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Shorts Gone Wild is pretty tame stuff for South Florida, but this outing of light comedies with a live-and-let-live LGBT message is more consistently entertaining than some of City Theatre's…
You may long for Palm Beach Dramaworks' staged concert of Company to have one more week of rehearsal just to let it ripen and deepen, but what's on stage remains an unassailably well-crafted…
When actress Patti Gardner suggested that it would only be fair if I was on the receiving end of a Green Room questionnaire, I took refuge in the journalist's centuries-old rationalization :…
As we've said, this is the summer of free staged readings of works in progress and works being considered for future production. There's two more intriguing entries slated for Monday night t…
If anybody dares you to bet your sports car that it won't snow in Miami in August, better go find your pink slip. There's a blizzard inside the Arsht Center nearly every night that'll have y…
Arts Garage is hosting a series of live radio play versions of iconic movies produced on stage by Arts Radio Network. Radio scripts from the 1940s adapting A Star Is Born, It's a Wonderful L…
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 …
Mad Cat Theatre Company has a reputation for providing a stage to young artists seeking more adventurous fare. But now, for the second year, it's also putting its money behind its commitmen…
There's no room for missteps at the intimate Theatre at Arts Garage cabaret. In this production of Beyond the Rainbow: Garland at Carnegie Hall everything is up close and very personal in a …
Cut through the South Boston accents and into the fibers of Good People, and you'll find that David Lindsay-Abaire's 2011 Tony nominee is a character study of the finest sort. However, the …
In the wake of shuttered troupes and emerging newcomers, the rising phoenix of the Wick Theatre and Costume Museum in Boca Raton is awash in patrons and professionals' optimism and pessimism…
Sept. 19-Oct. 20:Â Â Â The Sound of Music Nov. 7-Dec. 22:Â Â Â White Christmas Jan. 9-Feb. 9: Â Â 42nd Street Feb. 20-March 23:Â Â Â The Full Monty April 3-May 4:Â…
The Sound of Music is cast but the theater is holding auditions for all other roles its other shows for both Equity and non-Equity actors . Sunday, Aug. 4, noon to 5 p.m. by appointment only…
The Miami Dade County Commission nudged the resurrection of the Coconut Grove Playhouse one step closer Tuesday by authorizing the mayor to enter into a lease with state officials to reopen …
If you've dreamed of sitting in the upstairs bar of Sardi's to hear journeymen trade war stories about Broadway's past, you can get a taste at Jim Brochu's new one-man show, Character Man. …
Rated P For Parenthood at Actors Playhouse is a 90-minute hoot that bowed off-Broadway last year strings together almost 30 vignettes that chronologically trace the joys and absurdities of r…
Beautifully sung, passionately acted and staged with as much movement and business as anyone can ask of a limited rehearsal period, Palm Beach Dramawortks' concert version mines much of the…
Veteran New York actor Jim Brochu -- best known for his play about Mostel Zero Hour -- wants to honor and memorialize people like his close friend David Burns, the original Horace Vandergeld…
While some people may be broiling in the sun this holiday weekend, New Theatre is offering a cooler alternative with its inexpensive fund-raising program: its summer edition of the Miami 1-…
Bill Hirschman's interview with FAU Associate Professor Richard Gamble who talks at length about FAU's 27th Summer Festival Rep (A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum, Side By Side …
fSlow Burn Theatre Company's daffy production of the summer trifle The Wedding Singer feels like a sweet, sloppy kiss from a scruffy dog that could really use a trip to the groomer, but who'…
Conundrum Stages celebrates its fifth year as a low-key presenter of staged readings in South Florida this weekend with Five So Far: The Conundrum Stages Anthology, a retrospective showcase …
There's not one but two elephants in the room, actually in the auditorium, as Slow Burn Theatre Company prepares to take on the 2006 stage musical version of The Wedding Singer , which opens…
Playwrights Tina Howe, Lauren Gunderson, Robert Caisley and Steve Yockey are the headliners among an experienced group of speakers this weekend in Miami at the annual CityWrights conference …
GableStage's 2013-2014 slate includes the just- coronated Tony winner for best play, Christopher Durang's hilarious Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike. Equally notable is the debut of homet…