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So among the fine, entertaining evenings and afternoons in theater this trip, the highlight hands down was watching a brilliant cast under Nicholas Martin's direction make Christopher Durang…
Lake Worth Playhouse, the community theater recognized as one of Florida's oldest continuing troupes of any kind at age 60, set its upcoming season that encompasses ambitious big- budget mus…
Mad Cat Theatre Company, the Miami troupe that has been obliterating Florida's reputation for safe mainstream theater for 13 years, is moving to the intimate black box space at Miami Theater…
Katie Finneran and Rachel Bay Jones, actresses with Miami roots, didn't score nominations but their musicals fared well in the Tony Award nominations announced Tuesday
Act quickly " you only have a few days to view one of the greatest concert presentations of a musical that I've ever seen … the New York Philharmonic's staging of Rodgers and Hammerstein's…
I expended so much effort at Liz Flahive's The Madrid at the Manhattan Theatre Club desperately trying to get my metaphorical arms around the shape and meaning of this play about a runaway w…
It's rare that color blind casting is truly color blind. What happens so smoothly and appropriately in the Broadway revival of Horton Foote's The Trip To Bountiful, is that a play about a wh…
At The Plaza The Plaza Theatre in Manalapan will inaugurate Fresh Pages, a series of staged readings of new and unpublished scripts, at 7:30 p.m. Monday, April 29, with the new comedy Can I …
There's a reason, as seen in Broward Stage Door's revival, that Beau Jest has survived for so long. . Despite a sentimental mechanical finale and humor so vaudevillian you can hear the rim s…
Janet Langhart Cohen's play, Anne & Emmett, this notion of imagination and introduction paves the way for a stirring play about intolerance and two people from decidedly different backg…
The surprising virtue of Florida Grand Opera's 11th retelling of Verdi's La Traviata is that for all the performers singing high E's at the top of their lungs, all the falling to their knees…
It's weird but wonderful that two full decades after the height of the AIDS crisis that Paul Rudnick's touching but hilarious satire Jeffrey now revived at Miami Beach Stage Door Theatre fee…
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 creation of a new theater on the site of the Coconut Grove Playhouse came one step closer at midnight Monday when the state's lease application process closed with only one party express…
So much is right about Slow Burn Theatre Company's scaling of that Everest of musical theater, Sweeney Todd, that there's no shame to acknowledge that it's a competent not a transporting pro…
"Act as if ye had faith and faith shall be given ye" goes the maxim and the performers in Zoetic Stage's production of The Savannah Disputation seem to have taken it as their watchword. They…
Colin McPhillamy is currently starring as the addled and doomed King in Palm Beach Dramaworks' acclaimed of Exit The King, but the surreal nature of Ionesco's play reportedly pales in compar…
Editor, consultant and fashion icon Isabella Blow lived a tumultuous life that encompassed trend-setting style, two marriages plagued by infertility, championing designers like Alexander McQ…
An Iliad is a breathtaking solo show from Boca Raton's Outre Theatre Company starring Avi Hoffman that exhumes Homer's dramatization of the mythological Trojan War in terms we all can unders…
An increasingly ambitious season has been announced for Theater Up Close's 2013-2014 schedule, the initiative which teams the Adrienne Arsht Center with Zoetic Stage, the University of Miami…
The American Theatre Critics Association (ATCA) has selected Robert Schenkkan's meditation on power and pragmatism, All The Way, as the recipient of the Harold and Mimi Steinberg/American Th…
Some 20th Century classics, a 21st Century gem by an acclaimed master, and a 1997 thriller you've likely never heard of form the backbone of Palm Beach Dramaworks' 14th season announced this…
Slow Burn Theatre Company, the scrappy young Palm Beach County troupe with a reputation for skillfully mounted and thought-provoking musicals, will tour two of its productions next season to…
Several folks have posted online photo albums of Monday night's Theater Prom and the after-party sponsored by the South Florida Theatre League. Let us know if you have more collections you w…
Playing a 5,000-year-old poet decrying humanity's addiction to rage and violence, clothing his warning in a modern retelling of Homer's epic tale of the Trojan War, this is not your grandma'…