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Roy Berko
(Member, American Theatre Critics Association, Cleveland Critics Circle)
One of the major purposes of collegiate musical theater programs, besides teaching acting, singing and dancing skills, is to expand student knowledge of not only traditional, but new scripts. Kent State is offering its students such an opportunity by presenting MY HEART IS THE DRUM.
Though the Jennie Redling (book), Phillip Palmer (music and original concept) and Stacey Luftig (lyrics) musical has been …more…
Lynn University and producer Jan McArt, director of theatre arts program development, today announced that the Libby Dodson’s Live at Lynn Theatre Series will conclude the 2014-2015 season with three major shows in March 2015.
Tommy Tune
Feb. 28 – March 1, 2015: Saturday: 7:30 p.m., Sunday: 4 p.m.
Tickets: Individual show tickets are $65 for Box, $50 for Orchestra and $45 for Mezzanine
in the Wold Performing Arts Center.
Tommy Tune will showcase his golden decade as …more…
For four weeks only the epic Broadway blockbuster Les Misérables will transform the stage at the Maltz Jupiter Theatre into 19th century France. Survival of the human spirit prevails in this larger-than-life tale of compassion and destruction. Seen by over 70 million people in more than 42 countries, Les Misérables has received over 76 awards internationally, including eight Tony Awards® and five Drama Desk awards.
Sponsored by Roe Green and The …more…
DOGFIGHT fails to live up to Beck-Baldwin Wallace past productions
Roy Berko
(Member, American Theatre Critics Association, Cleveland Critics Circle)
Beck Center for the Arts and Baldwin Wallace’s Musical Theatre Program have, for the past four years, collaborated to produce some outstanding productions. CARRIE, SPRING AWAKENING and NEXT TO NORMAL all received Cleveland Critic Circle and Times Tribute recognitions.
Unfortunately, this year’s offering, DOGFIGHT, probably won’t get such attention. It’s not that the production …more…
She had power. Beauty. Wealth. And she would have traded it all for the two she loved. Outré Theatre Company presents Joel Gross’ sensual play Marie Antoinette: The Color of Flesh as the second in this season’s signature concert and reading series.
A dramatic love triangle set during the turbulent years before the French Revolution, Marie Antoinette: The Color of Flesh introduces us to Elisabeth Vigee le Brun (Sabrina Lynn …more…
Zoetic Stage and the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County are proud to present the regional premiere of Paul Weitz’s Trust, a mischievous, laugh-filled exploration of the personal price paid to attain power and wealth. Playing March 5 – 29, 2015 in the Carnival Studio Theater (Ziff Ballet Opera House), Trust continues Zoetic Stage’s 2014-2015 season as part of the Arsht Center’s highly acclaimed Theater Up Close …more…
Empire Stage presents All-Male Peep Show. Written & directed by Ronnie Larsen, the play depicts a day in the life of a Times Square peep show in the years before Rudy Giuliani cleaned up New York City. The play begins in the morning with the arrival of the dancers and ends late at night when they turn off the lights and everyone goes home. Throughout the day we learn about the …more…
Slow Burn Theatre and the Broward Center crown the first season of the Abdo New River Room Theater Series at the Broward Center with the musical The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. The musical has music and lyrics by William Finn, best known for Falsettos, and story by Rachel Sheinkin who won the Tony and Drama Desk Awards for “Best Book of a Musical.”
With two Tony Awards and three …more…
The Arts Garage presents the world premiere of the play Uncertain Terms by Allison Gregory. Gregory’s plays have been produced and developed all over the country and include Forcing Hyacinths (Julie Harris Playwriting Award; South Coast Repertory Theatre’s California Playwrights Award); Fall Off Night (Garland Award, L.A); Burning Bridget Cleary (Seattle Times Award, Best New Play, Seattle),(ICU), and The Night Garden. She has received commissions, grants, and development from South …more…
The African American Performing Arts Community Theatre (AAPACT), in partnership with the African Heritage Cultural Arts Center, proudly presents a return engagement of its production of Sisters! A Celebration of the Human Spirit starring: Adreana Noel, Ajahne Mason, Charita Coleman, Daryl Patrice, Deana Rahming, Debi Pemberton, Jahnea Mason, Lily Reed, Sarah Gracel, Shauna Burris, Stephon Duncan and Vaughn-Rian St. James.
Written by Jerry Ayers and directed by Rachel Finley, Sisters! A …more…
The Boca Raton Theatre Guild presents Tuesdays with Morrie. The production will preview on February 27th, open Saturday night February 28th, and run through March 15th at the Willow Theatre in Boca Raton’s Sugar Sand Park.
Tuesdays with Morrie is columnist Mitch Albom’s moving, inspirational, and often humorous chronicle of the conversations he had with his former professor and mentor Morrie Schwartz. Albom was a successful sports columnist for The Detroit …more…
What better way to inaugurate a brand new theatrical space than with a play that masterfully and humorously takes on a theatrical classic. Thinking Cap Theatre moves into the Vanguard on February 19th with Dave Hanson’s critically acclaimed Waiting for Waiting for Godot. The production will run through March 1st.
A winner of the Overall Excellence Award for Overall Play at the 2013 New York Fringe Festival, Waiting for Waiting for …more…
Evening Star Productions’ presents The Gin Game as their second offering of the season. Written by Donald L. Coburn’s, The Gin Game, was first produced in a 56 seat theatre in Hollywood California in 1976. Boca Raton’s Sol Theatre’s intimate black box theatre is a fitting space for the play, which will be directed by Evening Star’s artistic director Rosalie Grant, and stars Jim Gibbons and Kala Kaminsky.
The Gin …more…
Kevin Black Production presents Cirquesco for three performances only – February 20th, 21st, and 22nd, at the Willow Theatre in Boca Raton’s Sugar Sand Park. cirquesco is a unique combination of song, dance, acrobatics, and humor, and a perfect example of what the multi-talented and extremely creative producer/director/choreographer brings to the South Florida Theatre scene. “Cirquesco explores our most treasured emotion… love,” says Black, “…through the journey …more…
City Theatre presents Island Shorts on Key Biscayne February 6th – 8th. Island Shorts is a special program of “best of fest” short plays comprised of classics from City Theatre’s 20 seasons. This exclusive winter production, with an ensemble of South Florida professional artists, will engage City Theatre’s veteran Summer Shorts audiences; and introduce the award winning company and its work to new fans. Each performance will include a post-show …more…
Roy Berko
(Member, American Theatre Critics Association & Cleveland Critics Circle)
FIRE ON WATER is the fourth play in Cleveland Public Theatre’s Elements Cycle, plays about the environment. According to Artistic Director, Raymond Bogban, the plays were not created “to preach or propagandize. We wanted to make plays that explored our ongoing efforts to understand and transform our relationship with the world.” The presentations have done that, with varying degrees of artistic …more…
Roy Berko
(Member, American Theatre Critics Association, Cleveland Critics Circle)
PIPPIN, the Stephen Schwartz (music and lyrics) and Roger O. Hirson (book) magical show is now on stage at The Palace Theatre. It tells a modern version of the mythical tale of Pippin, the oldest son of King Charlemagne, and his search for purpose and identity.
The clarion song of the show, and one of my favorite tunes from any Broadway musical, is …more…
Just in time for Valentine’s Day, Tony n’ Tina’s Wedding returns to the Abdo New River Room at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts Thursday, February 12 – Sunday, February 22. In this worldwide hit, Tony and Tina have walked down the aisle more than 3,300 times, in front of more than 500,000 guests and continue to make every wedding a one-of-a-kind event, filled with great music, laughter, food …more…
“Always be closing”. Those words from David Mamet’s 1984 Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning play Glengarry Glen Ross have become synonymous with the key to the American Dream; the mantra that drives sales success. This production marks the 33rd anniversary of the drama, which Mamet wrote in 1982. It premiered in the 1983-1984 season at the Royal National Theatre in London. That same year, it made its American debut at …more…
Andrews Living Arts Center presents the Florida premiere of The Shakespeare Conspiracy by Ted Bacino and Rufus Cadigan, based on the novel of the same name by Ted Bacino. The story of the greatest literary deception of all times! How could Christopher Marlowe, a known spy and England’s foremost playwright, be suspiciously murdered just days before he was to be tried for treason? How could William Shakespeare, an unknown actor, …more…
Roy Berko
(Member, Dance Critics Association)
PILOBOLUS is noted for adding both physical and theatrical elements to dance presentations. They have been credited, in their 44 years of performances, to have added a new way for audiences to look at dance.
Nothing cements the company’s unique style more then what was on display before the start of their recent State Theatre nearly-sold out concert.
Upon entering the auditorium, the audience found the proscenium curtain …more…
The B’nai Torah Theatre Arts Series, GFour Productions, and producer/director Shari Upbin will bring In The Voice Of Our Mothers to the B’nai Torah stage for one performance only on February 15th, 2015. Playwright Carol Fox Prescott, who will also direct the production, will conduct a ‘talk back’ with the audience after the February 15th performance. In the Voice of Our Mothers will also be presented at the David Posnack Jewish …more…
The Outré Theatre Company is proud to announce a concert production of Rooms: a rock romance, as part of Outré’s signature concert series. The production will be Starring Noah Levine and Erica Mendez, and directed by Managing Director Sabrina Lynn Gore, Rooms was nominated for Most Outstanding Musical for the Outer Critics Circle Awards, the Drama Desk Awards, and the Helen Hayes Awards. Outré is thrilled to …more…
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