Loaded with lots of laugh lines and inside theater jokes, POZ at Island City Stage has some supremely likeable characters. Yet there's just something a little bit too snappy about this world…
The devastation from a hurricane outside is only a reflection of the greater emotional destruction already crippling the protagonists in Nilo Cruz's play Hurricane set for only five performa…
The eighth annual 24-Hour Theatre Project on Monday had a slightly different vibe to it with everyone on stage and much of the audience wearing tiny teal ribbons representing the fight again…
After a half-century of sympathetic portraits of Hedda Gabler as a woman suffocating in a sexist societal straightjacket, Miami Theater Center gives us a cool, manipulative, self-centered cr…
Bodies seem to fly through the air and end up in a plethora of entwined positions worthy of a terpsichorean Kama Sutra in The Wick Theatre's thrilling musical revue Swing. Indulge yourself i…
Twenty-six theater professionals, activists and organizations are being honored for "outstanding or unique contributions to South Florida theater" with the Silver Palm Theatre Awards.
The temptation is to describe the nightmarish Back of the Throat as Kafkaesque as Outré Theatre Company depicts an America gone mad. But it's not. That's the real horror. The extremities un…
Broward Stage Door Theatre has mounted a warmly delightful production of Joe Di Pietro's The Last Romance, a bittersweet play about love, loss and loneliness and how the twilight years hold …
The magic of serendipity: It's difficult to imagine -- without being boxed into it as Miami Theater Company was -- how an artistic director would thematically put together a season encompass…
The primary pleasure of Slow Burn Theatre Company's run at the legendarily miserable (but subsequently overhauled) musical Carrie is enjoying how glowing talent, unbridled earnestness and to…
Teo Castellanos' solo work Third Trinity, a commissioned work by Miami Light Project, is bold in its presentation, mostly because it's an autobiographical story of Castellanos' growing up " …
The Plaza Theatre in Manalapan declared bankruptcy and closed its doors Friday on the day that it was poised to begin its third season due to a precipitous drop in ticket sales and an inabil…
They know. It seems beyond hubris for Slow Burn Theatre to mount a musical whose debut has become a catchphrase for famous flops, as in "Not since Carrie has there been such a theatrical dis…
Peter and the Starcatcher, an alternative origin story for Peter Pan, is an ensemble piece featuring a dozen chameleonic storytellers, each with moments in the spotlight. But Theater Up Clos…
For such a seemingly simple play, Our Town requires the audience to generously invest their attention and imagination. Thornton Wilder's classic set in a small town in New Hampshire only wor…
The overall picture may seem a bit disjointed and fuzzy, but the world premiere of The Cuban Spring at New Theatre incisively depicts the complexities of Cuban-American families in modern Mi…
The Naked Stage's annual 24-Hour Theatre Project is scheduled for 8 p.m. Monday, Oct. 27, hosted this year by Palm Beach Dramaworks in West Palm Beach. All proceeds will go directly to Dana …
Every couple of years, Actors' Playhouse " home of the mainstream musical "mounts an edgy modern work that nourishes the creative soul of the theater's more adventurous patrons like next to …
Underneath all the imagination and playfulness inherent in the upcoming fantasy of Peter and the Starcatcher at the Arsht Center, a practical apprenticeship has been forged among students an…
Why should you go to see Annie yet once again? First is that director Martin Charnin has banished a lot of the saccharine overkill and played the remaining cuteness and heart-tugging moments…
Slow Burn Theatre Company, the acclaimed troupe specializing in musicals that many companies shy from, is moving its main operation from Boca Raton to the Amaturo Theatre at the Broward Cent…
Slow Burn Theatre Company's The Marvelous Wonderettes at the Broward Center is a sweet and tasty cotton candy confection of girl group standards from 1950s and 1960s delivered by four terrif…
Jamaica Farewell -- Debra Ehrhardt's semi-autobiographical comedy about her emigration to America " has passages of tension and tears, but it's not exactly the heart-warming tale of a life-t…
A quick roundup of miscellaneous miscellany and assorted assortments.
I Love Lucy® Live On Stage is mildly amusing, mildly humorous, mildly pleasant and very mildly entertaining --- phrases never attached to Lucille Ball® or I Love Lucy®. There is lit…