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Yet, Snoopy! The Musical at Area Stage, the second of two musicals derived from the popular comic strip, Peanuts, just doesn't have the same pedigree. Its songs are repetitive, its character…
Son Gabe (Eddy Rioseco) and husband Dan (Mark Sanders) vie for the sanity of Diana (Jodie Langel) in next to normal / Photo by Alberto Romeu Editor's Note: We're in high theater season when …
Teo Castellanos' NE 2nd Avenue at the Arsht Center, funny and profound literally at the same time, is a sociological-anthropological field trip as if Castellanos was a hip-hop Margaret Mead…
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Love, Loss and What I Wore at the Parker Playhouse is a gently funny and knowing celebration of clothing not as fashion per se, but as talismans, totems and souvenirs that instantly summon a…
Boeing Boeing is a 1962 farce with doors that slam, swing, shut slowly, burst open in ones, twos and probably threes. Promethean Theatre and its house director Margaret M. Ledford, benter ne…
By Bill Hirschman For those who like to read fortunes in tea leaves, the annual Carbonell Award nominations announced Sunday night provide plenty of seeming portents to extrapolate before th…
The Caldwell Theatre's hilarious satire The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity by Kristoffer Diaz sneaks a critical rabbit punch at the solar plexus of society. The milieu of "professional" wr…
With its new edgy production of Cabaret, the Maltz Jupiter Theatre takes an often thrilling left turn into adult, thought-provoking theater that this home of mainstream crowd-pleasers rarely…
In another turn in a deal that has flipped repeatedly, the owners of the Broward Stage Door in Coral Springs announced Tuesday that its sale to Costume World of Broward County has fallen apa…
It's a safe bet that hardly any theatergoer in South Florida will have seen a play like The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity when it opens this week at the Caldwell Theatre Company. After al…
Editor's Note: We're in high theater season when we have three to five openings a week. If you don't find the review you're looking for in the center column, check out the list of recent rev…
Editor's Note: We're in high theater season when we have three to five openings a week. If you don't find the review you're looking for in the center column, check out the list of recent rev…
The first 15 minutes of Infinite Abyss' Snow White Trash is a delightfully zany spoof that imaginatively reinterprets the fairy tale as a crass, royal blue hoot in which Disney's sweet but d…
The truth is many times it is, indeed, a high honor, just to be nominated and this year's Carbonell Awards crop will prove this with a vengeance.
Follies – New Broadway Cast Recording Oh, my! What am I to do now? The 2011 Broadway Revival Cast recording of Follies has just come out on PS Classics and now my “desert island&…
One of the most frustrating evenings in theater is The Mess. One moment, you're moved by ineffable loveliness, the next you're groaning at ham-handed ineptitude. Such is the careening qualit…
The most satisfying spectacle amid all the glitter, spangles and amazing feats at the first matinee of Cirque Dreams Holidaze was the blaze of delight in the face of the little girl in Row K…
Mad Cat Theatre Company is quite right to warn that their new production of Macbeth & the Monster is not children's theater, although children may enjoy the nonsensical anarchy of this …
If Boomers wondered why their parents feared rock 'n' roll, Million Dollar Quartet provides a visceral object lesson of the exhilarating danger, galvanizing defiance and the electrifying se…
In real life, we rarely have the clarity of identifiable watersheds as heroes discover in dramas. But five years from now, you'll likely look back on the past 12 months and recognize not a t…
Rising Action Theatre, one of South Florida's few theaters devoted primarily to gay-themed plays, is closing mid-season; but some staffers plan to replace it next fall with a new company, Is…
A flood of emails this month are reminding us that as the calendar year comes end, so do the opportunities to get a tax deduction and do some good for the theater community at the same time.…
