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The din of cheering, hollering teenagers exploding Tuesday wasn't to applaud the appearance of a hip-hop celeb. Instead, the tumult in the Broward Center recognized excellence in 25 public …
War Paint is primarily an opportunity to savor two of Broadway's reigning divas Ms. Patti Lupone and Ms. Christine Ebersole commanding the stage with overwhelming power in volume and skill. …
Trump may have paraded his demeaning objectification of women by using the word pussy, but it's a word celebrated over and over in Thinking Cap Theatre's production of Collective Rage, A Pla…
Thinking Cap Theatre is presenting the Southeastern premiere of Jen Silverman's Collective Rage: A Play In Five Betties, a timely tale of feminism echoing last winter's women's march on Wash…
Damaged by yet another homogenized film version of Rodgers & Hammerstein's work, few think of The King and I as a piece deeply focused on incipient feminism, international politics and …
So much news: GableStage and Zoetic Stage announcing their new season with titles like The Humans and Fun Home, MNM announces partnership with the Kravis, Conundrum Stages returns to tour. E…
Revelation after revelation " none of which the playwright wants us to spoil " are exposed like the proverbial peeling of an onion until the underlying secret lays naked in the world premier…
Broward Stage Door's production of the musical Nine, based on Fellini's 8 1/2, is a fine evening of exuberant music and even more soaring voices.
Opera is all about technique, spotlighting it, honoring it, celebrating it. So when Florida Grand Opera took on one of the most demanding works in the entire canon, Verdi's A Masked Ball, it…
A worn-out Hillary Clinton balked at putting on makeup before her first major address since the election. An alien queen who owns a pop-up bar came to claim its dead lounge singer. One play…
Matilda the Musical, with a national tour that's made a stop at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts in Fort Lauderdale, may star a cadre of kids, but it is no Annie. I say that in the…
(The following is an updated review from 2012 plus a feature story written about this same production's original visit to the Arsht four years ago. Most of the cast is the same, but se…
Beehive, yet another innocuous transitorily entertaining revue tracing music sung by women through the 1960s, highlights, intentionally or not, one trenchant observation. The same early Baby…
If American Idol produced a Broadway musical with choreography often found behind a diva in a stadium tour, the result would resemble Slow Burn Theatre Company's production of Aida. The resu…
In Waiting For Godot, that classic of the Theater of the Absurd, nothing is more absurd than Man's insistent search for some meaning in life. In Evening Star Productions' courageous run at t…
There have been few musicals about a homicidal maniac. As far as peppy musical comedies with the accent on comedy, there's only been one about a schizophrenic serial killer, No Way To Treat …
Jordan Harrison's Marjorie Prime at Main Street Players posits 21st Century technology giving people a chance to say what was left unsaid, to finish unfinished business. The insightful scrip…
Just about two years after Island City Stage premiered Michael McKeever's Daniel's Husband and it currently playing off Broadway, Island City Stage takes on another world premiere play that …
The future of the 24-Hour Theatre Project " a popular fund-raiser that cemented the theater community's solidarity " seemed endangered when its founders, the Amadeos, announced they would be…
All the winners, nominees and statistics for the 41st anniversary Carbonell Awards presented Monday.
Michael McKeever, a beloved and prolific figure in local theater, set a record Monday when he won his eighth Best New Work at Monday's Carbonell Awards for the scorching drama After, but he …
Palm Beach Dramaworks' production of Arcadia is Tom Stoppard's love letter to the miracle of human intelligence's pursuit of learning -- with a gentle jab at the hubris of those who are so t…
Zoetic Stage's brilliantly-executed bravura production of Harold Pinter's 1960 The Caretaker may be as baffling as Waiting For Godot. But every element of this comic drama is superb from act…
Niki Fridh gives a tour de force performance under Nicole Stodard's direction in Grounded at Thinking Cap Theatre
When idea-hungry audiences at Palm Beach Dramaworks who have cheered Ionesco and Albee are faced with something less challenging, some complain to Producing Artistic Director William Hayes t…
