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The wobbly foundations of fledgling New City Players' production of David Auburn's reliable Proof are unlikely to impress seasoned theatergoers, especially those who have seen the play befo…
City Theatre's Summer Shorts, which only recently began showcasing musicals, includes three this year including one by Lin-Manuel Miranda.
Lots of news: South Florida Theatre League's free Summer Theatre Fest, Curtain Call Playhouse is honored, City Theatre's Margaret Ledford is promoted, Bruce Linser takes on a new job,and Pet…
One pleasure watching a drag show regardless of your sexual orientation is the vicarious joy of seeing people uncorset their secreted urges and find the liberating self-worth to parade it pu…
Infinite Abyss, which has produced some solid work like last season's Extremities, just falls flat this time out with Quills which reeks of amateurism.
The surprisingly delight-filled musical Groundhog Day is well worth seeing on Broadway but the script, music, lyrics and replicable staging (all Tony-nominated) are so strong, so inventive, …
The temptation is to announce that 'a star is born' in Actors' Playhouse's production of the musical It Shoulda Been You. But that would be mildly insulting to the fact that Cindy Pearce has…
The MNM production of Monty Python's Spamalot is silly and stupid.
Thank goodness. This edition of one of the funniest musicals of the past couple of decades revels in, savors, exults, wal…
Palm Beach Dramaworks' team finds the special vibe of Martin McDonagh's dark comedy set in an unforgiving climate of the heart in The Cripple of Inishmaan.
To avoid spoiling the specific emotional U-turns, all that veteran theatergoers need to know about The Cripple of Inishmaan opening at Palm Beach Dramaworks this month is that it's a classic…
The din of cheering, hollering teenagers exploding Tuesday wasn't to applaud the appearance of a hip-hop celeb. Instead, the tumult in the Broward Center recognized excellence in 25 public …
War Paint is primarily an opportunity to savor two of Broadway's reigning divas Ms. Patti Lupone and Ms. Christine Ebersole commanding the stage with overwhelming power in volume and skill. …
Trump may have paraded his demeaning objectification of women by using the word pussy, but it's a word celebrated over and over in Thinking Cap Theatre's production of Collective Rage, A Pla…
Thinking Cap Theatre is presenting the Southeastern premiere of Jen Silverman's Collective Rage: A Play In Five Betties, a timely tale of feminism echoing last winter's women's march on Wash…
Damaged by yet another homogenized film version of Rodgers & Hammerstein's work, few think of The King and I as a piece deeply focused on incipient feminism, international politics and …
So much news: GableStage and Zoetic Stage announcing their new season with titles like The Humans and Fun Home, MNM announces partnership with the Kravis, Conundrum Stages returns to tour. E…
Revelation after revelation " none of which the playwright wants us to spoil " are exposed like the proverbial peeling of an onion until the underlying secret lays naked in the world premier…
Broward Stage Door's production of the musical Nine, based on Fellini's 8 1/2, is a fine evening of exuberant music and even more soaring voices.
Opera is all about technique, spotlighting it, honoring it, celebrating it. So when Florida Grand Opera took on one of the most demanding works in the entire canon, Verdi's A Masked Ball, it…
A worn-out Hillary Clinton balked at putting on makeup before her first major address since the election. An alien queen who owns a pop-up bar came to claim its dead lounge singer. One play…
Matilda the Musical, with a national tour that's made a stop at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts in Fort Lauderdale, may star a cadre of kids, but it is no Annie. I say that in the…
(The following is an updated review from 2012 plus a feature story written about this same production's original visit to the Arsht four years ago. Most of the cast is the same, but se…
Beehive, yet another innocuous transitorily entertaining revue tracing music sung by women through the 1960s, highlights, intentionally or not, one trenchant observation. The same early Baby…
If American Idol produced a Broadway musical with choreography often found behind a diva in a stadium tour, the result would resemble Slow Burn Theatre Company's production of Aida. The resu…
In Waiting For Godot, that classic of the Theater of the Absurd, nothing is more absurd than Man's insistent search for some meaning in life. In Evening Star Productions' courageous run at t…
