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In this edition, we talk with Eric Alsford is one of the best-known music directors in South Florida, usually shuttling from one job to another here, in New York and at regional theaters acr…
The very idea that Mad Cat Theatre"the embodiment of edgy, adult fare in South Florida " is doing what some might misclassify as children's theater simply doesn't compute. The explanation is…
If you're on this site, the odds are you're at least a theater fan, and likely a proud theater geek. Our Theater Shelf critic Brad Hathaway has been compiling the cream of the current crop o…
With such irresistible raw material as the Irving Berlin songbook, Broward Stage Door's production of I Love a Piano can't help but be mildly entertaining and this edition finally emits infe…
And in his current tour de force in the comical and touching Jacob Marley's Christmas Carol at Actors' Playhouse, Ken Clement reaffirms his ability to single-handedly mesmerize an audience. …
The Caldwell Theatre Company is offering a rare look behind the scenes Wednesday Dec. 14Â during a free open house from 1 to 8 p.m. that will feature backstage tours of the facility, perf…
In his current tour de force in the comical and touching Jacob Marley's Christmas Carol at Actors' Playhouse, Ken Clement reaffirms his ability to single-handedly mesmerize an audience.Both …
The SantaLand Diaries is a holiday tale " not a warm inspiring morality fable for Christmas, but a harrowing if hilarious horror story for Halloween.
In Zoetic Stage's production, the sat…
Don't go looking for the sassy charming movie Shrek in its musical incarnation now appearing in the Broadway Across Miami tour at the Arsht Center for one week only.
Streaks of imaginatio…
Brad Hathaway, our critic of CDs, DVDS and books related to theater, has been busy this fall looking at a large number of potential additions to your library. We're going to start running se…
By Bill Hirschman Don't go looking for the sassy charming movie Shrek in its musical incarnation now appearing in the Broadway Across Miami tour at the Arsht Center for one week only. Streak…
GableStage has been given seed money to start an annual Winter Shakespeare Festival that would team with the Royal Shakespeare Company and Miami native Tarrell Alvin McCraney, and involve bu…
Bill Schwartz as Twain listens to Stephen Neal as Shaw holding forth / Photo by Eileen Suarez By Bill Hirschman An intriguing premise and the words of two witty literary giants are not enoug…
The Promethean Theatre, best known for its thought-provoking and irreverent fare, is continuing its children's programming this season with Jingles, Jokes & Jollies: A Tropical Holiday o…
President of the Palm Beach Theater Guild Patrick Henry Flynn, who has been heading the effort to preserve and reopen the Royal Poinciana Playhouse in Palm Beach, is in New York to hear a fr…
Playwriting Group Meets The Playwrights Drama Group, affiliate with the Writers' Network of South Florida, will hold readings of its members' short plays on Monday, Dec. 12, in Fort Lauderda…
An intriguing premise and the words of two witty literary giants are not enough to build an engrossing evening in New Theatre's world premiere of Chambers Stevens' comedy, Twain and Shaw Do …
By Bill Hirschman The Maltz Jupiter Theatre's almost profligately lush, unflaggingly energetic and totally  winning edition of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat will thankfully…
In what may be the first massive melding of junior thespians and advanced technology, the Maltz Jupiter Theatre's staff has employed cyberspace and digital information to manage the logisti…
By Bill Hirschman In a play comprised primarily of complex insights articulated at the audience for nearly 90 minutes, what many people remember most about GableStage's production of Red is …
Knock on wood, halfway through the run of Lombardi, Ray Abruzzo hasn't lost his voice. Portraying the legendary coach whose booming pitbull voice reflected his full-out approach to everythi…
The fiery politics of 1868 Spain on the eve of a rebellion are nothing compared to the politics of the heart raging in the Florida Grand Opera's season opener, the zarzuela Luisa Fernanda.
New Theater, the Coral Gables troupe losing its current home to a wrecking ball, has moved for the rest of the season to the Roxy Theatre Group near Florida International University's south …
M Ensemble moved into the performance space last June, and makes good use of the comfortable black-box theater for the first presentation of its 40th anniversary season, August Wilson's Radi…
Following the consecutive successes of Brothers Beckett, Fool For Love and 'night mother, this production of Lobby Hero cements Alliance's reputation as a company to go out of your way to t…
