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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…
The Florida Grand Opera will continue to perform in Broward County next season. The financially-challenged FGO did not quite raise the $600,000 that officials said they needed. Vut an anonym…
Familiar titles and lesser known shows punctuate the 2015-2016 schedules released this week for The Wick Theatre in Boca Raton and Actors Playhouse on the Miracle Mile, ranging from West Sid…
Four of the six shows slated for the 2015-2016 Broadway Across Fort Lauderdale season earned Tony Awards in just the past few years, and two of them will be seen for the first time in South …
The Maltz Jupiter Theatre delivers a courageous and skilled revival of Glengarry Glen Ross that depicts a group of foul-mouthed cutthroat Chicago real estate for whom nothing is out of bound…
If you've never seen I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change (highly unlikely that) or if it's been quite a while since you last saw it, the Broward Stage Door delivers a warm assured product…
What follows are a series of letters reflecting the controversy between Samuel French, the play licensing company, and Delray Square Performing Arts about the theater's production of the mus…
The snow up North notwithstanding, one early sign of winter's ebb is that theaters in South Florida try to entice the current crop of snowbirds to sign up for their next season by releasing …
The Women's Theatre Project, the Carbonell-nominated company focused on works by and about women, is closing after 33 productions over 14 years. TWTP won strong support among theatergoers of…
This 61-year-old Twelve Angry Men gets an effective production in New Theatre's edition of what it rightfully deems an American classic. A dozen actors give some of the better performances o…
It's fortunate that Newsies is a dance-centric musical because much of the lyrics and dialogue were nearly impossible to understand in the national tour visiting the Arsht Center from Broadw…
Sartre's existentialism tips the iceberg of what Steve Yockey's play Octopus takes on in its oddly dark comic and tumultuous story. . While it may leave some scratching their heads, there's …
Florida Grand Opera has extended its deadline two weeks to raise enough money to continue performing next season at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts.
But as far as large-scale Broadway musicals, Ragtime stands as Actors' finest mainstream work ever, as accessible and satisfying as it is passionate and thoughtful. Anyone who cares about mu…
When done well, the astringent Les Liaisons Dangereuses is an increasingly horrifying descent into s morally bankrupt aristocratic society. Palm Beach Dramaworks' solidly executed and lushly…
Undo's premise " a Jewish divorce ceremony that rewinds a couple's wedding day -- sounds so much like a sitcom episode that you keep expecting it to slide into shallow farce. But it doesn't…
Broward Stage Door's courageously adult and resplendently lewd production of Cabaret ain't your condo grandmother's musical comedy. The only thing missing from this vision echoing the Sam Me…
This Into The Woods by DreamCatcher Theatre and Theater Up Close is so heartbreakingly uneven that it may bring Sondheim lovers close to tears. Long stretches are so skillfully and lovingly …
A gay teenager leading a religious-based choir at a regimented prep school for African-American boys is a perfect theatrical metaphor for an individualist struggling to square his uncompromi…
At the end of Florida Grand Opera's beautifully performed and comical edition of the Mozart farce Cosi Fan Tutte, you'll want to take the heroes into a dark alley and beat them with a two-b…
With Bonnie & Clyde, Slow Burn Theatre Company has found the strengths in a "troubled" work and forged an entertaining even intermittently thrilling work. It keeps nudging upward the le…
M Ensemble's production of The Gift Horse has praiseworthy virtues and crippling problems that make it a mixed experience. But it does give the audience a long-delayed gift in Carey Hart's s…
Miamians J.J. and Natalie Caruncho built their careers as thespians in New York City, but now in their mid-20s, the siblings have returned home with the new company DreamCatcher Theatre to …
Complete List of Carbonell Nominations For 2014 Season
The unusual richness of the 2014 season in South Florida theater is reflected in the 2014 Carbonell Awards nominations released today, ranging from lushly produced mainstream blockbusters to…