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A familiar slate of names and talents have been announced as recipients for the newly reconfigured Silver Palm Awards celebrating honoring South Florida theater artists. As with last year, a…
Main Street Players' version of Suzan-Lori Parks' Topdog/Underdog rewards the patient patron is watching a slow-motion shattering of two brothers struggling with institutionalized racism, po…
So Allison Gregory's Red Riding Hood is a delightful hoot in which Theatre Lab has mounted a production meant to enrapture young theatergoers, but also liberally peppered with jokes, asides …
Savor an unqualified success with playwright-actor Ronnie Larsen's The Actors. Copious laughs dominate a seemingly silly sit-com situation, but they recede (though never disappear) as the hu…
An array of artists and administrators who have helped build South Florida into a nationally-recognized regional theater hub will receive the Carbonell Awards' highest honors this fall. Amon…
Bent deserves honor for putting recognizable human beings amid Hitler's decimation of homosexuals during the Holocaust " and re-reminding the public of this horror. But rising above the gend…
I am begging every critic colleague, everyone who has seen Actors' Playhouse's Now and Then to NOT give away anything! One of the many pleasures in this drama laced with humor is watching th…
Fade predictably indicts talent succumbing to ambition, but what's special is how the verbally intense script infuses an insider's incisive depiction of a diversity within modern Latinx life…
Area Stage's Giancarlo Rodaz's visionary, deeply moving new production is still Beauty and the Beast, but it's as radical a restaging as John Doyle's Sweeney Todd.
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Miami-Dade County's long-aborning plan to resurrect the historic Coconut Grove Playhouse is once again underway at full throttle after navigating a complex maze of legal challenges that ende…
More current than the classic AIDS plays written three decades ago, Donja R. Love's 'one in two' examines the challenges of with HIV-positive when talk shows have ads for pills that make the…
Eytan Deray's courageous world premiere Educating Asher at Empire Stage " courageous not only because it has been drawn from the marrow of his being as playwright, but courageous because he …
Main Street Players struggles bravely to conquer Lee Blessing's satire on race and privilege in Black Sheep, but stumbles on tonal uncertainty. and fails to reach the script's potential.
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So when the political player at the center of a 1978 musical is a conscienceless, ambitious, charismatic and manipulative "populist" with a media background, 2022 audiences should be forgive…
A raft of country classics are interspersed in this clear-eyed yet affectionate bio-musical Hank Williams: Lost Highway at Actors Playhouse tracking the rise and collapse of the music legend…
In the 84-year-old Ruben Rabasa, a tall skinny but gnome-like looking creature brimming with life and humor, GableStage audiences are treated to a wild and quirky interaction with this winni…
Rarely has the immigrants' connection to their past and future been so fully realized in a passionate embrace as in this premiere of Papá Cuatro at Miami New Drama. It is, by turns, alter…
Darius Daughtry and Grace Arts Center reimagine The Merchant of Venice in 1940s Fort Lauderdale to examine tensions when when infighting exists within the African American community.
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The play "Are You There, Bette Davis?" written and directed by Uruguayan Domingo Milesi is a centerpiece of the 36th International Hispanic Theatre Festival of Miami this month, featuring si…
The cuatro, a small quintessential Venezualan instrument four-string guitar, is the focus of Papá Cuatro, Miami New Drama's world premiere, opens. The director describes it as "something …
The world premiere in Miami of Borrowed examines with emotion and specificity the lasting tragic damage of father-son and son-father relationships that imploded years earlier. With copious v…
The upcoming seasons listed here are as variedas anyone could plan with time-tested bets and works so new that no one knows what to expect. GableStage's Bari Newport spent months juggling a …
Carbonells name three high school students to receive its Jack Zink Scholarships ; Palm Beach Dramaworks, Darius V. Daughtry and Thinking Cap Theatre kick off play readings on stage and onli…
In the charming, big-hearted Broadway musical, Head Over Heels, Slow Burn Theatre Company delivers a visually striking, lively, and credible production.
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Andy Rogow is the director of Island City Stage's The Mystery of Irma Vep, but were he a less humble man, he might also take the title of chief illusionist or conjurer. For the production is…
