Audiences need to savor the undeniable virtues and achievements of local Shakespearean productions -- even when counter-balanced by well-intentioned even courageous but equally undeniable fl…
Director Marcia Milgrom Dodge triumphed reinventing Hello Dolly! in 2012; this time she hasn't been quite as unassailably successful, but the overall evening grows on you as it swells into a…
Puzzled what to give that theater fan for the holidays. Check out Brad Hathaway's suggestions. And of course, a season subscription is always welcome.
Hallelujah, children! We are delivered from the bondage of political correctness, the oppression of reactionary repression and the tyranny of the status quo. Raise up your voice and praise t…
When Brian Stokes Mitchell comes to the Broward Center with the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra and his deep, lush baritone on Dec. 8, he will be among numerous stage stars swinging through South …
Timekeepers bowed at Island City Stage in October 2013. In April, the production won Carbonells for best play, best director, best actor Michael McKeever, best sound, best lighting and best …
Estelle Parsons, Angelica Page, Tim Altmeyer, about to open in Israel Horovitz's My Old Lady at Dramaworks, talk about the life of "a working actor."
For someone who has been singing virtually the entire Jerry Herman songbook for decades, it's ironic that only now is Leslie Uggams getting to play the title role of Mame in the musical bowi…
Sometimes when the company is engaging, it doesn't matter whether the journey itself is a little bumpy or overly-familiar. Such is the power of winning performances by Christina Alexander an…
As if it was even needed, molten lava in the guise of scalding verbal acrimony ravages the apartment where incendiary family strife already was poised to detonate into devastation in GableSt…
For all the derision and adoration that the basic material has engendered over 28 years, the thoroughly-retooled The Phantom of the Opera gliding over a fog-shrouded lake into the Broward Ce…
Donald Margulies' The Country House riffs on Chekhov's The Seagull but stands as its own as a compassionately sad-funny portrait of an emotional landscape.
In 2014, no one should be able to make the ludicrous thrust of Madama Butterfly remotely credible, yet Florida Grand Opera's 74th season opener produces a perfectly plausible tale of an aba…
Old Jews Telling Jokes at Broward Stage Door is precisely what it wants to be and precisely what you think it will be. If it sounds mildly engaging, you will love it, for what they want to d…
Boca Raton Theatre Guild's Everyday Rapture is bliss and it's the reason to get yourself to the Willow Theatre. Jodie Langel, Ann Marie Olson and Leah Sessa possess some of the best voices y…
Fine acting and direction elevate a script that navigates intellectual mazes and human emotions in The How and the Why at Theatre At Arts Garage.
Detroit, Lisa D'Amour's finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, is a thought-provoking piece of theater. The Zoetic Stage production finds its own complex groove in Detroit to present a must see in…
Broward Stage Door, Outre Theatre Company and Slow Burn Theatre Company have agreed to honor some of the tickets sold to patrons of The Plaza Theatre which shuttered late last month in Manal…
Publishing student reviews of high school theater is the cornerstone of a new service from Florida Theater On Stage and the South Florida Critics and Awards Program, better known as The Capp…
Schedule of High School Shows evaluated by The Cappies
The tempest dies down, but the emotional tumult rages on in Nilo Cruz's superbly staged world premiere of Hurricane, getting a criminally brief run at Arca Images in Miami. Rarely do South F…
Brandishing pink boxing gloves as her totem and a defiant "F*** cancer" as her catchphrase, artist and theater activist Dana Castellano fought valiantly and very publicly against the disease…
The Foreigner at the Maltz Jupiter Theatre is a wry, knowing comedy, good-naturedly poking fun at human frailties and overlaid with a wacky daftness. The incisively observed social satire is…
The South Florida Theatre League has announced its 2014 Remy Awards recognizing outstanding service and pioneering efforts in the development of the arts in the region.
Rodgers + Hammerstein's Cinderella is a lush, imaginative and polished production nearly guaranteed to delight audiences of all ages. That said, if you're looking for Rodgers and Hammerstein…