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Some patrons might be a tad uncomfortable at Murder Ballad at Actors Playhouse. After all, a lovesick swain likely will pour his heart out while standing on a chair a few inches away from an…
Actors' Playhouse's crew spent weeks ripping up its second floor balcony theater and reconfiguring it for its upcoming production of the noirish musical Murder Ballad, set in a dark East Vi…
The ultimate themes and intended resonances of Dying City dance just out of intellectual reach in Ground Up and Rising's brave but flawed production, but the audience gets some reward siftin…
GableStage's production of Terrence McNally's script Mothers And Sons surpasses the Broadway premiere by depicting close-up the devastating pain when deep emotional wounds inflicted decades …
Halloween has arrived early with a wildly uneven but strangely intriguing production of Ira Levin's 1973 exercise in creepiness, Veronica's Room at Andrews Living Arts. The evening never qui…
News about Summer Shorts reading potential plays tonight, Lake Worth Playhouse fundraiser and Stage door extends run of What's New Pussycat
Evening Star Production's The Subject Was Roses underscores the insightful script, but the valiant effort leaves far too much crucial passion AWOL.
Conundrum Stages has been working quietly on the edges of the South Florida theater scene for so long that it's both surprising and not surprising to hear that their current project this mon…
Pigs Do Fly's second outing of short comedies Fifty Plus: A New Atttude is a mildly entertaining, pleasant diversion punctuated by several guffaws and chuckles. But the undemanding evening …
Spend five minutes around Deb Sherman and one adjective becomes inescapable: passionate. The award-winning actress, playwright, theater impressario and trained clown exudes an aura of intens…
Usually there isn't anything sexy, dramatic or newsworthy about real estate in the world of theater unless it's Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross. But as the new season approaches, South Florida h…
In chronological order, here is a highly subjective, personal list of the shows whose titles or concepts we most want to see this season.
Issie Swickle. Remember that name. Not that you'd have trouble doing so. But remember when you first heard it, for bragging rights. Because you may be hearing it for a long time.
The secret of the highly improbable but undeniable success of the new '60s musical revue What's New Pussycat -- The Soundtrack of an Era at Broward Stage Door is encapsulated in the second-t…
Palm Beach Dramaworks is embarking on an ambitious new plays development program: Dramaworkshop. Over the next three years, the company is building a framework to nurture nascent scripts th…
Despite the death of director Laura Ruchala, Evening Star Productions' The Comedy of Errors is a rollicking ebullient edition of Shakespeare's farce of mistaken identities. Ruchala's playful…
Shadowing the 18-hour day when local musicians are first thrown together to rehearse and play opening night of the Miami visit of the national tour of Evita -- a job requiring skill, stamina…
The Arsht Center is t trying to keep talent in South Florida. They created MiamiArtsJobs.com, a job portal dedicated to helping find employees for Miami's growing cultural institutions and s…
When Mad Cat Theatre Company finds the right groove with the right piece as it has here with Centralia, even hidebound traditionalists need to recalibrate their definitions and expectations …
Lithe and graceful, Ron Hutchins stands out in any theater lobby on opening night, often noticeable for a quiet laugh that sounds like it's coming up out of a coal chute in the basement. But…
So the Cowardly Lion walks into a gay bar…. That premise pretty reliably lets you know that you must be watching the new edition of Shorts Gone Wild 2, the mildly risqué festival of short…
Sitting under a tent, sweating through the swelter, watching a faithful facsimile of a revival might not seem appealing to your everyday theatergoer. But bring an open mind to Thinking Cap T…
The script for 1969's Butterflies Are Free, holds up much better than you'd expect at its revival at Broward Stage Door. But while Stage Door's edition under director Michael Leeds is a plea…
An proposal resurrecting the Coconut Grove Playhouse as a $45 million theater complex likely run by the Adrienne Arsht Center is being solidified by Miami-Dade civic leaders headed by Mike E…
Theater Shelf, a recurring feature, reviews recently-released books, CDs and DVDs of interest to theater lovers. Some are popular titles like a new Original Cast Recording, others are works …
