City Theatre's production of The Cake, about a baker who refuses to make a cake for a lesbian couple, digs deep below stereotypes to examine the contemporary clash between sincerely held pri…
The world premiere of Joseph McDonough's Ordinary Americans needs more work but it has enough promise and fine performances at Palm Beach Dramaworks that it's worth the effort. The story of …
Exuding a lushness, attention to technical detail and an overarching sense of fun, the Maltz Jupiter Theatre's The Mystery of Edwin Drood is a prime example of its skill. Proof is that the m…
How we deal specifically with the inevitability of death, whether we let it inhibit us or inspire us, is at the heart of Michael McKeever's comic fantasy Charlie Cox Runs With Scissors now e…
As we get older, the reality of loss becomes an inescapable fact of life. How we deal with that is the core of Stephen Brown's Everything is Super Great at Theatre Lab (subtitled "a comedy a…
There may never be as great a production of The Music Man as the lightning-in-a-bottle original with performances of Barbara Cook and Robert Preston. But the Wick Theatre edition led by Norb…
Awe is not a quality you usually hear in the voices of theater pros when they describe the central character in a work. But that is the sense listening to director William Hayes, playwright …
Have you ever watched a play and complained, "I could end it better than that!" Here's your chance. You " along with everyone else in the audience"gets to choose this month among 54 possible…
Some of the shows we saw on our recent trip to New York -- Tracy Letts' Linda Vista and The Height of the Storm -- were limited runs and closed before many of our readers could get there. Bu…
MNM Theatre Company's delightfully silly production of A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum is a musical that prides itself on broad low and often ribald humor, pratfalls, double t…
A central facet of his premiere Watson at GableStage is depicting what may be the world's first personal information disaster, a horrifying tragedy as American-licensed technology is sold to…
Escape to Margaritaville, the Jimmy Buffett musical at the Broward Center would work so much better as a concert version of the singer-songwriter's infectious songs imploring you, no, demand…
As the writer with 28 best-selling mystery novels, James Grippando is usually focused on whodunits. But the Florida author is about to see the world premiere of his first playscript, Watso…
The West Side Story from the Prather family's new Broadway Palm series at the Lauderhill Performing Arts Center has so much to praise, yet, joins local productions to underscore how there a…
Island City Stage, which focuses on gay-themed work, apparently thought it was time to revive the genus of the British sex comedy with the world premiere of Lipstick, whose primary twist is …
Resulting from Down syndrome as an adult, Andy's simple, blunt and truthful verbal reactions to the complex statements and relationships swirling around him slice through the theater space a…
Ring of Fire: The Music of Johnny Cash playing at Actors' Playhouse finds its entertainment in having performers, sing, dance, act and play the instruments much as with the company's succes…
The Lost Virginity Tour, produced by Pigs Do Fly Productions, tells of four senior women who take a roadtrip across the country to revisit the sites where they.... well, read the title.
Let's get it out quickly because this show's twice-extended off-Broadway run at the MCC Theater ends Nov. 24. The Wrong Man is a superbly wrought, profoundly affecting work, ranking up there…
The Wolves fits the bill for Zoetic Stage's Theater Up Close series. It's an up-close, navel gazer. Nine teenaged girls are part of a high school indoor soccer team that meets each Saturday.…
Riverside Theatre hits the mark for a designated demographic with its season opener, Beehive " The 60s Musical. The show is a musical revue of songs from the 1960s made popular by girl group…
In the prologue of Maltz Jupiter Theatre's production of Dracula: A Comedy of Terrors, the actors literally throw out the book"chucking their musty copies behind them with the satisfaction o…
In this post-9/11 time, we ruminate even more than during the Black Plague about the seeming randomness of blind fate or God's inscrutable will " and wondering is there a meaning to life. Th…
Slow Burn Theatre Company's Shrek the Musical is pure unadulterated fun, not just youngsters in the audience watching familiar fairy tale characters cavort in atypical ways, or older kids en…
Measure For Measure Theatre's rousing production in Sunrise brings into focus that Lin-Manuel Miranda and Quiara AlegrÃa Hudes's musical is, at its heart, about the twin themes of dreams …