Mary Damiano

Anyone who goes to see BLOODY BLOODY ANDREW JACKSON expecting a bio-musical about our seventh president is in for a rude awakening.

It was the music that put the Motor City on the map for something other than moving vehicles.

Once upon a time, before smart phones and the Internet and Facebook, there were newspapers. And if someone wanted to find out what was happening in the world, they had to buy a paper, often from boys selling the paper on city streets, hawking its headlines like town criers.

What makes a good person or a bad person? Or more specifically for theatrical purposes, what makes a good Jew or a bad Jew? That's the question at the heart of the enticingly titled BAD JEWS by Joshua Harmon, a bitingly funny play now making its southeastern premiere at GableStage in Coral Gables.

Finally---the playful, sexy side of Rick Castle and Kate Beckett, the first couple of crime-fighters, is back.

“Some mysteries aren't meant to be solved.” Those are tough words for crime novelist Richard Castle to hear, especially when his own disappearance is the mystery in question.

“I'm sorry. Is everyone in this room somehow related?” Imagine waiting for an elevator and when the doors open you're face to face with your sister, who doesn't know she's your sister, and your father who knows he's your father even though you don't and knows she's your sister even though she doesn't. Awk-ward…

Everyone's favorite redhead, her Cuban bandleader husband and the couple's nosy neighbors are brought back to life in I LOVE LUCY LIVE ON STAGE, which kicked off its nationwide tour last night at the Adrienne Arsht Center in Miami.

Fasten your seat belts. It's going to be a bumpy episode. Season 7 of CASTLE picked up exactly where Season 6 left off, with bride-to-be Kate Beckett (Stana Katic) looking down at the fireball that used to be ill-fated groom Richard Castle's (Nathan Fillion) car. After making her way down the slope, dirt kicking up on her mother's wedding gown, she reached toward the car, only to have the flames slap back her hands. The look on her face, thinking her beloved was gone---heck, even I teared up and I knew he wasn't dead.

Doesn't every couple have an adorable, wacky story about what went wrong on their way to the chapel of love?

The first glimpse of Liza Minnelli on stage caused the audience to leap to their feet and heap on the kind of applause usually reserved for encores.