Parade

Jason Robert Brown’s sobering, fact-based musical explores the trial and wrongful sentencing of a Jewish factory owner in the racist, anti-Semitic Atlanta of 1913, for the unspeakable crime of raping and murdering a 13-year-old employee. In their handling of this pivotal case, Brown and his book writer, Alfred Uhry, unravel the ways in which stubborn prejudice clouds rational inquiry, through tunes both elegiac and trenchant. Slow Burn Theatre at Broward Center for the Performing Arts, 201 SW 5th Ave, Fort Lauderdale (954-462-0222). Feb 8–23: various show times; $72 and up.