Theatre Lab, a professional venture specializing in new, developing and thought-provoking work, has opened as the resident company based at Florida Atlantic University under the leadership o…
For those among us who enjoy going deeper than what's presented on the surface, Annie Baker's The Aliens from Alliance Theatre will be a treat. For others, the silences and pacing will be an…
Jan McArt's New Play Reading Series at Lynn University, which mounts staged readings of new plays in progress by local authors opens another season this fall with four works.
The charismatic Jan McArt may be one of crucial developers of South Florida's cultural past as creator of the mainstream Royal Palm Dinner Theatre, but her focus today is firmly on its futur…
Gallery of photos of Jan McArt and productions at the Royal Palm Dinner Theatre
What is endlessly worth examining and celebrating is how human beings cope with tragedy and what that says about who we are, what we are capable of and some insightful guidance on how our so…
The crucial test for whether a production of The Fantasticks truly succeeds, as Broward Stage Door's does, is the last few minutes. If it's been a little while since you saw the show live an…
Situated in Riverside Park along the scenic Indian River, Riverside Theatre may reside in a sub-tropical paradise, but it is a professional regional theater known for its Broadway-quality sh…
The collision of two never-subtle art forms in Bed and Sofa is certainly intriguing as befits Outré Theatre Company's mission of fearlessly pushing the boundaries of theater, thanks in part…
In Thinking Cap Theatre's Waiting For Waiting For Godot, the absurdity of life is moved from the center stage spotlight of Samuel Beckett's play in progress to the dingy dark wings where two…
Palm Beach Dramaworks' upcoming Dramalogue - Talking Theatre! series of talks about theater will feature conversations with three major names: veteran musical director Paul Gemignani, who ha…
Perhaps if Rent hadn't eclipsed everything that arrived in New York stage in 1996, maybe Bed and Sofa would have received the attention it deserved, in the eyes of Skye Whitcomb who is direc…
Jack Zink, the theater critic and arts writer who co-founded the Carbonell Awards nearly 40 years ago, was honored this month when the organization named its scholarship awards after him. Th…
Stop what you're doing. Really. Go online right now and reserve tickets to see Ground Up and Rising's harrowing and moving Vincent River, inarguably one of the best productions of the season
In Mad Cat Theatre Company's world premiere of Lazy Fair, Theo Reyna's drily funny treatise on greed, Money " or actually The Spirit of Money " droll deadpan humor suffuses this spoofy hoot.
After seeing seven shows in a week this summer, the overarching lesson that the venerable Shaw festival in Canada has to teach South Florida theaters is jazz.
If someone was designing a heaven on earth for theater lovers, they might not have to go farther for a blueprint than the Shaw Festival in Niagara-on-the-Lake in early summer.
The modern musical has its glories, but none unabashedly embrace pure feeling in quite the way Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt did in the 1960s. So be thankful for Palm Beach Dramaworks' conce…
Evening Star and Infinite Abyss co-produce Tracy Letts' surreal depiction of spiraling paranoia complete with copious amount of blood in an edition that slogs too slowly too long but ratchet…
If the context of the eight sketches in Shorts Gone Wild 3 is primarily gay-centric, the material and performances have markedly improved year after year until it has reached a high-water ma…
The Naked Stage, the 8-year-old company that has won acclaim and awards despite a tiny budget and no permanent home, is planning to open a 145-seat theater in a former antiques shop on Clema…
The Dana Plays, a popular fundraiser last year for a critically ill theater activist, is being revived this month by the South Florida Theatre League to support one of her favorite charities…
The Wick Theatre's lush Peter Pan is thrilling whenever it breaks into song, spinning spell of gently whimsical fantasy. Otherwise, with a few notable exceptions, it settles for being a mod…
I'll Eat You Last: A Chat With Sue Mengers at GableStage is an acerbically delicious cross between a gossip fest and a memoir of the legendary Hollywood super-agent of the 1970s, brought to …
Simply, MNM Productions' effort may be the best production of Side by Side by Sondheim seen in South Florida or many other places. Four superb performers act the dramatic, psychological and …