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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…
The stirring musical Fun Home is a detective story in which the mystery is never solved, but the investigator comes to terms with the existence of the enigma. What Zoetic Stage's triumphant …
This Broadway Across America production of Waitress at the Broward Center about the complexities and emotional truth of how dreams do and should form the backbone of life.arguably is even br…
Life is all about attitude and how you perceive what you encounter, whether it be a stack of garbage or a deadly disease, in Be Here Now, Deborah Zoe Laufer's life-affirming, funny and touch…
Time Step, the creative and original dance-centric revue at Broward Stage Door Theatre is a time travel tribute to tap dancing in all of its many guises.
At some workplaces, employees indulge in healthy rivalry, support each other professionally and personally and, sometimes, forge deep friendships that last long after the job has ended. That…
Produced competently, with flashes of brilliance, by New City Players at the Vanguard, Clybourne Park's expose of the evolving presentation of white privilege over generations has lost some …
The world premiere The Radicalization of Rolfe at Island City Stage implies a truly intriguing nesting of premises: starting with how Rolfe, the sweet messenger boy romancing Liesl in The So…
An emotion-choked audience leapt to their feet during Monday's 42nd annual Carbonell Awards ceremony, but it had nothing to do with the recognition of excellence in South Florida theater. Th…
The complete list of Carbonell Award winners, nominees and breakdown by theater and county for the 2017 performance year.
Edgar & Emily, the premiere at Palm Beach Dramaworks, is a fascinating and funny fantasia about the dead Edgar Allan Poe visiting Emily Dickinson late one night dragging his coffin behi…
Emily Dickinson is huddling in her bed when Edgar Allen Poe barges into her bedroom pulling his coffin behind him. This is even stranger than it sounds since Poe is believed to have died abo…
In Buyer & Cellar, struggling actor Alex More becomes an unlikely cast " from his boyfriend and a supercilious boss to celebrated Hollywood couple James Brolin and his wife, Barbra. If …
The Pigs Do Fly company, dedicated to work by and for people over 50 years old, examines women's issues during a day on the golf course in the full-length play The Ladies Foursome.
Tight choreography, outstanding leads, a solid supporting cast and a fluid band infuse Slow Burn Theatre's trip to Memphis. The rousing production hits the ground running in the opening scen…
It's fun -- and in the two hours of Outre Theatre Company's transportive production of Hedwig and the Angry Inch, even somehow plausible"to believe that Mike Westrich always has been Hedwig…
The sound coming from the Arsht Center stage is almost unearthly and totally unexpected unless you've seen the opera Orfeo ed Euridice or heard the unique sound of a counter-tenor before. Th…
Riverside Theatre gathers its significant resources and sure-footed confidence to mount one of the greatest American musicals ever, Gypsy. Indeed, this is a big, brawny show steeped in legen…
Graced with a soaring pulsing score, leading actors with passionate voices and a wealth of evocative choreography, the Wick Theatre's Brigadoon lands as one of the company's most memorable a…
Dancing Lessons is punctuated with interpersonal strife, frustration, heartache and some very funny moments. But mostly Zoetic Stage's production is a warm quiet sustained smile for a warm q…
The Maltz Jupiter Theatre's nearly flawless production with a gloriously delivered score and nuanced script is a reminder that South Pacific is a contender as one of the most affecting and b…