Sometimes the confluence of talent that occurs in a New York City production creates something that won't be duplicated elsewhere. South Florida has proven that a regional production actuall…
The Wick Theatre has nearly mastered the musical revue genre by hiring solid talent and adding in a few extra production values " all of it evident in this summer's frothy paean to middle-cl…
in these terrible times of violence, deprivation and polarization, the resonances in Palm Beach Dramaworks' imaginatively reinvented production of 1776 are deafening. Amid the laugh lines, t…
A deeply polarized citizenry, partisans with irreconcilable ideas about the role of government, a stalled deliberative body, confusion, anxiety. Sound familiar? The current political climate…
While the production of Waitress faithfully follows the schematics of Adrienne Shelly's charming 2007 film, it does exactly what a musical should do: use the added tools of melody, lyrics an…
Breaking news: New Theatre, Inc. (Coral Gables, Florida) New Theatre at South Miami-Dade Cultural Arts Center announces it is closing. This press release just in: Details to follow:
The new musical Bright Star is a 21st Century celebration of the folk tradition complete with plucky heroines, gentle humor, unbending fundamentalists, facile fiddling, profound personal tra…
The running time for The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) (Revised) is advertised at 90 minutes On opening night at Evening Star Productions, it ran two hours. This is a tes…
The Vanguard meant no self-aggrandizement posting photos of Lucy and Ethel, Carol and Vicki, across their set for the hilarious sketch comedy, Parallel Lives. But it's apt. Because Elena Mar…
Greying Boomers may instinctively resist that the music of their lives is being repackaged into stage revues with little or no story the way Irving Berlin and Johnny Mercer's songbooks have …
There's a virtue, I suppose, in reliability. When you go to see something with Disney's name in the title whether it's the Pirates of Caribbean Ride in Orlando, Anaheim, Toyko or Paris, you …
For about three seconds Sunday night, the Tony Awards broadcast a pre-recorded glimpse of Miles C. Wilkin and slipped in a sentence saying that he was receiving a "Special Tony Award. But W…
You know you wanted to murder some abusive soul-crushing bullies and snobs when you were in high school. Heathers knows it and wants to liberate your daydream. So do the cool kids and not-so…
Rage and defiance " against racism, against betrayal, against cruelty, fate and death itself " washes out into the audience with a ferocity rarely seen in Florida theater in The M Ensemble C…
Acknowledge that the premiere of The Wish Maker, written and directed by local playwright Cynthia Joyce Clay and produced by her Storycrafters Studio, is well-intentioned and earnest. But th…
When Danny Burgos steps on the Broward Center stage on June 15 in the national tour of Beauty and the Beast, the moment will resonate for him as few have before. It was on those same floorbo…
Some show business legends say they were born in a trunk offstage in between the matinee and evening performances. Daisy O. Tanner can't quite say that. But the two-month-old daughter of acc…
Feeding The Bear, a serio-comedy focused on caring for a father succumbing to Alzheimer's (featuring a drag queen with a cooking TV show), has all the necessary ingredients for a tasty confe…
Hardly unusual in musical theater, Meredith Bartmon strolls around the Carnival Studio stage singing passionately about her dreams and, later, her refusal to compromise those dreams. But th…
Eileen Suarez, who rose at New Theatre from working the box office in 1996 to shepherding the company through rocky shoals and significant growth, has resigned as managing director, she conf…
Audiences from Key West to Boca Raton for the fourth year may see new plays in development by area playwrights for free through the South Florida Theatre League's Summer Theatre Fest.
The ever-developing Summer Shorts Festival, now entering its 21st year in Miami, will sound a bit different this year: two of the ten-minute works will be musicals.
Sometimes critics use the words "ambitious" and "intriguing" as backhanded compliments or cowardly faint praise, but Mad Cat Theatre Company's production of the Pulitzer-winning The Flick ea…
Audiences will relish the superb GableStage production of The Royale -- Miami native Marco Ramirez's insightful pile-driving play about boxing, celebrity, racism, race relations and personal…
As Boomers become more of the theater-going public, we see more stories about how we are becoming a nation of caretakers of parents and grandparents. But the play The Father depicts increasi…