Jan McArt's Theatre Arts Guild Florida New Play Workshop will give a platform through this spring to four playwrights: Tony Finstrom, Michael McKeever, Dan Clancy and Jay Stuart. The product…
South Florida theater critics have to kiss a lot of comedy frogs before they find a prince, so we're exhilarated when we discover one as magical as Zoetic Stage's hilarious and touching All …
South Florida Theater has a full slate of special events this weekend in addition to the openings of Zoetic Theatre's All New People, Maltz Jupiter Theatre's Singin' In The Rain, Cirque du S…
A tribute show of sorts to two of Broadway's most prolific composers, John Kander and Fred Ebb, is the foundation for The World Goes 'Round
Four years ago, The Women's Theatre Project mounted Faye Sholiton's The Interview about the persisting damage that the Holocaust wreaked across generations. As solid as the first production …
For a comedy about the magical transformation of man into a pig and how that opens up his lover's ability to commit to true love, there's plenty of laughs but not a lot of magic in Pig Tale,…
By Bill Hirschman "I'm doing all right as long as I don't pass out." It's November and Tarell Alvin McCraney has sandwiched in a trip back to his hometown to prep his January 12 production o…
Kristina Wong's Cat Lady at Mad Cat Theatre Company is downright hilarious while shot through with pathos and insights into the search for human connection. It seems to be exactly the offbea…
Who besides Mad Cat Theatre Company would take a talking cat, who persistently pees on the rug, and a professional pickup artist instructing wannabees how to pretend to be genuine " and meld…
After taking barely a breather, the South Florida theater season resumes with a tsunami of shows, at least 26 professional productions alone through the first weekend in February. Here's the…
In theater, that most mutable and evolving art form, the passage of time is the forgotten factor in what the audiences see. So while having critics review a show opening night is unavoidable…
In this edition of Talkin' In The Green Room With, Angie Radosh explains why she panics upon seeing reruns of a particular I Love Lucy episode and she reveals the job you'll never guess that…
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 …
A couple of off-beat repostings for the holidays: Playbill.com posted 50 Iphone photographs taken of or by Janet Dacal of her homecoming to Miami as she rehearsed for Actors Playhouse's The …
Theater in South Florida ebbed and flowed like the beach surf in 2012 with triumphs and tragedies encompassing the death of three theater companies and the birth of four others.
We're entering another period of as many as six productions opening in one week. As a result, reviews may not remain in the center featured position more than one day. Please check out recen…
This critic worships the gospel according to Stephen Sondheim and knows nearly every beat of the original cast recording of 1976's Side By Side By Sondheim. So there was cause for concern. T…
Warm, full-singing voices swiftly carry a happy audience down the Mississippi through a glorious score in Broward Stage Door's Show Boat, but the acting and directing are so pedestrian that …
Indulge your inner contrarian with the new subversive Christmas tradition, the annual staging somewhere of the delightfully contrarian The Santaland Diaries. The satire about an unemployed a…
Yards and yards of duct tape, a dead deer, a timely taser, emperor penguins, Shakespeare, a shotgun, Anderson Cooper, President Jimmy Carter and the titular ursine creature all are ingredie…
Back during the Cold War, a theatrical genre flourished called the American absurdist comedy. Perfected by Herb Gardner and Bruce Jay Friedman, it took hip unconventionality to an extreme de…
Over the past 52 weeks, the Theater Shelf column has evaluated a host of CDs, DVDs and books you might consider as gifts for your theater friends this season " or for yourself, for that matt…
Slow Burn Looks Ahead Slow Burn Theater Company, the Boca Raton troupe attracted to edgy, challenging work, has chosen the titles for their 2013-2014 season, said co-artistic director Patric…
A yin and yang vibe imbues Jason Robert Brown's intriguing and imaginative two-character musical tracking the life cycle of a romance and marriage, The Last Five Years, receiving a warm, ent…
If personal reasons motivated Richard Jay Simon's resignation from the Mosaic Theatre that he founded, it was money that caused his board to close his "baby" Sunday, according to Simon and b…