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Tarzan: The Stage Musical, by regional theater troupe Slow Burn Theatre plays just fine in the smaller, almost 600-seat Amaturo Theater at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts, but, tr…
The Wick Theatre's marvelous and contemplative rendition pulls off The Drowsy Chaperone with boundless charm and effortless sophistication. The Wick has enjoyed its share of highlights over …
Lizzie: The Musical, is making its highly entertaining South Florida debut at Thinking Cap Theatre at The Vanguard. Part of that is due to the snappy lyrics. But mostly it's because of the f…
Greed"that timeless vice that steamrolls over everything in its path"is as relevant today as it was in Lillian Hellman's 1939 drama The Little Foxes, now receiving a sumptuous revival at Pal…
The Mighty Gents is a poignant moving tale worthy of a Greek tragedy except that the protagonists are members of a street gang from the mid-1960s, emotionally, economically and sociologicall…
Greed. Sexism. Conscienceless businessmen. Blackmail. Rebellious youth. Women fighting to break the glass ceiling. Women using sex to manipulate men. Bank embezzlement. Even murder. No, not …
In a bit of serendipitous synchronicity with the sequel of Blade Runner and the reboot of Westworld, Primal Forces' production of The Good Girl explores the complexities of humans creating c…
Perhaps you've seen The Sound of Music once too often. But if you have fond memories that seek reawakening or if you have never seen it on stage as opposed to the film, this is an enthusiast…
For a show that shattered a ceiling in 1983, La Cage aux Folles has become a warhorse in 2017. MNM Productions' edition embraces the spangles, glitz and sheer Jerry Herman of it all. So if y…
GableStage's production of The Humans is like watching a Kmart photo department family portrait that has been left too near a wall heater. Almost imperceptibly, the edges start to brown, the…
Joy suffused the house on the "opening night" of the national tour of On Your Feet! the bio-musical about Emilio and Gloria Estefan. Part of the palpable elation pouring both ways across the…
Gloria and Emilio Estefan once again are bringing it back home. The national tour of On Your Feet!, an autobiographical Broadway musical powered by their iconic songbook, will open this week…
City Theatre's production of Building the Wall opens with audio of then-candidate Donald Trump spewing some of his more incendiary anti-immigration rhetoric. The first line has yet to be spo…
Conjuring the lowbrow folderol of an early 20th century burlesque, Steve Martin's adaptation of this 1910 German sex comedy Underpants performed by Main Street Players is all too quaint for …
An Octoroon is the kind of art that defies a Siskel & Ebert thumbs up / thumbs down assessment. You can praise or fault elements of the script or a production, but Area Stage Company's …
In what is believed to be a groundbreaking move, Palm Beach Dramaworks and GableStage plan a co-production of the acclaimed Broadway play Indecent to be next fall.
A quarter-century on, the temptation is to r reinterpret Oleanna, David Mamet's incendiary screed about toxic relations between men and women. But Evening Star Productions' rendition in 2017…
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' An Octoroon virtually defines the adjective "provocative." No matter the quality of the production that the courageous Area Stage Company actually delivers next week,…
Talent, energy and enthusiasm strut across the Broward Stage Door production of Saturday Night Live " The Musical. Unfortunately, this company does not have enough of those virtues to rescue…
With Hurricane Irma closing in, those in charge of theater performances and venues are considering whether to cancel or postpone productions and events. We will post this information on an o…
If you're coming to see Charles Busch camping it up in high drag at Palm Beach Dramaworks' inaugural event in its OutStage @pbd series on Sept. 16, you'll be disappointed. But if you're intr…
The Riverside Theatre in Vero Beach has come up with a solution"build its own housing for professionals which has become a major expense for many theaters.
Seniors and caretaking Boomers recognize the real pain informing the facile catchphrase "Growing old is not for sissies" " a quality sharing the stage with copious laughs in Broward Stage Do…
The Golden Gate Bridge, cable cars, Alcatraz, all beckon visitors. Yet in the popular consciousness, theater in San Francisco does not strike many as a stand-alone reason to book a week ther…
Shorts Gone Wild 5, co-produced by City Theatre with Island City Stage, follows the same entertaining pattern eliciting guffaws, chuckles and a few choked back sniffles with risque and luigh…