South Florida has long been home to minority-dominated theater companies as well as productions in which race was a central theme. But the Carbonell Award nominations for 2017 released this …
2017 nominations for the 42nd annual Carbonell Awards
Two musicals open since March are still worth taking in any time you make to Manhattan. And if you can't afford a trip up north, rest assured that these will tour South Florida in the next c…
They may not look like their counterparts, but they sure sound like them. They've got the moves, the stylings and so much rock 'n roll energy you'll feel like you're at a concert rather than…
Christopher Durang initially wrote Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike to precisely match the inimitable talents of David Hyde Pierce, Sigourney Weaver and Kristine Nielsen. So it's no surpr…
Broward Stage Door's production of Flashdance the Musical has aspects worth recommending such as two charismatic leads with powerful voices worthy of a brass band. That's fortunate because t…
One pleasure of a theater critic's job are these year-end retrospectives that require looking back at reviews and be reminded, "Oh, yeah, that was really great. And right, there was that. An…
Smokey Joe's Café, the quintessential plotless rock n' roll jukebox revue, is as dependable as light entertainment gets in the hands of experienced directors like Kevin Black at Broward Sta…
Be grateful that Slow Burn Theatre Company with its audacious affection for large scale challenging musicals has decided to mount The Secret Garden, that ode to rebirth, memorable for its lu…
Thinking Cap Theatre's opening performance of Young Jean Lee's Straight White Men might have been among the best nights of theater in South Florida so far this season. I say "might have been…
For a show whose strengths are its celebration of nose-thumbing non-conformity and anarchic scenes of unrestrained thrash metal music, School of Rock is a surprisingly conventional musical t…
Over 21 years, City Theatre's ever-expanding enterprises have developed and maintained a brand-level reputation for entertaining theater; its return to cool weather programming with the curr…
Palm Beach Dramaworks' production of the world premiere of Billy and Me, a fictionalization of the real life relationship between playwrights Tennessee Williams and William Inge, is a triump…
The Maltz Jupiter Theatre gives the Disney Broadway musical Newsies something to shout about with its energetic, acrobatic, tap-dancing, choreographic eye-popper of a staging about a group …
When entering a theater playing a musical you've enjoyed numerous times, it's comforting to open the playbill to find the names of proven talents that reassure that you and the material are …
Some works of art are born in a long gestation period of mulling almost in the unconscious; others leap gloriously to life in an exultant flash that is one of joys of being a creative person…
Most Wanted starts out like one of those wacky only-in-Florida tales, but as Peter Sagal's world premiere at Theatre Lab, evolves the weirdness gives way to poignancy that eclipses the humor…
The Camp, a world premiere drama from the West Boca Theatre Company does not advance the age-old discussion how "good" people can be passively complicit in horrors, but Michael McKeever's in…
In this 21st Century revision of 1988's M. Butterfly, it's the wrongheadedness of that paternalistic hubris that is taken for granted. This incarnation delves more deeply into the human rela…
News about benefit concert for ailing choreographer Ben Solmor, another public hearing on the Coconut Grove Playhouse set for Thursday, and Andrews Living Arts closes
Just in time for the start of the holiday, the Wick Theatre delivers a shiny ornament in the form of the unabashedly romantic musical She Loves Me.
A genial older woman with a warm smile, a self-deprecating charm and a cute mittel-European accent via Brooklyn greets the audience to her apartment like new neighbors. While packing for a m…
Florida Grand Opera promised a season of Divas to Die For, and it couldn't have been more on point in that respect with its 77th season opener, Lucia di Lammermoor. Gaetano Donizetti's bel c…
If producers mount the musical Dreamgirls, it's a given that they have hired as Effie some astounding young diva capable of punching a hole in the back of the auditorium with her melisma. In…
Tune will headline a one-night-only benefit concert Nov. 18 for the Maltz Jupiter Theatre and its education programs. The theater hired a ten-piece orchestra and re-orchestrated the more mod…