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This may be heresy, but maybe grand opera shouldn't always be so grand. Florida Grand Opera's current production of Tchaikovsky's romantic tragedy Eugene Onegin reportedly has a more intimat…
The best art is a partnership between the creative mind and the viewer. That often requires the audience to expend some effort to get inside the artist's mind or ethos or style. Witness the …
Most courtroom dramas metaphorically use the audience as a jury. But Terror, a German play receiving its U.S. premiere from Miami New Drama this week, literally requires the audience to vot…
By Pam Harbaugh The plates may be empty, but you leave having feasted on Riverside Theatre's satisfying production of An Empty Plate in the Cafe du Grand Boeuf. Written in 1994 by Michael Ho…
The enduring genius of Titanic the Musical beautifully limned by Slow Burn Theatre Company is that while it arely nods at what's to come, it relies on the audience viewing the initial paeans…
Turn of the century newsboys cavorting in Jupiter, Tarzan swinging across a Fort Lauderdale stage and Tony Manero swiveling his hips in Margate -- the 2017-2018 season for South Florida thea…
Quirky denizens of Stephen Adly Guirgis' Between Riverside and Crazy strive to find second chances in GableStage's production.
A wave of sheer glory lifts the audience into a firmament of validation, redemption and pure beauty in the last ten minutes of Zoetic Stage's production of the Stephen Sondheim-James Lapine …
Danny Kaye and Sylvia: A Musical Love Story at Willow Theatre, featuring Larry Buzzeo in a role he was born for, is filled to the brim with memories for audiences who will find familiarity i…
Stephanie Ansin, who championed stylized and intellectually challenging theater for children, is stepping down from the leadership of Miami Theater Center, the groundbreaking company she co-…
Familiar theaters, artists and titles dominated the 2017 Carbonell Award nominations list released Wednesday, but the roster included some previously unheralded performers and lesser-known t…
The complete list of 2016 Carbonell nominations/finalists including a breakdown by county, theater and production.
Evening Star Productions' regional premiere of the episodic musical See Rock City and Other Destinations, which has enthusiasm and heart to spare, suffers from inconsistencies across its se…
The First Step (Diary of a Sex Addict), which makes the rounds of video porn parlors, urinals, gay baths and sessions of a self-help group, sounds like the premise for a Saturday Night Live …
There is nothing especially wrong with The Wick Theatre's riff on West Side Story, But if you've seen other productions, by comparison, the modestly entertaining result is competent but rar…
The Maltz Jupiter Theatre's production of The Producers is one of most joyously over-the-top energetic rendition ever mounted, spotlighting more physical comedy than you've seen in some time
The 21st Century paradigm for developing new plays in on display this month at Palm Beach Dramaworks' Dramaworkshop "developmental" production of Jennifer Faletto's Domestic Animals.
Some directors say if you cast a show well, you're more than halfway home to a successful production. So while the acting is just barely adequate in Broward Stage Door's The Most Happy Fella…
This 2016 tour of Cabaret does not break a shred of new ground artistically; it intentionally recreates with photo-copying accuracy the 1998 revival in which British director Sam Mendes reim…
The challenge of mounting such an iconic musical as The Producers with its legendary Broadway production haunting any subsequent edition oddly isn't chilling the principal talents at the Mal…
Riverside Theatre dishes it all out, from explosive talent to dazzling visuals in an immensely satisfying, professional production of Chicago.
Music, sometimes tenderly introspective, sometimes upliftingly powerful, is deftly woven throughout the surging triumph of both the rise of the all-black 1939 New York Renaissance basketball…
We're back from our trip to New York to scout out productions you might want to see (or not), shows that might tour South Florida and scripts that might be worth reviving in our regional the…
Critics and award judges have been talking about it for weeks: The sheer amount of high quality work has made evaluating the last 12 months unusually challenging, but also an opportunity to …
Even if you don't think of yourself as a fan of the dance musical genre, this national tour of An American In Paris from Broadway Across America is the kind of don't miss experience playing …
