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In Riverside Theatre's polished production of the musical revue Ring of Fire, four pitch perfect voices and a host of skilled musicians bring to life the legacy of America's greatest home-gr…
The Audience, the West End sensation turned Tony winner , conjures 10 meetings, between Queen Elizabeth II and her prime ministers. The play's regional premiere at Maltz Jupiter Theatre, i…
For 60 years, Queen Elizabeth has been beloved, despised, served as a role model for some and a target for others, but always been the somewhat removed iconic image of unflappable composure …
There's something thrilling about seeing a world premiere play unfold. And when the playwright is one of South Florida's great hopes to get an original play to the Great White Way, there's e…
Deborah Zoe Laufer's world premiere The Three Sisters of Weekhawken is, indeed, funny in its daffy way, but this imaginative mashup of Chekhov's meditation on yearning refracted through Beck…
Tension is at the heart and soul of Thinking Cap Theatre's Mud, a three-hander by Maria Irene Fornes, now at The Vanguard in Fort Lauderdale.
Director Nicole Stodard puts her stamp on the …
The Maltz Jupiter Theatre on Monday publically kicked off a five-year campaign to raise $25 million to $30 million for a massive construction expansion to enable it to expand its offerings. …
A near epic vision unfolds in Slow Burn Theatre Company's brave, ambitious and dark The Hunchback of Notre Dame resulting in the one of the most powerful musicals seen in South Florida in re…
It almost should go without saying that the rock 'n' roll blisters the paint off the walls of Actors' Playhouse's balcony theater in its thoroughly satisfying edition of Million Dollar Quart…
The South Florida Silver Palm Theatre Awards committee honoring theatrical excellence in South Florida will present the award to 28 individuals and organizations in its ninth season. Recipie…
Slow Burn Theatre Company's The Hunchback of Notre Dame staged on a relatively epic scale underscores another benchmark of growth for the once modest company that has solidly arrived as a ma…
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…
Benefiting from a Neil Simon script and a winning turn by Andrea McArdle,
The Wick Theatre is betting its older doggedly mainstream audience will be won over by this effectively sweet but …
The emotional histrionics and pyrotechnic acting in the first act notwithstanding, it's the quiet poignant moments of compassion and connection in the second act that are the most deeply aff…
The intersection, overlap and conflict of love and sex " but above all how they affect relationships -- form the basis of Theatre at Arts Garage's uneven but intriguing entry appropriately e…
Back in 1977 when 13-year-old Andrea McArdle's name exploded across the country, the moniker Broadway Baby recognized the talent powering her performance as Annie singing the iconic anthem …
The Night of the Iguana is the "other" Tennessee Williams play, the one most theatergoers have heard of, maybe even seen the Richard Burton-John Huston film, but likely have never gotten aro…
Effectively cloaked in high-tech flourishes from pounding music to a rock concert-worthy light show plus classic theatrical accoutrements like dancers, The Illusionists gathers seven inventi…
A different season advance: Quietly, oh so quietly, the 2016-2017 theater season in South Florida is shaping up to be as notable for tidal growth, contraction, ebb and flow as it is for the …
These are not at all necessarily what we predict will be the best shows this season (although they may be) or the best attended or the most popular or the most award-winning. We don't care. …
No one knows what effect Matthew will have on performances this weekend or even next weekend because of damage to buildings, power outages, road passability and the status of cast and crew m…
Christian Thompson saw his first Broadway musical at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts when he was seven years old. A national touring company of Cats was what hooked him on the mus…
Okay, yes, Hand to God has cute obscenity-spouting puppets having sex on stage, but the similarities to Avenue Q stops dead right there. This scorchingly funny and aggressively irreverent pl…
Why Not? With Richard Nixon is perhaps Mad Cat Theatre Company's most Mad Catty show ever, a production for company insiders that is esoteric enough to reference another Mad Cat show in its …
When the young Boca Raton company Marquee Theater's production nails key moments of the indestructible Fiddler on the Roof, it's exhilirating and entertaining on its own merits; when it falt…
