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Opera is all about technique, spotlighting it, honoring it, celebrating it. So when Florida Grand Opera took on one of the most demanding works in the entire canon, Verdi's A Masked Ball, it…
A worn-out Hillary Clinton balked at putting on makeup before her first major address since the election. An alien queen who owns a pop-up bar came to claim its dead lounge singer. One play…
Matilda the Musical, with a national tour that's made a stop at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts in Fort Lauderdale, may star a cadre of kids, but it is no Annie. I say that in the…
(The following is an updated review from 2012 plus a feature story written about this same production's original visit to the Arsht four years ago. Most of the cast is the same, but se…
Beehive, yet another innocuous transitorily entertaining revue tracing music sung by women through the 1960s, highlights, intentionally or not, one trenchant observation. The same early Baby…
If American Idol produced a Broadway musical with choreography often found behind a diva in a stadium tour, the result would resemble Slow Burn Theatre Company's production of Aida. The resu…
In Waiting For Godot, that classic of the Theater of the Absurd, nothing is more absurd than Man's insistent search for some meaning in life. In Evening Star Productions' courageous run at t…
There have been few musicals about a homicidal maniac. As far as peppy musical comedies with the accent on comedy, there's only been one about a schizophrenic serial killer, No Way To Treat …
Jordan Harrison's Marjorie Prime at Main Street Players posits 21st Century technology giving people a chance to say what was left unsaid, to finish unfinished business. The insightful scrip…
Just about two years after Island City Stage premiered Michael McKeever's Daniel's Husband and it currently playing off Broadway, Island City Stage takes on another world premiere play that …
The future of the 24-Hour Theatre Project " a popular fund-raiser that cemented the theater community's solidarity " seemed endangered when its founders, the Amadeos, announced they would be…
Michael McKeever, a beloved and prolific figure in local theater, set a record Monday when he won his eighth Best New Work at Monday's Carbonell Awards for the scorching drama After, but he …
All the winners, nominees and statistics for the 41st anniversary Carbonell Awards presented Monday.
Palm Beach Dramaworks' production of Arcadia is Tom Stoppard's love letter to the miracle of human intelligence's pursuit of learning -- with a gentle jab at the hubris of those who are so t…
Zoetic Stage's brilliantly-executed bravura production of Harold Pinter's 1960 The Caretaker may be as baffling as Waiting For Godot. But every element of this comic drama is superb from act…
Niki Fridh gives a tour de force performance under Nicole Stodard's direction in Grounded at Thinking Cap Theatre
When idea-hungry audiences at Palm Beach Dramaworks who have cheered Ionesco and Albee are faced with something less challenging, some complain to Producing Artistic Director William Hayes t…
Dry Powder, GableStage's excoriating tour that delves into the barren ethical landscape of big business is an unsparing drama whose copious humor comes from one character's blithely limitles…
Although the Actors' Playhouse folks are working very hard to master this Everest of a play, All The Way, about Lyndon Johnson's campaign to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964, this time they…
Merman. Lupone. Daly. Lansbury. Taking not a scintilla away from those iconic performances, you have never seen a Mama Rose like the one Vicki Lewis incarnates in Maltz Jupiter Theatre's uni…
If there is a corner of Heaven reserved for musical theater nerds who know Stephen Sondheim's middle name, likely one stage is rotating The Drowsy Chaperone, [title of show] and, as proven b…
Once it gets going, Miami New Drama's A Special Day, is a hallmark of wily invention and Brechtian artifice, a celebration of theater's ability to create something from nothing in front of o…
The true-life narrative in Before Night Falls is profoundly powerful and undeniably affecting: Reinaldo Areneas, the gay Cuban poet, inspired by the beauty of the island but brutally oppress…
Classic American values of friendship, tolerance, freedom and a sense of subversive independence are lovingly and joyously resurrected in Slow Burn Theatre Company's Big River, a revival-lik…
When a theater revives the musical Gypsy as the Maltz Jupiter Theatre is doing this month, there is always the ghost in the room. So the challenge for director Marcia Milgrom Dodge and her f…
