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The reliable consistency of quality of some South Florida companies' work was underscored Thursday with the release of the nominations for the 43rd Carbonell Awards honoring excellence durin…
The musical may have been around for decades, but Riverside's triumphant production of Evita proves that the show has a strong universality that rings as loudly today as it did 40 years ago.…
Whether you have seen A Shayna Maidel before, Chicken Coop Theater at Levis JCC Sandler Center does a fine job keeping intact Lebow's touching drama and its very definite Holocaust theme. Bu…
Having Our Say is likely the first play in which both of its characters are centenarian women of color. At Primal Forces' regional premiere, this means two roles of uncommon heft and history…
A celebration of the life of Tony Finstrom, playwright patron and theater lover, is scheduled for Monday, Jan 21 from 7 to 10 p.m. at the Wold Performing Arts Center at Lynn University where…
It took Main Street Players' lethargic production of Superior Donuts about 20 minutes to show much signs of life, and even then the primary electricity came from one actor as a young man abl…
The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation has awarded $2 million to Miami-Dade County to complete the project for GableStage-FAU's theatre department to rebuild and reopen the Coconut Grove…
By Bill Hirschman If you're a theater aficionado and received a nice check from your mother for the holidays or maybe from a busy relative gave you a gift card to Barnes & Noble, what sh…
South Florida will reinforce its commitment to new play development in January with two simultaneous new play reading festivals at Palm Beach Dramaworks and FAU Theatre Lab during the first …
Breathtaking tour de forces, heartbreaking tragedies on stage and in real life, shows you've never heard of and shows you've seen three times too often, troupes taking chances - some resulti…
For theater artist Ronnie Larsen, "the roots are setting very deep" in Wilton Manors. "It just feels right to stay here." Larsen is a playwright, actor, director and producer "whose work has…
Hamilton, which explodes with power, vitality and imagination in the Broward Center for a five-week run, is not the Second Coming as many overheated observers would have you believe. But thi…
Tony Finstrom, who died Tuesday at the age of 71, was a prolific playwright, an arts journalist and a generous patron, but above all Tony Finstrom was a man who loved theater down through th…
The Christmas season officially opened this weekend wrapped in pink. Elle Woods, leading a perky singing and dancing ensemble in Slow Burn Theatre Company's ebullient Legally Blonde, lit up …
Much like the holiday season itself, there are things to endure and other instances that are jolly. That's the mixed bag of City Theatre's Winter Shorts now playing at the Carnival Studio Th…
Soul and spirit are characteristics we would expect from a production of the multi-Tony-winning musical The Wiz. And, to be fair, Stage Door Theatre's mounting is, at times, spirited, hip, s…
For some who view two-part events on Broadway and five-hour epic tragedies as the height of the theatrical form, the 10-minute play is condescendingly tolerated as the poor relation at the a…
The script and the production of Palm Beach Dramworks need some refining, but when it's most in the pocket, the world premiere of Lyle Kessler's House on Fire dances a delicate pas de deux b…
It's not that it's impossible to mess up the musical Annie, but when you have a reliable troupe of talented hands like those connected to the current Wick Theatre production, you are guarant…
The ground-breaking record-breaking Tony-winning Pulitzer-winning musical Hamilton is expected to attract unprecedented numbers of fans and newcomers when the national tour arrives at the Br…
How do you get a younger demographic to go see a play? Well, if it isn't Hamilton, it is difficult, sometimes impossible, to get those, let's say, under the age of 40-somethings to a live th…
Angie Radosh's face, not to mention her body language, provides an unimpeded view deep into the soul of a writer battling an inevitable descent into the spiral of Alzheimer's disease in Prim…
The emotional cauterizing of an already withdrawn teenager by a family dynamic of furious fights and fierce sibling rivalry forms the core of Tammy Ryan's Tar Beach, receiving a sensitive ex…
When a theater produces Death of a Salesman , it's not unknown territory. The director can adopt, adapt or depart from what has been done before. But when it's a world premiere such as Palm …
It's unfair to the Maltz Jupiter Theatre's Beauty and the Beast -- which is as thoroughly charming on its own merits as you could ask -- but understandable that the focus is diverted to its …
