Antonio and Katherine Amadeo, who separately and together championed cutting edge work through their Naked Stage company and who helped unite the local artistic community with their 24-Hour …
The level of anger, helplessness and sorrow rises inexorably along with the death toll like flood waters from a storm surge in Outré Theatre Company's shattering production of The Normal He…
Hats off, Evening Star Productions, for insider's theater that is satirically spot on in the comedy Gutenberg! The Musical.
What do Cabaret, Chicago, Fun Home, Almost Maine and Angels in America have in common? Somebody somewhere has banned their production at some point. To push back, Zoetic Stage and the Dramat…
Circle Mirror Transformation is finally receiving its professional regional premiere by the intrepid Area Stage Co., and the disarmingly funny production is a ravishing success for Baker pur…
A Public Reading of an Unproduced Screenplay about the Death of Walt Disney is not easy theater, by any means, but not one that Thinking Cap would ever shy away from. Their tagline is "theat…
Larry Parr's Invasion of Privacy from Pigs Do Fly Productions, based on a lawsuit against Florida's beloved Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, lays intriguing thought-provoking ideas on the table, bu…
The Broward Stage Door Theatre production of the 1970 musical The Rothschilds, about the famed family's rise from the German ghetto to become on the wealthiest families in the world, is a re…
This year, Sept. 10 might just mark the unofficial kickoff to the season, at least for Miamians when the Arsht will present its second-annual ARTSLAUNCH2016, a festive daylong confab at all …
We've written a paragraph like this only two or three times: Stop what you are doing. Stop reading this review. Go to the phone or online and order tickets right now for Ground Up & Ris…
The easiest way to grasp a sense of the Festival, its styles and ethos is to recount and review the individual productions we saw during a trip last month. Hidden within may be insights that…
By Bill Hirschman The dictionary translates the Latin phrase "sui generis" as "constituting a class of its own," but more commonly it's used to mean "not like anything else," often with the …
Juliet Among the Changelings, the inaugural full-length production from Lost Girls Theatre, succeeds most if not all of the time in establishing and staying in that difficult groove of fanta…
Andrews Living Arts makes a valiant effort to conquer the challenging Terrence McNally play Love! Valour! Compassion! but it proves more than they can handle.
You have to make allowances for the inexperience of the mostly high school students in handling Shakespeare's verbiage in Evenig Star/Sol's production of A Midsummer Night's Dream. But the c…
Political satire is like the finest champagne " delectable at the time but going flat with age. But in the meantime, as Shorts Gone Wild 4 (subtitled Decision 2016: It's Gonna Be Yuuuuuge!) …
MNM Productions at the Kravis Center's superb revival of the Kander and Ebb revue The World Goes Round takes us on a detailed tour of the landscape of the human heart, not just the joyful pe…
For anyone who still thinks that theater disappears in South Florida during the summer, take a moment to absorb the schedule for the rest of the month " and this isn't all of it.
GableStage's Stalking the Bogeyman, a true life tale of sexual abuse and revenge, stands out for its intelligence, bravery, sobriety and sheer darkness Buoyed by the raw sting of truth tha…
New City Players' The Glass Menagerie starts a bit sluggishly, suffers throughout from some debatable technical decisions, and some performances are more compelling than others. But it build…
A message is wrapped inside Buyer & Cellar about our relationship with celebrities, but it is only the anchor grounding Actors' Playhouse's hilarious trip down Alice's rabbit hole, or m…
Broward Stage Door's Broadway Bound may not land perfectly all the time, but these theater pros deliver a no-excuses-needed effort that works often and effectively and ultimately satisfies.
Cique Eloize's Cirkopolis cast has in common with their itinerant ancestors is the determination to thrill audiences with death-defying feats of agility, daredevil tricks and silly clown ant…
By John Thomason Since its return to regular summer programming in 2014, Miami's Ground Up & Rising has been specializing in a particular strain of western theater: the austere, bone-scr…
Silly, stupoid and surprisingly successful, the Broadway musical spin on School of Rock works fine without Jack Black -- a good sign for the national tour.