"Dark comedy" usually refers to a blithely cynical or whistling-past-the-graveyard attitude, but in the hilarious and unnerving Hand To God the darkness is pure visceral evil.
From Elizabethan actors lining up ala A Chorus Line with oil paintings for their headshots, to a preening rock star Shakespeare spouting his greatest hits to a sycophantic crowd, Something R…
Ticket prices are not an obstacle to interested theatergoers once again this summer through the South Florida Theatre League's annual Summer Theatre Fest that provides free tickets to major …
Professionalism is the only explanation why this much talent"the cream of South Florida theater from the director to the cast to the creative team -- invested itself so deeply into the flawe…
Broward Stage Door's quite serviceable but not bewitching production of this 1951 fantasy love story doesn't feel especially magical in the first act, but it locates the right bag of pixie d…
The Critics' Awards Program, or Cappies, recognizing outstanding achievement in high school theater at the 13th Annual Cappies Awards Gala were held Tuesday at the Broward Center for the Per…
Veil after veil are slowly stripped away from the elegant sophisticated stage persona that is "Billie Holiday" until standing exposed is a blunted devastated victim of racism, sexism and abu…
If God is omniscient, He must be inconsolably sad. Zoetic Stage's superb production of Harold Pinter's Betrayal puts its audience in that poignant and painful position in which Knowledge is,…
After love, compassion has to be the highest virtue of humanity. That tender melding of sympathy and forgiveness for human failings and their resulting tragedy suffuse the transcendent music…
We were tough last week on the national tour of Anything Goes. If those folks want to know what we were hoping to see, they should take the day off and drop in on what The Wick Theatre is do…
Florida Grand Opera's production of Gian Carlo Menotti's The Consul is somehow far more emotionally potent than fairy tale stories of ancient star-crossed Egyptian beauties and 19th century …
Ellen Wacher's Pigs Do Fly Productions opens its second season by, for and about people over 50 years old arguing that Fitzgerald was wrong with its newest anthology of playlets under the um…
Arts Garage has partnered with veteran theater figures Keith Garsson and Genie Croft to resume presenting productions in the converted municipal garage in downtown Delray Beach. But the new…
It would be inaccurate to compare the soggy national tour of the sea-borne Anything Goes to the Titanic. But if there ever was proof that Broward Center audiences will give a standing ovatio…
With bracing anger, profuse profanity and biting satire that is more slashing than surgical, Outre Theatre Company's Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson will not to be everyone's taste but for thos…
For those who think young people don't care about theater, witness the hundreds of South Florida high school students involved in the nominations announced this week for the 13th annual Capp…
All hell breaks loose in The Glory of the World by Charles Mee at the Humana Festival of New Plays at Actors Theatre of Louisville / All photos by Bill Brymer By Bill Hirschman As before, th…
Most critics despise adding a letter grade to their review. But watching Broward Stage Door's admirable production of A Chorus Line kept bringing up over and over the idea of a "B" and what …
Lanford Wilson's wistful and whimsical play Redwood Curtain postulates that the past we stock our psyche with becomes something integral to our being that has to be faced down if we are to m…
More than a decade after efforts began to rescue the financially failing Coconut Grove Playhouse, the Miami-Dade County Commission voted to hire an architect to design a $20 million theater …
In theory, Vita and Virginia details the relationship between Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West. But the real romance is a profligate, glorious love affair with words, with language, w…
Can a meaningful relationship blossom in a world where cynicism and self-interest seem to trump integrity and burgeoning affection? Island City Stage's production of Douglas Carter Beane's h…
There's enough giggles and grins in Evening Star Productions' The Addams Family delivered by these game, committed thespians to keep this production mildly diverting, but they still are find…
A citizens' group that pushed for 14 months for a larger, more ambitious complex for the Coconut Grove Playhouse resurrection project has shelved its plan indefinitely because the Miami-Dade…
Slow Burn Theatre Company's Rent is ambitious, daring, electric and 2 1/2 hours of non-stop rock 'n' roll " a no-holds barred, take chances, go-out-on-a-limb spectacle. But when stripped of …