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If there's any way to get folks to the theater who don't usually go, Slow Burn's Rock of Ages can do it. Director/choreographer Patrick Fitzwater knows exactly how to squeeze every inch of c…
In the lovely confines of The Vanguard, Yasmin Reza's modern classic Art comes to life in New City Players' finely curated production.
When did yesterday's renegades, who skirted AIDS and lived boheme on a ramen noodle diet in the go-go eighties, become today's get-off-my-lawners? These questions, and plenty more, linger be…
Laura Turnbull in the solo show The Pink Unicorn from Primal Forces places us in the headspace of a widowed mother in a small"and small-minded"Texas suburb who transforms into an unwitting…
In the current production of The M Ensemble Company, August Wilson's legendary Seven Guitars almost plays like a musical or a folk opera akin to Porgy and Bess or Floyd Collins.
Into the Woods' disturbing second act occurs in a boy's nightmare in Lightning Bolt Production's riveting, pulse-quickening production at the West Boca Performing Arts Center. Director Jessi…
Human beings' desperate need for affirmation of their self-worth from some source outside themselves " whether it's from a parent or strangers' judgments " drives GableStage's scorching prod…
The intensifying Black Lives Matter conversation will be fueled on Broadway this fall in the unique vision of Christopher Demos-Brown, one of Florida's most esteemed theater professionals, i…
They make it look so easy.
The 23rd annual City Theatre Summer Shorts crew slip seamlessly from broad comedy with a hint of a moral to bittersweet drama with a soupcon of dry wit…
From Door to Door, a bittersweet comedy retracing the evolution of Jewish-American womanhood through 65 years of the 20th Century, is a procession of clichés spread over 80 minutes. But if …
Tons of news about South Florida Theatre League, MNM Theatre Company, GableStage, Palm Beach Dramworks, Spotlight on the Arts, Earl Maulding, Actors Playhouse, Broward Stage Door, Lightning …
MNM Theatre 's Avenue Q, the musical comedy with foul-mouthed and copulating puppets, has never been as clearly about education as now. It's the curriculum about coping with disappointment w…
The crush of more than a thousand cheering students, their parents and friends overflowed the orchestra seating and the boxes of the Broward Center's cavernous Au-Rene Theater at the Broward…
Director Giancarlo Rodaz made a virtue out of a tiny budget by substituting imagination for cash plus a joyful embrace of theatrical artifice in his production of Shrek the Musical at Area S…
With a cast of unfettered and inspired clowns, Thinking Cap Theatre has produced a hilarious edition of a 1687 comedy by Aphra Benn, The Emperor of the Moon, lathering almost every second of…
Mere hours before the opening night of Equus at Palm Beach Dramaworks " a drama prompted by the true story of a troubled teen who blinded five horses " another troubled teen murdered 10 peop…
A new theater debuting by choosing a complex musical about mental illness, and in the small confines of the 50 or so seat theater? Now that takes confidence. And confident the professional, …
Raw. The same carefully chosen adjective emerges in separate interviews with the two leading actors and their director to describe Equus, the shattering drama they are rehearsing for an open…
There's more than a bit of Noel Coward running through Broward Stage Door Theatre's Victor/Victoria. It's what makes this production tick, a true understanding, and might we say, appreciatio…
So…what do Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash, Elvis Presley and Jerry Lee Lewis have in store for an encore in Actors' Playhouse at the Miracle Theatre's much-anticipated return engagement of Mill…
Daimien J. Matherson and his new South Florida theater company Measure for Measure are finally about to put an undesired nickname -- and Hurricane Irma -- behind them Almost exactly eight mo…
The prickly problematic mutual attempts to heal physically and emotionally by an auto accident victim and the offending driver make an intriguing and rewarding drama at Primal Forces' An Acc…
Even more unflinchingly romantic than those starving Bohemians in the garret or those Egyptians being buried alive, the unalloyed passion coursing through Daniel Catan's Florencia en el Amaz…
Those who doubt that young people are no longer interested in theater should watch the hundreds and hundreds of teenagers producing a tsunami of enthusiastic cheering and celebrating they ge…
This familiar musical revue of Broadway legend Jerry Herman's hits and misses, Jerry's Girls, has been reimagined for the Wick theatre by Herman's buddy Lee Roy Reams and performed by a com…
