Folksy, intimate, and warmly fulfilling, the national tour of the musical Once is as intoxicating as a shot of Irish whiskey. The buzz remains long after the hummable Falling Slowly reprise …
Dan Kelley, the tall rubber-faced actor-director who has been a fixture in South Florida musicals for nearly 30 years, has been named artistic director of Broward Stage Door.
If you like your theater schematic, clear-cut and requiring little cogitation, you will absolutely hate A Map of Virtue. But if you don't mind wrestling with a production while it's underway…
Broward Stage Door's earnest intriguing revival of Promises, Promises embraces its up-to-the-moment pop score for 1968, a witty and insightful script, frenetic choreography that caught the …
By Bill Hirschman It's Stephen Sondheim redux for veteran Broadway actor Ken Jennings, although a bit backwards. It might seem a long, long stretch for the man who created the mentally chall…
The surprisingly impressive bow of the new Marquee Theater Company with its production of the pop musical Aida is notable for, among other things, the professional debut of its star, Alexand…
Killer Joe, playwright Tracy Letts' 1993 debut writ large in feral violence and bottomless venality, is such a powerful brew of toxicity that the script carries along an uneven production at…
Not meaning disrespect to local producers, but the founders of the new Marquee Theater Company opening its second show this weekend in Boca Raton argue that there is no need to go to New Yor…
Theatre Lab, a professional venture specializing in new, developing and thought-provoking work, has opened as the resident company based at Florida Atlantic University under the leadership o…
For those among us who enjoy going deeper than what's presented on the surface, Annie Baker's The Aliens from Alliance Theatre will be a treat. For others, the silences and pacing will be an…
Jan McArt's New Play Reading Series at Lynn University, which mounts staged readings of new plays in progress by local authors opens another season this fall with four works.
The charismatic Jan McArt may be one of crucial developers of South Florida's cultural past as creator of the mainstream Royal Palm Dinner Theatre, but her focus today is firmly on its futur…
Gallery of photos of Jan McArt and productions at the Royal Palm Dinner Theatre
What is endlessly worth examining and celebrating is how human beings cope with tragedy and what that says about who we are, what we are capable of and some insightful guidance on how our so…
The crucial test for whether a production of The Fantasticks truly succeeds, as Broward Stage Door's does, is the last few minutes. If it's been a little while since you saw the show live an…
Situated in Riverside Park along the scenic Indian River, Riverside Theatre may reside in a sub-tropical paradise, but it is a professional regional theater known for its Broadway-quality sh…
The collision of two never-subtle art forms in Bed and Sofa is certainly intriguing as befits Outré Theatre Company's mission of fearlessly pushing the boundaries of theater, thanks in part…
In Thinking Cap Theatre's Waiting For Waiting For Godot, the absurdity of life is moved from the center stage spotlight of Samuel Beckett's play in progress to the dingy dark wings where two…
Palm Beach Dramaworks' upcoming Dramalogue - Talking Theatre! series of talks about theater will feature conversations with three major names: veteran musical director Paul Gemignani, who ha…
Perhaps if Rent hadn't eclipsed everything that arrived in New York stage in 1996, maybe Bed and Sofa would have received the attention it deserved, in the eyes of Skye Whitcomb who is direc…
Jack Zink, the theater critic and arts writer who co-founded the Carbonell Awards nearly 40 years ago, was honored this month when the organization named its scholarship awards after him. Th…
Stop what you're doing. Really. Go online right now and reserve tickets to see Ground Up and Rising's harrowing and moving Vincent River, inarguably one of the best productions of the season
In Mad Cat Theatre Company's world premiere of Lazy Fair, Theo Reyna's drily funny treatise on greed, Money " or actually The Spirit of Money " droll deadpan humor suffuses this spoofy hoot.
After seeing seven shows in a week this summer, the overarching lesson that the venerable Shaw festival in Canada has to teach South Florida theaters is jazz.
If someone was designing a heaven on earth for theater lovers, they might not have to go farther for a blueprint than the Shaw Festival in Niagara-on-the-Lake in early summer.