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  • Broadway Across America

    2022-23 Season for Miami and Ft. Lauderdale

    By: Aaron Krause - Apr 14th, 2022

    Broadway Across America has announced the 2022-23 line-ups for Broadway in Miami and Broadway in Ft. Lauderdale. Among the shows, audiences will be able to see "Hamilton" again in Ft. Lauderdale, and "Wicked" in Miami. Perhaps the hottest show on Broadway, "Six" will play in Miami and Ft. Lauderdale.

  • Emily Mann: Rebel Artist of the American Theater

    Biography by Alexis Greene

    By: Nancy Bishop - Apr 13th, 2022

    Alexis Greene is the author and editor of numerous books about theater, including The Lion King: Pride Rock on Broadway, written with Julie Taymor, and the biography Lucille Lortel: The Queen of Off Broadway. In addition to writing and editing books about women and theater, Greene’s career spans acting, theater criticism and teaching. She holds a PhD from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York

  • Endlings by Celine Song

    Produced by Oakland Theater Project

    By: Victor Cordell - Apr 12th, 2022

    The main subjects of “Endlings” seem like inspiration for the kind of article you would see in “Parade” magazine – “World’s Most Unusual Occupations.”  Three Korean women, aged 78 to 93, are the last of a dying breed in a centuries-old occupation.

  • Gong Lum's Legacy at New Federal Theatre

    Elizabeth Van Dyke Directs World Premiere by Charles L. White

    By: Rachel de Aragon - Apr 11th, 2022

    Gong Lum's Legacy is presented by Woodie King Jr.'s New Federal Theater in association with The Peccadillo Theater Company. Written by Charles L. White. Directed by Elizabeth Van Dyke. The world is still Jim Crow's.  We can peek into  to the the lives of those oppressed by the system, both the African Americans and the newly arrived Chinese immigrants.  

  • Cats

    Non-equity, National Touring Production

    By: Aaron Krause - Apr 10th, 2022

    A quality national, non-equity production of Cats is touring the country. The production's most recent stop was the Broward Center for the Performing Arts in Ft. Lauderdale. Cats delivers emotionally.

  • Guys and Dolls

    South Florida's MNM Theatre Company

    By: Aaron Krause - Apr 09th, 2022

    MNM Theatre Company achieves mixed results with its current production of "Guys and Dolls." The production at the Lauderhill Performing Arts Center runs through April 16. MNM Theatre Company is an award-winning, not-for-profit, professional group.

  • Fefu And Her Friends

    produced by American Conservatory Theater

    By: Victor Cordell - Apr 08th, 2022

    In 1977, María Irene Fornés’ innovative “Fefu and Her Friends” replicated the notion of an all-female cast but flips the script on all of those dimensions.  It concerns a reunion of a group of friends gathered to rehearse a presentation to be given to a charity; themes are varied, including women’s relationships with women, which was pretty daring at the time; the single setting is Fefu’s house; action takes place in one day; and the characters, if a little wacky, are grounded in realism. 

  • Hotter Than Egypt by Yussef El Guindi

    Co-produced by Marin Theatre Company and A Contemporary Theatre of Seattle

    By: Victor Cordell - Apr 08th, 2022

    Yussef El Guindi’s new play deftly delves into a constellation of differences – not only cultural, but marital, economic, power, gender, and generational – some between cultures and some within.  The result is a lively dramedy that reveals the causes and consequences of the cracks in the American couple’s marriage.

  • 1776 Revival at A.R.T in May

    Then Roundabout’s American Airlines Theatre in September

    By: A.R.T. - Apr 08th, 2022

    American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.) at Harvard University announces the full cast and creative team of its upcoming revival of 1776 directed by Jeffrey L. Page and Diane Paulus. Co-presented with Roundabout Theatre Company (RTC), the production begins performances at the Loeb Drama Center in Cambridge, MA, on Tuesday, May 17; opens officially on Thursday, May 26; and plays through Sunday, July 24, 2022.

  • Cyrano de Bergerac

    At Palm Canyon Theatre

    By: Jack Lyons - Apr 07th, 2022

    Director Layne has cast 22 performers to tell the achingly poignant story of Cyrano and Roxane.  There are a couple metaphors on the foibles and folly of the human condition that run throughout that could easily recall a memory or two bringing misty eyes to those in the audience who can still relate. Yes. It’s somewhat of a tragedy masquerading as a comedy in dead earnest  Love is like that sometimes.

  • August: Osage County

    By Tracy Letts at San Jose Stage

    By: Victor Cordell - Apr 07th, 2022

    Playwright Tracy Letts’ Pulitzer Prize and multiple Tony Award winning play concerns the family reunion from hell.  The family doge, Beverly, was a prominent poet in his younger days, but settled into a long life as a disgruntled teacher and acknowledged but likeable alcoholic.  Several days after his unexplained disappearance, Violet, his wife and family doyenne, musters the troops. 

  • Berliner Ensemble, Berlin

    God Is Not Bashful

    By: Angelika Jansen - Apr 05th, 2022

    Gott Ist Nicht Schuechtern (God is not bashful) received its re-opening at the New Stage of the Berliner Ensemble in Berlin at the end of March 2022. It is now more appropriate with the war raging in Ukraine.

  • Suddenly Last Summer

    At Island City Stage

    By: Aaron Krause - Apr 05th, 2022

    South Florida theater fans have a chance to see a production of an infrequently-staged Tennessee Williams play titled "Suddenly Last Summer." The production runs through April 17. Some may recall the story from the 1959 film with the same title, starring Elizabeth Taylor, Katharine Hepburn, and Montgomery Clift.

  • Intimate Apparel

    A Palm Beach Dramaworks Production

    By: Aaron Krause - Apr 04th, 2022

    Lynn Nottage's drama, Intimate Apparel is a fine fit at Palm Beach Dramaworks (PBD). The professional, nonprofit company's production runs through April 17. PBD's production, fittingly, takes place in the company's intimate Don & Ann Brown Theatre.

  • Dream Hou$e by Eliana Pipes

    At Long Wharf

    By: Karen Isaacs - Apr 02nd, 2022

    I found much to like about this show which focuses on Latinx sisters who turn to one of these shows – called Flip It and List It —  to sell their family home. The home was built by their great grandfather after he arrived from Mexico in the late 1800s and has been passed down through the generations.

  • Michel Van Der Aa at Park Avenue Armory

    Upload with Julia Bullock and Roderick Williams

    By: Susan Hall - Apr 01st, 2022

    Michel Van der Aa's music theatre works.  This is a miracle, because he deploys many instruments, not only a libretto, often based on wild imaginings, yet sensibly based on a very simple story. In Upload, we are in the revere of the last act of Walkerie. Now a father is defying his daughter, not the reverse. The Park Avenue Armory mounts a compelling case fot his work

  • Duke Ellington at Carnegie Hall

    American Symphony Orchestra Embraces the Lion

    By: Susan Hall - Mar 31st, 2022

    Leave it to Leon Botstein, America’s great educator, to bring Duke Ellington’s Black, Brown and Beige to Carnegie Hall, where is premiered in 1943 as a fundraiser for the Russian war effort, (The world turns.) Eleanor Roosevelt, Marion Anderson and Langston Hughes were in attendance that evening. Now Botstein conducting is cool.  He often listens and taps his foot, slightly swaying to the improvisatory sections of works performed

  • Circle Mirror Transformation by Annie Baker

    Produced by Custom Made Theatre

    By: Victor Cordell - Mar 29th, 2022

    Annie Baker has established herself with a naturalistic stream of plays, including the trilogy taking place in the town of Shirley, Vermont, of which this play is a member.  These are narratives about ordinary people doing ordinary things, often written and acted with such uninflected manner as to elevate boredom and long silences as virtues.

  • Dishwasher Dreams at Hartford Stage

    Written and Performed by Alaudin Ullah

    By: Karen Isaacs - Mar 29th, 2022

    Dishwasher Dreams looks through the lens of two generations of an immigrant family. Written and performed by Alaudin Ullah, it is filled with humor but also sharp observations. Ullah was a ground-breaker as one of the first East Asian standup comedians who gained wide appeal.

  • Kevin Puts Discusses His New Opera

    The Hours Premieres at the Metropolitan Opera in the Fall

    By: Susan Hall - Mar 28th, 2022

    The Hours is the highly anticipated new work by Kevin Puts. Renee Fleming, Kelli O'Hara, and Joyce Di Donato will star.

  • Michel Van Der Aa at the Park Avenue Armory

    Upload with Julia Bullock and Roderick Williams

    By: Susan Hall - Mar 28th, 2022

    Michel Van der Aa's music theatre works.  This is a miracle, because he deploys many instruments, not only a libretto, often based on wild imaginings, yet sensibly based on a very simple story. In Upload, we are in the revere of the last act of Walkerie. Now a father is defying his daughter, not the reverse. The Park Avenue Armory mounts a compelling case fot his work.

  • Ben Butler

    Boca Stage in Boca Raton

    By: Aaron Krause - Mar 28th, 2022

    "Ben Butler" is a comedy that takes place at the beginning of the Civil War. The play, by Richard Strand, is part comedy, part historical drama, and part biography. Boca Stage is presenting the play through April 10.

  • Composer Jeremy Gill and the Parker Quartet

    Premiere of a Kaleidoscope of Fairy Tales

    By: Susan Hall - Mar 28th, 2022

    “Motherwhere” continues Jeremy Gill’s ongoing collaboration with the award-winning Parker Quartet, and is his first work for New York Classical Players. It premieres in New York on April 1. The author of the book that inspired the work, Zsófia Bán, is arriving from Hungary for the performance.

  • La Cage aux Folles

    Produced by Altarena Playhouse

    By: Victor Cordell - Mar 27th, 2022

    The musical ran on Broadway for over four years, garnering six Tonys, including the most coveted – Best Musical, Best Score, and Best Book.   Accordingly, any production of “La Cage aux Folles” starts with great material.

  • Little Girl Blue by Laiona Michelle

    Nina Simone Lives Again in New York

    By: Susan Hall - Mar 27th, 2022

    Laiona Michelle inhabits and projects the great American soul singer, social activist and classical pianist Nina Simone in a compelling stage show.  Designed as two of the evenings Nina Simone actually created, mixing storytelling and moving melodies, Michelle brings the Little Girl Blue to life.

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