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The Women's Theatre Project, the Carbonell-nominated company focused on works by and about women, is closing after 33 productions over 14 years. TWTP won strong support among theatergoers of…
This 61-year-old Twelve Angry Men gets an effective production in New Theatre's edition of what it rightfully deems an American classic. A dozen actors give some of the better performances o…
It's fortunate that Newsies is a dance-centric musical because much of the lyrics and dialogue were nearly impossible to understand in the national tour visiting the Arsht Center from Broadw…
Sartre's existentialism tips the iceberg of what Steve Yockey's play Octopus takes on in its oddly dark comic and tumultuous story. . While it may leave some scratching their heads, there's …
Florida Grand Opera has extended its deadline two weeks to raise enough money to continue performing next season at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts.
But as far as large-scale Broadway musicals, Ragtime stands as Actors' finest mainstream work ever, as accessible and satisfying as it is passionate and thoughtful. Anyone who cares about mu…
When done well, the astringent Les Liaisons Dangereuses is an increasingly horrifying descent into s morally bankrupt aristocratic society. Palm Beach Dramaworks' solidly executed and lushly…
Undo's premise " a Jewish divorce ceremony that rewinds a couple's wedding day -- sounds so much like a sitcom episode that you keep expecting it to slide into shallow farce. But it doesn't…
Broward Stage Door's courageously adult and resplendently lewd production of Cabaret ain't your condo grandmother's musical comedy. The only thing missing from this vision echoing the Sam Me…
This Into The Woods by DreamCatcher Theatre and Theater Up Close is so heartbreakingly uneven that it may bring Sondheim lovers close to tears. Long stretches are so skillfully and lovingly …
A gay teenager leading a religious-based choir at a regimented prep school for African-American boys is a perfect theatrical metaphor for an individualist struggling to square his uncompromi…
At the end of Florida Grand Opera's beautifully performed and comical edition of the Mozart farce Cosi Fan Tutte, you'll want to take the heroes into a dark alley and beat them with a two-b…
With Bonnie & Clyde, Slow Burn Theatre Company has found the strengths in a "troubled" work and forged an entertaining even intermittently thrilling work. It keeps nudging upward the le…
M Ensemble's production of The Gift Horse has praiseworthy virtues and crippling problems that make it a mixed experience. But it does give the audience a long-delayed gift in Carey Hart's s…
Miamians J.J. and Natalie Caruncho built their careers as thespians in New York City, but now in their mid-20s, the siblings have returned home with the new company DreamCatcher Theatre to …
Complete List of Carbonell Nominations For 2014 Season
The unusual richness of the 2014 season in South Florida theater is reflected in the 2014 Carbonell Awards nominations released today, ranging from lushly produced mainstream blockbusters to…
An anonymous donor has pledged to match any donation to keep Florida Grand Opera from eliminating Fort Lauderdale performances from its 2015-2016 season, the company announced Monday. But wi…
I and You has one of the least promising elevator pitches: teenagers studying the poetry of Walt Whitman discover that the eternal cycle of life and death is less inscrutable or meaningless …
The Maltz Jupiter Theatre's revival of The Wiz is among the most lavish spectacles ever put on by a regional theater in South Florida with its prime virtue being the boundless imagination of…
Spangles sparkle in the spotlight as styling showgirls parade across the stage in a musical celebration of enduring love, joie de vivre and self-respect " which proudly encompasses adherents…
John Manzelli plays a harried scheduler at a trendy restaurant -- and about 40 coworkers and patrons -- in Fully Committed at the Broward Center
Mad Cat Theatre's daffy deconstruction of a 1966 Neil Simon The Star Spangled Girl elicited plenty of laughs, but the schizophrenic clashing of styles didn't land as strongly as anyone hoped
Disney, for all its theatrical sins, deserves credit for at least one benefit: You can see what your parents were talking about when they raved about the magic of some theatrical piece from …
Large-scale opera productions would disappear from Broward County during the 2015-2016 season if area patrons and corporations do not pledge at least $400,000 by the end of this month, the F…