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If you know where to look, certainly you can find reliable warhorse titles in the upcoming theater season in South Florida, but it's easier to find vibrant, contemporary and challenging offe…
Local stages have some special programs running for only one or two days starting tonight including Palm Beach Dramaworks, GableStage and Arts Garage.
Indisputably, regional theaters have been a significant wellspring for new plays reaching back 30 years. But a quickening sea change has occurred quietly but demonstrably over the past decad…
An explosion of passionate performances (and flying silverware) mark New City Players' production of the late Sam Shepard's True West.
Gregg Weiner captures the audience in Ground Up and Rising's bare bones production of Conor McPherson's monologue The Good Thief at South Miami-
Dade Cultural Arts Center
Is knowledge always good? Is its pursuit inherently defensible regardless of the consequences? Is there Absolute Truth?These and another half-dozen ideas careen and crisscross GableStage lik…
Marquee Theater Company is still an evolving troupe. but it's a shame that this production of Thoroughly Modern Millie isn't Carbonell Award eligible " many elements would have given other c…
One of the joys of seeing local theater over the years is charting a new theater's growth and promise. But it's rare to see a fledgling theater develop so quickly as Main Street Players, as …
Not every theatrical event has to be an outsized venting of passion filled with intellectual pyrotechnics. Sometimes a work can be satisfying to the brain and the heart as a gentle celebrat…
MNM's production of Stephen Sondheim's groundbreaking musical Company is intermittently lit with incandescent performances worth the price of admission by themselves, but the overall piece d…
Pigs Do Fly Productions -- which has done mostly short plays by, for and about people 0ver 50 -- has jumped even deeper into the play-ing field by presenting the world premiere of Michael L…
A production of Dreamgirls was already planned for the Miramar Cultural Center's summer season, but became the perfect "launching pad" for the City of Miramar's First Annual Broadway Festiva…
For the third time in nine years, a blizzard is raging inside the Arsht Center in the middle of a blazing summer as Slava's Snowshow returns and you once again will be picking white stuff ou…
The prescient genius of George Orwell is the blinding virtue in Outré Theatre Company's earnestly delivered but sluggish production of the painfully relevant 1984. It remains jaw-dropping t…
The world premiere of Michael McKeever's Finding Mona Lisa at Actors Playhouse initially might seem a light, fascinating beach read about Leonardo DaVinci's masterpiece -- a sometimes droll,…
Homicidal rage against a corrupt world spews into the audience in Palm Beach Dramaworks' Sweeney Todd. But its singular spin is that the serial throat-slitting barber does not start as a ven…
Those who love Stephen Sondheim and Sweeney Todd in particular should come with an open mind to this month's edition at Palm Beach Dramaworks expecting a different spin on the material.
Merriment is a word we don't use much in the 21st Century, but that is the precise adjective to reflect the madcap abandon, tireless physical comedy and unflagging enthusiasm that makes a su…
Minnie's Boys is a light comic highly homogenized version of how stage mother Minnie Marx utzed, kvetched and kibbitzed her five sons to transform from a doomed vaudeville singing group to, …
With Fireman Are Rarely Necessary, this world premiere of a socially satirical comedy falls solidly in the anarchic absurdist vibe with grunge icing championed by Mad Cat Theatre Company.
It's difficult to say if the music and lyrics of Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812 are noteworthy, but they are overwhelmed by a production and performances arguably beyond nearly …
Caldwell Theatre co-founder Michael Hall, among the pioneers who transformed a fledgling theater scene focused on molding warhorses and built it into a vibrant regional force embracing chall…
For some reason, Six Degrees of Separation has fallen off the radar of regional theaters mounting semi-contemporary plays that depict and dissect the angsty zeitgeist of modern life. But the…
The stage is a fungible place. Sets can transform, actors can fly, characters can break walls, especially the fourth. There is limitless potential in the blank canvas of floorboards and ligh…
The skill, power and imagination that Kevin Black, Ben Bagby and their colleagues have invested make Swing! Swing! Swing! as good or better than any other revue that Broward Stage Door has p…
