Hamilton, which explodes with power, vitality and imagination in the Broward Center for a five-week run, is not the Second Coming as many overheated observers would have you believe. But thi…
Tony Finstrom, who died Tuesday at the age of 71, was a prolific playwright, an arts journalist and a generous patron, but above all Tony Finstrom was a man who loved theater down through th…
The Christmas season officially opened this weekend wrapped in pink. Elle Woods, leading a perky singing and dancing ensemble in Slow Burn Theatre Company's ebullient Legally Blonde, lit up …
Much like the holiday season itself, there are things to endure and other instances that are jolly. That's the mixed bag of City Theatre's Winter Shorts now playing at the Carnival Studio Th…
Soul and spirit are characteristics we would expect from a production of the multi-Tony-winning musical The Wiz. And, to be fair, Stage Door Theatre's mounting is, at times, spirited, hip, s…
For some who view two-part events on Broadway and five-hour epic tragedies as the height of the theatrical form, the 10-minute play is condescendingly tolerated as the poor relation at the a…
The script and the production of Palm Beach Dramworks need some refining, but when it's most in the pocket, the world premiere of Lyle Kessler's House on Fire dances a delicate pas de deux b…
It's not that it's impossible to mess up the musical Annie, but when you have a reliable troupe of talented hands like those connected to the current Wick Theatre production, you are guarant…
The ground-breaking record-breaking Tony-winning Pulitzer-winning musical Hamilton is expected to attract unprecedented numbers of fans and newcomers when the national tour arrives at the Br…
How do you get a younger demographic to go see a play? Well, if it isn't Hamilton, it is difficult, sometimes impossible, to get those, let's say, under the age of 40-somethings to a live th…
Angie Radosh's face, not to mention her body language, provides an unimpeded view deep into the soul of a writer battling an inevitable descent into the spiral of Alzheimer's disease in Prim…
The emotional cauterizing of an already withdrawn teenager by a family dynamic of furious fights and fierce sibling rivalry forms the core of Tammy Ryan's Tar Beach, receiving a sensitive ex…
When a theater produces Death of a Salesman , it's not unknown territory. The director can adopt, adapt or depart from what has been done before. But when it's a world premiere such as Palm …
It's unfair to the Maltz Jupiter Theatre's Beauty and the Beast -- which is as thoroughly charming on its own merits as you could ask -- but understandable that the focus is diverted to its …
Usually in "fish out of water" comedies, the fish are surprised to find themselves out of the water and spend most of the evening trying to get back to familiar aquatic climes. But in the hi…
For those convinced that theater has no future among pre-Millenials, you should have been with us a few weeks ago when we made a belated visit to a Sunday matinee of the musical version of t…
It can be argued whether Anna Ziegler's Actually is a perfect piece of art, but it's hard to argue that the dizzyingly thought-filled drama at GableStage has captured the angst and conflict …
We're back from our trip to New York to scout out productions you might want to see (or not), shows that might tour South Florida and scripts that might be worth reviving in our region…
By Bill Hirschman When the musical Beauty and the Beast works, theater magic flows from the stage. But it's been done so often " a long run on Broadway, multiple national tours, the original…
By Bill Hirschman There's not much in life that you can say this about, but the national tour of Hello, Dolly! is everything you hope it will be. For anyone under the age of 50 who wonders i…
If you hire strong voices as they did in MNM Theatre Company's production, the venerable musical Grease cannot help but be entertaining with its elbow-nudging pastiche of faux late '50s-earl…
When a script is as strong as Michael McKeever's Carbonell-winning Daniel's Husband and begins to develop legs beyond its local premiere, one pleasure seeing it produced elsewhere is noticin…
If you are or have been the caregiver to a senior suffering with dementia, delusions and/or Alzheimer's disease, the revival of The Waverly Gallery is a pain-riven reminder of the mutual ago…
Jonathan Tolins' satirical Buyer & Cellar provides a steady supply of giggles and guffaws in this tale about an actor hired by Barbra Streisand to staff in shops that she built in the b…
Slow Burn Theatre hembraces this glam/grunge rock musical headlined by a protagonist who suffered a botched sex-change operation. It's an in-your-face raunchy celebration of alternative se…