Michael McKeever's Stuff, winner of the 2011 Carbonell for best new work, will receive a staged reading in New York on Thursday, June 28 featuring an A list of veteran actors, Stephen Spinel…
Theater Shelf, a recurring feature by our reviewer Brad Hathaway, reviews recently-released books, CDs and DVDs of interest to theater lovers. This week: the new Phantom of the Opera CD/DVD,…
Coinciding with Gay Pride celebrations here in South Florida, La Cage Aux Folles, the musical about a charming nightclub owner and his flamboyant partner, has landed at Broward Center in For…
n this edition, we visit Harriet Oser who talks about a career that encompasses playing the bride in Blood Wedding while pregnant to wondering if a scene partner was going to collapse on sta…
The gloriously over-the-top film incarnation of Rock of Ages is just as silly and stupid and surprisingly fun as the Broadway musical it's drawn from.What the film is missing, and its absenc…
Standing On Ceremony, a collection of short plays bowing next week at the Broward Center, is about the traditional values of love and marriage. Specifically, gay marriage. Produced by Miami'…
Theater Up Close, the series co-produced by the Arsht Center, has announced a 2012-2013 season partnering with the home-grown Zoetic Stage, the University of Miami's theater department, the …
The quality of New Theatre's work is famously variable, but every season or so, they deliver a moving, finely crafted gem of theater to be unreservedly proud about. In this case, it's the pr…
Playwright Adam Rapp shares Beckett's indifference to whether audiences comprehend his idiosyncratic depiction of his dark vision. But in Mosaic Theatre's The Edge of Our Bodies, he also is …
After an unnerving series of losses, several low-key announcements provide some encouraging news this week for the South Florida theater scene: Rising Action Theatre has succeeded in resurre…
Peter and the Starcatcher is not, as most people think, about the magic of Peter Pan. It's about the magic of theatricality and what theater can deliver that no other art form can. It's less…
The Caldwell Theatre Company remains locked out of the Count de Hoernle Theater, but the Boca Raton facility will reopen in July for a production of Jesus Christ Superstar by Entr'acte Execu…
A Facebook fan page for former employees of the Royal Palm Dinner Theatre has led to a planned reunion of employees, supporters, fans and friends to honor founder Jan McArt on July 8 connect…
Mosaic Theatre continues its pirouette along the leading edge of modern drama with the announcements of its 2012-2013 season that includes two works by up-and-comer Rajiv Joseph playing in r…
How do handle an era which is vibrantly alive in the memories of older audience members yet only an antiseptic chapter in a textbook to younger audiences? David Auburn's play The Columnist d…
City Theatre's annual rite of the season Summer Shorts has developed a well-earned reputation for being the dictionary definition of "uneven." So it's a relief that this 17th edition is the …
Veteran South Florida actor Dan Leonard has won Actors Playhouse at the Miracle Theatre's Page to Stage competition recognizing new plays. The three-time Carbonell nominee was selected for h…
The pleasant, intriguing comedy bowing at the Alliance Theatre Lab is not an overwhelming triumph; something about it doesn't quite land as solidly as you're rooting for it to do. But the sc…
No question, David Ives' Venus In Fur is an intelligent, thought-provoking comedy-drama featuring a strong performance by Hugh Dancy and one breakout tell-your-grandkids-about-it tour-de-for…
Several theater-related projects are among the 57 finalists for the 2012 Knight Arts Challenge grants for special projects in South Florida including start-up funds for a regional scene shop…
Mosaic Theatre has announced the winners of its Stop! The Violence Video Contest that in ran this spring in conjunction with its recently-closed production of A Measure of Cruelty, a drama i…
M Ensemble's production of Jar the Floor, postponed from earlier this month, may have been rescheduled. The play is penciled in for June 21-July 8 at the Light Box at the Goldman Warehouse, …
The messiness of human relations as opposed to the precision of science is one of the underlying themes of David Auburn's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama Proof, enjoying a solid production at P…
All theater is a risky proposition, emotionally, artistically and financially. You can have a taste of that on June 2 at Mosaic Theatre's fund raiser, its 2nd annual Monte Carlo Night at Bon…
The Boca Raton Theatre Guild has announced its 's 2012-2013 season: the A.R Gurney thinking man's comedy Sylvia from Sept. 28-Oct. 14 and Kander & Ebb's acerbic musical Chicago in March…