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The ambitious Thinking Cap Theatre, now in its second season, breathes life into Leah Nanako Winkler's absurdist play about the dog-eat-dog world of high school hierarchy in Death for Sydney…
Mosaic Theatre's Lombardi starring Ray Abruzzo brings an intimacy to the game of football as well humanity to a legend. Don't miss it.
The facile and sophisticated pose would be to sneer at the sentiment and, yes, manipulative facets of the new tour of Disney's Beauty and the Beast gracing the Broward Center for the Perform…
Palm Beach Dramaworks opens its new home with a production with the scope and magnitude of All My Sons, Arthur Miller's first Broadway hit. Directed here by J. Barry Lewis, All My Sons is a…
The Tale of the Allergist's Wife at Boca Raton Theatre Guild might drag a little at first, but the show soars when Patti Gardner, Michael Beecher, Barbara Sloan and Iris Acker are on stage t…
Fund-raising Staged Readings for GableStage and Mosaic Here's an approach you've never seen before: two separate staged readings of the same play to benefit two local theaters. Television an…
While Broward Stage Door's edition of Guys and Dolls has some talented artists named in the playbill, this is no one's best work, to be kind about it. The most glaring problem is that only o…
After a half-century in show business, dancer-director-choreographer Tommy Tune knows the gamut of pre-Broadway tryouts. But the process for 54 Forever that opens tonight is new for him. He …
The Silver Palm Awards, founded four years ago to spotlight theatrical excellence in South Florida, will be presented to 17 individuals on Dec. 5.
Broward-based Costume World, billed as the largest theatrical costumer distributor in the country, will buy the 16-year-old Broward Stage Door theater in Coral Springs on Nov. 21, according …
Editor's Note: The local season is ramping up so quickly, more than 40 shows this month, that we can't keep reviews posted in the center spot more than a day. Please look for recent reviews …
Captiva is a brilliantly observed, finely etched portrait of the familial ties that bind in every sense of the word. It's also one of the finest works of theater we've seen in the strongest …
All photos courtesy of the Adrienne Arsht Center/Photos by Justin Namon for WorldRedEye.com
The Maltz Jupiter Theatre's The 39 Steps is blessed with a steady procession of sight gags, puns, pratfalls and vaudevillian humor all delivered with enough energy and skill to keep a satisf…
All photos courtesy of the Maltz Jupiter Theatre
Jerry Orbach, Prince of the City: His Way from The Fantasticks to Law and Order by John Anthony Gilvey. Hal Leonard Corporation. Theater Shelf, a recurring feature, will review recently-rele…
Christopher Demos-Brown's creative life right now is what a watershed looks like for an emerging American playwright in the early 21st Century. Our Lady of Allapattah bows at the Caldwell Th…
Don and Ann Brown, who donated $2 million toward Palm Beach Dramaworks' new home, pull back the curtain on the newly-renovated marquee bearing their name Wednesday. Workers are cleaning …
Post-show talk back bull sessions between actors and audiences have become a popular way to engage jazzed-up crowds after a performance and cement a relationship between the theater and its …
Famed South Florida theater producer Zev Buffman will become president and CEO of Ruth Eckerd Hall in Clearwater in January, the performing arts center announced last week. Buffman, one of t…
Alliance Theatre Lab had to postpone its first musical, [title of show] slated for next month when two cast members dropped out. But the good news is they are substituting Kenneth Lonergan's…
This droll, tuneful and thoroughly winning burlesque bears little resemblance to the New York corpse whose sole virtue was comic genius Nathan Lane in the lead as Gomez.Taking the show for t…
Doors slam, identities are mistaken and laughter ensues in the classic farce Lend Me a Tenor now getting a delightful production at Broward Stage Door Theater in Coral Springs.
This paean to hedonism doesn't need a critic's affirmation. It is exactly what it wants to be: big, silly, mindless, nose-thumbing, irreverent fun.
The Caldwell Theatre Company has replaced two of its previously announced shows. The first to go is that perennial favorite mixing drama and comedy, the ever-popular TBA. (They never seem to…