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The melding of narrative metaphors and stage magic are emblematic of the spectacle infused in the play Death and Harry Houdini, another imagistic work from the House Theatre of Chicago and t…
Florida Grand Opera's incarnation of Charles Gounod's Romeo et Juliette under the direction of David Lefkowich is an inventively staged, well-acted mounting of this stark take on Shakespeare…
Sometimes, when the material is strong enough, success means just getting out of its way. For the most part, that's what a cast of strong singers and the director do to make Broward Stage Do…
Neither protagonists nor antagonists, the haunted trio at the center of A Measure of Cruelty are desperately seeking compassion and redemption for their separate sins when all they can find …
Florida Theater On Stage Brad Hathaway reviews CD/DVDs of People in the Picture, Spider-man Turn Off The Dark, Oscar Hammerstein - Out of My Dreams, A Connecticut Yankee,
Mad Cat Awards Scholarships Mad Cat Theatre Company has presented its first Nine Lives Scholarship Awards to Arielle Hoffman for outstanding high school senior and Emilie Paap as outstanding…
To clarify misconceptions, the drama formerly entitled The Michael Brewer Project did not end up being specifically about Michael Brewer. A Measure of Cruelty, having its world premiering at…
In Last Call, it's the patrons who sit and listen to the bartender talk about her life. Turns out the bartender is more fascinating and better company than her customers ever could be. The w…
A second Palm Beach County theater will honor tickets to its own shows in exchange for tickets to the Caldwell Theater Company's last show of the season which was cancelled last week. The Pl…
Slow Burn Theatre Company's current production of Into The Woods is a solidly delightful and enthralling evening that should not be missed by lovers of musical theater in the region " and th…
Just how strong are the songs and jokes in the Tony-winning musical Avenue Q? So sturdy that even with shaky voices, so-so acting and laugh-killing scenery changes, the enthusiastic and ear…
The Caldwell Theatre Company, the region's second oldest professional theater still in operation, has cancelled its last show of the season and is considering every possible scenario for its…
There's a warm validation of our sensibilities in seeing a classic part of our culture fabric done right, really right.This second national tour of South Pacific at the Broward Center envelo…
The Caldwell Theatre Company, the region's second oldest professional theater still in operation, has cancelled its last show of the season and is considering every possible scenario for its…
We initiate a new feature this week: A series of podcasts interviews produced by Arts Radio Network featuring Florida Theater On Stage's Bill Hirschman interviewing region theater figures in…
The obscenity that was racism in South Africa in the mid 20th Century depicted in Master Harold…and the boys may be less virulent today, but Athol Fugard's 1982 play at Palm Beach Dramawor…
Links to videos and photos from 36th Annual Carbonell Awards The sights and sounds of the Carbonells, known to the industry as theater prom, are available at these links. http://ka.uvuvideo.…
If you think time machines are only found in science fiction, visit All Night Strut at Broward Stage Door and watch an audience of Greatest Generation grads be transported back 65 years to t…
Joy and uncertainty imbued the 36th annual Carbonell Awards on Monday night, reflecting a period marked by the greatest concentration of theatrical excellence in recent memory, yet also the …
A play championed by New Theatre, Edith Can Shoot Things and Hit Them, received a citation this weekend in the American Theatre Critics Association 's new plays competition. A. Rey Pamatmat'…
Michael McKeever's Moscow's in its world premiere by Zoetic Stage in the Adrienne Arsht Center's intimate Carnival Studio Theater is rich in so many ways with deep characters, dialogue that …
By choosing its own schedule, the Kravis Center has several titles in its 2012-2013 slate of musicals on national tours that you won't see at the Broward Center or the Arsht Center as the so…
In this edition, we visit with Stuart Meltzer who is currently fine-tuning the world premiere production of Michael McKeever's Moscow which opens Friday at the Arsht Center. Meltzer is both …
There's a distinctly younger, even hipper bent to the offerings for the Broadway Across America 2012-2013 season announced for the Adrienne Arsht Center -- plus some old, old reliables. The …
Hello Jerry Jerry Herman, the composer-lyricist of Hello, Dolly!, dropped in on last Friday's performance of his best-known work at the Maltz Jupiter Theatre. Herman, a University of Miami g…