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  • Slow Burn’s Carole King Bio BeautifuI Is Pure Enjoyment

    Beautiful: The Carole King Musical in Slow Burn Theatre’s polished production is more than a story about how a teenager evolved into one of the first successful female rock singer/songwriters. For many of us, Beautiful is the soundtrack of our youth, the music a touchstone of the culture of the 1960s and 1970s and a trajectory of American rock music, going from light, teeny-bopper tunes to deeper lyrics.

  • To Go or Not to Go? to I Hate Hamlet at West Boca Theatre 

    I Hate Hamlet at the West Boca Theatre Company sounds like a swashbuckling comedy, it’s actually an often clever “play within a play” dramady about learning to step out of your comfort zone and embrace your destiny.

  • Dear Evan Hansen: Intimacy, Impact At Actors’ Playhouse

    Actors’ Playhouse’s Dear Evan Hansen embodies the commitment to meaningful, community-engaged theater addressing the prevalence of suicidal ideation among youth in a way that has resonated deeply with audiences and critics alike. Meticulous attention is paid to every artistic detail creating raw human experience that painfully and accurately recalls a time when each of us struggled for acceptance and purpose.

  • My Take On: Our NYC Critic On Two Strangers, Data, High Spirits and Chess

    A new feature “My Take On:: Short reviews of New York shows by Nunzio Michael Lupo, veteran journalist and an insightful appraiser of the arts. These pieces were first posted on his page at https://www.show-score.com/member/mrstrategery.  This edition: Chess, Data, High Spirits and Two Strangers

  • Religion, Immigration, Humor Intersect In CONVERSA

    The responsibility to progress beyond religious belief and on to social action. The 6,000-year-old never ending saga of perilous immigration. Evolving from your religious upbringing into a different faith. Such themes intersect in Theatre Lab’s CONVERSA driven by the infectiously enthused playwright/performer Joanna Castle Miller whose direct TED-like address is infused with her engaging skill as a stand-up comedienne.

  • First Date Is Fun Fresh Frolic Through Dating Hell

    Pompano Players’ First Date will feel instantly familiar to anyone who has ever endured a blind date. The series of hilariously staged scenes and songs capture the trials and tribulations of this dreaded rite of passage with wit and warmth.

  • Driving Miss Daisy Remains Heartfelt Success at Dramaworks

    Live theater can reach one’s heart, explore emotions and show us who we are and who we might become, grasping the sentimental without being cloying or sappy. This is especially true in the now classic Driving Miss Daisy, receiving a heartfelt, absorbing runat Palm Beach Dramaworks.

  • Riverside Theatre’s Mauritius Depict Human Failings Accrue From Grief And Greed

    You might not expect to be invested in the appeal of collecting the rarest stamps, but Mauritius at Riverside Theatre show the personal side of philately. If errors are what make a stamp valuable, the personal storylines in the play show how human failings, or errors, accrue from grief and greed.

  • How to Break in a Glove: Meaty Complex Tale of Family Secrets

    City Theatre’s 30th season begins with an emotional and touching premiere of Chris Anthony; Ferrer’s How to Break in a Glove about an intergenerational Cuban-American family, bringing tears and laughs to a meaty and complex story about family secrets, messy love, and the cycle of trauma those secrets cause.

  • My Fair Lady At The Wick Theatre  Is Fair To Loverly

    At the Wick’s My Fair Lady, we spent the evening waiting for the spark that never quite got there, instead a production that drained most of the joy out, a museum-quality display, nicely arranged and neatly preserved, where everyone hits their marks, but no one seems particularly invested in what they were doing.