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There is more passion pouring off the stage in Slow Burn Theatre Company's thrilling Side Show than in ten other musicals we've seen in the past year put together. That may result in one too…
It starts slow, so slow that you fear it may never get going. But when Palm Beach Dramaworks' A Raisin in the Sun finally gets rolling, the emotional wallops arrive in every deepening wave o…
Parade Productions' collection of short plays by Michael McKeever, The Whole Caboodle, has the makings of a terrific evening of theatre, but an added conceptual element prevents the show fro…
In a classic opera depicting the battle between intellectual enlightenment and romanticism with allusions to ancient Masonic rituals, you don't expect a character to exclaim, "Mrs. Robinson,…
Thirty minutes before curtain at the Broward Center Wednesday, Miranda Palumbo ecstatically grinned as a clerk at the Oz Dust Boutique stuffed a grey hooded sweater jacket into a Wicked shop…
You have until just before midnight today (Thursday) to contribute to the Alliance Theatre Project's online funding campaign to raise money to help pay for its revival of the acclaimed Broth…
In the six years since the Coconut Grove Playhouse shuttered, irreplaceable theatrical history has festered in a fetid, crumbling structure, endangered by everything from larcenous-minded va…
By Bill Hirschman Illness has sidelined Valerie Harper from starring in the revival of Looped that was to kick off a new national tour at Parker Playhouse Feb. 26-March 3. The role of Tallul…
Looking for a peek at what might be part of next June's Summer Shorts? City Theatre is holding a free reading of as many as six contenders at 6:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 1, on the second floor of…
With the upfront caveat that we saw an early preview, Broward Stage Door's Damn Yankees is a base hit but no triple. The cast needs to pitch with a little more spin on the ball, even with ta…
Israel Horovitz's Gloucester Blue, getting a gleefully mischievous world premiere at the Arts Garage, is a black comedy with all three Aristotelian verities " beer, blackmail and blood. The …
The fledgling Plaza Theatre began its existence relying on musical revues and cabaret shows, although it has recently added plays like Driving Miss Daisy, Luv and Chapter Two. Now, the compa…
The 2013 Carbonell Award nominations announced today mirror the changing face of South Florida theater. There are farewells for three companies that closed in 2012 and recognition of five tr…
Best New Work (play or musical) Baby GirL, Kim Ehly, Kutumba Theatre Project A Measure of Cruelty, Joe Calarco, Mosaic Theatre Moscow, Michael McKeever, Zoetic Stage Off Center of Nowhere, D…
Law schools are not the usual sponsors for theater, but the University of Miami School of Law is presenting Jan. 27 Â a staged-reading of "8," a play chronicling the historic trial of the …
As part of our On The Boards podcasts in cooperation with Arts Radio Network, Florida Theater On Stage's Bill Hirschman sits down for a conversation with Arts Garage Artistic Director and fo…
Director Michael Leeds and a solid cast at the Plaza Theatre in Manalapan have mastered Neil Simon's challenging meld of witty comedy and throat-choking heartache, and make both perfectly pl…
Jon Robin Baitz's finely-crafted play asks whether there is such a thing as unconditional love in Actors Playhouse's rock solid production of last season's Broadway triumph which surgically …
Outré Theatre Company has scheduled a staged reading of Nicky Silver's Fat Men In Skirts at 8 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 22 at Empire Stage, 1140 N Flagler Drive in Fort Lauderdale. The plot is des…
There's the canny germ of an idea in producer Zev Buffman's pet project to fuse radio, theater and modern technology into a hybrid exemplified in his latest production, Agatha Christie's The…
The Alliance Theatre Lab is about to graduate to another level when its successful Gen-X comedy Brothers Beckett is revived in a co-production with the Arsht Center's Theater Up Close series…
South Florida impresario and veteran Broadway producer Zev Buffman foresees a future for stage theater -- in radio. Not just for any theater, but orphans like the Parker Playhouse that are t…
Florida Theater On Stage Editor and Chief Critic Bill Hirschman will speak about the past, present and future of South Florida theater at noon Tuesday and Friday as a guest on Jason Fisher a…
Assuredly, the Maltz Jupiter Theatre's Singin' In the Rain is a pleasant, skillfully executed, beautifully produced evening of cotton candy entertainment. The asterisk is that this Singin' I…
The miracle of Tarell Alvin McCraney's streamlined Hamlet at GableStage is that even after surgically slicing two-thirds of the script, the result remains not only effective theater but pure…
