Comedy
New Talent Showcase
A refreshing comedy show of newly minted comics, the latest graduates from the Women Only Stand-Up took the stage in a talent scout’s comic store dream come true.
Elizabeth Ann Foster
A refreshing comedy show of newly minted comics, the latest graduates from the Women Only Stand-Up took the stage in a talent scout’s comic store dream come true.
Jazz, avant-garde music, and dance reinforce dramatic meaning in Help at the Shed Theater, a comfortable new space.
Porter revises the tragic comedy of The Life, a story of the world’s oldest profession based out of Times Square in NYC in the 70s.
Set in a tacky rental in Palm Springs, the action takes place today – this weekend. A group of men puts together a post-pandemic getaway.
here are two types of people in the world; those that have been to Moulin Rouge, the club in Paris now in its 133rd year, and the rest of us. Then there are those who have been to the Moulin Rouge recreated on Broadway at the Al Hirschfeld Theater, and that is a spectacle not to be missed.
Lucas Hnath’s A Doll’s House – Part 2, is an exploration of the complexity of human emotions, discrete frailty, dreams, ambitions, freedom, and needs emanating from the configuration of the nuclear family, in this instance, with three children and no dog. The four-member cast carried the 90-minute production beautifully, masterfully maintaining their respective roles, engaging the heart and imagination, and taking us with them as they traveled effortlessly in an inventive dreamscape through time.
The journey of our lives, searching for answers to explain our past, present, and future, is comparable to Merriam-Websters’s definition of sand being “the moments of a lifetime.” Characters Angela, Odessa, and Adah hunt for answers on navigating humanity in sandblasted. Audiences will laugh as they relate to life’s subtle emotions exposed throughout this production by playwright Charly Evon Simpson.
Into the Breeches opens the story at the Providence Oberon Theater which is quiet and gloomy and where Maggie Dalton believes she can assemble women to perform Shakespeare’s male leads.
This is “Being Alive” as Bobbie sings, ending the production for this generation. What a genius is Sondheim to create a piece that can be transformed and adapted so no one can say they changed this or that – it simply morphs, and each person takes away their own lessons, or not.
This fantastic sold-out event warmed the heart and charmed the soul. The characters were delightfully conceived and presented by Mujahid Abdul-Rashid (Hoke Coleburn), Sara Morsey (Daisy Werthan), and Jason Parrish (Boolie Werthan). If you’ve seen the 1989 film, it’s clear that the Florida Rep presentation better captures the emotional and memorable qualities of author Alfred Uhry’s work.
