Attention to detail in each element of New City Players' Raisin in the Sun makes it truly spectacular on every level, and that especially goes for the directing and the acting.
There's the tradition of Fiddler on the Roof, and then there's the tradition of the musical itself. It's a difficult task, this dual tradition of Fiddler on the Roof to carry it through in …
The premise of Every Brilliant Thing might fool you into thinking that it's kin to a "very special" Lifetime Movie of the Week: a boy tries to ease the pain of his suicidal mother and his o…
Blonde Poison asks whether a Jewish woman who identified about 3,000 other Jews to the Gestapo for "deportation," is "villain or victim?" But playwright Gail Louw, Primal Forces director Kei…
Riverside Theatre serves up the sentimentality with a ladle in its production of The Last Romance. The play concerns a trio of senior citizens struggling with loneliness, delving into the hu…
The dominating vision of The Tree and its dark violent past is a theatrical masterstroke from writer-director Layon Gray that opens a stirring Meet Me At The Oak, posting yet another strong …
Although We Will Not Be Silent is suffused with a long dorm night's worth of philosophical and moral gymnastics, playwright David Meyers and Theatre Lab inject the audience so deeply into su…
Frank Wildhorn's Jekyll & Hyde is one of those Continental Divides in musical theater: You either love it " or tolerate it. But if you're going to perform a work by the pioneering princ…
Florida Grand Opera does daring works (we're looking forward to the upcoming final two of the season, Frida and Werther), but, to satisfy audiences who prefer to see the familiar, there is c…
When was the last time a musical slipped into your veins and rode your bloodstream for two hours? When did a musical speak so accurately of your own pain and longing that you knew you were n…
Passions erupt as art, commerce and international politics collide and conflict in the world premiere of Carmen Pelaez's intriguing Fake at Miami New Drama. This play centering on a possible…
Dare your adult to take your inner child to see Dance Nation at Thinking Cap Theatre in which adults play teenagers prepping for a competition. Were a prize given out today for Best Ensemble…
One of contemporary theater's most powerful rock operas, Next to Normal, concerns a family dealing with the mother's bipolar disorder. And you have the opportunity to see this Tony Award and…
GableStage's rendering of Paula Vogel's Indecent is freshly distinctive from Rebecca Taichman's New York staging and from the rapturously received version that Palm Beach Dramaworks deliver…
There are probably 27 synonyms for the word funny and 157 familiar tropes. All the words apply and all the classic bits can be found in Actors' Playhouse's farce One Man, Two Guvnors.
Usually, Zoetic Stage's director Stuart Meltzer's deft work is almost invisible to audience members other than bringing a fresh vision to familiar titles. But his masterful work in The Curi…
The Maltz Jupiter Theatre's Mamma Mia! gets its mojo from a strong, consistent cast to carry out the sitcom-esque plot that is held together as if by taffy " twenty 1970s radio hits that are…
If there is one disappointment about the South Florida Symphony's ambitious staging of Porgy and Bess it is that there aren't more opportunities to see the production. The Wilton Manors-base…
Few theatrical challenges are as a daunting as actor taking on an iconic role made unforgettable by an inimitable talent in a career-making performance engraved in the popular consciousness.…
Bette & Barry: From Bathhouse to Broadway at Island City Stage is an imagining of if Midler and Manilow decided to do a concert together. In real pop history, they never have. This revu…
The reliable consistency of quality of some South Florida companies' work was underscored Thursday with the release of the nominations for the 43rd Carbonell Awards honoring excellence durin…
The musical may have been around for decades, but Riverside's triumphant production of Evita proves that the show has a strong universality that rings as loudly today as it did 40 years ago.…
Whether you have seen A Shayna Maidel before, Chicken Coop Theater at Levis JCC Sandler Center does a fine job keeping intact Lebow's touching drama and its very definite Holocaust theme. Bu…
Having Our Say is likely the first play in which both of its characters are centenarian women of color. At Primal Forces' regional premiere, this means two roles of uncommon heft and history…
A celebration of the life of Tony Finstrom, playwright patron and theater lover, is scheduled for Monday, Jan 21 from 7 to 10 p.m. at the Wold Performing Arts Center at Lynn University where…