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Michael Leeds is a director, teacher, actor, dancer and songwriter, but this interview shows he is a raconteur with a storehouse of stories ranging from the woman who did an I Love Lucy bit …
Jungle Fantasy is one of a dozen Cirque Dreams' productions that surround pretty impressive circus acts in otherworldly music, fluid lighting and spectacular costumes filled out by ultra-buf…
Worldless, disconnected, as neutral and interpretable as a Rorschach ink blot, H2OMBRE is a Cirque du Soleil-like show designed by and aimed at people raised on comic books and fantasy flick…
These fluffy summer fripperies at Actors' Playhouse must be successful because here's a sequel Mid-Life 2: the Crisis Continues, the off-spring of 2008's Mid-Life! The Crisis Musical. Once a…
Samuel D. Hunter's The Whale at GableStage focuses on a morbidly obese man wanting to reconnect with his abandoned daughter before his imminent death. But the darkly funny and affecting play…
Palm Beach Dramaworks' current staged concert of Frank Loesser's 1956 musical The Most Happy Fella overflows with a purity of emotions common to even the most ordinary of us, proclaiming the…
A five-foot tall assembly of beige bags hangs in the corner of Gablestage's cramped communal dressing room, vaguely shaped like a tan version of the marshmallow monster from Ghostbusters. N…
Friends, family and colleagues will share stories about the life and contributions of South Florida theater champion Jay Harris at a celebration at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at Gablestage.
Despite the more headline-grabbing 6,000 gallons of water, the significance of the Arsht's H2HOMBRE is that the public-private venue is cementing its commitment to a brand of imagistic, sens…
The Dana Plays, a program to raise funds for both the American Cancer Society and Dana Castellano, a member of the community battling the illness, is slated for 8 p.m. Monday at the Miami Th…
Ground Up & Rising's courageous production of 9 Circles is a dichotomy that is deeply felt and deeply flawed at the same time " bluntly and uninhibitedly slashing away at one dimension …
The musical revue Bernstein on Broadway at The Plaza Theatre is a bouncy bauble that achieves exactly what it aims to: deliver a diverting and entertaining summer evening. It's like one of t…
Coming to a theater near you in South Florida within a year or two " if it takes even that long " is Heathers: The Musical. It is closing off-Broadway, but it is destined to be a ubiquitous …
Pembroke Pines Theatre of the Performing Arts is laboring to make its masasive and expensive production of the epic Les Miserables a rebuke to silence those who dismiss community theater sig…
Mad Cat Theatre Company has named its third annual Nine Lives Scholarship Awards recipients: Cheyenne Nicole Hardy cited as outstanding high school senior and Kayla Bussel as outstanding col…
Three-time Carbonell winner Nick Duckart has been a rapping Dominican-American bodega owner, a Palestinian terrorist, a Polish-American assassin, and the Egyptian Pharaoh in Joseph and the�…
Hot dogs, fireworks and… theater? New Theatre is hoping you'll join them this holiday weekend for its bi-annual Miami 1-Acts Festival of 16 fully-staged short plays which doubles as a fund…
Ground Up & Rising, the itinerant Miami company that has been rising and falling and rising since 2006, is rising once again with a play to bow during the holiday weekend, plans for a s…
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 …
The fifth annual celebration of theater that investigates what it means to be a lesbian in the 21st Century kicks off this Friday with Girl Play, staged readings of short plays sponsored by …
Satchmo at the Waldorf triumphs with very little music and none of it created live by the brilliant John Douglas Thompson's resurrection of the jazz great. Instead, Thompson summons up Louis…
From the first tinkling of the bouzouki, Palm Beach Dramaworks' mounting of the rarely-seen Kander and ebb musical Zorba! fairly throbs with life-affirming spirit in direct spite of the vaga…
Ring of Fire, the Johnny Cash Musical, is not a biographical play about The Man in Black. It's smarter than that. This music-heavy tableau, at the Theatre at Arts Garage i offers more depth …
Businessman Jay H. Harris was not famous outside of theatrical circles in South Florida. But within that community, Harris was revered for his incalculable investment of time, advice and mon…
The Spirit of America Festival is presenting a salute to the work of Leonard Bernstein Saturday through Monday including a staged concert version of his Broadway musical On The Town at Flori…
