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There will be hundreds of "appreciation" pieces during the next few days memorializing the life and work of Stephen Sondheim who died Friday at the age on 91. There will be tens of thousands…
Secretly, we wonder if we could be heroic in real life, whether we could find the courage to risk our lives to protect or rescue someone else. The question is at the heart of Michael McKeeve…
Despite two of the finest performances in what already has been a surprisingly benchmark season so far in South Florida, the most memorable player in Theatre Lab's superb To Fall In Love is …
Middletown is a charming, comfortable evening at Actors Playhouse, sitting around a living room with genial middle-class couples (Loretta Swit, Didi Conn, Adrian Zmed and Donny Most) telling…
GableStage's Joseph Adler died shortly after his direction of The Price was cut short by the pandemic. His successor, Bari Newport, took his notes, cast, creative team and infuses it with h…
The protagonists' primary fear in Lungs -- bringing a child into an environmentally crumbling world and an economy in freefall " is secondary to the challenging script's focus: examining the…
Lots of news here as the theater season heats up in South Florida: Over the long weekend of Nov. 10-14, there are TEN shows opening across the region and four still running: dramas, comedies…
Reading today's headlines about corruption, you wonder not so much the why of weakness for the lure of power, but the process of how it happens. Kenneth Lin's Warrior Class, enjoying an inci…
It seems fitting that Broadway Across America marks its return to the Broward Centerwith the Tony and Olivier Award winning musical Come From Away that honors themes of community, perseveran…
Noël Coward meant to write a full tome on "Theatre" but time, health and a score of other projects apparently got in the way. But Barry Day, a stage producer, biographer of literary figur…
PPTOPA's earnest, merely passable production of Cabaret is notable for a few solid performances, but especially for the resonating script by Joe Masteroof which, decade after decade, becomes…
As you read this, no matter the time zone, country or phase of the moon, it's playing somewhere, in this case an inarguably competent production at The Wick Theatre. Even those of us who hav…
The "horror" in Zoetic Stage's Frankenstein shares little kinship with the film monster with bolts in his neck terrorizing the countryside or even the 1818 novel of science gone wrong. But a…
Jason Robert Brown's brilliantly insightful and emotionally powerful Songs for a New World lets you know you're not going crazy all alone in Slow Burn Theatre's season opener that would be a…
What better way to mark the return of live, in-person theater than to celebrate the major role that an audience's imagination plays in this unique art form? In fact, the professional, nonpro…
The Twentieth Century Way creates intersecting, overlapping realities in Island City Stage's celebration of its 10th season by restaging its 2012 inaugural play. This thought-provoker melds …
The premise: A white director leads a multi-ethnic cast in a production of Midsummer's Night as an answer to charges of institutional racism in society. But with wry humor and painfully inci…
Theater isn't just coming back to life, it's emerging in a score of ways. Here's a sampling of opening nights, fundraisers, new venues, even a call for ushers. News about Miami New Drama, Ma…
Broad changes to the Carbonell Awards, designed to assuage a theatrical community whose love-hate relationship has exacerbated in recent years, were detailed Monday. Many changes reflect a r…
The show will go on for South Florida theater, but 2021-2022 will be a season of asterisks, what ifs and when. In a three-part series, we talk to artistic and managing directors about why th…
The show will go on for South Florida theater, but 2021-2022 will be a season of asterisks, what ifs and when. In a 3-part series, we talk to artistic and managing directors about awhy this …
The show will go on for South Florida theater, but 2021-2022 will be a season of asterisks, what ifs and when. In a three-part series, we talk to artistic directors and managing directors ab…
The 2021 Remy Awards honoring those who provide outstanding service behind the scenes to the region's theater community were announced this week by the South Florida Theatre League. The live…
Major changes for the Carbonell Awards honoring excellence in South Florida theater will be unveiled Monday at a town hall meeting live and online will reveal a new team of judges, a new jud…
The Broward Center in Fort Lauderdale and the Arsht Center in Miami will require all audience members to provide proof of a negative COVID test or proof of full vaccination to be admitted to…