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Outré Theatre Company has mounted a smooth and solid production of Jonathan Larson's other produced work, the semi-autobiographical rock musical tick, tick…BOOM! Built around an impassion…
Amid blockbuster musicals and dysfunctional family dramas, one of the disappearing genres of theater and much of art is the slow, sweet sad song. And as Palm Beach Dramaworks' slow, sweet sa…
Thinking Cap Theatre's production of Nick Hadikwa Mwaluko's Waafrika is a deeply earnest and illuminating if imperfect examination of the tragic toxicity of tradition. But even Waafrika's fl…
Theater students from 14 public and private high schools in Broward and Palm Beach counties received Cappies awards Tuesday, recognizing excellence in both productions and theater criticism …
Sex, despite the title at GableStage, and despite the plot, is not what Cock is about. And guess what? It's sexy. It's very sexy. But this is a story about love, labels and the pressure …
White Rose Miami, the tiny ad hoc drama troupe known for its varied venues including someone's backyard, is taking another show on the road around Miami-Dade County May 17-June 2 with the h…
The latest podcast entry is Bill Hirschman's interview with Alan Jacobson, founder and artistic director of the Plaza Theatre in Manalapan, about opening, and maintaining, a successful arts …
Theater students from 23 public, private and charter schools throughout Broward and Palm Beach counties will vie for top honors in the 11th Annual Cappies Awards Gala at 7 p.m. Tuesday, May …
2012-2013 CAPPIES NOMINEES BY SCHOOL Archbishop McCarthy High School (Nine nominations for Bus Stop) Best Play Lead Actor in a Play: Eric Maltz Lead Actress in a Play: Emilie Colon Supportin…
The Fox on the Fairway, plays more like a 1970s sitcom. When any one of the comedy's exaggerated characters comes bursting through the door (and this happens more than a few times), you expe…
While the actual production of Ann at Lincoln Center has a few shortcomings, you yearned to toss back a few with former Texas Governor Ann Richards and kick around how to save the country.
The Wick Theatre, currently renovating and refurbishing the former Caldwell Theatre toward a fall opening, will sell off hundreds of Caldwell items from 9.m. to 4 p.m. Friday through Sunday,…
Say what you will about the joys and shortcomings of Memphis the Musical -- starting with exuberant performances and unimpressive lyrics "it has one of the most infallibly infectious finales.
Sing A Song of Sondheim Veteran leading man Wayne LeGette and Mia Mathews, his co-star in The Plaza Theatre's recent production of Chapter Two, will perform a revue of show tunes by Stephen …
War Horse is cherished by many of us who saw it at Lincoln Center as one
of the most brilliantly executed pieces of theater we have seen. Certainly, audiences continue to be thrilled by the…
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…
