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The soul-killing inherent in the film dream factory's deconstruction and then sanitized reconstruction of its icons has been a popular topic, from 1932's What Price Hollywood to four version…
Area Stage Company travels back to 1982 on an exploration of the sociological jungle of Manhattan as born-rich 20-somethings give birth to the Me Generation in the issues oriented drama with…
More than $40,000 awarded to four playwrights in the Steinberg / American Theatre Critics Association New Play Award.
The post Critics' Bestows Thousands of Dollars In New Play Award first a…
The South Florida Cappies program honoring student achievement in high school theater and criticism, which had to present awards online last year, will return in a live gala celebration at 7…
Not Ready for Prime Time, a play by Miamians Erik J. Rodriguez and Charles A. Sothers, have continued working on its script about the creation and early years of Saturday Night Live, postpon…
There is still a lot of life in these Cats as the Broadway Across America tour at the Broward Center still manages to charm and, oddly, seem fresh as the various lithe, limber dancer fill th…
Despite being one of the greatest musicals of all time, Guys and Dolls always poses a difficult make-or-break challenge that determines if a production is mildly entertaining or sublime. So,…
Lynn Nottage's incisive Intimate Apparel explores a dozen themes simultaneously and all viewed through the prism of race at the turn of the century. But this Palm Beach Dramaworks edition fi…
You don't have to know that Sondheim and Webber share the same birthday to adore the broad send-up of musical comedy tropes melded with an equally wicked spoof of Shakespeare in PPTOPA's Som…
Sometimes all you want out of an evening of theater is not Lear or Seurat. But just fun. Escapist laughter-laden fun. Dovetailing with the re-opening of the Maltz Jupiter Theatre, the daffy …
Some of the hottest ticket titles on Broadway right now will be within driving distance next season as the Broadway Across America tours stop off in Miami and Fort Lauderdale: Six, Hamilton,…
Slow Burn Theatre Company's Matilda is a lesson in theater education, showing how a regional director takes a successful Broadway show and road tour and makes it his own highly entertaining …
Buckle up if you're attending the world premiere run of Overactive Letdown at Theatre Lab as a new mother spirals out of control in a harrowing descent into madness. Crumbling under the post…
The comedy-drama Ben Butler was meant to explore race relations when it was first produced in 2014. But this tale about a runaway slave seeking refuge on the cusp of the Civil War has taken…
Tennessee Williams' Suddenly Last Summer presents a considerable challenge for theaters to pull off with its quirky characters, its quirkier premise and its total abandonment of theatricaliz…
Some of the most skilled theater artists in the region deliver a gloriously funny and moving celebration of the work of the finest musical theater genius of the 20th and 21st Century in Zoet…
A sea of unmasked faces at FGO's opening Saturday signaled South Florida theaters on the cusp of relaxing restrictions, some only for certain productions and some cautiously gingerly peerin…
Time changes how we view classic works: In this edition of Rigoletto at Florida Grand Opera, the title "villain" who gets his comeuppance at the end of this revenge tragedy seems for more wo…
No doubt most critics will try to weave in the title or lyrics of "Let It Go" in their reviews of the Broadway Across America production of the Disney's Frozen at the Broward Center. Instead…
If you're expecting Miami New Drama's world premiere When Monica Met Hillary to be some D.C. spin on an Andy Cohen catfight, you're going to be disappointed. Playwright Winter Miller, direct…
You may never view crossword puzzles the same way again after watching Jerry Mayer's romantic, touching, and hilarious character-driven comedy, 2 Across. Fortunately, the Ft. Lauderdale-base…
Gulfshore Playhouse in Naples has used dependable artistic vision and generous patronage to defy the economic m breaking ground on a $60 million venue and being admitted to the League of Res…
Shattering. Penetrating. Upsetting. Only a few of the adjectives elicited by Claudia Rankine's drama The White Card at GableStage, a searing if polemic evening cross-examining progressive wh…
Social workers face tragedies in which there may be no satisfying solutions and in which the warring parties truly want "what's best for the child." Those dilemmas echo larger questions in w…
Bruce Graham's world premiere The Duration developed at Palm Beach Dramaworks is an intellectually and emotionally powerful drama rooted deep in a post 9/11 world, but also in a timeless inq…
