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The American Theatre Critics Association (ATCA) has selected six finalists for the Harold and Mimi Steinberg/American Theatre Critics Association New Play Award, recognizing playwrights for …
The Carbonell Awards will bestow its highest honors this month: Arsht Executive Vice President and Carbonell President oScott Shiller will receive the George Abbott Award, actress-director-p…
Viewing the Maltz Jupiter Theatre's Les Misérables is like watching an art restorer wipe away decades of obscuring grime from a canvas and savoring what you forgot was hidden underneath " e…
By Bill Hirschman Savoring the pungent joy and sorrow of Always…Patsy Cline does not require the audience to love the Eisenhower Era musical moment when country-western music began morphin…
After 14 years and counting on Broadway, a decade on the road and on its eighth visit to South Florida, some of the magic should have vanished from the musical Wicked. But the tour has not o…
The resurrection of the Coconut Grove Playhouse is poised to take a major step forward Thursday afternoon, but precisely what that phoenix will look like when it rises is nearly guaranteed t…
The key to enjoying world premieres like Uncertain Terms at The Theatre at Arts Garage is to understand that you are seeing a work in progress. So picking out what works and what doesn't is …
Lou Tyrrell, founder of The Theater at Arts Garage in Delray Beach, will resign as its artistic director at the end of the run of its current show this month, which closes the company's four…
Even though chains hang from the rafters before Trust opens and the buzz will fixate on the S&M, sex is only the milieu for Zoetic Stage's rollicking yet incisive study of how people's …
Flash, punk glam, rhythm & blues and about as traditional an offering as possible comprise the Broadway In Miami series next season.
The Alliance Theatre paints a lovely, off-beat love affair between two wounded souls in Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune
Palm Beach Dramaworks will purchase outright its new home in downtown West Palm Beach on Monday morning, several months earlier than planned, managing director Sue Ellen Beryl confirmed Thur…
Slow Burn Theatre Company gives the perennial favorite The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee as excellent a production as we've seen of it, hitting the perfect balance between the hilar…
Boca Raton Theatre Guild's production of Tuesdays With Morrie has increasing resonance for Boomers caring for their parents.
More so than the play's sudden violence or its firecracker bursts of profanity, it's The Gin Game's references to nursing homes as God's waiting rooms that stick with you in Evening Star's p…
The audience is not likely to be emotionally transported by the Florida Grand Opera's production of Georges Bizet's The Pearl Fishers, but the skills of the principal singers exuding unusual…
We're still in the height of the theatrical season with many productions opening during the next two weeks. To find reviews of all the current productions, click on the "Reviews" tab in whit…
An Opinion Piece By Spencer Stewart Mr. Stewart has objected to many aspects of our specific review of Miami Theater Center's recent production of The Seven Year Itch (To read it, click here…
Scott Shiller, who transformed the Arsht Center into a catalyst developing local artists as well as widening the array of visiting attractions, is leaving at the end of April to head the Den…
They had me from hello, or at least from the wailing wall of distinctive sound given unprecedented power in the opening bars of Motown the Musical. It erupted like molten lava from the pit a…
The wide range of theater available in South Florida " from Matilda to Medea -- was underscored Monday with the announcements of 2015-2016 seasons for two very different but ambitious groups…
We want theaters to take chances and Miami Theater Center has bravely invested its artistic vision into classics like Three Sisters. But MTC has missed the target so badly in its misbegotte…
As the conductor of the pit orchestra at the national tour of Motown the Musical, Darryl Archibald is the person most accessible to the revved-up audience in the white hot afterglow of fans …
Palm Beach Dramaworks unveiled its 2015-2016 slate as well as its upcoming summer concert series, a meld of classic theater that few other companies undertake as well as acclaimed works from…
For years, George Schiavone has been documenting life back stage. Since the beginning of rehearsals of Actors' Playhouse's Ragtime, he has been shooting photos of the rehearsal and productio…
