Harmony. When it's sung well, a warm visceral sense of well-being and balance missing from much of human interaction just envelops the lucky listeners. The three actresses impersonating The …
Okay, everybody dies and the world is taken over by human-eating aliens, but Slow Burn Theatre Company's Little Shop of Horrors delivers a happy ending to its five-year partnership with West…
Intriguing premises are the jumping off points for the nine flights of theatrical whimsy in City Theatre's annual festival of short plays, Summer Shorts. While no discernable thread runs thr…
Leveling Up getting an intriguing production by New Theatre is about far more than a 20-something gaming magus in Las Vegas hired to remotely operate drones that eliminate real targets in th…
Harvey Fierstein's thought-provoking Casa Valentina play at GableStage explores is that sexuality as an infinitely varied stew of preferences, prejudices and other ingredients in varied meas…
Michael McKeever's stunning world premiere play Daniel's Husband at Island City Stage is an indelible and inarguable exhibit that love between human begins is unquantifiably precious and ina…
Inside baseball describes the wry and witty It's Only A Play, if you're one of us who can name all six shows that earned Tony nominations for Kelli O'Hara. But if you're one of the tens of m…
We're back from our trip to New York to scout out productions you might want to see (or not), shows that might tour South Florida and scripts that might be worth reviving in our region…
"Dark comedy" usually refers to a blithely cynical or whistling-past-the-graveyard attitude, but in the hilarious and unnerving Hand To God the darkness is pure visceral evil.
From Elizabethan actors lining up ala A Chorus Line with oil paintings for their headshots, to a preening rock star Shakespeare spouting his greatest hits to a sycophantic crowd, Something R…
Ticket prices are not an obstacle to interested theatergoers once again this summer through the South Florida Theatre League's annual Summer Theatre Fest that provides free tickets to major …
Professionalism is the only explanation why this much talent"the cream of South Florida theater from the director to the cast to the creative team -- invested itself so deeply into the flawe…
Broward Stage Door's quite serviceable but not bewitching production of this 1951 fantasy love story doesn't feel especially magical in the first act, but it locates the right bag of pixie d…
The Critics' Awards Program, or Cappies, recognizing outstanding achievement in high school theater at the 13th Annual Cappies Awards Gala were held Tuesday at the Broward Center for the Per…
Veil after veil are slowly stripped away from the elegant sophisticated stage persona that is "Billie Holiday" until standing exposed is a blunted devastated victim of racism, sexism and abu…
If God is omniscient, He must be inconsolably sad. Zoetic Stage's superb production of Harold Pinter's Betrayal puts its audience in that poignant and painful position in which Knowledge is,…
After love, compassion has to be the highest virtue of humanity. That tender melding of sympathy and forgiveness for human failings and their resulting tragedy suffuse the transcendent music…
We were tough last week on the national tour of Anything Goes. If those folks want to know what we were hoping to see, they should take the day off and drop in on what The Wick Theatre is do…
Florida Grand Opera's production of Gian Carlo Menotti's The Consul is somehow far more emotionally potent than fairy tale stories of ancient star-crossed Egyptian beauties and 19th century …
Ellen Wacher's Pigs Do Fly Productions opens its second season by, for and about people over 50 years old arguing that Fitzgerald was wrong with its newest anthology of playlets under the um…
Arts Garage has partnered with veteran theater figures Keith Garsson and Genie Croft to resume presenting productions in the converted municipal garage in downtown Delray Beach. But the new…
It would be inaccurate to compare the soggy national tour of the sea-borne Anything Goes to the Titanic. But if there ever was proof that Broward Center audiences will give a standing ovatio…
With bracing anger, profuse profanity and biting satire that is more slashing than surgical, Outre Theatre Company's Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson will not to be everyone's taste but for thos…
For those who think young people don't care about theater, witness the hundreds of South Florida high school students involved in the nominations announced this week for the 13th annual Capp…
All hell breaks loose in The Glory of the World by Charles Mee at the Humana Festival of New Plays at Actors Theatre of Louisville / All photos by Bill Brymer By Bill Hirschman As before, th…