"Amazing" is a word you don't read in too many theater reviews. So keeping in mind that it's well-considered use here requires a lot of contextual "yets" and "buts," King Kong is amazing, bo…
Peter Wayne Galman in Thinking Cap Theatre's production is a likeable Lear. He's also narcissistic, ego-centric, driven, demanding, confused, playful and timeless. It helps that Galman deli…
Florida Grand Opera's presentation of La bohème is authentically true to Puccini's original right down to the pink bonnet. Besides an impressive visual production, this would still stand be…
The pre-opening publicity of Christopher Demos-Brown's racially-charged play on Broadway, American Son, has focused on its inescapable resonance with the tumultuous zeitgeist " a virtue cham…
The perennial tear-jerking Steel Magnolias, now at the Maltz Jupiter Theatre ought to work, but doesn't succeed this time.. But those objectivity. Those seeking theater that provokes or stim…
The insightful examination in the play One Night in Miami from Miami New Drama depicts four different approaches used by African-American icons -- Malcolm X, Jim Brown, Sam Cooke and the ch…
Thirty individuals and organizations will receive the South Florida Silver Palm Theatre Awards this December, founded eleven years ago to honor theatrical excellence, the organization announ…
Maybe it's walking under a Times Square marquee with his name emblazoned overhead. Maybe it's seeing a title memorialized on that distinctive Playbill cover. Maybe it's being asked for his a…
Confessions of a Nightingale spends time listening to Tennessee Williams escorts visitors through a rambling tour of his life. Actor Christopher Dreeson and director Jeffrey Bruce have worke…
There's a party going on at the Riverside Theatre where the jukebox is smokin'! The nostalgic revue Smokey Joe's Cafe celebrates the music of Leiber and Stoller, whose tunes influenced Ameri…
This may seem a backhanded compliment, but it is meant with awe : The most memorable aspect of The Wick Theatre's The Pirates of Penzance is you can understand the bloody words. The producti…
Put aside your expectations that the musical Freaky Friday is going to be yet another manipulative Disney raid on its popular film titles, designed primarily for those who fondly recall one …
From the trumpet blast opening the world premiere Havana Music Hall at Actors' Playhouse, the stage explodes with color and light and dancing and singing and, above all, that pulsing music, …
All too apropos for our bitterly divided time, Outré Theatre Company's intellectually stimulating production of Lucas Hnath's The Christians asks what happens when two sincerely held but di…
Palm Beach Dramaworks' Indecent is precisely the kind of thrilling evening that glories in what theater can be " a unique art form that cannot be matched by anything on film, anything hangin…
Paula Vogel welcomes, even celebrates how imaginative directors and committed casts use her work as a starting blueprint for their own explorations. o she is pleased that this week the team …
It's a genuine compliment when a critic doesn't particularly look forward to a show based on past productions and recordings " and then reassesses his antipathy based on seeing a fresh new p…
GableStage's Admissions is one of the more uncomfortable evenings of theater that avowed liberals and proud progressives will sit through any time soon. It holds up an unsparing mirror that …
In Zoetic Stage's premiere Dracula, the vampire is a sexist pig (as are several men in the play). The protagonists are strong-willed proto-feminists. Together, they embody a society struggli…
It would be intriguing and accurate, but misleading to say that Havana Music Hall, the hopeful Broadway musical about Cuban artists before and after the Revolution, is the brainchild of 72-y…
The memorial celebration of Iris Acker will be held Monday at The Wick Theatre in Boca Raton with doors opening at 6:30 p.m. and the celebration starting at 7 p.m. Playwright, producer and …
Some South Florida theaters are scrapping some of what they plan to put on stage this season or next. Some are leaving support positions unfilled. Some plan smaller cast shows. Some have sid…
Lightning Bolt Productions,' Little Shop of Horrors delivers yet another merry recreation of one of the most amusing small musicals in the canon: an intentionally silly, unapologetically uns…
A thrilling cast and an impossibly talented young director from the African Heritage Cultural Arts Center mine all the raucous mirth and underlying blues in George C. Wolfe's stinging social…
Instead of attempting the impossible task for imitating Ol' Blue Eyes, MNM Theatre Company's My Way, A Tribute to Frank Sinatra, is a solid, polished, thoroughly entertaining stroll through…