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There's more than one singular sensation in Riverside Theatre's thrilling production of A Chorus Line. It takes that heady combination of Michael Bennett's choreography and Marvin Hamlisch'…
Both Sides of a Famous Love Affair - The Jackie Mason Musical, the semi-autobiographical comedy about a young South Florida woman whose affair with the famed comedian results in a love child…
From the sequin-bright sparkle to the propulsive power of the 20th Century Limited, the new national tour of 42nd Street at the Kravis on Broadway series is a polished, energizing and thorou…
By Bill Hirschman Pompadour, the new musical subtitled Hits, Harmony and Hairspray bowing at Broward Stage Door, is what it is and is what it wants to be. So the question that only you can a…
This is the power of the play King Charles III: Six weeks after seeing it, I found myself at intermission of a local show last weekend still raving about it to other audience members. So muc…
How do you solve a problem of taking a 56-year old American musical classic and making it fresh for a modern audience? If you're director Jack O'Brien, you lovingly dust the tarnish off of T…
2015 produced a wild variety of snapshots to paste in the theatrical scrapbooks: a male Dolly Levi, a possibly homicidal dimwit slicing carrots, the heartbreaking consequence of passing on g…
The tour of Dr. Seuss' How The Grinch Stole Christmas is a reliable litmus test of just how deep into or disaffected you are with the holiday spirit.
This definitively children's musical …
Allegiance, the story of a Japanese-American family rent apart by their internment in World War II, has the potential to be a great play. Unfortunately, it's a musical.
Marquee Theater Company's production of Jason Robert Brown's Songs For A New World slices open the studied flat affect of the "Whatever" generation to expose inner lives as vibrant, complex …
Lots of news items about Arts Radio Network, FAU’s Theatre Lab, Island City Stage, New Theatre, South Florida Theatre League, Lost Girls Theatre, and Cultural Council of Palm Beach Cou…
If you thought you felt the pillars of the regional theatrical world shake violently this week, you weren't wrong. Christine Dolen, the nationally-respected theater critic and arts journalis…
The national tour of Kinky Boots was a well-polished evening of musical comedy with soulful ballads and glitzy production numbers, but this construction felt so manipulative, so by-the-numbe…
Actors Playhouse's production of The Trial of Ebenezer Scrooge has a talented cast working hard under the direction of David Arisco, but good grief, what a waste of the resources of Mark Bro…
Nearly everyone in the Palm Beach Dramaworks' superb production of The History Boys is in love with unleashing flash floods of verbiage in an orgy of ideas illustrated by their addiction to …
The Maltz Jupiter Theatre has successfully re-imagined Billy Eliot the Musical into winning edition that is more effective than the national company that toured South Florida a few seasons b…
Probably the last place you'd want to be after rehearsing with the same cast and crew for weeks, then knowing you're heading into a month-long run would be gathering at a table for Thanksgiv…
From the defiant, fierce and joyful opening phrases about a bastard immigrant destined to become "a hero and a scholar," Hamilton proves itself an electrifying game changer in the world of m…
It is long past time for theaters and theater patrons to come down hard on audience members who text, talk incessantly, photograph set designs, video production numbers, check messages from …
Theater buffs are the easiest people to shop for on your holiday list, as our Brad Hathaway proves in his annual roundup.
Any production of Gypsy that spotlights Ann Marie Olson's golden voice n can be forgiven nearly anything. But otherwise, much of this production is as thin as the tinny tracks and high schoo…
A low-rent motel room on the edge of the Mojave Desert has never been more claustrophobic"nor more intense"than the shabby one in which three people collide against each other in Sam Shepard…
Nine people who have changed the face of South Florida culture will receive the South Florida Theatre League's Remy Awards at the League's annual holiday celebration on December 7 in Fort La…
Susan J. Westfall's Two Weekends and a Day at New Theatre is a classic example of a world premiere that has admirable virtues worth exploring further, but a serious need for more re-tooling.
"A blank page or canvas. So many… possibilities." .            –Stephen Sondheim's Sunday in the Park With George By Bill Hirschman Like a spinni…
