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Most critics despise adding a letter grade to their review. But watching Broward Stage Door's admirable production of A Chorus Line kept bringing up over and over the idea of a "B" and what …
Lanford Wilson's wistful and whimsical play Redwood Curtain postulates that the past we stock our psyche with becomes something integral to our being that has to be faced down if we are to m…
More than a decade after efforts began to rescue the financially failing Coconut Grove Playhouse, the Miami-Dade County Commission voted to hire an architect to design a $20 million theater …
In theory, Vita and Virginia details the relationship between Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West. But the real romance is a profligate, glorious love affair with words, with language, w…
Can a meaningful relationship blossom in a world where cynicism and self-interest seem to trump integrity and burgeoning affection? Island City Stage's production of Douglas Carter Beane's h…
There's enough giggles and grins in Evening Star Productions' The Addams Family delivered by these game, committed thespians to keep this production mildly diverting, but they still are find…
A citizens' group that pushed for 14 months for a larger, more ambitious complex for the Coconut Grove Playhouse resurrection project has shelved its plan indefinitely because the Miami-Dade…
Slow Burn Theatre Company's Rent is ambitious, daring, electric and 2 1/2 hours of non-stop rock 'n' roll " a no-holds barred, take chances, go-out-on-a-limb spectacle. But when stripped of …
Sister Act is not a terrible musical; it even has amusing and mildly entertaining passages. But the national tour at the Arsht Center is also a head-shaking mediocrity that begs an answer to…
The American Theatre Critics Association (ATCA) has selected Rebecca Gilman's Luna Gale as the recipient of the Harold and Mimi Steinberg/American Theatre Critics Association New Play Award,…
The Magnificents, The House Theatre of Chicago's production that's playing inside the intimate Carnival Studio Theater at the Adrienne Arsht Center, is pure and simple and classic entertainm…
By Michelle F. Solomon If the House Theater of Chicago’s Death and Harry Houdini was about neglecting life in the pursuit of conquering death, The Magnificents is the other side of the…
For such a very funny play, the world premiere of Women Playing Hamlet at New Theatre digs deeply into that alchemical process when an actor draws on their own life experience to create a cr…
The Wick Theatre's Oklahoma! is an apple cheek fairy tale drawn in only two dimensions, a broad musical comedy sprightly painted with bright vibrant colors that will not fail to entertain if…
The central tenets of Baruch de Spinoza's rationalist ethos are explored exhaustively and exhaustingly in GableStage's intriguing production of David Ives' New Jerusalem which surely counts…
Aerialists contort their muscles aloft on trapezes. Tumblers leap through hoops. Performers juggle knives and fiery torches. And somewhere under all that flash and glitter is the beloved Pip…
Palm Beach Dramaworks' Buried Child is not a pleasant evening of entertainment; it's more of scathing abrasion therapy that purges the mental palate with fare that is as harrowing as a plow …
Hundreds of theater professionals and fans gathered Monday night in tuxes and gowns at theater prom better known as The 39th Carbonell Awards on Monday night.
Best New Work (Play or Musical) (4 nominees) ** Clark Gable Slept Here, Michael McKeever, Zoetic Stage Cuban Spring, Vanessa Garcia, New Theatre Have I Got a Girl for You, Josh Mesnick, Isla…
Déjà vu is inevitable for John Rubinstein as he portrays the father of the title protagonist in Pippin revival's national tour coming to the Broward Center next week. After all, Rubinste…
By Michelle F. Solomon Director J. Barry Lewis has a way of approaching a play like Sam Shepard’s Buried Child, the Pulitzer Prize-winning work that gets a staging by Palm Beach Dramaw…
Vaudeville and vintage musical comedy may be dead but the ghost of the emperor of that era resurrects them in Broward Stage Door's enthusiastic revival of the one-man George M. Cohan Tonight!
The utterly charming new show at Actors' Playhouse is a musical for, by and about the 21st Century Urban Neurotic Young Adult in that eternal crucible of awkward human relations: the "First …
A new play, Earthquake, written and directed by Mad Cat Theatre Company member Jessica Farr, will be performed one night only, in a benefit performance, as part of the South Beach Comedy Fes…
The three-year-old Parade Productions is shutting down as a purveyor of professional theater, its founder reported Wednesday.
