An anonymous donor has pledged to match any donation to keep Florida Grand Opera from eliminating Fort Lauderdale performances from its 2015-2016 season, the company announced Monday. But wi…
I and You has one of the least promising elevator pitches: teenagers studying the poetry of Walt Whitman discover that the eternal cycle of life and death is less inscrutable or meaningless …
The Maltz Jupiter Theatre's revival of The Wiz is among the most lavish spectacles ever put on by a regional theater in South Florida with its prime virtue being the boundless imagination of…
Spangles sparkle in the spotlight as styling showgirls parade across the stage in a musical celebration of enduring love, joie de vivre and self-respect " which proudly encompasses adherents…
John Manzelli plays a harried scheduler at a trendy restaurant -- and about 40 coworkers and patrons -- in Fully Committed at the Broward Center
Mad Cat Theatre's daffy deconstruction of a 1966 Neil Simon The Star Spangled Girl elicited plenty of laughs, but the schizophrenic clashing of styles didn't land as strongly as anyone hoped
Disney, for all its theatrical sins, deserves credit for at least one benefit: You can see what your parents were talking about when they raved about the magic of some theatrical piece from …
Large-scale opera productions would disappear from Broward County during the 2015-2016 season if area patrons and corporations do not pledge at least $400,000 by the end of this month, the F…
Mad Cat Theatre Company's approaching 15th anniversary is cause to assess its place in the local arts scene. Mad Cat may not have been the first company in South Florida to produce the thesp…
Ayad Akhtar's Pulitzer-winning Disgraced is a scalding rebuke to anyone who thinks that any section of our society has come to an intellectual or emotional homeostasis about social, cultural…
Welcome to a regular, if intermittent feature: Irreverent, lighthearted question & answer sessions with some of South Florida's best known professionals Producer, director, fight arrange…
This sharply honed, finely tuned, precisely executed national tour of Beauty and the Beast piece of theater inexplicably does not seem stale. If there isn't an overflowing sense of soul pour…
Back in the day, whenever that was, a Broadway musical that had a raft of virtues but wasn't a perfectly satisfying piece had a good chance of running an entire season. But with astronomical…
You Can't Take It With You features some inspired performances (and some surprisingly disappointing ones) in a production with a sagging first act completely redeemed by two acts of joculari…
Tom Stoppard's play about the war between head and heart in romance, The Real Thing, is reputedly his most accessible. Yet on my fourth connection with it through the revival at Roundabout T…
Seeking "Who am I?" is the defining journey of most lives, and our religious heritage is part of the solution, even if we don't embrace that religion or its culture. Such is the soul of Sta…
Here's a look back at 2014 including a very subjective subjunctive reductive list of outstanding shows, performances and developments guaranteed to make someone unhappy they were not on the …
This production of Five Guys Named Moe is an energetic romp with some of the most energized performers to burn up the floorboards at Broward Stage Door. The joint is most definitely jumpin'.
If you can accept that film is a different storytelling medium from theater, this version of Into The Woods is not only faithful to Sondheim and Lapine's vision of darkness and light, it act…
News about a fundraiser for Slow Burn Theatre Company, the semi-annual 1-Acts at New Theatre and the resurrection of Infinite Abyss
Actor's Playhouse at the Miracle Theatre's production of ,Miracle on South Division Street has all the makings to become a perennial holiday comedy favorite.
Whenever Leslie Uggams lets loose that glorious voice, whenever the live band swings into one of Jerry Herman's standards, the Wick Theatre's production of Mame is an irresistible pleasure. …
Delray Beach Center for the Arts' first in-house theater production, A Chorus Line, delivers a faithful recreation with young local talent, although it's almost a carbon copy of the origina…
Israel Horovitz's My Old Lady at Palm Beach Dramaworks is a cornucopia of delightful wordplay and an insightful examination of human relationships, featuring superb performances by Estelle …
More than a dozen shows are open and a lot of holiday/family demands are battling for space on your calendar. But shoehorn in Primal Force's stunning production of a scorching play few have …