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The Caldwell Theatre's hilarious satire The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity by Kristoffer Diaz sneaks a critical rabbit punch at the solar plexus of society. The milieu of "professional" wr…
With its new edgy production of Cabaret, the Maltz Jupiter Theatre takes an often thrilling left turn into adult, thought-provoking theater that this home of mainstream crowd-pleasers rarely…
In another turn in a deal that has flipped repeatedly, the owners of the Broward Stage Door in Coral Springs announced Tuesday that its sale to Costume World of Broward County has fallen apa…
It's a safe bet that hardly any theatergoer in South Florida will have seen a play like The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity when it opens this week at the Caldwell Theatre Company. After al…
Editor's Note: We're in high theater season when we have three to five openings a week. If you don't find the review you're looking for in the center column, check out the list of recent rev…
Editor's Note: We're in high theater season when we have three to five openings a week. If you don't find the review you're looking for in the center column, check out the list of recent rev…
The first 15 minutes of Infinite Abyss' Snow White Trash is a delightfully zany spoof that imaginatively reinterprets the fairy tale as a crass, royal blue hoot in which Disney's sweet but d…
The truth is many times it is, indeed, a high honor, just to be nominated and this year's Carbonell Awards crop will prove this with a vengeance.
Follies – New Broadway Cast Recording Oh, my! What am I to do now? The 2011 Broadway Revival Cast recording of Follies has just come out on PS Classics and now my “desert island&…
One of the most frustrating evenings in theater is The Mess. One moment, you're moved by ineffable loveliness, the next you're groaning at ham-handed ineptitude. Such is the careening qualit…
The most satisfying spectacle amid all the glitter, spangles and amazing feats at the first matinee of Cirque Dreams Holidaze was the blaze of delight in the face of the little girl in Row K…
Mad Cat Theatre Company is quite right to warn that their new production of Macbeth & the Monster is not children's theater, although children may enjoy the nonsensical anarchy of this …
If Boomers wondered why their parents feared rock 'n' roll, Million Dollar Quartet provides a visceral object lesson of the exhilarating danger, galvanizing defiance and the electrifying se…
In real life, we rarely have the clarity of identifiable watersheds as heroes discover in dramas. But five years from now, you'll likely look back on the past 12 months and recognize not a t…
Rising Action Theatre, one of South Florida's few theaters devoted primarily to gay-themed plays, is closing mid-season; but some staffers plan to replace it next fall with a new company, Is…
A flood of emails this month are reminding us that as the calendar year comes end, so do the opportunities to get a tax deduction and do some good for the theater community at the same time.…
In this edition, we talk with Eric Alsford is one of the best-known music directors in South Florida, usually shuttling from one job to another here, in New York and at regional theaters acr…
The very idea that Mad Cat Theatre"the embodiment of edgy, adult fare in South Florida " is doing what some might misclassify as children's theater simply doesn't compute. The explanation is…
If you're on this site, the odds are you're at least a theater fan, and likely a proud theater geek. Our Theater Shelf critic Brad Hathaway has been compiling the cream of the current crop o…
With such irresistible raw material as the Irving Berlin songbook, Broward Stage Door's production of I Love a Piano can't help but be mildly entertaining and this edition finally emits infe…
And in his current tour de force in the comical and touching Jacob Marley's Christmas Carol at Actors' Playhouse, Ken Clement reaffirms his ability to single-handedly mesmerize an audience. …
The Caldwell Theatre Company is offering a rare look behind the scenes Wednesday Dec. 14Â during a free open house from 1 to 8 p.m. that will feature backstage tours of the facility, perf…
In his current tour de force in the comical and touching Jacob Marley's Christmas Carol at Actors' Playhouse, Ken Clement reaffirms his ability to single-handedly mesmerize an audience.Both …
The SantaLand Diaries is a holiday tale " not a warm inspiring morality fable for Christmas, but a harrowing if hilarious horror story for Halloween.
In Zoetic Stage's production, the sat…
Don't go looking for the sassy charming movie Shrek in its musical incarnation now appearing in the Broadway Across Miami tour at the Arsht Center for one week only.
Streaks of imaginatio…
