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Part 3 of a 4-part in-depth series tracking South Florida theater's arc of paralysis and pivot through the pandemic and into the future, certainties becoming uncertain, and an unquenched dri…
Part 2 of a 4-part in-depth series tracking South Florida theater's arc of paralysis and pivot through the pandemic and into the future, certainties becoming uncertain, and an unquenched dri…
Part 1 of a 4-part in-depth series tracking South Florida theater's arc of paralysis and pivot through the pandemic and into the future, certainties becoming uncertain, and an unquenched dri…
So much has been written about Wicked"now 20 years on Broadway and making its umpteenth stop in South Florida"it seems like defying gravity to find something fresh to say about this popular …
Part 3 of a 4-part in-depth series tracking South Florida theater's arc of paralysis and pivot through the pandemic and into the future, certainties becoming uncertain, and an unquenched dri…
Area Stage's Giancarlo Rodaz's visionary, deeply moving new production of Beauty and the Beast, a near identical production as it mounted last summer, but with two new leads, is as radical …
Boca Stage's Grand Horizons has A-list cast for an unusual mélange of considerable domestic comedy intersecting with serious themes about aging, dreams deferred and unrequited yearning.
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M Ensemble Company revives the 1972 award-winning The River Niger capturing a crossroads in Black life in America with a depiction of passionate, intelligent people debating diametrically op…
Part 2 of a 4-part in-depth series tracking South Florida theater's arc of paralysis and pivot through the pandemic and into the future, certainties becoming uncertain, and an unquenched dri…
A newly revised version of the classic musical Peter Pan, plus a bio-musical about Cher, plus a couple shows you've might have heard about Hamilton and Les Misérables are among the offering…
The tour of the musical Tootsie, which makes large changes from the film, isn't a deep show and falls short of scoring points in the battle between the sexes. But it sure is fun.
The post Kr…
Part 1 of a 4-part in-depth series tracking South Florida theater's arc of paralysis and pivot through the pandemic and into the future, certainties becoming uncertain, and an unquenched dri…
From Slow Burn Theatre Company's brass-unleashed overture with a live band, to an ebullient cast, to winning music and witty lyrics, this musical version of the film Honeymoon in Vegas is th…
Escape to Margaritaville at Actors' Playhouse accomplishes what its title suggests. Specifically, the show conjures the kind of laid-back escape during which you might sport a hat and sungla…
If the 1920s gave birth to The Lost Generation, then the 2020s saw the taking root of The Trapped Generation. Palm Beach Dramaworks' premiere of Carter W. Lewis' The Science of Leaving Omaha…
From F-bombs to high-brow discourse, Riverside Theatre's absorbing Bakersfield Mist provokes and expands boundaries of what we know about the power of art and broader meanings of authenticit…
In movies, "ordinary people" facing a dystopian challenge miraculously find courage and composure. We would be more like the extended family slowly coming unglued in Theatre Lab's premiere o…
Is anything as entertaining as watching a pack of scoundrels maneuvering to snatch from each other what isn't theirs to begin with? Puccini certainly thought not, as does composer Michael Ch…
Something old, something new; something borrowed, something blue. Well, not much blue, but Palm Beach Dramaworks, Maltz Jupiter Theatre & Slow Burn Theatre have announced 2023-24 season …
Jon Brittain's prescient, abundantly insightful play Rotterdam at Island City Stage, captures the messy, shattering fallout from gender fluidity for the transgender person as well as their f…
If only for the opportunity to enjoy Aaron Bower inhabiting a role she was born to play, we'd urge you to see the Wick Theatre's revival of the updated Cole Porter musical Anything Goes. Bu…
Ever wondered what a blazing comet looks like a few yards from your face? Visit the Broward Center to catch the national tour of Tina, fa huge fireball smashing through the backwall powering…
True, there's not particularly buff former factory workers stripping down to G-strings, pumping and grinding in a ladies' bar, but The Full Monty is the kind of pleasant mainstream musical …
American Rhapsody, Michael McKeever's sprawling premiere at Zoetic Stage, is a history play, a bildungsroman, a tribute to fluid families, a cautionary tale about where the zeitgeist might b…
It's really unfair to single out anyone in this outstanding ensemble, but Gabriell Salgado " the young local actor whose work over the past 15 months has been stunning " is terrific as the l…