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The modern musical has its glories, but none unabashedly embrace pure feeling in quite the way Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt did in the 1960s. So be thankful for Palm Beach Dramaworks' conce…
Evening Star and Infinite Abyss co-produce Tracy Letts' surreal depiction of spiraling paranoia complete with copious amount of blood in an edition that slogs too slowly too long but ratchet…
If the context of the eight sketches in Shorts Gone Wild 3 is primarily gay-centric, the material and performances have markedly improved year after year until it has reached a high-water ma…
The Naked Stage, the 8-year-old company that has won acclaim and awards despite a tiny budget and no permanent home, is planning to open a 145-seat theater in a former antiques shop on Clema…
The Dana Plays, a popular fundraiser last year for a critically ill theater activist, is being revived this month by the South Florida Theatre League to support one of her favorite charities…
The Wick Theatre's lush Peter Pan is thrilling whenever it breaks into song, spinning spell of gently whimsical fantasy. Otherwise, with a few notable exceptions, it settles for being a mod…
I'll Eat You Last: A Chat With Sue Mengers at GableStage is an acerbically delicious cross between a gossip fest and a memoir of the legendary Hollywood super-agent of the 1970s, brought to …
Simply, MNM Productions' effort may be the best production of Side by Side by Sondheim seen in South Florida or many other places. Four superb performers act the dramatic, psychological and …
If the Ali MacGraw-Ryan O'Neal pairing was a marketing stunt to sell the new national tour of Love Letters that kicked off in Fort Lauderdale, the actors pulled a fast one and delivered unas…
Evening Star Production's fervent mounting of Jason Robert Brown's cult musical The Last Five Years invests infinite compassion for the eddying gain and loss in one of the most intriguing co…
There's a six-foot-plus-tall hitman dressed in full Highland garb and speaking in an unintelligble Scottish brogue, ineffectual policewoman who isn't trusted with actual firearms, and an acc…
"A glib" is a noun used in theater back in the day to signify when actors would race through their lines as quickly as possible just to cover the territory a half-hour before the curtain ros…
By Bill Hirschman Like Hamlet, Madama Butterfly and the Terminator franchise, the indestructible entertainment phenomenon that is WaistWatchers: The Musical has returned to South Florida in …
Interviewing Ali MacGraw and Ryan O'Neal, or trying to, about their upcoming national tour of Love Letters that kicks off in Fort Lauderdale next week seems almost churlishly interfering wit…
By Bill Hirschman The primary thing usually missing from a Cirque du Soliel show is a discernable plot. Lookingglass Alice, slipping into the Arsht Center's spectacle-driven summer extravaga…
South Florida Theater patrons checking and responding to email during a performance has mushroomed in recent years, but it reached a high water mark last week indicating a worsening of the c…
Life is bittersweet marked by rue and romance in which those foolish mortals submit and succumb to the whirling winds of love and lust in Palm Beach Dramaworks' concert staging of Stephen So…
George M is a razzamatazz, flag-waving, tuneful, toe-tapping, tap-dancing bio-revue tailor-made for the target audiences embracing its current revival at The Wick Theatre.
But written in 19…
By Michelle F. Solomon Miami’s Ground Up & Rising production of Jonathan Caren’s The Recommendation is compelling on so many levels. Yet, what makes it so formidable doesn…
Terry Teachout, the drama critic for The Wall Street Journal who has championed regional theater as a major force on the national level, will make his directorial debut next spring helming P…
No peeking! Here are the answers to the latest installment of our patented theater geek trivia contest. This one is tied to the recent Tony Awards and the arrival next month of Ali MacGraw a…
After a theater season in South Florida with four, five even six openings in a single weekend, the production metabolism slows down this summer to only a dozen openings in a month -- which g…
At Entr'acte Theatrix's production of Into The Woods, the special pleasure was watching nascent talent taking unsteady but ever more sure steps in their evolution en route to fully-blossomed…
By Bill Hirschman The initial reviews are promisingly positive for Wednesday's world premiere in Chicago of the new Broadway-bound musical On Your Feet! which retells the life story of Glori…
A naïve young woman from an isolated religious cult called the Squeamish (think Amish) finds herself in an oversized Mr. Peanut outfit on a highway giving the finger to honking motorists.…
