Island City Stages wraps up another enjoyable season and breathes new life in the Charles Busch penned queer classic play, “Die Mommie Die.”
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It wasn’t easy finding a silver living during COVID-19, but Pompano Beach’s leaders did.
When mounting a stage parody of TV’s “The Golden Girls,” it takes really big shoes to fill the roles originated by iconic stars Beatrice Arthur, Betty White, Rue McClanahan, and Estelle Getty. And those shoes need to be even bigger when the four female leads are portrayed by men, says actor Vince Kelley, who steps into McClanahan’s part of Blanche in “Golden Girls: The Laughs Continue” Tuesday, Sept. 3 to Sunday, Sept. 29 at Broward Center’s Amaturo Theater.
Island City Stage founding artistic director Andy Rogow always wanted to do a play by the legendary Charles Busch. The New York-based playwright, who crafted an inimitable style of theatrical drag, stars in plays that he writes for himself portraying over-the-top female divas who appear to be trapped in time in the golden age of Hollywood.
Jon Marans’ “The Temperamentals” is a play about an important piece of LGBTQ history.
Ronnie Larsen has nearly 4,000 followers on Facebook and the gregarious executive producer at the Foundry is not afraid to take each and every one of them along for the ride, as he prepares his latest productions.
This play has everything going for it to make it a success in the South Florida theater market, it’s about Jews and gays, and features a well-built man walking around in a jock strap.
For anyone living under a pineapple during the musical’s original Broadway run, Slow Burn Theatre Company brings the nautical nonsense of “SpongeBob SquarePants” to the Amaturo Theater at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts. It opens Saturday, June 8 and runs through Sunday, June 23.
When the world premiere production of Michael McKeever’s “Daniel’s Husband” opened at Island City Stage in 2015, the validity of marriage equality was being weighed by the Supreme Court.
There was so much info coming out because of pride that the Culture Corner was overcrowded, so here’s some more dish!
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