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By Bill Hirschman Editor’s Note: This story is evolving and we will have more details as the day progresses) The Women's Theatre Project has postponed the rest of its 2012 season becau…
Hello, my name is Peter R. Hirschman, and as a StageBill extra treat to our readers I'm providing an "othersider's" view of the Actors Playhouse's production of Next to Normal now playing at…
Rigoletto is the third Florida Grand Opera production this season with much to admire, even a few moments of technical artistry that you can describe as thrilling. But it's admiration from a…
Avi Hoffman's performance as a troubled writer, struggling to deal with success but escape his past, is one of the virtues in the promising but flawed inaugural offering from Parade Producti…
'Tis the Season Pembroke Pines Theater of the Performing Arts has roughed out its 2012-2013 season, although exact dates are still being finalized. The company will present the musical Annie…
Say what you will about artifice and overheated emoting, few art forms other than Harlequin novels can touch opera for depicting idealized love. What fascinates about Florida Grand Opera's p…
Slow Burn Theatre's production of Urinetown the Musical marks another milestone in the young troupe's evolution as a reliable purveyor of edgy, offbeat musical theater that few other mainstr…
Book-learning and collegiate productions provide theater students the basics of the craft they hope to follow, but The Promethean Theatre is providing Nova Southeastern University students w…
Yet, Snoopy! The Musical at Area Stage, the second of two musicals derived from the popular comic strip, Peanuts, just doesn't have the same pedigree. Its songs are repetitive, its character…
Son Gabe (Eddy Rioseco) and husband Dan (Mark Sanders) vie for the sanity of Diana (Jodie Langel) in next to normal / Photo by Alberto Romeu Editor's Note: We're in high theater season when …
Teo Castellanos' NE 2nd Avenue at the Arsht Center, funny and profound literally at the same time, is a sociological-anthropological field trip as if Castellanos was a hip-hop Margaret Mead…
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Love, Loss and What I Wore at the Parker Playhouse is a gently funny and knowing celebration of clothing not as fashion per se, but as talismans, totems and souvenirs that instantly summon a…
Boeing Boeing is a 1962 farce with doors that slam, swing, shut slowly, burst open in ones, twos and probably threes. Promethean Theatre and its house director Margaret M. Ledford, benter ne…
By Bill Hirschman For those who like to read fortunes in tea leaves, the annual Carbonell Award nominations announced Sunday night provide plenty of seeming portents to extrapolate before th…
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.
