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News About Dramaworks' January festival of readings of works in development, Susan Danis stays at Florida Grand Opera, Infinite Abyss and Island City Stage rename their home Wilton Theater F…
It doesn't matter how beautifully these performers sing with strength and skill, no matter how tight the bands, no matter how much energy flows , if a musical is primarily a song cycle relia…
A "celebration' of the life of Iris Acker " the iconic actress, teacher, producer and theater booster through her television shows -- has been scheduled for 7 p.m. Monday October 15 at a lo…
She Kills Monsters is a dramatic comedy given an inventive and enthusiastic production by Area Stage Company -- a show proudly described as "theater for nerds," or more accurately, for young…
Iris Acker -- the vivacious actress, teacher, author, dancer, artistic director, producer and groundbreaking union leader who helped transform South Florida theater " died Sunday night after…
Thinking Cap Theatre's Crooked superbly captures the fear, confusion and pain of being an adolescent " and the same fear, confusion and pain struggling to raise one. With vibrant performance…
Now & Then, a world premiere musical in Wilton Manors, is a quiet gentle love story told with an inventive twist. But it's a tale tracing the episodes of an arc so familiar that it migh…
Ronia, the Robber's Daughter -- the first offering of Theatre Lab's family-friendly series -- satisfies the parameters of youth theatre but with a pedigree that transcends its genre, a produ…
Broward Stage Door's La Cage aux Folles stresses the universal virtues of love and loyalty, delivered with only a wry smile to acknowledge that its protagonists are an aging gay couple inclu…
An Hour Without TV -- in which an abused wife convinces her husband to give her one hour without ESPN so she can tell him she leaving " is easily the most mistitled drama in many years. It c…
News about Broward Teen Ambassadors' application deadline, Theatre Lab's new series for families, Kravis Center's volunteer opportunities, a benefit for Insight for the Blind, and a terrific…
White Guy on the Bus at GableStage is a merciless dissection of race relations in the 21st Century, but stunning plot twists prevent us from explaining much further than a wealthy white bus…
Area Stage Company's Cabaret underscores how this warhorse musical still serves, not as a cautionary tale, but as a flat out warning to our current socio-political climate: The production's …
It's almost paternalistic to praise New City Players as one of the gutsiest theaters in the region. But with its carefully-wrought and moving production of Constellations, the Players have o…
No one could accuse the cast of Shorts Gone Wild 6 of being low energy. They spend the production's interstitial moments cartwheeling, performing splits, engaging in slapdash chicken dances…
Unsung heroes who provide outstanding service behind the scenes in local theater will receive recognition this year from the South Florida Theatre League's 2018 Remy Awards.
Worse than Spiderman Turn Off The Dark, the mega-epic The Big Bang may be the most bloated, overwrought, inept, politically incorrect, painfully lame, downright stupidest musical of all time…
If you're over 40 and you heard that some theater was reviving that chamber musical I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change… come on, you said, "Again?" So here's the really good news: The …
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Let's talk about sex, drugs and relationships. Let's dish about thoughtless cruel men we've known, love and loneliness, fears that hold us back and strengths that can empower us. Such is the…
Aunt Jack, S.P. Monahan's world premiere play at Empire Stage, rejects pigeonholing sexuality with a single label or category. Sexual identity is what you choose it to be and Monahan champio…
Breaking Up Is Hard To Do -- which hangs a plot or two around 18 of the songs by 1960s pop icon Neil Sedaka, is the perfect swan song to close this chapter of the Broward Stage Door as it g…
Woody Guthrie's American Song is most decidedly a people's musical, at least in its vivifying production at Palm Beach Dramaworks is more of a communal hoedown with Guthrie's music as the so…
For all the raunchy scenes in Michael Mizerany's new play The Big D, the message at the weepy comedy-drama's heart is serious and sincere. Sure, the characters engage in hard-core, unabashed…
In looking over my huge collection of play scripts, I kept coming across shows I either have seen and am anxious to see undertaken by a local company, or titles I've read but never seen " a…