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Mad Cat Theatre's production of Vaclav Havel's one acts Protest and Audience draw uncomfortably relevant visions of repressive totalitarian society.
The tour of The Little Mermaid is engaging and enthusiastic playing at the Broward Center's Broadway Across America series. The problem is you likely will not understand 10 percent of the wo…
Outré Theatre Company and Curtain Call Playhouse, two troupes that have played at many different venues, plus TheatreSouth, a fledgling African-American company, will have a new base of ope…
Florida Theatrical Association has announced the Charlie Cinnamon Theater Scholarship in honor of longtime FTA board member and dean of South Florida publicity agents Charlie Cinnamon, who d…
Disgraced, bravely offered to the Maltz Jupiter Theatre's mainstream audience, is an incisive drama dissecting intersecting issues of ethnic identity, assimilation and especially persisting …
Disgraced, a drama dissecting ethnic relations in post 9/11 America, already has become one of the most produced plays in regional theaters over the past three years. But the Maltz Jupiter T…
Broward Stage Door's The Bris, The Bar Mitzvah and Beyond is an amusing afternoon mixing early Neil Simon-Woody Allen humor with a lengthy parade of serious issues ranging from father-son re…
Validation " the affirmation that what you valued and invested yourself in does matter " is one of the most powerfully effective facets of both entertainment and art. And that, we'll venture…
The rollout of 2017-2018 seasons continues with some South Florida theaters pushing the edge of their audience's cultural envelopes and others relying on reliable titles in an uncertain time…
Take Noel Coward's sophisticated wit, add exquisite direction and elegant acting, then tie it up with visuals you could plotz for, and it's no wonder that Riverside Theatre's production of P…
Real Women Have Curves turns out be a no-excuses-needed production that justified the confidence that Main Street Players' leaders had in evolving from a community theater into a professiona…
The miracle of the Carousel when it's done well, as it is in this Actors Playhouse production, is that although it's 72 years old and its protagonists are a wife-beating ne'er-do-well and th…
Hamilton, On Your Feet, The Lion King, and a host of major Broadway titles will tour South Florida's three major presenting houses over the next two seasons,
Palm Beach Dramaworks' production of Collected Stories is not only one of the most affective and effective dramas seen in the region for many months, it offers a superb performance by a youn…
Slow Burn Theatre has certainly captured Xanadu's vibe in the company's spirited, stupidly happy revival of its own 2012 production, which opened last weekend in Aventura and which will soon…
Chicken Coop Theatre's production at the Levis JCC of Driving Miss Daisy is hardly among the most incisive nuanced editions you've seen of this oft-mounted warhorse, but the play itself is s…
Billy and Me, a world premiere by theater critic Terry Teachout about the difficult friendship of legendary playwrights William Inge and Tennessee Williams, will be one of the highlights in …
In a chilly sleek courtroom as clinical as a laboratory dissection tray, thousands of human lives, morality, principles and the law are piled on opposite pans of the scale " except it's not …
This may be heresy, but maybe grand opera shouldn't always be so grand. Florida Grand Opera's current production of Tchaikovsky's romantic tragedy Eugene Onegin reportedly has a more intimat…
The best art is a partnership between the creative mind and the viewer. That often requires the audience to expend some effort to get inside the artist's mind or ethos or style. Witness the …
Most courtroom dramas metaphorically use the audience as a jury. But Terror, a German play receiving its U.S. premiere from Miami New Drama this week, literally requires the audience to vot…
By Pam Harbaugh The plates may be empty, but you leave having feasted on Riverside Theatre's satisfying production of An Empty Plate in the Cafe du Grand Boeuf. Written in 1994 by Michael Ho…
The enduring genius of Titanic the Musical beautifully limned by Slow Burn Theatre Company is that while it arely nods at what's to come, it relies on the audience viewing the initial paeans…
Turn of the century newsboys cavorting in Jupiter, Tarzan swinging across a Fort Lauderdale stage and Tony Manero swiveling his hips in Margate -- the 2017-2018 season for South Florida thea…
Quirky denizens of Stephen Adly Guirgis' Between Riverside and Crazy strive to find second chances in GableStage's production.
