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The South Florida Theatre League has announced the 2022 Remy Awards recipients to be given at a live ceremony Dec. 5.
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There's nothing badly constructed or even half-baked about the pleasant Almost Famous based on the film, but only Boomers will see it as much more than a mildly diverting curiosity. It's a d…
A large crowd of fans and colleagues from all over the country are expected to gather next week for the memorial for The First Lady of South Florida Theater Jan McArt who died in January 202…
Concerns about race and diversity in South Florida theater " issues that absorbed its leaders' attention during the pandemic " garnered considerable attention at the 45th annual Carbonell Aw…
Winners and Nominees of the 25 Annual Carbonell Awards competitive categories
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The Savannah Sipping Society from Pigs Do Fly Productions is a hilarious, moving, and rejuvenating play about older women determined to live life to the fullest by seeking out new adventures…
The hard truth is that virtually no live theater is really chilling. A moment might make you jump, but a production likely will not haunt you. Okay, the London production of The Woman in Bla…
The world premiere Elián at Miami New Drama is not remotely what you expect. Elián is not really about Elián. It's about the political, social and moral firestorm fueled by ego, pri…
There is a delightful irony to Heisenberg, GableStage's enthralling play about uncertainty: When you leave it, you're not quite sure what it was really about. The reward is you can debate it…
Much of the audience at the Maltz Jupiter Theatre's opening night of Jersey Boys was its traditional well-heeled well-coiffed crowd. But their increasingly unfettered applause, then cheers, …
Hurricane Ian inflicted severe multi-million-dollar damage to the Florida Repertory Theatre in Fort Myers and the Venice Theatre as well a some damage to Gulfshore Playhouse in Naples. But a…
Riverside Theatre in Vero Beach opened its 50th season with Butterflies Are Free, a charming romantic comedy harkening back to the years of the theater's beginning. While it may not be the b…
The musical comedy Pageant at Island City Stage delivers a lush array of talented contestants in carefully coifed wigs and gowns -- except they're all men.
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But the complexity of Sweeney Todd with tongue-twisting lyrics and a breakneck score is, far more difficult to master than most civilians appreciate. So render props to Pembroke Pines Theatr…
When director-choreographer Marcia Milgrom Dodge agreed to lead the Maltz Jupiter Theatre's edition of the much-seen Jersey Boys, the challenge was to invest the familiar production with a f…
Zoetic Stage's Mlima's Tale is a theatrically-lush indictment of illegal ivory trafficking and shared responsibility for the slaughter of animals, not so much for the artistic trinkets that …
Unabashed charm is not a quality one associates with modern musicals, but it is the predominant and reasonably satisfying virtue if you take the Wick Theatre's time machine back 61 years to …
Don't feed the plants! Once again, nebbishy Seymour just won't listen, so we get another evening of wackiness in Slow Burn Theatre's edition of Little Shop of Horrors.
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A love of language and a love of theatricality meld in Thinking Cap Theatre's ingeniously staged re-interpretation of The Importance of Being Oscar, a celebration of Oscar Wilde. The trio of…
Sometimes, the worthwhile reason to see Palm Beach Dramaworks' mounting of 4000 Miles, the satisfying treat is watching the vibrating depiction by up-and-comer Gabriell Salgado of a deeply …
The energetic, sexy Six definitely delivers the royal treatment"a lively score, strong singing and a can't miss story. And the opening night audience at the Broward Center were more than rea…
One of the great truisms of human nature is that often our greatest opponent is ourselves. So while the drama The Opponent is set in a boxing ring where an young fighter and his trainer spar…
A significantly corrected list of 2021-22 Carbonell Awards nominations was released Monday encompassing added nominees, removed nominees, substitutions and recalculations from the list distr…
An unintended resonance echoes in Empire Stage's production of Misery that Stephen King likely did not quite foresee. In a world where some people steadfastly, even violently believe whateve…
Patricia Conolly is one of the most prolific actresses you've likely never heard of. But you've very likely seen her: 3 times as Blanche, 1 as Stella, 2 as Hedda, 16 Shakespearean heroines…
