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.
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…