The snowbirds have gone home, but South Florida theater never seems to go dark these days. This year-round trend has never been clearer than right now with a calendar is jammed with an overw…
Terrence McNally's drama Mothers and Sons examines the chasm that AIDS opened when troubled families were forced to face the sexuality of a loved one. But the play also shines a spotlight on…
Robert Schenkkan's Tony-nominated play All The Way is blessed with a fascinating portrait by Tony-nominated Bryan Cranston as LBJ, but it's his script's premise that makes the evening stay w…
Something remarkable happened opening night when the band played the entr'acte to the second half of the Wick Theatre's Ain't Misbehavin'. What had been a merely competent if unremarkable ev…
Even though Miami Theater Center wants "children's shows" to be enjoyed by all generations, Everyone Drinks The Same Water is likely to be most appreciated by middle schoolers. As always, th…
Awash in sex, war, adversity, sex, divorce, achievement, motherhood, determination, sex, the Holocaust and sex, it's difficult to understand how the biographical play Becoming Dr. Ruth can b…
Although Eglise Gutiérrez's performance in the title role of Thais is indeed glorious, equally fascinating in the current edition at Florida Grand Opera is what happens when no one is singi…
Tone is the secret behind the tragically soon-to-close Broadway production of Jason Robert Brown's lovely, heartfelt and thought-filled musical, The Bridges of Madison County. The theatrical…
While it does give actors and audiences of the 50-plus demographic a forum to create, Pigs Do Fly's Fifty Plus " A Celebration of Life As We Know It isn't just for those fifty or older; the …
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But perhaps the biggest illusion of Ghost: The Musical at the Broward Center is that, at its face value, it's an ordinary Broadway musical. Because of this notion, it doesn't seem to get its…
Meeting people, networking, building relationships " these are necessary skills in any business, but critically important for writers hoping to bring their words to the stage. Giving playwri…
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 …
"Learning to work through inbred intolerance" is not the kids' stuff of an ABC Afterschool Special, but Miami Theater Center's vision has always differed radically from what is often dismiss…
In three visits to Miami, the House Theatre of Chicago has always exuded an underlying love of the gloriously imaginative storytelling only theater can deliver. But its current entry at the …
Sometimes theater works even when you can't quite explain how or why or even quite what you saw. Such is the quirky, thematically fuzzy but thoroughly entertaining new musical at Arts Garage…
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Boca-based Slow Burn Theatre Company plans to expand during its sixth season this fall by producing a second series of shows in connection with the Broward Center for the Performing Arts.
Miami-born siblings Natalie and JJ Caruncho, pursuing careers in New York, have created a company whose first production will be Stephen Sondheim's musical Into The Woods as part of the Arsh…
If you missed Island City Stage's Timekeepers last October, the company plans to team up with the West Boca Theatre Company to remount the show around the end of this calendar year and run t…
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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 …
If you're seeking safe, predictable mainstream theater, avoid the annual Humana Festival of New Plays at the Actors Theatre of Louisville. If you seeking "thought-provoking, edgy new work," …
After nearly two decades of South Florida productions, the hilarious and poignant Over The River And Through The Woods has lost a bit of its power in this perfectly workmanlike and mildly …
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…