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A near epic vision unfolds in Slow Burn Theatre Company's brave, ambitious and dark The Hunchback of Notre Dame resulting in the one of the most powerful musicals seen in South Florida in re…
It almost should go without saying that the rock 'n' roll blisters the paint off the walls of Actors' Playhouse's balcony theater in its thoroughly satisfying edition of Million Dollar Quart…
The South Florida Silver Palm Theatre Awards committee honoring theatrical excellence in South Florida will present the award to 28 individuals and organizations in its ninth season. Recipie…
Slow Burn Theatre Company's The Hunchback of Notre Dame staged on a relatively epic scale underscores another benchmark of growth for the once modest company that has solidly arrived as a ma…
The skill, power and imagination that Kevin Black, Ben Bagby and their colleagues have invested make Swing! Swing! Swing! as good or better than any other revue that Broward Stage Door has p…
Benefiting from a Neil Simon script and a winning turn by Andrea McArdle,
The Wick Theatre is betting its older doggedly mainstream audience will be won over by this effectively sweet but …
The emotional histrionics and pyrotechnic acting in the first act notwithstanding, it's the quiet poignant moments of compassion and connection in the second act that are the most deeply aff…
The intersection, overlap and conflict of love and sex " but above all how they affect relationships -- form the basis of Theatre at Arts Garage's uneven but intriguing entry appropriately e…
Back in 1977 when 13-year-old Andrea McArdle's name exploded across the country, the moniker Broadway Baby recognized the talent powering her performance as Annie singing the iconic anthem …
The Night of the Iguana is the "other" Tennessee Williams play, the one most theatergoers have heard of, maybe even seen the Richard Burton-John Huston film, but likely have never gotten aro…
Effectively cloaked in high-tech flourishes from pounding music to a rock concert-worthy light show plus classic theatrical accoutrements like dancers, The Illusionists gathers seven inventi…
A different season advance: Quietly, oh so quietly, the 2016-2017 theater season in South Florida is shaping up to be as notable for tidal growth, contraction, ebb and flow as it is for the …
These are not at all necessarily what we predict will be the best shows this season (although they may be) or the best attended or the most popular or the most award-winning. We don't care. …
No one knows what effect Matthew will have on performances this weekend or even next weekend because of damage to buildings, power outages, road passability and the status of cast and crew m…
Christian Thompson saw his first Broadway musical at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts when he was seven years old. A national touring company of Cats was what hooked him on the mus…
Okay, yes, Hand to God has cute obscenity-spouting puppets having sex on stage, but the similarities to Avenue Q stops dead right there. This scorchingly funny and aggressively irreverent pl…
Why Not? With Richard Nixon is perhaps Mad Cat Theatre Company's most Mad Catty show ever, a production for company insiders that is esoteric enough to reference another Mad Cat show in its …
When the young Boca Raton company Marquee Theater's production nails key moments of the indestructible Fiddler on the Roof, it's exhilirating and entertaining on its own merits; when it falt…
Antonio and Katherine Amadeo, who separately and together championed cutting edge work through their Naked Stage company and who helped unite the local artistic community with their 24-Hour …
The level of anger, helplessness and sorrow rises inexorably along with the death toll like flood waters from a storm surge in Outré Theatre Company's shattering production of The Normal He…
Hats off, Evening Star Productions, for insider's theater that is satirically spot on in the comedy Gutenberg! The Musical.
What do Cabaret, Chicago, Fun Home, Almost Maine and Angels in America have in common? Somebody somewhere has banned their production at some point. To push back, Zoetic Stage and the Dramat…
Circle Mirror Transformation is finally receiving its professional regional premiere by the intrepid Area Stage Co., and the disarmingly funny production is a ravishing success for Baker pur…
A Public Reading of an Unproduced Screenplay about the Death of Walt Disney is not easy theater, by any means, but not one that Thinking Cap would ever shy away from. Their tagline is "theat…
Larry Parr's Invasion of Privacy from Pigs Do Fly Productions, based on a lawsuit against Florida's beloved Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, lays intriguing thought-provoking ideas on the table, bu…