One quiet fear of frequent theatergoers is that some well-meaning troupe will bungle a piece they love and override precious memories with mediocrity. Well, breathe easier. The Wick Theatre…
Blood may be thicker than water, but Brothers of the Dust at M Ensemble asks whether it's thicker than land or greed or, crucially, dreams. M Ensemble presented this family drama three years…
Although Jerry Herman's music and lyrics come alive again in Riverside Theatre's production of Mame, there's something missing. The larger-than-life part of this production is not eccentric …
The Wick Theatre in Boca Raton hopes that musicals connected to popular films will be an alluring draw in its fifth season, based on the three of the five titles it announced this week. But …
The Kid From Brooklyn, a bio-musical about Danny Kaye at Broward Stage Door, is blessed with strong singers, likable performers, a peppy period score, a fine live band, a few touching moment…
While Infinite Abyss deserves praise for attempting the abysmal script for Love and Human Remains, they simply cannot force this intentionally bizarre journey rife with explicit sex, nudity,…
When Elena Maria Garcia, one of the finest comediennes in the region, and Stuart Meltzer, one of the finest directors, team up to co-write Fuácata! (Or a Latina's Guide to Surviving the U…
Mad Cat Theatre's production of Vaclav Havel's one acts Protest and Audience draw uncomfortably relevant visions of repressive totalitarian society.
The tour of The Little Mermaid is engaging and enthusiastic playing at the Broward Center's Broadway Across America series. The problem is you likely will not understand 10 percent of the wo…
Outré Theatre Company and Curtain Call Playhouse, two troupes that have played at many different venues, plus TheatreSouth, a fledgling African-American company, will have a new base of ope…
Florida Theatrical Association has announced the Charlie Cinnamon Theater Scholarship in honor of longtime FTA board member and dean of South Florida publicity agents Charlie Cinnamon, who d…
Disgraced, bravely offered to the Maltz Jupiter Theatre's mainstream audience, is an incisive drama dissecting intersecting issues of ethnic identity, assimilation and especially persisting …
Disgraced, a drama dissecting ethnic relations in post 9/11 America, already has become one of the most produced plays in regional theaters over the past three years. But the Maltz Jupiter T…
Broward Stage Door's The Bris, The Bar Mitzvah and Beyond is an amusing afternoon mixing early Neil Simon-Woody Allen humor with a lengthy parade of serious issues ranging from father-son re…
Validation " the affirmation that what you valued and invested yourself in does matter " is one of the most powerfully effective facets of both entertainment and art. And that, we'll venture…
The rollout of 2017-2018 seasons continues with some South Florida theaters pushing the edge of their audience's cultural envelopes and others relying on reliable titles in an uncertain time…
Take Noel Coward's sophisticated wit, add exquisite direction and elegant acting, then tie it up with visuals you could plotz for, and it's no wonder that Riverside Theatre's production of P…
Real Women Have Curves turns out be a no-excuses-needed production that justified the confidence that Main Street Players' leaders had in evolving from a community theater into a professiona…
The miracle of the Carousel when it's done well, as it is in this Actors Playhouse production, is that although it's 72 years old and its protagonists are a wife-beating ne'er-do-well and th…
Hamilton, On Your Feet, The Lion King, and a host of major Broadway titles will tour South Florida's three major presenting houses over the next two seasons,
Palm Beach Dramaworks' production of Collected Stories is not only one of the most affective and effective dramas seen in the region for many months, it offers a superb performance by a youn…
Slow Burn Theatre has certainly captured Xanadu's vibe in the company's spirited, stupidly happy revival of its own 2012 production, which opened last weekend in Aventura and which will soon…
Chicken Coop Theatre's production at the Levis JCC of Driving Miss Daisy is hardly among the most incisive nuanced editions you've seen of this oft-mounted warhorse, but the play itself is s…
Billy and Me, a world premiere by theater critic Terry Teachout about the difficult friendship of legendary playwrights William Inge and Tennessee Williams, will be one of the highlights in …
In a chilly sleek courtroom as clinical as a laboratory dissection tray, thousands of human lives, morality, principles and the law are piled on opposite pans of the scale " except it's not …