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MNM Theatre Company's Sister Act, is a work that you may not have taken to the first time or two, but can surprise you when a company invests freshness, energy and skill. You see it as if it…
The moment after the house lights go down at Actors Playhouse, there's a percussive warmup of Latin beat and then the auditorium explodes with a blinding almost deafening assault of light, s…
The art of acting " alternately glorious and mundane " is celebrated in the Maltz Jupiter Theatre's return to live production after 700 days with Paul Rudnick's delightfully comical I Hate H…
For the majority of white Americans, the word "colonialism" is an abstract term usually confined to college history courses. But in Layon Gray's consciousness-expanding new drama The Dahome…
Bio-jukebox musicals hinges on the strength of the music and the audience's connection. Music takes you back to where you were and who you were. The exuberant production of Ain't Too Proud: …
A nerdy teenager struggling with being an outsider takes a pill with a dangerous computer that advises him on dealing with high school hell in Area Stage Company's intriguing but flawed sci-…
Get yourself down to where Slow Burn is delivering a gift you'll prize for a long time to come: Once On This Island is a glorious evening of storytelling and song, myth and magic infused wit…
Armature premiering at Island City Stage explores racism, politics, homosexuality, marital relations in tale suffused with humor and tragedy. The deeply committed work of the cast, co-direc…
Grease certainly is the word as the classic rock 'n' roll musical glides its way into a solid staging as the first joint production of MNM Theatre Company, North End Theater Company, and the…
Blessed with a glorious score and soaring arias, you would think that André Previn's take on A Streetcar Named Desire would be a triumph as Florida Grand Opera's first major production in t…
For older audiences who see the number of expensive pills they take each morning magically multiply over the years, the wicked satire of Big Pharma in the otherwise romantic comedy Rx is wel…
The celebration of love in many permutations " from first connections to farewells " swirls around the stage like the snow and the aurora borealis lights in Palm Beach Dramaworks' gentle, so…
There is a fifth crucial performer not mentioned in the playbill for Palm Beach Dramaworks' upcoming production of "Almost, Maine." High above the residents on a chilly Friday night in late …
The concepts of home and homeland"especially when they are no longer the same place" have become even more complicated in the 21st Century for Cuban-Americans highlighted in Hannah Benitez' …
Joining dozens of companies locally and across the country hoping a delay will outlast the worst of the surge, Theatre Lab has postponed its premiere of Last Night in Inwood slated for Feb. …
Sometimes, all we want is to just sit in a chair and be entertained by full-throated singers, appealing actors, solid dancing and a script that offers more than a few laughs. That sheer ente…
Described as two CAT5 hurricanes striking at the same time, the Covid spike has dealt the Maltz Jupiter Theatre serious blows including cancelling one big-budget musical Sweet Charity becaus…
The calendars in South Florida theater are being written in pencil"with  erasers. Regional theaters are forging through the Covid spike with no panic and limited public fuss, but with a t…
The big, emotion-charged music of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel welcomes audience, actors and artists back to Riverside Theatre in Vero Beach.
The post A Lush and Lovely Carousel Opens …
In this fourth or fifth reconnection with the glee-filled and glee-inducing musical comedy Hairspray, a truly apt term, what surfaced at the national tour's all too brief bow at the Arsht Ce…
If Dickens' opening line in A Tale of Two Cities has become a trite cliché through overuse it has become a painfully accurate truism about theater over the past two years, especially South …
Time as well as the pandemic have robbed the South Florida theater community of so many beloved and respected colleagues. The loss in 2020-2021 was not only to fellow artists, but to the pat…
In the wake of several cast or crew members testing positive for Covid, Miami New Drama has cancelled its performances for A Wonderful World until resuming Dec. 29, the company confirmed Wed…
Put aside the messages of acceptance, being comfortable in your own skin, family bonds and making your own path, Slow Burn Theatre gifts audiences with the sheer entertainment in its Kinky B…
Avi Hoffman is ensuring that proper homage is paid to Joe Papp, the visionary who intersected art and community by making theater accessible to the general public in comprehensibility, neigh…
