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In these difficult times, sometimes all you want, all you need is a good ol' Big Broadway Musical Comedy with a rousing score, enthusiastic performers, an unabashedly uplifting message and a…
There are stunning actors in this premiere A Wonderful World, breath-taking choreography and visuals in this life of jazz legend Louis Armstrong as he navigates a racist world and his own fa…
For all of us who have seen 17 too many editions of A Christmas Carol, City Theatre gifts us a joy-inducing riff on Charles Dickens' public domain property, the gospel according to Jacob Mar…
Few an resist feisty, foul-mouthed septuagenarians such as Helen Wheeler because, well, we do not normally expect a woman in her 70's to tackle someone into submission, or use a blowtorch to…
There's nothing especially wrong with Boca Stage's The Unremarkable Death of Marilyn Monroe, certainly not with the admirably tireless, skillful efforts of Leah Sessa or Keith Garsson. But i…
Theater is often political: but sometimes, like The People Downstairs, Michael McKeever's harrowing world premiere at Palm Beach Dramaworks, the relevancy of the Dutch people hiding the Anne…
This is not a traditional review because we saw the world premiere of Nilo Cruz's latest play Hotel Desiderium at its fifth sold-out performance Nov. 21 at Arca Images, that late because it …
The creation of a musical always contains more drama than what ends up on the stage. But then there is the anguish and celebration that commandeered the pre-virus birth and now this winter's…
There will be hundreds of "appreciation" pieces during the next few days memorializing the life and work of Stephen Sondheim who died Friday at the age on 91. There will be tens of thousands…
Secretly, we wonder if we could be heroic in real life, whether we could find the courage to risk our lives to protect or rescue someone else. The question is at the heart of Michael McKeeve…
Despite two of the finest performances in what already has been a surprisingly benchmark season so far in South Florida, the most memorable player in Theatre Lab's superb To Fall In Love is …
Middletown is a charming, comfortable evening at Actors Playhouse, sitting around a living room with genial middle-class couples (Loretta Swit, Didi Conn, Adrian Zmed and Donny Most) telling…
GableStage's Joseph Adler died shortly after his direction of The Price was cut short by the pandemic. His successor, Bari Newport, took his notes, cast, creative team and infuses it with h…
The protagonists' primary fear in Lungs -- bringing a child into an environmentally crumbling world and an economy in freefall " is secondary to the challenging script's focus: examining the…
Lots of news here as the theater season heats up in South Florida: Over the long weekend of Nov. 10-14, there are TEN shows opening across the region and four still running: dramas, comedies…
Reading today's headlines about corruption, you wonder not so much the why of weakness for the lure of power, but the process of how it happens. Kenneth Lin's Warrior Class, enjoying an inci…
It seems fitting that Broadway Across America marks its return to the Broward Centerwith the Tony and Olivier Award winning musical Come From Away that honors themes of community, perseveran…
Noël Coward meant to write a full tome on "Theatre" but time, health and a score of other projects apparently got in the way. But Barry Day, a stage producer, biographer of literary figur…
PPTOPA's earnest, merely passable production of Cabaret is notable for a few solid performances, but especially for the resonating script by Joe Masteroof which, decade after decade, becomes…
As you read this, no matter the time zone, country or phase of the moon, it's playing somewhere, in this case an inarguably competent production at The Wick Theatre. Even those of us who hav…
The "horror" in Zoetic Stage's Frankenstein shares little kinship with the film monster with bolts in his neck terrorizing the countryside or even the 1818 novel of science gone wrong. But a…
Jason Robert Brown's brilliantly insightful and emotionally powerful Songs for a New World lets you know you're not going crazy all alone in Slow Burn Theatre's season opener that would be a…
What better way to mark the return of live, in-person theater than to celebrate the major role that an audience's imagination plays in this unique art form? In fact, the professional, nonpro…
The Twentieth Century Way creates intersecting, overlapping realities in Island City Stage's celebration of its 10th season by restaging its 2012 inaugural play. This thought-provoker melds …
The premise: A white director leads a multi-ethnic cast in a production of Midsummer's Night as an answer to charges of institutional racism in society. But with wry humor and painfully inci…
