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Splendidly gorgeous to watch, the creativity of the staging is reason enough to embrace Finding Neverland at the Broward Center On a deeper level, though, there's something profoundly moving…
Leave it to M Ensemble to teach an audience a bit of Black history in Pearl Cleage's Flyin' West , while entertaining the masses.
If you wonder what the term "coup de theatre" means, it's easier to illustrated it with a moment from the new Paula Vogel-Rebecca Taichman play Indecent.
The final tear-inducing five minutes of Beauty and the Beast, if executed effectively as it is at The Wick Theatre production, is a good barometer of whether you're dead inside.
In this dispiriting time of eroding international relations, the incisive play Oslo is both hearteningly optimistic and existentially pessimistic about human beings' ability to negotiate and…
Acknowledging that WWII vets also came home to challenges from their nightmarish service, the rousing new mainstream musical Bandstand has serious issues under the original score and heartfe…
Granted, a farce documenting the doomed efforts of a hapless British theater troupe already has been brilliantly explored in Noises Off. But there is hilarity yet to mine as evidenced by The…
The wobbly foundations of fledgling New City Players' production of David Auburn's reliable Proof are unlikely to impress seasoned theatergoers, especially those who have seen the play befo…
City Theatre's Summer Shorts, which only recently began showcasing musicals, includes three this year including one by Lin-Manuel Miranda.
Lots of news: South Florida Theatre League's free Summer Theatre Fest, Curtain Call Playhouse is honored, City Theatre's Margaret Ledford is promoted, Bruce Linser takes on a new job,and Pet…
One pleasure watching a drag show regardless of your sexual orientation is the vicarious joy of seeing people uncorset their secreted urges and find the liberating self-worth to parade it pu…
Infinite Abyss, which has produced some solid work like last season's Extremities, just falls flat this time out with Quills which reeks of amateurism.
The surprisingly delight-filled musical Groundhog Day is well worth seeing on Broadway but the script, music, lyrics and replicable staging (all Tony-nominated) are so strong, so inventive, …
The temptation is to announce that 'a star is born' in Actors' Playhouse's production of the musical It Shoulda Been You. But that would be mildly insulting to the fact that Cindy Pearce has…
The MNM production of Monty Python's Spamalot is silly and stupid.
Thank goodness. This edition of one of the funniest musicals of the past couple of decades revels in, savors, exults, wal…
Palm Beach Dramaworks' team finds the special vibe of Martin McDonagh's dark comedy set in an unforgiving climate of the heart in The Cripple of Inishmaan.
To avoid spoiling the specific emotional U-turns, all that veteran theatergoers need to know about The Cripple of Inishmaan opening at Palm Beach Dramaworks this month is that it's a classic…
The din of cheering, hollering teenagers exploding Tuesday wasn't to applaud the appearance of a hip-hop celeb. Instead, the tumult in the Broward Center recognized excellence in 25 public …
War Paint is primarily an opportunity to savor two of Broadway's reigning divas Ms. Patti Lupone and Ms. Christine Ebersole commanding the stage with overwhelming power in volume and skill. …
Trump may have paraded his demeaning objectification of women by using the word pussy, but it's a word celebrated over and over in Thinking Cap Theatre's production of Collective Rage, A Pla…
Thinking Cap Theatre is presenting the Southeastern premiere of Jen Silverman's Collective Rage: A Play In Five Betties, a timely tale of feminism echoing last winter's women's march on Wash…
Damaged by yet another homogenized film version of Rodgers & Hammerstein's work, few think of The King and I as a piece deeply focused on incipient feminism, international politics and …
So much news: GableStage and Zoetic Stage announcing their new season with titles like The Humans and Fun Home, MNM announces partnership with the Kravis, Conundrum Stages returns to tour. E…
Revelation after revelation " none of which the playwright wants us to spoil " are exposed like the proverbial peeling of an onion until the underlying secret lays naked in the world premier…
Broward Stage Door's production of the musical Nine, based on Fellini's 8 1/2, is a fine evening of exuberant music and even more soaring voices.
