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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…
A second round of South Florida theater season announcements have coincided with the withdrawal of snowbirds, but if this year's busy slate is any indication, the 2018-2019 season will barel…
Main Street Players challenges itself and its audiences in This Random World, this 90-minute think piece that will make you question some of your own connections to the people in your life. …
For those assigned to commit James Weldon Johnson's narratives to memory in their younger days, M Ensemble's God's Trombones will wrap them in warm nostalgia. For others, M Ensemble skillful…
Riverside Theatre throws the gauntlet at your feet with its professional production of Mamma Mia! So relent. Pick it up and have a ball at this bouncy juke box musical. This Mamma Mia! is si…
Amid the rise of the #metoo movement, the surprise in the new play Queen of Basel, subtitled "Or an unapologetic response to Strindberg's Miss Julie," is just how closely this modern-day rif…
