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To paraphrase A Chorus Line for the Wick Theatre's Hot Shoe Shuffle: Dance 10, Books 3. Whenever this troupe of supremely talented terpsichoreans start tapping in precision sync, backed by a…
This past summer, tens of thousands of African-Americans from around the U.S. and other countries as well jammed 12 venues in Winston-Salem, North Carolina to savor more than 30 tragedies, m…
Even for Palm Beach Dramaworks, its A Streetcar Named Desire creates a category of its own with an emotionally scalding portrait of flawed human beings scraping each other raw until the ine…
Underneath, Falling is not just about a family dealing with the complex challenge of living with an autistic adult. New City Player's profoundly moving production seems to be as much about t…
When tackling A Streetcar Named Desire, it's impossible for artists to ignore the 1951 film that made a movie icon of Marlon Brando and provided the last great role for Vivien Leigh. But dir…
You may find this hard to believe, but An Evening With John Wayne Gacy Jr., -- easily the most off-putting title for a theater piece in many years " is a surprisingly effective, harrowing an…
Flawed as it is, few would place Boys of a Certain Age in the same ranks as The Normal Heart and The Boys In the Band. But Dan Fingerman's script being presented by Empire Stage is an incisi…
Lots of news about Palm Beach Dramaworks' new play festival, Lois Pope teams up with Jan McArt, Playgroup LLC to close, fundraisers for Slow Burn, GableStage and Insight for the Blind
With the fearful ferocity of twin jackhammers running amok, the brothers of Main Street Players' True West clash and crash, attack and retreat in an anguish-fueled release of pent-up frustra…
Crucial to know about Grindr Mom is that while the heroine is a middle-class pearl-wearing politically conservative Mormon who volunteers once a week at the local school, "The Wife" as she i…
Over and over, Simon Wiesenthal's words spoken in a biographical play written a decade ago based on a man who died 14 year ago, words about events that occurred more than 75 years ago, those…
The world premiere of the musical Boca Bound written by, about and for well-heeled senior condo residents of what is called here a "country club" summons up a raft of adjectives intermittent…
The South Florida Silver Palm Theatre Awards, founded twelve years ago to honor theatrical excellence in South Florida, has announced 26 individuals and organizations receiving the honor Nov…
The Maltz Jupiter Theatre, one of the state's most artistically and fiscally successful companies, has withdrawn its upcoming shows from consideration for Carbonell Awards for the coming sea…
Area Stage Company's Matilda is not really a children's musical, although children will have a fine time when they are not storing up nightmarish images for future midnights. Matilda's witty…
When Man of La Mancha is performed as well as MNM Theatre Company's production, then the magic is savoring how the innate worth of ideals ultimately prevails over an all-too-recognizable wor…
There are plays that you may have seen ithat, when you experience them in today's environment, bring more of a tear then they might have 10 years ago. This is the experience with JCAT's Dri…
Sitting in Circle In The Square's deep-thrust proscenium-less theater, it's inescapable that director Daniel Fish and his team have gone way, way out of their way to let you know that this i…
In this tarnished time of disaffection, divisiveness and abandoned ideals, the synergistic resonance of the musical Man of La Mancha is more than a welcome opportunity for director Bruce Lin…
Theatre Lab's family-friendly production of When She Had Wings posits a young girl, convinced she could fly before she could walk, trying to regain her power of flight.
Oft-produced plays can sometimes be a groaner to sit through, yet again. How many more laughs can be extracted from the same story line and same characters? However, sometimes a production s…
It took a crushed femur for Boca Raton resident Bonnie Logan to find her passion " writing for the stage. Indeed, if Logan hadn't broken the thickest bone of the human skeleton, she wouldn'…
What follows is a partial list of shows listed by producing company or venue from school auditoriums to strip malls to shipping containers to 1,000-plus seat houses. It's as complete as we c…
Anticipation is one of the real joys of scanning a coming season. What follows is a completely subjective and personal list of titles we're looking forward to (besides the return of Hamilton…
Growth and evolution occur across an arc, but when you're living through the middle of it, sometimes it's difficult to realize we've reached a new level. On top of one of the most memorable …
