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There is nothing especially wrong with The Wick Theatre's riff on West Side Story, But if you've seen other productions, by comparison, the modestly entertaining result is competent but rar…
The Maltz Jupiter Theatre's production of The Producers is one of most joyously over-the-top energetic rendition ever mounted, spotlighting more physical comedy than you've seen in some time
The 21st Century paradigm for developing new plays in on display this month at Palm Beach Dramaworks' Dramaworkshop "developmental" production of Jennifer Faletto's Domestic Animals.
Some directors say if you cast a show well, you're more than halfway home to a successful production. So while the acting is just barely adequate in Broward Stage Door's The Most Happy Fella…
This 2016 tour of Cabaret does not break a shred of new ground artistically; it intentionally recreates with photo-copying accuracy the 1998 revival in which British director Sam Mendes reim…
The challenge of mounting such an iconic musical as The Producers with its legendary Broadway production haunting any subsequent edition oddly isn't chilling the principal talents at the Mal…
Riverside Theatre dishes it all out, from explosive talent to dazzling visuals in an immensely satisfying, professional production of Chicago.
Music, sometimes tenderly introspective, sometimes upliftingly powerful, is deftly woven throughout the surging triumph of both the rise of the all-black 1939 New York Renaissance basketball…
We're back from our trip to New York to scout out productions you might want to see (or not), shows that might tour South Florida and scripts that might be worth reviving in our regional the…
Critics and award judges have been talking about it for weeks: The sheer amount of high quality work has made evaluating the last 12 months unusually challenging, but also an opportunity to …
Even if you don't think of yourself as a fan of the dance musical genre, this national tour of An American In Paris from Broadway Across America is the kind of don't miss experience playing …
Actor Etai Benson heaps praise on his South Florida roots in helping him to navigate his "role of a lifetime." The Coral Springs native plays Adam Hochberg in An American In Paris, now on a …
So, a loved one has given you a nice check (is there any other kind?) to celebrate the holidays, but you have no idea what to do with it. Well, for theater lovers, there are scores of option…
Reviews of three recent Broadway shows likely to be be seen in South Florida at some point in national tours or regional productions: Holiday Inn, Heisenberg and Love,Love, Love..
It won't be hard for patrons to locate Broward Stage Door's newest revue, Vegas: A Night on the Strip. All they have to do is look for the flames from the three-alarm fire as the production …
We were planning just to freshen up the review from when the national tour of Rodgers + Hammerstein's Cinderella played the Arsht and the Kravis two years ago, and note that this was a new n…
The multi-disciplinary Arts Garage has cancelled the rest of its theater season as it rethinks the logistics and finances that have lost money, said its new CEO Marjorie Waldo on Monday afte…
Like the requisite ballet's presentation of The Nutcracker, theater troupes have been turning over their Decembers as of late to holiday-themed plays: David Sedaris's Santaland Diaries comes…
Outré Theatre Company's edition of Tommy demonstrates how skill, imagination and pure guts can triumph over the most modest of means. Its greatest virtue in bringing the classic rock opera…
With humor, poignancy and insight, Dietz portrays just such a patchwork invisible to its residents in his new play This Random World at Theatre Lab, the professional resident company at Flor…
Audiences can marvel at the artistry from actor Rob Donohoe and director Lynnette Barkley in Palm Beach Dramaworks' production of Tru, but the one-man bio-play about Truman Capote never quit…
South Florida singers, especially theater actors, often seek a place to try out new material, a haunt where they can keep their chops honed, a venue to show off a range their colleagues migh…
A top drawer cast marks an unusually but intentionally bare bones production of Dan Clancy's new play Middletown tracking the arc of four lives.
A specific plan finally has been unveiled by county officials and consultants for a new 300-seat theater on the site of the legendary Coconut Grove Playhouse " a plan which preserves some of…
Led by the talents of Matt Loehr, the Maltz Jupiter Theatre's Me and My Girl is the precisely the antidote for the seasonal angst " a couple of hours of escapist entertainment. The cast is c…
