The national tour of the dark musical Matilda at the Kravis is enthralling for its energy and imagination -- when you can understand what people are saying which is less than half the time.
Kinky Boots, the droll story of a drag queen rescuing a failing shoe factory by switching its focus to thigh-high boots favored by cross-dressers was, , a well-polished evening of musical co…
Curtains is a show designed for anyone who loves musical comedy, or anyone who has ever played Toto in a community theater production of The Wizard of Oz. Envisioned as a no-calories hoot of…
There's something interesting about seeing at the Arsht Center a national tour of the 30-year-old Phantom of the Opera for the who-knows-which time. It's amazing that people who have perform…
Broward Stage Door revives its 2014 hit jukebox musical of hit tunes from the late 1950s through the early 1970s, What's New Pussycat, with a new cast.
Punchline Theatre Company's adorably scruffy puppy of a msuical comedy about modern relationships, I Love You Because succeeds because every aspect -- from the performances to the direction…
The fate of Arts Garage in Delray Beach has taken a more encouraging turn because a major funder received enough financial information to make its leaders comfortable in disbursing some if n…
"Or," is a delightful daffy farce underpinned with social commentary that fits Thinking Cap's eclectic bent for thought-provoking comedies and dramas that are aggressively off-beat, have a l…
To say that Sondheim's Passion is not to every intelligent patron's taste is an understatement. But if you can open yourself up to it, Zoetic Stage's production is a transcendent work of pe…
You'll laugh wildly at the pumped up, absurd comic antics in Riverside Theatre's brilliant production of Christopher Durang's award-winning Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike. But then, it'…
Arts Garage received a temporary reprieve from eviction and extinction late Tuesday night from the Delray Beach City Commission, but its long-term existence depends on significant changes to…
Despite the title , the musical Romance, Romance is not so much saccharine as bittersweet. In two playlets set in separate times, locales and social strata, we see true love blossom but ulti…
If it's snowing up north, then it's time for Florida theaters to announce their 2016-2017 seasons. Among those that have: Slow Burn Theatre Company, Actors' Playhouse, Thinking Cap Theatre,…
The strength of the acclaimed 2006 play Froist/Nixon is that no one is depicted in pure white hats or black hats. That facet is brought out in the Maltz's production better than in any earl…
If you're going to stage a dorm debate about the meaning of life, the role of religion and science, suffering, love, guilt, the predilection of populaces to totalitarian governments, and the…
By Bill Hirschman The future of the Arts Garage in Delray Beach is in serious jeopardy, its executive director said, because of a nearly depleted cash flow, crucial operating funds being wit…
At the marrow of Eugene O'Neill's masterpiece Long Day's Journey Into Night at Palm Beach Dramaworks is its compassionate sorrow that the ultimate human tragedy is the death of hope. The fi…
It might drip with sentimentality, but Riverside Theatre's Over the River and Through the Woods will nudge out a few tears and win you over, due in no small part to the handsome and well-act…
We are still in one of the busiest periods in one of the busiest seasons in South Florida theater " at least 30 openings, and likely more. If you don't see a review of a show that has opened…
Actors' Playhouse pulls out all the stops to mount its annual winter centerpiece production. Director David Arisco molded a troupe of actor-singer-dancers who deliver a vibrant evening remar…
Sometimes, as in the case of Marquee Theater Company's Jekyll & Hyde, the performances are so powerful that you forget the material isn't worthy of the artistry. Frank Wildhorn's pop-in…
If Arthur Miller were also a doctor on the side, he might have written a play like Unlikely Heroes. A family drama full of long-harbored resentments and new ones stemming from intimate secre…
Arts Garage's Reborning is a thought-provoking work hints at many weighty topics"the anxieties of pending motherhood, the conflicting desires to both nurture and destroy, the futility of try…
Broward Stage Door's edition of Carnival, featuring one of the loveliest scores in the canon, under Dan Kelley's experienced hand features a hard-working cast, some of whom have fine voices …
But our recent visit to Broadway took in shows running nearly a full season or even longer " and they seem as vibrant as the reviews said they were on the day they opened: The King and I, An…