If the Ali MacGraw-Ryan O'Neal pairing was a marketing stunt to sell the new national tour of Love Letters that kicked off in Fort Lauderdale, the actors pulled a fast one and delivered unas…
Evening Star Production's fervent mounting of Jason Robert Brown's cult musical The Last Five Years invests infinite compassion for the eddying gain and loss in one of the most intriguing co…
There's a six-foot-plus-tall hitman dressed in full Highland garb and speaking in an unintelligble Scottish brogue, ineffectual policewoman who isn't trusted with actual firearms, and an acc…
"A glib" is a noun used in theater back in the day to signify when actors would race through their lines as quickly as possible just to cover the territory a half-hour before the curtain ros…
By Bill Hirschman Like Hamlet, Madama Butterfly and the Terminator franchise, the indestructible entertainment phenomenon that is WaistWatchers: The Musical has returned to South Florida in …
Interviewing Ali MacGraw and Ryan O'Neal, or trying to, about their upcoming national tour of Love Letters that kicks off in Fort Lauderdale next week seems almost churlishly interfering wit…
By Bill Hirschman The primary thing usually missing from a Cirque du Soliel show is a discernable plot. Lookingglass Alice, slipping into the Arsht Center's spectacle-driven summer extravaga…
South Florida Theater patrons checking and responding to email during a performance has mushroomed in recent years, but it reached a high water mark last week indicating a worsening of the c…
Life is bittersweet marked by rue and romance in which those foolish mortals submit and succumb to the whirling winds of love and lust in Palm Beach Dramaworks' concert staging of Stephen So…
George M is a razzamatazz, flag-waving, tuneful, toe-tapping, tap-dancing bio-revue tailor-made for the target audiences embracing its current revival at The Wick Theatre. But written in 19…
By Michelle F. Solomon Miami’s Ground Up & Rising production of Jonathan Caren’s The Recommendation is compelling on so many levels. Yet, what makes it so formidable doesn…
Terry Teachout, the drama critic for The Wall Street Journal who has championed regional theater as a major force on the national level, will make his directorial debut next spring helming P…
No peeking! Here are the answers to the latest installment of our patented theater geek trivia contest. This one is tied to the recent Tony Awards and the arrival next month of Ali MacGraw a…
After a theater season in South Florida with four, five even six openings in a single weekend, the production metabolism slows down this summer to only a dozen openings in a month -- which g…
At Entr'acte Theatrix's production of Into The Woods, the special pleasure was watching nascent talent taking unsteady but ever more sure steps in their evolution en route to fully-blossomed…
By Bill Hirschman The initial reviews are promisingly positive for Wednesday's world premiere in Chicago of the new Broadway-bound musical On Your Feet! which retells the life story of Glori…
A naïve young woman from an isolated religious cult called the Squeamish (think Amish) finds herself in an oversized Mr. Peanut outfit on a highway giving the finger to honking motorists.…
Harmony. When it's sung well, a warm visceral sense of well-being and balance missing from much of human interaction just envelops the lucky listeners. The three actresses impersonating The …
Okay, everybody dies and the world is taken over by human-eating aliens, but Slow Burn Theatre Company's Little Shop of Horrors delivers a happy ending to its five-year partnership with West…
Intriguing premises are the jumping off points for the nine flights of theatrical whimsy in City Theatre's annual festival of short plays, Summer Shorts. While no discernable thread runs thr…
Leveling Up getting an intriguing production by New Theatre is about far more than a 20-something gaming magus in Las Vegas hired to remotely operate drones that eliminate real targets in th…
Harvey Fierstein's thought-provoking Casa Valentina play at GableStage explores is that sexuality as an infinitely varied stew of preferences, prejudices and other ingredients in varied meas…
Michael McKeever's stunning world premiere play Daniel's Husband at Island City Stage is an indelible and inarguable exhibit that love between human begins is unquantifiably precious and ina…
Inside baseball describes the wry and witty It's Only A Play, if you're one of us who can name all six shows that earned Tony nominations for Kelli O'Hara. But if you're one of the tens of m…
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 region…