
Cleveland Play House has in its recent history included small cast musicals in its offerings. Those shows included TAPPIN’ THROUGH LIFE (Maurice Hines), BREATH AND IMAGINATION (Roland Hayes), WOODY SEZ; LIFE AND MUSIC OF WOODY GUTHRIE (Woody Guthrie), THE DEVIL’S MUSIC: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF BESSIE SMITH (Bessie Smith), and ONE NIGHT WITH JANIS JOPLIN (Janis Joplin). Each told a story …more…
Performances for highly anticipated Motown The Musical begin Tuesday, February 24 for a limited two week run through Sunday, March 8, 2015 at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts. MOTOWN THE MUSICAL is part of the 2014-2015 Broadway in Fort Lauderdale Series presented by Broadway Across America and Florida Theatrical Association in partnership with The Broward Center for the Performing Arts.
Directed by Charles Randolph-Wright, Motown The Musical is the …more…
Roy Berko
(Member, American Theatre Critics Association, Cleveland Critics Circle)
On June 15, 2015, Karamu, the country’s oldest continuously performing Black Theatre, will celebrate its 100th birthday.
As part of the celebration year, the theatre is reviving some of its most notable productions. Therefore, it is entirely appropriate that August Wilson’s personal favorite play in his “The Pittsburgh Cycle,” JOE TURNER’S COME AND GONE, be performed.
Wilson was one of America’s best known African-American …more…
Roy Berko
(Member, American Theatre Critics Association, Cleveland Critics Circle)
On the surface, Greg Pierce’s SLOWGIRL, which is now on stage at Dobama, is the tale of a teenager who finds herself living a real-life nightmare and her confronting the issues with her reclusive uncle, who has problems of his own.
The tale begins as 17-year old Becky arrives at her Uncle Sterling’s Costa Rican isolated jungle home. The duo has had little …more…
Roy Berko
Member, Cleveland Critics Circle, American Theatre Critics Association
Yes, the snow is on the ground, the weather is miserable, but soon the cold winds will subside and Clevelanders will start their flow to the land of the maple leafs and cross the many bridges in their treks to the major theatre festivals of Canada.
The Shaw Festival is one of two major theatre celebrations, the other being The Stratford Festival in …more…
Roy Berko
Member, American Theatre Critics Association, Cleveland Critics Circle
Brian Zoldessy, one of the area’s most awarded actors, seems to be making a career of bringing real people to life. He was Ned Weeks, the AIDS activist in Ensemble’s THE NORMAL HEART, Sigmund Freud, the recognized father of Psychoanalysis in Actors’ Summit’s FREUD’S LAST SESSION, and now he’s reincarnating the renowned physicist, Albert Einstein. He won both Cleveland Critics Circle and …more…
Pigs Do Fly Productions will hold two readings of short humorous plays at Coral Gables’ Books & Books on January 25th and February 1st. Several months ago Pigs Do Fly Productions put out an on-line call to playwrights from around the world for submissions of 10-minute contemporary comedies written to highlight “vibrant, healthy people over 50 who are doing interesting things with their lives”. Approximately 200 plays were submitted from …more…
Cabaret, one of Broadway’s most beloved musicals will open at the Broward Stage Door Theatre on January 23rd. The Kander and Ebb classic will run at the Coral Springs theatre through March 15th.
Set in Berlin in 1929, the dark side of Cabaret is always off-stage, while the customers of the Kit Kat Klub play out their existence with willful disregard of their country’s future decay into madness. Cabaret is …more…
The Wick Theatre and Drew Tucker are proud to present the Florida premier of Song of Solomon starring Tony nominee Robert Cuccioli. The musical written by Andrew Beall and Neil Van Leeuwen, is Broadway bound, and The Wick will host a concert staging of the show which has been called “an incredible feat of epic storytelling,” “instantly captivating.” The one-night only event takes place Monday, January 19th at 7:30 pm. …more…
The Adrienne Arsht Center, Broadway Across America and Bank of America present Disney’s musical Newsies in a limited engagement February 3 – 8, 2015 as part of the Broadway in Miami subscription season. Disney’s Newsies features a Tony® Award-winning score with music by eight-time Academy Award® winner Alan Menken and lyrics by Jack Feldman; a book by four-time Tony® Award winner Harvey Fierstein; and is produced by Disney Theatrical Productions.
When …more…
Two of the most gleefully malevolent characters ever created bring their decadent ways to Palm Beach Dramaworks in Les Liaisons Dangereuses, opening on January 30th at the Don & Ann Brown Theatre. Written by Christopher Hampton, from the novel by Choderlos de Laclos, this compelling, wickedly clever tale of seduction, gamesmanship, debauchery, and degradation runs through March 1, with specially priced previews on January 28 and 29, 2015.
Les Liaisons Dangereuses, …more…
The Lion King proudly makes its eagerly awaited Fort Lauderdale return as it leaps onto the Broward Center for the Performing Art’s Au Rene stage from Wednesday, January 7th to Sunday, February 1st, 2015. Currently in its 18th year, The Lion King remains ascendant as one of the most popular stage musicals in the world. Since its Broadway premiere on November 13, 1997, twenty-two global productions have been seen by …more…
Island City Stage continues its third season with the South Florida premiere of Octopus by Steve Yockey. A play that examines how hard should you struggle to keep afloat a relationship when it detours into dark, unfamiliar waters, and asks if love can really vanquish all “monsters”.
Octopus transports the audience into the surrealistic journey of a young gay couple who see their relationship spiraling into jealousy and betrayal after engaging in an adventurous night of group sex with a …more…
Imagine a world where in order to “undo” the tying of the matrimonial knot, the ceremony has to be re-enacted … in reverse. Playwright Holly Arsenault creates such a world of divorce drama in her dramedy, Undo. Joe and Rachel Pfeiffer are getting divorced by running their wedding, in all its details, backwards. The exception? Instead of food, there’s liquor, and all things spill out!
Candace Caplin, Executive Director and Co-Founder …more…
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