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Levis JCC mounts charming and touching Crossing Delancey complete with matchmaker, a young woman eligible for a match and potential applicant.
One definition of classic theater is a piece that not only remains popular or relevant through time, but which can be endlessly reinterpreted or restaged without losing any of its brilliance…
It would be facile and unfair to say the one and only reason to see the Broward Stage Door production of the musical My One and Only is the exuberant joyful tap dancing. The leading lady has…
For a director born in Puerto Rico, Marcos Santana sees West Side Story's depiction of gang warfare between New York natives and Puerto Rican immigrants containing some aspects that don't q…
It's Wednesday, March 7, and Billy Corben's world premiere play Confessions of a Cocaine Cowboy has been in rehearsal for some time with Miami New Drama. It opens the next day for a week of …
Theater does not have to be loud and careening to be memorable. Outré Theatre Company's revival of the off-Broadway hit Next Fall courageously takes a huge chance staging this evening of em…
Miami-based, Colombian-born soprano Catalina Cuervo is best known for portraying Maria in Piazzolla's Maria de Buenos Aires -- more than 50 times. But since 2015, she has been forging a simi…
Pigs Do Fly's production of 2 Across is the story of two radically different but similarly lonely neurotic urbanites who meet on a pre-dawn San Francisco commuter train. They start as stran…
Charlie Brown is 68 years old, but as the musical You're A Good Man Charlie Brown has proven year after year, Schulz's offspring remains ageless. Slow Burn Theatre Company's penny bright po…
Ambitious is the word for the Levis JCC production of the musical Promises, Promises. Sometimes the commitment by everyone involved to make the show work helps it stay aloft, and, other time…
There was no standing ovation for A Doll's House Part 2 at Maltz Jupiter Theatre from an audience which had stood for Mamma Mia! It's not that the incisive production didn't deserve accolade…
In Main Street Players' riveting, unmissable mounting of David Mamet's scorching play, Race, director Lowell Williams wastes no time in hammering us with a sadly telling stage picture.
Attention to detail in each element of New City Players' Raisin in the Sun makes it truly spectacular on every level, and that especially goes for the directing and the acting.
There's the tradition of Fiddler on the Roof, and then there's the tradition of the musical itself. It's a difficult task, this dual tradition of Fiddler on the Roof to carry it through in …
The premise of Every Brilliant Thing might fool you into thinking that it's kin to a "very special" Lifetime Movie of the Week: a boy tries to ease the pain of his suicidal mother and his o…
Blonde Poison asks whether a Jewish woman who identified about 3,000 other Jews to the Gestapo for "deportation," is "villain or victim?" But playwright Gail Louw, Primal Forces director Kei…
Riverside Theatre serves up the sentimentality with a ladle in its production of The Last Romance. The play concerns a trio of senior citizens struggling with loneliness, delving into the hu…
The dominating vision of The Tree and its dark violent past is a theatrical masterstroke from writer-director Layon Gray that opens a stirring Meet Me At The Oak, posting yet another strong …
Although We Will Not Be Silent is suffused with a long dorm night's worth of philosophical and moral gymnastics, playwright David Meyers and Theatre Lab inject the audience so deeply into su…
Frank Wildhorn's Jekyll & Hyde is one of those Continental Divides in musical theater: You either love it " or tolerate it. But if you're going to perform a work by the pioneering princ…
Florida Grand Opera does daring works (we're looking forward to the upcoming final two of the season, Frida and Werther), but, to satisfy audiences who prefer to see the familiar, there is c…
When was the last time a musical slipped into your veins and rode your bloodstream for two hours? When did a musical speak so accurately of your own pain and longing that you knew you were n…
Passions erupt as art, commerce and international politics collide and conflict in the world premiere of Carmen Pelaez's intriguing Fake at Miami New Drama. This play centering on a possible…
Dare your adult to take your inner child to see Dance Nation at Thinking Cap Theatre in which adults play teenagers prepping for a competition. Were a prize given out today for Best Ensemble…
One of contemporary theater's most powerful rock operas, Next to Normal, concerns a family dealing with the mother's bipolar disorder. And you have the opportunity to see this Tony Award and…
