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Theater tickets too expensive? How about no cost at all? The South Florida Theatre League is holding their annual summer Free Night of Theater program next month, but the deadline to apply f…
As he relates the philosophy of his title character in the musical Zorba, William Parry's acting chops are so second-nature that he probably doesn't realize that a slight Greek accent is sli…
Efforts by City Theatre staffers to improve the consistency of its offerings has paid off: This edition of Summer Shorts is not only lushly and imaginatively produced with a noticeable extra…
Like a scruffy stray found on the streets with little promise of being housebroken, Slow Burn Theatre Company's musical High Fidelity shouldn't be so appealing and downright winning. But it …
Okay, the Tony Awards are over but there' still some afterglow for those who cannot get enough. Just how much of a Tony-holic are you? There are a few in here just for South Floridians inclu…
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As I sat watching a cat food commercial Sunday night, knowing that someone who has worked their whole life for recognition was being honored off camera, it became clear that something needs …
Copious laughter embraces Alliance Theatre Lab's production of James McLure's related one-act plays, Laundry & Bourbon and Lone Star. But snaking through the jovial landscape is a quiet…
The curtain is not expected to rise on the first production at the "new" Coconut Grove Playhouse for five years, county documents indicate. But work on the project began in earnest this mont…
Despite its almost two hours of one-liners, caricatures and Borscht Belt humor, Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah, the show based on Allan Sherman's parody songs at Broward Stage Door, in all its c…
Something is missing that makes the revival of Violet a fully-satisfying production. It seems inconceivable that it might be "heart," which would seem to be the strongest suit of a show like…
The 2013-14 Broadway season has produced a wide variety of scores from musicals that we are fortunate to have had recorded commercially. Indeed, the season has been marked by a notable raft …
If you know who Alice Ripley is, if you recognize the name of the musical Brooklyn, then [title of show] at Area Stage Co. was written for you. While its scruffy charm should amuse a general…
There's fun to be had at Cougar The Musical at The Plaza Theatre because of the cast, but don't expect a lion's roar " this Cougar hungers for better material.
Island City Stage's production of the thought-provoking The Pride understands the beauty and depth of this remarkable play "and, done right here, makes us question our history, both individu…
Thrill Me, a stunning musical about the child murderers Leopold and Loeb, closes out Outre Theatre Company's season with a two-man, one-act piece noteable for offbeat immediacy and barebones…
This national tour of the 2012 Broadway revival of Evita is a strong fresh edition that gives the raw material a thorough makeover but does not deconstruct the piece. The experience is helpe…
For a century, August Strindberg's tragedy Miss Julie has been interpreted as a seesaw of power exercised through class and sexual politics. But in Naked Stage's operatic production, as live…
This is why we go to theater. New Theatre's Gidion's Knot " wrenching, thought-provoking, shocking, visceral in ways no film can be" exemplifies why we spend time in dark rooms watching live…
The unreliability of memory -- and the resulting doubt and guilt -- swirl through Zoetic Stage's finely crafted production of The Great God Pan.
High school theater students from 18 public and private schools throughout Broward and Palm Beach counties took home awards from the 12th annual Cappies Awards Gala held Monday, hosted by th…
Under the vanities and inanities, the witty literary allusions and the silly sight gags, "Vanya and Sonia and Marsha and Spike" gently pokes fun at people who have wasted their lives. But do…
Scott and Hem, an imagined reunion of Fitzgerald and Hemingway, is half comprised of deadly accurate insights into the angst of creative souls; the other half is just deadly dumps of name-dr…
Thinking Cap's U.S. premiere of Sarah Kosar's Hot Dog comes across as a mean-spirited hate letter to a dying parent whose time can't come soon enough. It's a play about caring, yet we hardly…
A swirling spiral of emotional DNA echoes the emotional dance in The Tryst at Palm Beach Dramaworks. It's a psychologically-rooted tale of romance, albeit an unconventional definition of rom…
