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From F-bombs to high-brow discourse, Riverside Theatre's absorbing Bakersfield Mist provokes and expands boundaries of what we know about the power of art and broader meanings of authenticit…
In movies, "ordinary people" facing a dystopian challenge miraculously find courage and composure. We would be more like the extended family slowly coming unglued in Theatre Lab's premiere o…
Is anything as entertaining as watching a pack of scoundrels maneuvering to snatch from each other what isn't theirs to begin with? Puccini certainly thought not, as does composer Michael Ch…
Something old, something new; something borrowed, something blue. Well, not much blue, but Palm Beach Dramaworks, Maltz Jupiter Theatre & Slow Burn Theatre have announced 2023-24 season …
Jon Brittain's prescient, abundantly insightful play Rotterdam at Island City Stage, captures the messy, shattering fallout from gender fluidity for the transgender person as well as their f…
If only for the opportunity to enjoy Aaron Bower inhabiting a role she was born to play, we'd urge you to see the Wick Theatre's revival of the updated Cole Porter musical Anything Goes. Bu…
Ever wondered what a blazing comet looks like a few yards from your face? Visit the Broward Center to catch the national tour of Tina, fa huge fireball smashing through the backwall powering…
True, there's not particularly buff former factory workers stripping down to G-strings, pumping and grinding in a ladies' bar, but The Full Monty is the kind of pleasant mainstream musical …
American Rhapsody, Michael McKeever's sprawling premiere at Zoetic Stage, is a history play, a bildungsroman, a tribute to fluid families, a cautionary tale about where the zeitgeist might b…
It's really unfair to single out anyone in this outstanding ensemble, but Gabriell Salgado " the young local actor whose work over the past 15 months has been stunning " is terrific as the l…
Miami New Drama's triumphant 20-year-anniversary production of Nilo Cruz's Pulitzer-winning Anna in the Tropics., directed by Cruz, enables us to see ourselves and all around us more clearly…
The Maltz Jupiter Theatre's Sweet Charity is a thorughly well-produced and inarguably entertaining time machine back to when the musical was created in 1966 and when the cutting-edge dance …
The drama Anna in the Tropics, about a family of Cuban-American cigar makers in Ybor City near Tampa in 1929, has now turned 20, and Miami New Drama is presenting a production directed by i…
Evil thrives when good people, normal people, do nothing. This banality of evil provides the crux of playwright David Meyers' incisive play We Will Not Be Silent, receiving a bold, powerful …
Time alone often brings out moments of self-doubt; of deep, endless grief; questions of what ifs and should haves that crop up in the middle of the night"so skillfully explored in Boca Stage…
With its soul-stirring theme ," the musical Man of La Mancha is the ideal choice for Riverside Theatre to reflect on how it has triumphed over adversity.This abundantly satisfying production…
D.T. Max got Stephen Sondheim to reveal glimpses of his work process in five "interviews" but clearly, Max is almost as crucial, at least to him, for what's in this book as what Sondheim say…
Quite a come back year: World premieres, epic musicals, moving two-character dramas, you name it. Here's not so much a "best of the year" list " no such list can be reliable or complete " bu…
It has been said that this New York production of Into the Woods merging heart, humor, energy and imagination is better than the original. But that's not the case; it is it's own vision exec…
A hallmark of Slow Burn Theatre Company is its knack in finding new, mostly young talent and shaping those performers' creativity. That approach"and this current round of talent"are on full …
Leopoldstadt's breathtaking scene of a family's debate whether to flee the Third Reich -- ended by a knock on the door -- is only one facet in Tom Stoppard's borderline masterpiece that trac…
In Aesop's Fable-ous Christmas Tree at Main Street Players, Aesop's fables receive a holiday spin in vignettes illuminating important life lessons by reinventing the classic fables. Humor, r…
Charm bubbles throughout the Wick Theatre's lush production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella, a very 21st Century riff on the classic musical that can legitimately be promoted as ente…
A baker's dozen actors we've seen in myriad roles over the past decade or more submerge themselves so deeply in their characters that they are nearly unrecognizable. An unequalled assemblage…
A tattoo of a sea serpent is playwright Lucas Hnath's damning metaphor for the grip of ambition to the point that betrayal of anyone is an accepted expedient in the scathing Red Speedo from…
