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By Bill Hirschman The Maltz Jupiter Theatre's almost profligately lush, unflaggingly energetic and totally  winning edition of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat will thankfully…
In what may be the first massive melding of junior thespians and advanced technology, the Maltz Jupiter Theatre's staff has employed cyberspace and digital information to manage the logisti…
By Bill Hirschman In a play comprised primarily of complex insights articulated at the audience for nearly 90 minutes, what many people remember most about GableStage's production of Red is …
Knock on wood, halfway through the run of Lombardi, Ray Abruzzo hasn't lost his voice. Portraying the legendary coach whose booming pitbull voice reflected his full-out approach to everythi…
The fiery politics of 1868 Spain on the eve of a rebellion are nothing compared to the politics of the heart raging in the Florida Grand Opera's season opener, the zarzuela Luisa Fernanda.
New Theater, the Coral Gables troupe losing its current home to a wrecking ball, has moved for the rest of the season to the Roxy Theatre Group near Florida International University's south …
M Ensemble moved into the performance space last June, and makes good use of the comfortable black-box theater for the first presentation of its 40th anniversary season, August Wilson's Radi…
Following the consecutive successes of Brothers Beckett, Fool For Love and 'night mother, this production of Lobby Hero cements Alliance's reputation as a company to go out of your way to t…
The ambitious Thinking Cap Theatre, now in its second season, breathes life into Leah Nanako Winkler's absurdist play about the dog-eat-dog world of high school hierarchy in Death for Sydney…
Mosaic Theatre's Lombardi starring Ray Abruzzo brings an intimacy to the game of football as well humanity to a legend. Don't miss it.
The facile and sophisticated pose would be to sneer at the sentiment and, yes, manipulative facets of the new tour of Disney's Beauty and the Beast gracing the Broward Center for the Perform…
Palm Beach Dramaworks opens its new home with a production with the scope and magnitude of All My Sons, Arthur Miller's first Broadway hit. Directed here by J. Barry Lewis, All My Sons is a…
The Tale of the Allergist's Wife at Boca Raton Theatre Guild might drag a little at first, but the show soars when Patti Gardner, Michael Beecher, Barbara Sloan and Iris Acker are on stage t…
Fund-raising Staged Readings for GableStage and Mosaic Here's an approach you've never seen before: two separate staged readings of the same play to benefit two local theaters. Television an…
While Broward Stage Door's edition of Guys and Dolls has some talented artists named in the playbill, this is no one's best work, to be kind about it. The most glaring problem is that only o…
After a half-century in show business, dancer-director-choreographer Tommy Tune knows the gamut of pre-Broadway tryouts. But the process for 54 Forever that opens tonight is new for him. He …
The Silver Palm Awards, founded four years ago to spotlight theatrical excellence in South Florida, will be presented to 17 individuals on Dec. 5.
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…
