If you're younger than Boomers and wonder what it felt like seeing a musical in the 1950s, or if you're older and you yearn for what you saw in the 1950s, then take full advantage of the tim…
You'll probably love Pretty Woman: The Musical if you adored the 1990 hit movie that launched Julia Roberts' career. The story about a hooker who lands a fabulously rich guy and lives happil…
Designing Broadway, by Derek McLain and Eila Mell, Running Press (Hatchette Book Group), 272 pages; list price $45, $33.20 Amazon, used copies $30. Â By Bill Hirschman As a rule, responsi…
The strength and vulnerability of non-sexual but emotionally intimate friendships are not focuses in 20th Century theater. But in works written by a new generation of playwrights, these rela…
Cemetery Pub, a play in its second production by playwright-actor Tom Dugan at Pigs Do Fly Productions, is a mash-up of multiple genres as three relatives hash out troubled pasts and an unce…
The intense and dense cyclonic swirl of ideas expertly delivered in GableStage's production of Lucas Hnath's A Doll's House Part 2 is the theatrical embodiment of "thought-provoking." This …
Those needing a good hearty laugh will find the right medicine in Riverside Theatre's achingly hilarious production of A Comedy of Tenors. The show is awash with impeccable split-second tim…
The path we take in life and the place we end up " how much of that is a matter of luck, socio-economic circumstance, and how much is a matter of choices ? The insight-laden Good People at t…
If you've got a competent, committed team as the Broadway at series does for 42nd Street, you're nearly guaranteed a rousing gift of pure hallelujah as the love of musical theater grows into…
Part 4 of a 4-part in-depth series tracking South Florida theater's arc of paralysis and pivot through the pandemic and into the future, certainties becoming uncertain, and an unquenched dri…
Part 3 of a 4-part in-depth series tracking South Florida theater's arc of paralysis and pivot through the pandemic and into the future, certainties becoming uncertain, and an unquenched dri…
Part 2 of a 4-part in-depth series tracking South Florida theater's arc of paralysis and pivot through the pandemic and into the future, certainties becoming uncertain, and an unquenched dri…
Part 1 of a 4-part in-depth series tracking South Florida theater's arc of paralysis and pivot through the pandemic and into the future, certainties becoming uncertain, and an unquenched dri…
So much has been written about Wicked"now 20 years on Broadway and making its umpteenth stop in South Florida"it seems like defying gravity to find something fresh to say about this popular …
Part 3 of a 4-part in-depth series tracking South Florida theater's arc of paralysis and pivot through the pandemic and into the future, certainties becoming uncertain, and an unquenched dri…
Area Stage's Giancarlo Rodaz's visionary, deeply moving new production of Beauty and the Beast, a near identical production as it mounted last summer, but with two new leads, is as radical …
Boca Stage's Grand Horizons has A-list cast for an unusual mélange of considerable domestic comedy intersecting with serious themes about aging, dreams deferred and unrequited yearning. The…
M Ensemble Company revives the 1972 award-winning The River Niger capturing a crossroads in Black life in America with a depiction of passionate, intelligent people debating diametrically op…
Part 2 of a 4-part in-depth series tracking South Florida theater's arc of paralysis and pivot through the pandemic and into the future, certainties becoming uncertain, and an unquenched dri…
A newly revised version of the classic musical Peter Pan, plus a bio-musical about Cher, plus a couple shows you've might have heard about Hamilton and Les Misérables are among the offering…
The tour of the musical Tootsie, which makes large changes from the film, isn't a deep show and falls short of scoring points in the battle between the sexes. But it sure is fun. The post Kr…
Part 1 of a 4-part in-depth series tracking South Florida theater's arc of paralysis and pivot through the pandemic and into the future, certainties becoming uncertain, and an unquenched dri…
From Slow Burn Theatre Company's brass-unleashed overture with a live band, to an ebullient cast, to winning music and witty lyrics, this musical version of the film Honeymoon in Vegas is th…
Escape to Margaritaville at Actors' Playhouse accomplishes what its title suggests. Specifically, the show conjures the kind of laid-back escape during which you might sport a hat and sungla…
If the 1920s gave birth to The Lost Generation, then the 2020s saw the taking root of The Trapped Generation. Palm Beach Dramaworks' premiere of Carter W. Lewis' The Science of Leaving Omaha…