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…
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…