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Often critics start their reviews with some analysis of the life lessons that a theatrical work contains. Not this time. The deep inner meaning of Broward Stage Door's peppy perky production…
Thinking Cap's world premiere, Women In Assembly, is a satirical comedy credited to Aristophanes but transmuted into a bawdy irreverent satire about Greek women taking over government and re…
Kindertransport from Curtain Call Playhouse only uses the 1939 exodus of Jewish children from Germany as a starting point as it focuses on much more sophisticated questions about assimilatio…
It's likely that people involved with the Maltz Jupiter Theatre's upcoming production of South Pacific know that cynics will question why mount yet one more production of this classic. But d…
Poking around dark mentalities syncs with Infinite Abyss Productions' gleeful affection for works about people on the edges of society. But its run of The Collector, while among its stronge…
Watching Mad Cat productions often feels less like consuming theater and more like eavesdropping on inside jokes. The arcane references,obscure titles, the inexplicable musical interludes an…
What the musical Once illustrates on the stage of Actors Playhouse is the unparalleled power of song to capture and then share the pure pain and pleasure of love.
As overwhelming as The Color Purple is to the eyes and ears, it's the heart that is most affected in this Broadway Across America tour production at the Arsht Center. Powerful voices trumpet…
The tradition of staging a 24-hour marathon of theater-making as a fundraiser, first used locally by Naked Stage's founders in 2008, will continue March 4-5 to support an intern and apprenti…
Small Mouth Sounds is punctuated with grunts, moans, stamps, slaps, sighs, whimpers and snores, but other than one monologue and a disembodied voiceover from an unseen "teacher," fewer words…
The highly entertaining production of Wicked isn't just defying gravity"it's defying expectations. It's easy for long-time theatergoers to become a bit jaded about seeing the umpteenth tour …
If it's February, then theater companies are taking advantage of the visiting snowbirds presence to announce what they hope will be an enticing slate of titles for the 2018-19 season.
If you are a Boomer (and be warned, maybe only if you're a Boomer or their progeny), Slow Burn Theatre Company's hilarious spoof Disaster! will be in contention for one of the silliest, stup…
At the risk of sounding sexist... Riverside Theatre has opened a handsome production of a play that could turn husbands into theater patrons.
It's Lombardi, a long one-act about famed Green…
Theatre Lab's production of Lauren Gunderson's The Revolutionists resembles a blindingly scintillating gem-like puzzle with an infinite number of moving parts that twist in on itself over an…
Maltz Jupiter Theatre's An Inspector Calls focuses with laser intent on what the evolving socialist J.B. Priestley saw as its thematic marrow -- all individuals have an inescapable responsib…
Aside from hearing a cast whose parents might have been in swaddling clothes when these songs were on the radio, it's impossible to ignore that Broward Stage Door's Imagine -- A Beatles Cele…
You might want to don protective gear before seeing Clark Gable Slept Here, a pitch-black comedy by multi award-winning, versatile Miami-area playwright Michael McKeever. Folks won't find a …
In a move that will spread the brand of Miami-based City Theatre around the world, the company begins this month producing collections of its short plays on Azamara Club Cruises luxury ships…
Raging family dysfunction played against an equally volatile backdrop of social upheaval makes for two seemingly separate but brilliantly acted and directed plays united in GableStage's prod…
You can't really blame the playwright Erika Soerenson or artistic directors for thinking that a distaff reinterpretation of the Quentin Tarantino film Reservoir Dogs might make an intriguing…
Palm Beach Dramaworks' production of On Golden Pond is a pleasing charmer suffused with warmth and aided immeasurably by a skilled cast and director. It's well worth an evening's divertissem…
Broward Stage Door, which has weathered a dozen fiscal and artistic highs and lows, will leave the home it established 23 years ago in an abandoned Margate movie house, and move this summer …
Audiences sitting down this weekend to see Palm Beach Dramaworks' production of the venerable play On Golden Pond will get a visual shock. It's intentional, but not quite as originally plann…
The co-production of Miami New Drama and the Asolo Repertory Theatre Company resonates so deafeningly with the current zeitgeist that it seemed to have been written last month. This mercile…