It's grossly unfair to expect an actor to impersonate an icon who remains vivid in the audience's memory, but watching the most recent incarnation of Rupert Holmes' biographical Say Goodnigh…
Twyla Tharp's surrogates in Come Fly Away effortlessly swirl and slide across the stage like you think you do in your dreams " and to sound of Sinatra yet, crooning "The Way You Look Tonight…
Frequent theatergoers approach productions of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat with fatigue. So it's heartening to report that the latest edition by Actors Playhouse is a playful…
Torture, vengeance and morality take center stage in Death and the Maiden, a suspenseful thriller now receiving a riveting production at Mosaic Theatre in Plantation.
The cruel irony is that The Unseen, the last show before The Promethean Theatre closes its doors forever, is one of the finest productions that the company has mounted in its eight-year hist…
Playwright Djanet Sears has crafted an intriguing contemplation of the intersection of the macro issue of race on the micro-dynamics of an individual marriage in Harlem Duet. But Sears' insi…
Shorts Stuff Want a peek at some of the 10-minute plays under consideration for City Theatre's annual Summer Shorts program? Joseph Adler is hosting a reading at 7 p.m. Monday of some of the…
With its flights of imagination " literally, since the hero imagines himself soaring -- Billy Elliot, The Musical is a triumph of theatrical staging. If this road tour at the Broward Center…
Actors Playhouse's 2012-2013 season will feature something old, something new, something you may have heard of but likely never seen, and something only the playwright's mother is aware of …
The bond between two friends is tested by their own morality and betrayal in A Steady Rain by Keith Huff, now making in southeastern premiere at GableStage in Coral Gables. Together,actors G…
By Michelle F. Solomon When Grammy-winning composer Stephen Schwartz (Godspell, Wicked, Pippin) first adapted Studs Terkel’s 1974 book Working for Chicago’s Goodman Theatre it wa…
In the sense that economics are the root cause, observers might group The Promethean Theatre's imminent closing with the high profile problems plaguing other South Florida theaters during th…
There's no taking your eyes off of Kathleen Turner for a minute as she commands the stage in Matthew Lombardo's addiction-focused play High. While the star vehicle has some fairly unexceptio…
In the sense that economics are the root cause, observers might group The Promethean Theatre's imminent closing with the high profile problems plaguing other South Florida theaters during th…
Kathleen Turner doesn't shy from acknowledging that her devotion to the play High, a harrowing look at the world of addiction, is somewhat rooted in her own battle with alcoholism. "I think …
Initially, it's impossible to ignore that 15-year-old actor J.P. Viernes leaping and soaring through the musical Billy Elliot is not a typical youngster in a downtrodden unsophisticated mini…
Mad Cat Theatre Company's Paul Tei, Alliance Theatre Lab's Mark Della Ventura and The Project [theatre], all known for their edgy approach and Gen X/Y/Z-oriented material, are featured in fr…
This edition of My Fair Lady at Broward Stage Door is a disappointing muddle other than a few adequate performances under the direction of the usually reliable Michael Leeds. The first two t…
It was surreal even by theater standards: Michael Lombardo's drama about addiction High had broken box office records in its world premiere at Hartford's TheaterWorks. And here they were, on…
This essay was written as a playwright's note for his play High, opening this week at the Parker Playhouse.
Theater Shelf, a recurring feature, will review recently-released books, CDs and DVDs of interest to theater lovers. Some will be popular titles like a new Original Cast Recording, others wi…
Onesies, short plays by David Michael Sirois and Mark Della Ventura, will provide the centerpiece of a fund raiser for the Alliance Theatre Lab, hosted at GableStage at 7:30 p.m., Monday, Ma…
Art as an ennobling sanctification for both the artist and the observer whose interpretation completes the symbiotic circle is just one of a dozen themes swirling around Palm Beach Dramawork…
Red, John Logan's illumination of art and artists now at the Maltz Jupiter Theatre, is so insanely popular (50 productions licensed this season across the country; six in Florida) that snobs…
The bank holding the mortgages on the Caldwell Theatre Company's building has filed a foreclosure complaint and asked the Palm Beach County Circuit Court to appoint a receiver to manage the …