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Outré Theatre Company, a peripatetic troupe that has specialized in contemporary plays and musicals with an edgy sensibility since 2011, is planning to produce one last show and then close …
For theater folks and movie buffs, the title is a giveaway, Clemenza & Tessio Are Dead. Those with a knowledge of theater will think of Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead,…
South Florida Theatre League will bestow Remy Awards Monday in Fort Lauderdale, honoring "unsung heroes who provide outstanding service behind the scenes of the South Florida Theatre League …
By Bill Hirschman The ominous omens in New City Players' energetic and passionate Macbeth actually portend promising things for South Florida theater. The rarely spoken of deficiency in offe…
Fathers " becoming one, being one and losing one " are the connective tissue of Sea Wall/A Life, the emotional double bill of two one-acts currently at the Hudson Theatre . While the perform…
The musical theater evening inspired by Steinman's classic 1977 album Bat Out of Hell is precisely what you expect it to be. For some, that means pure nirvana. Others not as inclined should …
The lovely, witty and sometimes caustic songs of Noël Coward are receiving an energetic and heartfelt revival in the highly entertaining Love, Noël: The Songs and Letters of Noël Co…
Starmaker, getting its world premiere at Island City Stage, is about Henry Willson, the agent behind the hunky male stars of the 1950s, who, while fooling the cameras as straight sex symbols…
Hair is a weird show, and not because the characters are weird. To the contrary, the flower children of the Vietnam era, which it explores with both affection and criticism, have arguably ag…
The creators of Tootsie, a Broadway musical destined to tour near you , made a brilliant and courageous choice to abandon duplicating the 1982 Sydney Pollack film starring Dustin Hoffman, an…
Main Street Players' tongue-in-cheek production of Men On Boats -- in which women portray the male explorers of the Colorado River -- is basically a declamatory sixth grade history pageant …
Amid a constellation of superb theater from GableStage comes a supernova of passion, pain and socio-political protest in Dominique Morisseau's scorching drama Skeleton Crew. Its portrayal of…
As in troubling days in the past, once again farce provides a welcome dose of mindless zaniness that even the real life actors on the world stage cannot not equal. Add the musical mystery Mu…
Alright ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, she's and he's, and those who would prefer not to self-identify, Thinking Cap Theatre and City Theatre's summer short play fest, She Shorts is f…
Live theater's ability to transport us to different situations and show us others' stories makes a solid home run in the play Toni Stone, now receiving a rousing, heartfelt production throug…
Theatreworks USA's touring production of The Lightning Thief is what results from mixing a young adult classic with a rock concert vibe à la Rent: a sometimes intense, yet always laid bac…
Even writing about it the next day, the warmth still glows. In this time, to quote a lyric from another show, "of cold and darkness, in this terrifying night," the affirmation of basic human…
The Wedding Singer musical is a lively winning goofball vibe poking good-natured fun at that geological era known as "The '80s" in the inaugural offering of Jolt Productions, a professional …
Intentional or not, Slow Burn Theatre Company producing Priscilla, Queen of the Desert at the height of Pride Week, near the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots, is the ultimate synergi…
The national tour of A Bronx Tale is proof that if producers hire enough really talented people, you can make an inarguably entertaining musical out of damn near anything.
Hialeah-born actor Nick Duckart is coming home again from New York City. But he is a long way from the days struggling to sell televisions at Circuit City or vending souvenirs for shows at L…
Sisters opens and closes exactly as expected " two women from disparate socio-economic backgrounds spar and clash, but two hours later have bonded over the common need to remake their lives…
News items about PPTOPA hiring professionals, the South Florida Theatre League opens its annual summer festival, Michael Amico wins the Vic Award, Amparo extends again
Creatures with the kind of quick wicked wit you only wish you had, the kind who rarely let pass the opportunity for a pithy exit line, populate Rich Orloff's Veronica's Position in Island Ci…
This 24th annual Summer Shorts festival of short plays scores as the most consistent, polished and satisfying work beginning to end that City Theatre has produced in recent seasons.
