Photo by Joan Marcus Here is the Broadway cast of Six. Some of Broadway’s hottest shows are headed to South Florida. Specifically, the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County in Miami and the Broward Center for the Performing Arts in Ft. Lauderdale have announced Broadway Across America’s 2022-23 season for South […]
Photo courtesy of Main Street Players Actress (Erin Christine Wilbanks) and Macbeth (Roderick Randle) act out a tense moment. By AARON KRAUSE In his eye-opening, smart, incisive, and drily funny new play, Shakespeare is a White Supremacist, Andrew Watring doesn’t mince words while describing the problem live theater, and society in general, have with […]
Photo by Amy Pasquantonio Cast members appear in one of the iconic scenes from A Chorus Line. By AARON KRAUSE BOCA RATON — Hopefully, sooner rather than later, Coronavirus will disappear. Then, the media may choose to highlight “unsung heroes” in the battle against the virus. Specifically, these are people who, as part of their […]
Emily Dickinson (Margery Lowe) embraces life in William Luce’s one-performer play, The Belle of Amherst By AARON KRAUSE While looking at them through wide, radiant brown eyes, Emily Dickinson extends the black cake to her guests. This time, no screen separates the famed poetess from her visitors. Would they like the recipe, she asks. In […]
Photo by Matthew Murphy Tavis Kordell as Jerry/Daphne plays opposite to Matt Loehr’s Joe/Josephine in the equity touring production of Some Like it Hot. By AARON KRAUSE No offence to Marilyn Monroe, but her likable character in the 1959 classic comedy film Some Like it Hot is still little more than a stereotypical “dumb blonde.” […]
by krausecriticfl | Oct 8, 2018 | Lightning Bolt Productions, Musical | 0 | Photo by Alissa Kane Outer space plant Audrey II demands that Seymour (Andrew Shultz) feed him in… Read More (Photo by Carol Kassie) Here are some of the actors playing major characters in Lightning Bolt… Read More
Photo by Marjorie Vitalherne Cast members Heather Jane Rolff, Timothy Michael Quinn, Darius J. Manuel, and Cecilia Snow appear in a scene from Slow Burn Theatre Company’s production of Songs for a New World. By AARON KRAUSE The fantastic foursome comprising the cast of Slow Burn Theatre Company’s rousing production of composer/lyricist Jason Robert Brown’s […]
Photo by George Wentzler Some of the La Cage aux folles’ girls surround Georges (Jamie Michael Parnell) with feather-like materials. By AARON KRAUSE LAUDERHILL, Fla. — …So hold this moment fast…and make this moment last. Surely, these lyrics from La Cage Aux Folles are apropos for Stage Door Theatre’s great production of the beloved Harvey […]
Photo by Matthew Tippins Elliot Isaac (Steve Schroko) and Trey (Jeff Brackett) admire each other in Island City Stage’s production of “Skintight,” by Joshua Harmon. By AARON KRAUSE You may not agree with Elliot Isaac’s belief about beauty. “Hot is everything,” he tells his adult daughter, referring to his belief that sexual attractiveness is most […]
Photo by Chris Whitaker Jefferson Mays, as Ebenezer Scrooge, appears in A Christmas Carol. By AARON KRAUSE Theater came alive each holiday season in Tony Award-winning actor Jefferson Mays’ childhood home. Specifically, each year, his father would read aloud A Christmas Carol “with clarity and humanity,” as Mays recalls. Meanwhile, his mother, “eyes ablaze, would transform […]
Sep 22, 2025 | Comedy, Horror, Theatre Lab Morgan Sophia Photography Cast members execute campy acting in Theatre Lab’s world… read more Sep 17, 2025 | Comedy Photo courtesy of Latine Theater Lab Brian Shaer plays multiple characters,… read more Sep 3, 2025 | Comedy-Drama, Island City Stage, Reviews By Theater Photo by Matthew […]
Aug 5, 2025 | Comedy, Drama, Historical, Main Street Players, Reviews By Theater Photo by Sefanja Richard Galon, courtesy of Main Street Players Cheryl Ross as Marianne… read more Jun 11, 2025 | Drama, Island City Stage, Reviews By Theater Photo by Dennis Dean A complicated romantic triangle develops between (from left)… read more Jun […]
(Photo by George Schiavone) David (Tom Aulino) seems more interested in his booze than his daughter, Ella, in GableStage’s production of I’m Gonna Pray For You So Hard. CORAL GABLES, Fla. — Our desire for affirmation that others value us is sometimes as strong as our hydration needs on a sweltering day. Playwright Halley Feiffer […]
By AARON KRAUSE For years, Plays of Wilton (POW) has wanted to produce free outdoor theater for South Florida residents and visitors. That dream by POW, a Wilton Manors-based nonprofit organization, has become a reality thanks to funding from the Warten Foundation and support from the City of Wilton Manors. POW! in the Park’s inaugural […]