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Grease certainly is the word as the classic rock 'n' roll musical glides its way into a solid staging as the first joint production of MNM Theatre Company, North End Theater Company, and the…
Blessed with a glorious score and soaring arias, you would think that André Previn's take on A Streetcar Named Desire would be a triumph as Florida Grand Opera's first major production in t…
For older audiences who see the number of expensive pills they take each morning magically multiply over the years, the wicked satire of Big Pharma in the otherwise romantic comedy Rx is wel…
The celebration of love in many permutations " from first connections to farewells " swirls around the stage like the snow and the aurora borealis lights in Palm Beach Dramaworks' gentle, so…
There is a fifth crucial performer not mentioned in the playbill for Palm Beach Dramaworks' upcoming production of "Almost, Maine." High above the residents on a chilly Friday night in late …
The concepts of home and homeland"especially when they are no longer the same place" have become even more complicated in the 21st Century for Cuban-Americans highlighted in Hannah Benitez' …
Joining dozens of companies locally and across the country hoping a delay will outlast the worst of the surge, Theatre Lab has postponed its premiere of Last Night in Inwood slated for Feb. …
Sometimes, all we want is to just sit in a chair and be entertained by full-throated singers, appealing actors, solid dancing and a script that offers more than a few laughs. That sheer ente…
Described as two CAT5 hurricanes striking at the same time, the Covid spike has dealt the Maltz Jupiter Theatre serious blows including cancelling one big-budget musical Sweet Charity becaus…
The calendars in South Florida theater are being written in pencil"with  erasers. Regional theaters are forging through the Covid spike with no panic and limited public fuss, but with a t…
The big, emotion-charged music of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel welcomes audience, actors and artists back to Riverside Theatre in Vero Beach.
The post A Lush and Lovely Carousel Opens …
In this fourth or fifth reconnection with the glee-filled and glee-inducing musical comedy Hairspray, a truly apt term, what surfaced at the national tour's all too brief bow at the Arsht Ce…
If Dickens' opening line in A Tale of Two Cities has become a trite cliché through overuse it has become a painfully accurate truism about theater over the past two years, especially South …
Time as well as the pandemic have robbed the South Florida theater community of so many beloved and respected colleagues. The loss in 2020-2021 was not only to fellow artists, but to the pat…
In the wake of several cast or crew members testing positive for Covid, Miami New Drama has cancelled its performances for A Wonderful World until resuming Dec. 29, the company confirmed Wed…
Put aside the messages of acceptance, being comfortable in your own skin, family bonds and making your own path, Slow Burn Theatre gifts audiences with the sheer entertainment in its Kinky B…
Avi Hoffman is ensuring that proper homage is paid to Joe Papp, the visionary who intersected art and community by making theater accessible to the general public in comprehensibility, neigh…
In these difficult times, sometimes all you want, all you need is a good ol' Big Broadway Musical Comedy with a rousing score, enthusiastic performers, an unabashedly uplifting message and a…
There are stunning actors in this premiere A Wonderful World, breath-taking choreography and visuals in this life of jazz legend Louis Armstrong as he navigates a racist world and his own fa…
For all of us who have seen 17 too many editions of A Christmas Carol, City Theatre gifts us a joy-inducing riff on Charles Dickens' public domain property, the gospel according to Jacob Mar…
Few an resist feisty, foul-mouthed septuagenarians such as Helen Wheeler because, well, we do not normally expect a woman in her 70's to tackle someone into submission, or use a blowtorch to…
There's nothing especially wrong with Boca Stage's The Unremarkable Death of Marilyn Monroe, certainly not with the admirably tireless, skillful efforts of Leah Sessa or Keith Garsson. But i…
Theater is often political: but sometimes, like The People Downstairs, Michael McKeever's harrowing world premiere at Palm Beach Dramaworks, the relevancy of the Dutch people hiding the Anne…
This is not a traditional review because we saw the world premiere of Nilo Cruz's latest play Hotel Desiderium at its fifth sold-out performance Nov. 21 at Arca Images, that late because it …
The creation of a musical always contains more drama than what ends up on the stage. But then there is the anguish and celebration that commandeered the pre-virus birth and now this winter's…
