You have to make allowances for the inexperience of the mostly high school students in handling Shakespeare's verbiage in Evenig Star/Sol's production of A Midsummer Night's Dream. But the c…
Political satire is like the finest champagne " delectable at the time but going flat with age. But in the meantime, as Shorts Gone Wild 4 (subtitled Decision 2016: It's Gonna Be Yuuuuuge!) …
MNM Productions at the Kravis Center's superb revival of the Kander and Ebb revue The World Goes Round takes us on a detailed tour of the landscape of the human heart, not just the joyful pe…
For anyone who still thinks that theater disappears in South Florida during the summer, take a moment to absorb the schedule for the rest of the month " and this isn't all of it.
GableStage's Stalking the Bogeyman, a true life tale of sexual abuse and revenge, stands out for its intelligence, bravery, sobriety and sheer darkness Buoyed by the raw sting of truth tha…
New City Players' The Glass Menagerie starts a bit sluggishly, suffers throughout from some debatable technical decisions, and some performances are more compelling than others. But it build…
A message is wrapped inside Buyer & Cellar about our relationship with celebrities, but it is only the anchor grounding Actors' Playhouse's hilarious trip down Alice's rabbit hole, or m…
Broward Stage Door's Broadway Bound may not land perfectly all the time, but these theater pros deliver a no-excuses-needed effort that works often and effectively and ultimately satisfies.
Cique Eloize's Cirkopolis cast has in common with their itinerant ancestors is the determination to thrill audiences with death-defying feats of agility, daredevil tricks and silly clown ant…
By John Thomason Since its return to regular summer programming in 2014, Miami's Ground Up & Rising has been specializing in a particular strain of western theater: the austere, bone-scr…
Silly, stupoid and surprisingly successful, the Broadway musical spin on School of Rock works fine without Jack Black -- a good sign for the national tour.
Sometimes the confluence of talent that occurs in a New York City production creates something that won't be duplicated elsewhere. South Florida has proven that a regional production actuall…
The Wick Theatre has nearly mastered the musical revue genre by hiring solid talent and adding in a few extra production values " all of it evident in this summer's frothy paean to middle-cl…
in these terrible times of violence, deprivation and polarization, the resonances in Palm Beach Dramaworks' imaginatively reinvented production of 1776 are deafening. Amid the laugh lines, t…
A deeply polarized citizenry, partisans with irreconcilable ideas about the role of government, a stalled deliberative body, confusion, anxiety. Sound familiar? The current political climate…
While the production of Waitress faithfully follows the schematics of Adrienne Shelly's charming 2007 film, it does exactly what a musical should do: use the added tools of melody, lyrics an…
Breaking news: New Theatre, Inc. (Coral Gables, Florida) New Theatre at South Miami-Dade Cultural Arts Center announces it is closing. This press release just in: Details to follow:
The new musical Bright Star is a 21st Century celebration of the folk tradition complete with plucky heroines, gentle humor, unbending fundamentalists, facile fiddling, profound personal tra…
The running time for The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) (Revised) is advertised at 90 minutes On opening night at Evening Star Productions, it ran two hours. This is a tes…
The Vanguard meant no self-aggrandizement posting photos of Lucy and Ethel, Carol and Vicki, across their set for the hilarious sketch comedy, Parallel Lives. But it's apt. Because Elena Mar…
Greying Boomers may instinctively resist that the music of their lives is being repackaged into stage revues with little or no story the way Irving Berlin and Johnny Mercer's songbooks have …
There's a virtue, I suppose, in reliability. When you go to see something with Disney's name in the title whether it's the Pirates of Caribbean Ride in Orlando, Anaheim, Toyko or Paris, you …
For about three seconds Sunday night, the Tony Awards broadcast a pre-recorded glimpse of Miles C. Wilkin and slipped in a sentence saying that he was receiving a "Special Tony Award. But W…
You know you wanted to murder some abusive soul-crushing bullies and snobs when you were in high school. Heathers knows it and wants to liberate your daydream. So do the cool kids and not-so…
Rage and defiance " against racism, against betrayal, against cruelty, fate and death itself " washes out into the audience with a ferocity rarely seen in Florida theater in The M Ensemble C…