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Broward-based Costume World, billed as the largest theatrical costumer distributor in the country, will buy the 16-year-old Broward Stage Door theater in Coral Springs on Nov. 21, according …
Editor's Note: The local season is ramping up so quickly, more than 40 shows this month, that we can't keep reviews posted in the center spot more than a day. Please look for recent reviews …
Captiva is a brilliantly observed, finely etched portrait of the familial ties that bind in every sense of the word. It's also one of the finest works of theater we've seen in the strongest …
All photos courtesy of the Adrienne Arsht Center/Photos by Justin Namon for WorldRedEye.com
The Maltz Jupiter Theatre's The 39 Steps is blessed with a steady procession of sight gags, puns, pratfalls and vaudevillian humor all delivered with enough energy and skill to keep a satisf…
All photos courtesy of the Maltz Jupiter Theatre
Jerry Orbach, Prince of the City: His Way from The Fantasticks to Law and Order by John Anthony Gilvey. Hal Leonard Corporation. Theater Shelf, a recurring feature, will review recently-rele…
Christopher Demos-Brown's creative life right now is what a watershed looks like for an emerging American playwright in the early 21st Century. Our Lady of Allapattah bows at the Caldwell Th…
Don and Ann Brown, who donated $2 million toward Palm Beach Dramaworks' new home, pull back the curtain on the newly-renovated marquee bearing their name Wednesday. Workers are cleaning …
Post-show talk back bull sessions between actors and audiences have become a popular way to engage jazzed-up crowds after a performance and cement a relationship between the theater and its …
Famed South Florida theater producer Zev Buffman will become president and CEO of Ruth Eckerd Hall in Clearwater in January, the performing arts center announced last week. Buffman, one of t…
Alliance Theatre Lab had to postpone its first musical, [title of show] slated for next month when two cast members dropped out. But the good news is they are substituting Kenneth Lonergan's…
This droll, tuneful and thoroughly winning burlesque bears little resemblance to the New York corpse whose sole virtue was comic genius Nathan Lane in the lead as Gomez.Taking the show for t…
Doors slam, identities are mistaken and laughter ensues in the classic farce Lend Me a Tenor now getting a delightful production at Broward Stage Door Theater in Coral Springs.
This paean to hedonism doesn't need a critic's affirmation. It is exactly what it wants to be: big, silly, mindless, nose-thumbing, irreverent fun.
The Caldwell Theatre Company has replaced two of its previously announced shows. The first to go is that perennial favorite mixing drama and comedy, the ever-popular TBA. (They never seem to…
After the Revolution is a smooth, polished, persuasive production -- well acted acted and directed -- that is intellectually stimulating, but the playwright's witty repartee undercuts the em…
Thrill Me isn't an easy undertaking, but the verdict is more than clear; Rising Action Theater's production is must-see thrilling.
It's been a while since we've seen local theater icon Iris Acker on stage except on On Stage With Iris Acker on her BECON TV theater interview program. So it's an occasion worth remar…
Theater lovers trying to avoid the little monsters haunting the neighborhood on Halloween have an option. AirPlayz, a company dedicated to the art of radio drama produced by 2Watts Productio…
So theater is dead? Don't tell the newest kid on the block, the Outré Theatre Company, a regional troupe that describes itself as "unconventional, outrageous and out of the ordinary." The c…
Although she just turned 25, Jackie Rivera s best known locally for a procession of pugnacious characters negotiating late adolescence, but now she has the linchpin role as Emma, the idealis…
Mitzi's Abortion probably won't change anyone's stance on a woman's right to choose, but this production is worth seeing.
By Bill Hirschman There is something inexplicably hilarious about people struggling to master the high technology of operating an automobile. One of the funniest comedy routines of the secon…
The idealized nuclear family is nowhere to be seen here, but playwright A. Rey Pamatmat has put in its place as strong and supportive a family unit as it is bizarre in this quirky productio…