You don't have to know that Sondheim and Webber share the same birthday to adore the broad send-up of musical comedy tropes melded with an equally wicked spoof of Shakespeare in PPTOPA's Som…
Sometimes all you want out of an evening of theater is not Lear or Seurat. But just fun. Escapist laughter-laden fun. Dovetailing with the re-opening of the Maltz Jupiter Theatre, the daffy …
Some of the hottest ticket titles on Broadway right now will be within driving distance next season as the Broadway Across America tours stop off in Miami and Fort Lauderdale: Six, Hamilton,…
Slow Burn Theatre Company's Matilda is a lesson in theater education, showing how a regional director takes a successful Broadway show and road tour and makes it his own highly entertaining …
Buckle up if you're attending the world premiere run of Overactive Letdown at Theatre Lab as a new mother spirals out of control in a harrowing descent into madness. Crumbling under the post…
The comedy-drama Ben Butler was meant to explore race relations when it was first produced in 2014. But this tale about a runaway slave seeking refuge on the cusp of the Civil War has taken…
Tennessee Williams' Suddenly Last Summer presents a considerable challenge for theaters to pull off with its quirky characters, its quirkier premise and its total abandonment of theatricaliz…
Some of the most skilled theater artists in the region deliver a gloriously funny and moving celebration of the work of the finest musical theater genius of the 20th and 21st Century in Zoet…
A sea of unmasked faces at FGO's opening Saturday signaled South Florida theaters on the cusp of relaxing restrictions, some only for certain productions and some cautiously gingerly peerin…
Time changes how we view classic works: In this edition of Rigoletto at Florida Grand Opera, the title "villain" who gets his comeuppance at the end of this revenge tragedy seems for more wo…
No doubt most critics will try to weave in the title or lyrics of "Let It Go" in their reviews of the Broadway Across America production of the Disney's Frozen at the Broward Center. Instead…
If you're expecting Miami New Drama's world premiere When Monica Met Hillary to be some D.C. spin on an Andy Cohen catfight, you're going to be disappointed. Playwright Winter Miller, direct…
You may never view crossword puzzles the same way again after watching Jerry Mayer's romantic, touching, and hilarious character-driven comedy, 2 Across. Fortunately, the Ft. Lauderdale-base…
Gulfshore Playhouse in Naples has used dependable artistic vision and generous patronage to defy the economic m breaking ground on a $60 million venue and being admitted to the League of Res…
Shattering. Penetrating. Upsetting. Only a few of the adjectives elicited by Claudia Rankine's drama The White Card at GableStage, a searing if polemic evening cross-examining progressive wh…
Social workers face tragedies in which there may be no satisfying solutions and in which the warring parties truly want "what's best for the child." Those dilemmas echo larger questions in w…
Bruce Graham's world premiere The Duration developed at Palm Beach Dramaworks is an intellectually and emotionally powerful drama rooted deep in a post 9/11 world, but also in a timeless inq…
MNM Theatre Company's Sister Act, is a work that you may not have taken to the first time or two, but can surprise you when a company invests freshness, energy and skill. You see it as if it…
The moment after the house lights go down at Actors Playhouse, there's a percussive warmup of Latin beat and then the auditorium explodes with a blinding almost deafening assault of light, s…
The art of acting " alternately glorious and mundane " is celebrated in the Maltz Jupiter Theatre's return to live production after 700 days with Paul Rudnick's delightfully comical I Hate H…
For the majority of white Americans, the word "colonialism" is an abstract term usually confined to college history courses. But in Layon Gray's consciousness-expanding new drama The Dahome…
Bio-jukebox musicals hinges on the strength of the music and the audience's connection. Music takes you back to where you were and who you were. The exuberant production of Ain't Too Proud: …
A nerdy teenager struggling with being an outsider takes a pill with a dangerous computer that advises him on dealing with high school hell in Area Stage Company's intriguing but flawed sci-…
Get yourself down to where Slow Burn is delivering a gift you'll prize for a long time to come: Once On This Island is a glorious evening of storytelling and song, myth and magic infused wit…
Armature premiering at Island City Stage explores racism, politics, homosexuality, marital relations in tale suffused with humor and tragedy. The deeply committed work of the cast, co-direc…