Although We Will Not Be Silent is suffused with a long dorm night's worth of philosophical and moral gymnastics, playwright David Meyers and Theatre Lab inject the audience so deeply into su…
Frank Wildhorn's Jekyll & Hyde is one of those Continental Divides in musical theater: You either love it " or tolerate it. But if you're going to perform a work by the pioneering princ…
Florida Grand Opera does daring works (we're looking forward to the upcoming final two of the season, Frida and Werther), but, to satisfy audiences who prefer to see the familiar, there is c…
When was the last time a musical slipped into your veins and rode your bloodstream for two hours? When did a musical speak so accurately of your own pain and longing that you knew you were n…
Passions erupt as art, commerce and international politics collide and conflict in the world premiere of Carmen Pelaez's intriguing Fake at Miami New Drama. This play centering on a possible…
Dare your adult to take your inner child to see Dance Nation at Thinking Cap Theatre in which adults play teenagers prepping for a competition. Were a prize given out today for Best Ensemble…
One of contemporary theater's most powerful rock operas, Next to Normal, concerns a family dealing with the mother's bipolar disorder. And you have the opportunity to see this Tony Award and…
GableStage's rendering of Paula Vogel's Indecent is freshly distinctive from Rebecca Taichman's New York staging and from the rapturously received version that Palm Beach Dramaworks deliver…
There are probably 27 synonyms for the word funny and 157 familiar tropes. All the words apply and all the classic bits can be found in Actors' Playhouse's farce One Man, Two Guvnors.
Usually, Zoetic Stage's director Stuart Meltzer's deft work is almost invisible to audience members other than bringing a fresh vision to familiar titles. But his masterful work in The Curi…
The Maltz Jupiter Theatre's Mamma Mia! gets its mojo from a strong, consistent cast to carry out the sitcom-esque plot that is held together as if by taffy " twenty 1970s radio hits that are…
If there is one disappointment about the South Florida Symphony's ambitious staging of Porgy and Bess it is that there aren't more opportunities to see the production. The Wilton Manors-base…
Few theatrical challenges are as a daunting as actor taking on an iconic role made unforgettable by an inimitable talent in a career-making performance engraved in the popular consciousness.…
Bette & Barry: From Bathhouse to Broadway at Island City Stage is an imagining of if Midler and Manilow decided to do a concert together. In real pop history, they never have. This revu…
The reliable consistency of quality of some South Florida companies' work was underscored Thursday with the release of the nominations for the 43rd Carbonell Awards honoring excellence durin…
The musical may have been around for decades, but Riverside's triumphant production of Evita proves that the show has a strong universality that rings as loudly today as it did 40 years ago.…
Whether you have seen A Shayna Maidel before, Chicken Coop Theater at Levis JCC Sandler Center does a fine job keeping intact Lebow's touching drama and its very definite Holocaust theme. Bu…
Having Our Say is likely the first play in which both of its characters are centenarian women of color. At Primal Forces' regional premiere, this means two roles of uncommon heft and history…
A celebration of the life of Tony Finstrom, playwright patron and theater lover, is scheduled for Monday, Jan 21 from 7 to 10 p.m. at the Wold Performing Arts Center at Lynn University where…
It took Main Street Players' lethargic production of Superior Donuts about 20 minutes to show much signs of life, and even then the primary electricity came from one actor as a young man abl…
The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation has awarded $2 million to Miami-Dade County to complete the project for GableStage-FAU's theatre department to rebuild and reopen the Coconut Grove…
By Bill Hirschman If you're a theater aficionado and received a nice check from your mother for the holidays or maybe from a busy relative gave you a gift card to Barnes & Noble, what sh…
South Florida will reinforce its commitment to new play development in January with two simultaneous new play reading festivals at Palm Beach Dramaworks and FAU Theatre Lab during the first …
Breathtaking tour de forces, heartbreaking tragedies on stage and in real life, shows you've never heard of and shows you've seen three times too often, troupes taking chances - some resulti…
For theater artist Ronnie Larsen, "the roots are setting very deep" in Wilton Manors. "It just feels right to stay here." Larsen is a playwright, actor, director and producer "whose work has…