Miami New Drama's musical The Golem of Havana melds warm comedy and profound tragedy in an intriguing, sometimes moving, often thought-provoking evening. It encompasses the Holocaust, the Ca…
Area Stage Company delivers an unsettling, thought-provoking evening with its musings on the implication of an unbridled Internet of the future in The Nether.
Gina Gionfriddo's Rapture, Blister, Burn is rooted in an wry examination of post-feminism. But Zoetic Stage's finely wrought comedy-drama goes much farther and deeper in examining the comple…
The Maltz Jupiter Theatre's pull-out-the-stops revival is about as lush and entertaining a rendition as anyone could hope for and benefits immeasurably from Matt Loehr in the title role.
The Jazz Singer: The Musical never really takes its audience back in time, but has a false feeling that we're watching actors put on a play. But there are reasons this production at the Will…
Three epic productions stretching the resources of their companies are among the musicals vying to collect the most gold in the 40th anniversary edition of the Carbonell Awards recognizing e…
Complete list of nominations for the 2015 Carbonell Awards and county, theater and show breakdown analysis
Because they write what they know, the five playwrights of Punchline Theatre Company's #Unhappy Hour provide another peek into the evolving saga of Millennials in America in the 21st Century…
In the end, the success of the Wick Theater's South Pacific is something so obvious and simple: It's the music, the glorious Rodgers and Hammerstein score and lyrics delivered by a talented …
The latest edition of Diva Diaries about three aging drag performers lands inconsistently " sometimes entertaining or moving, other times feeling thin, perfunctory and artificial. But it;s h…
There's more than one singular sensation in Riverside Theatre's thrilling production of A Chorus Line. It takes that heady combination of Michael Bennett's choreography and Marvin Hamlisch'…
Both Sides of a Famous Love Affair - The Jackie Mason Musical, the semi-autobiographical comedy about a young South Florida woman whose affair with the famed comedian results in a love child…
From the sequin-bright sparkle to the propulsive power of the 20th Century Limited, the new national tour of 42nd Street at the Kravis on Broadway series is a polished, energizing and thorou…
By Bill Hirschman Pompadour, the new musical subtitled Hits, Harmony and Hairspray bowing at Broward Stage Door, is what it is and is what it wants to be. So the question that only you can a…
This is the power of the play King Charles III: Six weeks after seeing it, I found myself at intermission of a local show last weekend still raving about it to other audience members. So muc…
How do you solve a problem of taking a 56-year old American musical classic and making it fresh for a modern audience? If you're director Jack O'Brien, you lovingly dust the tarnish off of T…
2015 produced a wild variety of snapshots to paste in the theatrical scrapbooks: a male Dolly Levi, a possibly homicidal dimwit slicing carrots, the heartbreaking consequence of passing on g…
The tour of Dr. Seuss' How The Grinch Stole Christmas is a reliable litmus test of just how deep into or disaffected you are with the holiday spirit. This definitively children's musical …
Allegiance, the story of a Japanese-American family rent apart by their internment in World War II, has the potential to be a great play. Unfortunately, it's a musical.
Marquee Theater Company's production of Jason Robert Brown's Songs For A New World slices open the studied flat affect of the "Whatever" generation to expose inner lives as vibrant, complex …
Lots of news items about Arts Radio Network, FAU’s Theatre Lab, Island City Stage, New Theatre, South Florida Theatre League, Lost Girls Theatre, and Cultural Council of Palm Beach Cou…
If you thought you felt the pillars of the regional theatrical world shake violently this week, you weren't wrong. Christine Dolen, the nationally-respected theater critic and arts journalis…
The national tour of Kinky Boots was a well-polished evening of musical comedy with soulful ballads and glitzy production numbers, but this construction felt so manipulative, so by-the-numbe…
Actors Playhouse's production of The Trial of Ebenezer Scrooge has a talented cast working hard under the direction of David Arisco, but good grief, what a waste of the resources of Mark Bro…
Nearly everyone in the Palm Beach Dramaworks' superb production of The History Boys is in love with unleashing flash floods of verbiage in an orgy of ideas illustrated by their addiction to …