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Zoetic Stage's Mlima's Tale is a theatrically-lush indictment of illegal ivory trafficking and shared responsibility for the slaughter of animals, not so much for the artistic trinkets that …
Unabashed charm is not a quality one associates with modern musicals, but it is the predominant and reasonably satisfying virtue if you take the Wick Theatre's time machine back 61 years to …
Don't feed the plants! Once again, nebbishy Seymour just won't listen, so we get another evening of wackiness in Slow Burn Theatre's edition of Little Shop of Horrors.
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A love of language and a love of theatricality meld in Thinking Cap Theatre's ingeniously staged re-interpretation of The Importance of Being Oscar, a celebration of Oscar Wilde. The trio of…
Sometimes, the worthwhile reason to see Palm Beach Dramaworks' mounting of 4000 Miles, the satisfying treat is watching the vibrating depiction by up-and-comer Gabriell Salgado of a deeply …
The energetic, sexy Six definitely delivers the royal treatment"a lively score, strong singing and a can't miss story. And the opening night audience at the Broward Center were more than rea…
One of the great truisms of human nature is that often our greatest opponent is ourselves. So while the drama The Opponent is set in a boxing ring where an young fighter and his trainer spar…
A significantly corrected list of 2021-22 Carbonell Awards nominations was released Monday encompassing added nominees, removed nominees, substitutions and recalculations from the list distr…
An unintended resonance echoes in Empire Stage's production of Misery that Stephen King likely did not quite foresee. In a world where some people steadfastly, even violently believe whateve…
Patricia Conolly is one of the most prolific actresses you've likely never heard of. But you've very likely seen her: 3 times as Blanche, 1 as Stella, 2 as Hedda, 16 Shakespearean heroines…
A familiar slate of names and talents have been announced as recipients for the newly reconfigured Silver Palm Awards celebrating honoring South Florida theater artists. As with last year, a…
Main Street Players' version of Suzan-Lori Parks' Topdog/Underdog rewards the patient patron is watching a slow-motion shattering of two brothers struggling with institutionalized racism, po…
So Allison Gregory's Red Riding Hood is a delightful hoot in which Theatre Lab has mounted a production meant to enrapture young theatergoers, but also liberally peppered with jokes, asides …
Savor an unqualified success with playwright-actor Ronnie Larsen's The Actors. Copious laughs dominate a seemingly silly sit-com situation, but they recede (though never disappear) as the hu…
An array of artists and administrators who have helped build South Florida into a nationally-recognized regional theater hub will receive the Carbonell Awards' highest honors this fall. Amon…
Bent deserves honor for putting recognizable human beings amid Hitler's decimation of homosexuals during the Holocaust " and re-reminding the public of this horror. But rising above the gend…
I am begging every critic colleague, everyone who has seen Actors' Playhouse's Now and Then to NOT give away anything! One of the many pleasures in this drama laced with humor is watching th…
Fade predictably indicts talent succumbing to ambition, but what's special is how the verbally intense script infuses an insider's incisive depiction of a diversity within modern Latinx life…
Area Stage's Giancarlo Rodaz's visionary, deeply moving new production is still Beauty and the Beast, but it's as radical a restaging as John Doyle's Sweeney Todd.
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Miami-Dade County's long-aborning plan to resurrect the historic Coconut Grove Playhouse is once again underway at full throttle after navigating a complex maze of legal challenges that ende…
More current than the classic AIDS plays written three decades ago, Donja R. Love's 'one in two' examines the challenges of with HIV-positive when talk shows have ads for pills that make the…
Eytan Deray's courageous world premiere Educating Asher at Empire Stage " courageous not only because it has been drawn from the marrow of his being as playwright, but courageous because he …
Main Street Players struggles bravely to conquer Lee Blessing's satire on race and privilege in Black Sheep, but stumbles on tonal uncertainty. and fails to reach the script's potential.
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So when the political player at the center of a 1978 musical is a conscienceless, ambitious, charismatic and manipulative "populist" with a media background, 2022 audiences should be forgive…
A raft of country classics are interspersed in this clear-eyed yet affectionate bio-musical Hank Williams: Lost Highway at Actors Playhouse tracking the rise and collapse of the music legend…
