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Love Never Dies is a sequel if not the equal to Phantom of the Opera from Broadway Across America at the Broward Center, but Andrew Lloyd Webber's attempt for lightning to strike twice, whil…
David Arisco has directed Evita for Actors' Playhouse three times. So, what's different this go 'round? Well, to hear him tell it, the Andrew Lloyd Webber-Tim Rice musical, written four deca…
Maltz Jupiter Theatre's season-opening rendition of Born Yesterday can't pave over the script's glaring weaknesses, but it amplifies the source material's progressive strengths. Director Pet…
From its upbeat tunes to soulful longings, Hank Williams: Lost Highway takes Riverside Theatre audiences on a revealing musical story about one of America's most important country singers.
Amazingly, in 2017 with its video games, alt right-antifa strife and uber-sophistication, Our Town is still our town. And no more so than in Miami New Drama's inventive and often touching pr…
Right off the bat, Broward Stage Door's Tickling the Ivories shows the artistry of the piano wizards and of the inventiveness of a show that turns the typical musical revue theme on its ear.
The South Florida Silver Palm Theatre Awards, founded ten years ago to honor theatrical excellence in South Florida, has announced the identities of the 28 individuals and organizations rece…
With genuine uncertainty of how successfully it will play, Miami New Drama artistic director Michel Hausmann keeps calling his unique undertaking "an experiment."
He's mounting Our Town w…
Tarzan: The Stage Musical, by regional theater troupe Slow Burn Theatre plays just fine in the smaller, almost 600-seat Amaturo Theater at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts, but, tr…
The Wick Theatre's marvelous and contemplative rendition pulls off The Drowsy Chaperone with boundless charm and effortless sophistication. The Wick has enjoyed its share of highlights over …
Lizzie: The Musical, is making its highly entertaining South Florida debut at Thinking Cap Theatre at The Vanguard. Part of that is due to the snappy lyrics. But mostly it's because of the f…
Greed"that timeless vice that steamrolls over everything in its path"is as relevant today as it was in Lillian Hellman's 1939 drama The Little Foxes, now receiving a sumptuous revival at Pal…
The Mighty Gents is a poignant moving tale worthy of a Greek tragedy except that the protagonists are members of a street gang from the mid-1960s, emotionally, economically and sociologicall…
Greed. Sexism. Conscienceless businessmen. Blackmail. Rebellious youth. Women fighting to break the glass ceiling. Women using sex to manipulate men. Bank embezzlement. Even murder. No, not …
In a bit of serendipitous synchronicity with the sequel of Blade Runner and the reboot of Westworld, Primal Forces' production of The Good Girl explores the complexities of humans creating c…
Perhaps you've seen The Sound of Music once too often. But if you have fond memories that seek reawakening or if you have never seen it on stage as opposed to the film, this is an enthusiast…
For a show that shattered a ceiling in 1983, La Cage aux Folles has become a warhorse in 2017. MNM Productions' edition embraces the spangles, glitz and sheer Jerry Herman of it all. So if y…
GableStage's production of The Humans is like watching a Kmart photo department family portrait that has been left too near a wall heater. Almost imperceptibly, the edges start to brown, the…
Joy suffused the house on the "opening night" of the national tour of On Your Feet! the bio-musical about Emilio and Gloria Estefan. Part of the palpable elation pouring both ways across the…
Gloria and Emilio Estefan once again are bringing it back home. The national tour of On Your Feet!, an autobiographical Broadway musical powered by their iconic songbook, will open this week…
City Theatre's production of Building the Wall opens with audio of then-candidate Donald Trump spewing some of his more incendiary anti-immigration rhetoric. The first line has yet to be spo…
Conjuring the lowbrow folderol of an early 20th century burlesque, Steve Martin's adaptation of this 1910 German sex comedy Underpants performed by Main Street Players is all too quaint for …
An Octoroon is the kind of art that defies a Siskel & Ebert thumbs up / thumbs down assessment. You can praise or fault elements of the script or a production, but Area Stage Company's …
In what is believed to be a groundbreaking move, Palm Beach Dramaworks and GableStage plan a co-production of the acclaimed Broadway play Indecent to be next fall.
A quarter-century on, the temptation is to r reinterpret Oleanna, David Mamet's incendiary screed about toxic relations between men and women. But Evening Star Productions' rendition in 2017…