Mainstreet Players presents God of Carnage by Yasmina Reza. Is there such a thing as the art of coexistence? God of Carnage deals with two sets of parents who meet to have a civilized discussion about a schoolyard scuttle between their sons. What begins as a cordial evening ends with the adults themselves acting like children. God of Carnage is a tight, taut, tense and funny play that deals with a host of subjects, including parenting, misogyny, …more…
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Beck’s LEND ME A TENOR, farce at its funny best!
March 29, 2015 by
Beck’s LEND ME A TENOR, farce at its funny best!
Roy Berko
(Member, American Theatre Critics Association, Cleveland Critics Circle)
Some people go to the theatre to be educated. Some go to see/listen to a pleasing combination of music and lyrics enclosed in a story. Others go to just have a good time. The latter group should run to their phones or computers right now and make reservations for LEND ME A TENOR. …more…
Rent
March 28, 2015 by
Slow Burn Theatre continues it’s stellar SIXTH season with the South Florida professional premiere of the Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize winning musical Rent. Based loosely on Puccini’s La Boheme, Jonathan Larson’s Rent follows a year in the life of a group of impoverished young artists and musicians struggling to survive and create in New York’s Lower East Side, under the shadow of HIV/AIDS.
The physical and emotional complications of the disease pervade the …more…
The Magnificents
March 26, 2015 by
The Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County and The House Theatre of Chicago are proud to present the regional premiere of The Magnificents, an original story by illusionist Dennis Watkins (Death and Harry Houdini). Playing April 8 – May 3, 2015 in the intimate Carnival Studio Theater (Ziff Ballet Opera House), The Magnificents continues the Arsht Center’s highly acclaimed Theater Up Close Series which features artistic …more…
Sir Isaac Newton wonderfully unmasked at convergence-continuum
March 23, 2015 by
Roy Berko
(Member, American Theatre Critics Association, Cleveland Critics Circle)
One of the major issues in watching a historidrama is figuring out what is real, what is fiction, and what is fantasy. This is especially the case in Lucas Hnath’s ISAAC’S EYE, now on stage at convergence-continuum. Between the laughs and mumbles of “I didn’t know that,” “wow,” and, “no way,” it’s easy to get lost in intrapersonal mumblings.
Before probing into Lucas …more…
The Penis Talk Show
March 18, 2015 by
From the creator of Making Porn and All Male Peep Show Empire Stage presents The Penis Talk Show, starring porn star Chad Donovan. The Empire Stage is located at 1140 N. Flagler Drive in Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33304 (1/4 mile north of Sunrise and just east of the train tracks).
If you’ve spent a long, hard time looking for reliable information about the male sex organ and feel like you’ve just …more…
The Little Dog Laughed
March 17, 2015 by
Island City Stage continues its 2014-2015 season with the Douglas Carter Beane’s Broadway hit The Little Dog Laughed. Nominated for a Best Play Tony Award, this comedy Ben Brantley of The New York Times describes as “truth and illusion Hollywood-style” follows the adventures of a movie star whose resourceful agent keeps pushing him back in the closet, even while he’s falling for a cute rent boy with a girlfriend.
Island City Stage Associate Artistic Director Michael Leeds helms …more…
Earthquake
March 17, 2015 by
Mad Cat Theatre Company returns to the South Beach Comedy Festival with the new play Earthquake, written and directed by company member Jessica Farr. In an attempt to crawl out of obscurity and find himself relevant once again, Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Trevor Winston writes a new “hard hitting, important play” bent on changing the lives of its audience members. But as the play passes through the producer’s fingers, the …more…
George M. Cohan Tonight!
March 14, 2015 by
Jon Peterson will return to the Stage Door Theatre on March 20th in George M. Cohan Tonight! an entertaining and energetic one-man musical based on the life and career of one of America’s most beloved song and dance men. The play captures the essence of the man, his music, and an era of show business and of Broadway that has rarely been matched. The production will run through April 26th.
Peterson, …more…
The Addams Family- A New Musical Comedy
March 12, 2015 by
Evening Star Productions’ audiences are in for a fiendishly delightful treat beginning April 16th when Boca Raton’s Sol Theatre will host Charles Addams’ wonderfully bizarre musical The Addams Family- A New Musical Comedy. The show, which marks South Florida professional premiere, will run through May 3rd.
Charles Addams’ ghoulishly clever and devilishly satirical Addams Family cartoons first began appearing in the New Yorker magazine in 1938, and his characters captured …more…
Short Cuts 5
March 10, 2015 by
The Playgroup presents SHORT CUTS 5 – Nine funny and dramatic plays by local playwrights, all ten minutes or less. Encounter bad dreams, silent schemes, a power play, dates who are gay, midnight facts, some evil pacts and much more for some truly great entertainment.
Directed by Joyce Sweeney and Brian Reeves; the actors include: Robin Alexander, Jill Brown, Todd Caster, Melanie Crim, David Ehrlich, Fran Friedman, Peter Hawkins, Fern Katz, …more…
Plays about gay marriage have a successful return visit to Cleveland Public Theatre
March 9, 2015 by
Roy Berko
(Member, American Theatre Critics Association & Cleveland Critics Circle)
In October of 2012, when Cleveland Public Theatre first staged, STANDING ON CEREMONY THE GAY MARRIAGE PLAYS, “same sex marriage was legal in nine states (Connecticut, Iowa, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Vermont and Washington and the District of Columbia).” At the same time, “30 states had added language to their constitutions banning same-sex marriage.”
On October 18, while the …more…
BECKY SHAW, comedy of bad manners, marvelous at Dobama
March 8, 2015 by
Roy Berko
(Member, American Theatre Critics Association, Cleveland Critics Circle)
Gina Gionfriddo, the author of BECKY SHAW, now on stage at Dobama Theatre, is one of the new breed of playwrights who reflect topics relevant to today, cleverly construct their writings, and uses language that shimmers with naturalism. They don’t use stage language or formats like Arthur Miller or Eugene O’Neill, or the oft-present symbolism of Tennessee Williams, nor the existential philosophy …more…
Compelling THE PIANIST OF WILLESDEN LANE at Cleveland Play House
March 7, 2015 by
Compelling THE PIANIST OF WILLESDEN LANE at Cleveland Play House
Roy Berko
(Member, American Theatre Critics Association, Cleveland Critics Circle)
It is the intent of theater to educate and entertain, and, in the case of some special offerings, enrapture. Such a piece of theater is THE PIANIST OF WILLESDEN LANE, now on stage at Cleveland Play House.
THE PIANIST OF WILLESDEN LANE, adapted and directed by pianist and musicologist Hershey Felder, tells the tale …more…
DIRTY DANCING THE CLASSIC STORY ON STAGE DISAPPOINTS AT CONNOR PALACE
March 6, 2015 by
DIRTY DANCING disappoints at the Conner Palace Theatre
Roy Berko
(Member, American Theatre Critics Association, Cleveland Critics Circle)
DIRTY DANCING, THE CLASSIC STORY ON STAGE, which is now in production at the Connor Palace transports the audience back to the summer of 1963. As is the custom of many well-to-do Jewish New York City families of that time, the Housemans have escaped for the summer to the Catskill Mountains, home of the Borscht …more…
DIAL “M” FOR MURDER, another exciting murder mystery at GLT
March 2, 2015 by
Roy Berko
(Member, American Theatre Critics Association and Cleveland Critics Circle)
Mystery books are the second highest money-making genre in literature, only exceeded by Romance/Erotica. They are the highest rated television demand topic.
Building on the desire of readers and viewers, Great Lakes Theater has included a “who done-it” in each of their last two seasons. Both DEATHTRAP and THE MOUSETRAP met with audience approval. Their present offerings, DIAL “M” FOR MURDER, should …more…
Pippin
March 1, 2015 by
Broadway Across America, in partnership with Broward Center for the Performing Arts, is proud to bring the award-winning musical Pippin to the Broward Center for the Performing Arts March 31 through April 12, 2015. With a book by Roger O. Hirson and music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz, Pippin tells the story of a young prince on a death-defying journey to find meaning in his existence. Will he choose a …more…
