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After months of almost invisible activity, M Ensemble will resurface early next month far from its previous homes: South Miami-Dade Cultural Arts Center in Cutler Bay.
Those big budget companies make productions with much smaller budgets such as Boca Raton Theatre Guild seem to be missing something " when, in fact, their Pippin this season has outstanding …
On opening night at Florida Grand Opera's production of the infrequently-mounted Nabucco, the audience joined the chorus in singing "Va, pensiero, sull'ali dorate." The sing along was the hi…
Even if Slow Burn's moving production of the dark and dangerous musical Parade wasn't the success that it indeed is, the troupe would deserve honor for the fearlessness in choosing a pre-ord…
Renee Taylor's one-woman autobiographical show, My Life on a Diet, now at The Plaza Theatre is filled with humorous and self-deprecating stories of her life in image-conscious Hollywood. The…
The past is too much with us, to misquote Wordsworth. Beth Henley's Crimes of the Heart urges us to get past our pasts if we are to have some hope for the future. That homespun homily is del…
It's not exactly a wandering band of players, but New Theatre will move next month into its fifth "permanent" home in 27 years, a small flexible space at the South Miami-Dade Cultural Arts C…
Tour-de-force is frequently overused to describe any one-actor show in which the performer dons a few personas and feigns a few emotional pyrotechnics. To see an example of a true tour de fo…
It's been 100 years since Leo Frank's trial in 1913 for the death of Mary Phagan. And on Thursday, the Boca Raton-based Slow Burn Theatre Company " which prides itself on presenting challeng…
End Of The Rainbow is not a Judy Garland tribute concert " it's a dramatic play with music about her death spiral entering its final turn. Actors Playhouse's production is shot through with…
Taking a play that could easily be average and creating an inspired work is a thing of theater beauty. It comes from a director's ability to envision what they want and go full in and, then …
The surprising strength of the Maltz Jupiter Theatre's production of A Chorus Line is how it delivers everything that your memory recalls fondly of past productions but infuses it with a wel…
A new regional theater and educational complex was cleared this afternoon to arise on the site of the Coconut Grove Playhouse. A signed, executed lease with the state, which owns the propert…
The nominations for Carbonell Awards honoring theatrical excellence in South Florida released today provide some interesting material for observers to chew over. The nominations seem to dep…
The complete list of the nominations for the 38th annual Carbonell Awards honoring excellence in South Florida theater.
As the season heats up, we enter a period with many openings in the same week. That means reviews will only be in the top four positions for four or five days. To see earlier reviews, check …
The world premiere of Carter W. Lewis' jet black satire The Hummingbird Wars at Theatre at Arts Garage is hysterically funny but unnervingly upsetting because the depiction of a society disi…
That percussive sound rolling through Boca Raton this weekend was the deafening echo of 32 tap shoes pounding the stage of The Wick Theatre's glorious production of 42nd Street.
When Fort Lauderdale playwright Tony Finstrom met Florida's First Lady of Theater Jan McArt three years ago, he felt like he had already "known her forever." She felt the same camaraderie. I…
Just as Shakespeare's poetry nestles surprisingly smoothly in the cadences of Caribbean characters, Tarell Alvin McCraney's vision transplanting Antony and Cleopatra to 18th Century Haiti i…
There may be a lack of originality in this The Wizard of Oz with additional songs by Andrew Lloyd Webber, but how can one top perfection? This is more of a wink to the marvelous magic of the…
You know The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess at the Kravis Center is opera because you can't understand a third of the lyrics even in English; you know it's glorious opera because the swelling mus…
At a minimum, Thursday's opening of Tarell Alvin McCraney's fresh spin on Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra is a watershed event for the region. But this co-production of GableStage, the Ro…
Mixtapes are by definition quirky, passionate, uninhibitedly self-expressive to the edge of self-indulgence, sometimes puzzling, sometimes touching, sometimes hilarious. Mad Cat Theatre Com…
There are theater companies, when planning a season, that pick a theme, but for Kutumba Theatre Project, the coincidence was kismet " or in true Kutumba fashion, plucky luck.
