Actors Playhouse's lively Bright Star is a folk-country fable replete with spirited dances, classic character types, a genuine respect for everyday folk, and, ultimately, a moral about bedr…
Always...Patsy Cline is a cross between a memory play, historical piece, and jukebox musical that is receiving an admirable production from Arts Center Management, the City of Lauderhill and…
You don;t want to go home again. Certainly, that's the Weston family manse in the desolate prairie of Oklahoma as depicted in Palm Beach Dramaworks' searing, devastating portrait of toxic fa…
Other than the outlines of Harper Lee's plot, do not go to the superb national tour of To Kill a Mockingbird at the Broward Center expecting echoes of the cherished movie. ITe style, structu…
The 2023-24 theater season in South Florida includes alliance of Boca Stage and MNM Theatre's Wait Until Dark and Boeing Boeing; Kravis Center has Tina, Six, Hamilton and Jagged Little Pill…
Madeline Powell, who plays Eliza Doolittle, and Jonathan Grunert, who stars opposite her as Professor Henry Higgins, in the Broadway national tour of My Fair Lady coming to the Arsht Center,…
Of course, Mary Poppins does fly in Slow Burn Theatre Company's glorious production at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts. As the song goes, this Mary Poppins is "Practically Perfect…
Skilled direction and excellent performances plumb the deep currents in Oleanna, currently on stage at Riverside Theatre in Vero Beach. In fact, Riverside's production is as sharp and pointe…
Remarkable for raging family furor, recriminations, love, regret, pain and torrents of alcohol-fueled vitriol, August: Osage County is accepted as one of The Great American Plays. Palm Beach…
The zingers in Boca Stage's female version of The Odd Couple sound familiar but hardly stale like something left in Olive Madison's refrigerator for who knows how long. Rather, you welcome t…
This Zoetic production of Next To Normal " easily one of the finest in its history -- blesses the audience with a deeply affecting meld of fluid staging, glorious music and five superb perfo…
It's expected the Maltz Jupiter Theatre's Oliver! would be a tuneful, well-executed evening. But those mild adjectives would not begin to do this justice to a benchmark for this company. Thi…
Florida Grand Opera brings back Tosca for nearly the 12th time with veteran villain Todd Thomas. Conductor Gregory Buchalter says this is the opera for people who haven't been to an opera. "…
In the early spring, flowers bloom and South Florida theaters announce 2023-24 seasons. Broadway In Fort Lauderdale will have Funny Girl and Moulin Rouge; Lake Worth Playhouse's season incl…
Michael Jackson never appears in the incisive Defacing Michael Jackson, although his influence is infused into the journey at Miami New Drama stage. But Aurin Squire's insightful tale recr…
If you're younger than Boomers and wonder what it felt like seeing a musical in the 1950s, or if you're older and you yearn for what you saw in the 1950s, then take full advantage of the tim…
You'll probably love Pretty Woman: The Musical if you adored the 1990 hit movie that launched Julia Roberts' career. The story about a hooker who lands a fabulously rich guy and lives happil…
Designing Broadway, by Derek McLain and Eila Mell, Running Press (Hatchette Book Group), 272 pages; list price $45, $33.20 Amazon, used copies $30. Â By Bill Hirschman As a rule, responsi…
The strength and vulnerability of non-sexual but emotionally intimate friendships are not focuses in 20th Century theater. But in works written by a new generation of playwrights, these rela…
Cemetery Pub, a play in its second production by playwright-actor Tom Dugan at Pigs Do Fly Productions, is a mash-up of multiple genres as three relatives hash out troubled pasts and an unce…
The intense and dense cyclonic swirl of ideas expertly delivered in GableStage's production of Lucas Hnath's A Doll's House Part 2 is the theatrical embodiment of "thought-provoking." This …
Those needing a good hearty laugh will find the right medicine in Riverside Theatre's achingly hilarious production of A Comedy of Tenors. The show is awash with impeccable split-second tim…
The path we take in life and the place we end up " how much of that is a matter of luck, socio-economic circumstance, and how much is a matter of choices ? The insight-laden Good People at t…
If you've got a competent, committed team as the Broadway at series does for 42nd Street, you're nearly guaranteed a rousing gift of pure hallelujah as the love of musical theater grows into…
Part 4 of a 4-part in-depth series tracking South Florida theater's arc of paralysis and pivot through the pandemic and into the future, certainties becoming uncertain, and an unquenched dri…