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Lorraine Hansberry'sThe Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window about a liberal couple and their circle in Greenwich Village is an worth seeing (and mounting locally). but acknowledge that it is d…
After a season filled with provocative drama and lavish musicals, Riverside Theatre lets its hair down with Honky Tonk Angels, a juke box musical filled with country music and down-home humo…
Sweeney Todd has rarely been restored to the breathtaking visual scope of that initial production featured, but the current revival is the return of a full-fledged, full-throated, fully-pro…
It's a safe bet that the stage floor has been reinforced and tts speakers upgraded to accommodate the pounding tap dancers and the whirlwind of music pouring out at Some Like It Hot. If you…
On occasions, you run into people who have dismissed seeing plays without having seeing one, people who don't understand the absolutely unique magic of live Theater. Drag them to see Life of…
Palm Beach Dramaworks' immersifying edition of Topdog/Underdog laudably justifies in its delivery, this masterwork has a depth and complexity that gifts each outing with the opportunity to c…
Amid protracted and repeated cheers of a volume rarely heard in the Broward Center for the Performing Arts, hundreds upon hundreds of high school students and their families celebrated the c…
Tracy Jones bowing at Island City Stage is a comedy masking lonely people trying to make connections they don't have the skill to achieve. It's a briskly-moving smile with quirky characters …
Genius and madness. Concrete calculations and unbridled theorizing. Humor and sorrow. But the greatest mysteries depicted in Proof reside in the human heart, conflicts on display that are ha…
Langston Hughes wrote of "a dream deferred" from the elevated promontory of poetry; but the great playwright August Wilson wrote from the street what it was like living through a dream being…
The musical Disenchanted is a highly entertaining, hysterical, irreverent, clever, poignant, profane, with several bits of profanity, reimagining of what happened to these princesses, making…
With music, dance, humor, drama and storytelling,Create Dangerously at Miami New Drama reaffirms the glory and agony of Haiti's tumultuous culture that should resound with Haitian-American i…
Zoetic Stage's #Graced is an episodic road trip veering all over the place in a theatrically metaphorical jalopy bouncing along on a journey for its protagonists to discover who they are per…
As the Wick Theatre's electric production of Million Dollar Quartet powers through the last four numbers, it's easy to imagine that the sun never sets anywhere in the world where this musica…
Is it possible to call the musical Mean Girls sweet, despite the tropes of teenage anxieties, insecurities, cliques and general high school malaise, not to mention the meanest of mean girls …
Main Street Players' unsparing edition of Lynn Nottage's stunning Sweat insightfully tracks the spiraling toilet spin of blue collar workers as economic changes devastate their incomes and t…
The musical One More Yesterday may see it itself as a work progress, but enfold yourself in this humorous, tuneful and heartfelt work, especially to savor Angie Radosh giving yet another sup…
Tru, the play bringing the audience into Truman Capote's living room for a chatty wit-lathered visit at a crucial moment in his life, entertains as Charles Baran evokes the engaging persona …
The past, the present and the future intertwine in a magical dance seasoned with love and guilt in GableStage's outstanding El huracán as three generations of women wrestle with loss and …
Pembroke Pines Theatre of the Performing Arts presents a new vision for the musical Pippin echoing
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By Bill Hirschman Sometimes theater comes to you, washes over you without you having to invest much of yourself, say, something like Wicked. Sometimes you have to come to it, invest not just…
Riverside Theatre's intoxicating production of 42nd Street is as good as it gets -- anywhere. This high-spirited show is awash in entertainment from beginning to end and you'll remain a happ…
Politics, family and revolution"each volatile in their own way"provide the harrowing backdrop for Robby Ramos' debut drama The Walls Have Ears, having its world premiere through May 14 at th…
Embracing the eloquence that only imaginative theatricality can provide, Theatre Lab's Refuge depicts a deeply moving journey through the current immigration crisis viewed not as a political…
It's always commendable to have new theaters with emerging talent start in South Florida, especially when the goal is to feature local performers. Loxen Productions shows potential with its …