Someone asked opening night whether Florida Grand Opera's Salome was anything like early productions when its psycho-sexuality caused it to be banned in a few countries. Well, it's doubtful …
Spurred by mortality, human beings struggling to repair connections as conduits toward understanding their lives form the crux of Primal Force's intimate exploration of relationships in the …
Playwright Eric Lane gives little to no direction for the setting in his play Ride. Had you not known this and watched the imaginatively drawn setting by Giancarlo Rodaz, who not only direc…
Meet the Ladies of Sassy Mamas, some of Washington, D.C.'s finest women who are going through a mid-life crisis of sorts. They've turned the tables on older men, a given that all is right wi…
Hamilton and Dear Evan Hansen " two of the most critically acclaimed and fantastically popular musicals of the past decade " headline the 2018-2019 Broadway Across America season slated for …
Riverside Theatre's Waxlax stage turns into a high-spirited Victorian musical hall with its robust and meticulous production of The Mystery of Edwin Drood.
Noises Off is one of the funniest farces written in the English language and a solid match for Actors Playouse talents. The laughs are plentiful, but this production didn't wring everything …
Slow Burn Theatre Company's production of The Bridges of Madison County is what critics save up our credibility for " so that when a work of art is this effective, this moving, this captivat…
They are unlike any trials you have ever seen on Law & Order. Zoetic Stage's world premiere of Christopher Demos-Brown's Wrongful Death And Other Circus Acts is a hilarious but merciles…
Everything about the Maltz Jupiter Theatre's Hairspray has volume, and then some . . . from the bubblegum-bright lighting design to overdrawn characters that, while definitely animated, neve…
Christopher Demos-Brown has a world premiere Friday of Wrongful Death And Other Circus Acts at Zoetic Stage, but his play American Son is slated to open on Broadway in November.
The Wick's Singin' in the Rain, for all of its talent and technical achievements and good cheer, offers too few reasons to experience the stage version of the definitive MGM movie musical on…
Island City Stage's highly entertaining production of the musical Zanna, Don't! will never be confused with a show by Stephen Sondheim, though there are numerous references to the famed comp…
We could tell you that A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder is a satire of the artificiality of the class system and an affectionate lampoon of British theater genres such as the music …
South Florida has long been home to minority-dominated theater companies as well as productions in which race was a central theme. But the Carbonell Award nominations for 2017 released this …
2017 nominations for the 42nd annual Carbonell Awards
Two musicals open since March are still worth taking in any time you make to Manhattan. And if you can't afford a trip up north, rest assured that these will tour South Florida in the next c…
They may not look like their counterparts, but they sure sound like them. They've got the moves, the stylings and so much rock 'n roll energy you'll feel like you're at a concert rather than…
Christopher Durang initially wrote Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike to precisely match the inimitable talents of David Hyde Pierce, Sigourney Weaver and Kristine Nielsen. So it's no surpr…
Broward Stage Door's production of Flashdance the Musical has aspects worth recommending such as two charismatic leads with powerful voices worthy of a brass band. That's fortunate because t…
One pleasure of a theater critic's job are these year-end retrospectives that require looking back at reviews and be reminded, "Oh, yeah, that was really great. And right, there was that. An…
Smokey Joe's Café, the quintessential plotless rock n' roll jukebox revue, is as dependable as light entertainment gets in the hands of experienced directors like Kevin Black at Broward Sta…
Be grateful that Slow Burn Theatre Company with its audacious affection for large scale challenging musicals has decided to mount The Secret Garden, that ode to rebirth, memorable for its lu…
Thinking Cap Theatre's opening performance of Young Jean Lee's Straight White Men might have been among the best nights of theater in South Florida so far this season. I say "might have been…
For a show whose strengths are its celebration of nose-thumbing non-conformity and anarchic scenes of unrestrained thrash metal music, School of Rock is a surprisingly conventional musical t…