Mad Cat Theatre Company's approaching 15th anniversary is cause to assess its place in the local arts scene. Mad Cat may not have been the first company in South Florida to produce the thesp…
Ayad Akhtar's Pulitzer-winning Disgraced is a scalding rebuke to anyone who thinks that any section of our society has come to an intellectual or emotional homeostasis about social, cultural…
Welcome to a regular, if intermittent feature: Irreverent, lighthearted question & answer sessions with some of South Florida's best known professionals Producer, director, fight arrange…
This sharply honed, finely tuned, precisely executed national tour of Beauty and the Beast piece of theater inexplicably does not seem stale. If there isn't an overflowing sense of soul pour…
Back in the day, whenever that was, a Broadway musical that had a raft of virtues but wasn't a perfectly satisfying piece had a good chance of running an entire season. But with astronomical…
You Can't Take It With You features some inspired performances (and some surprisingly disappointing ones) in a production with a sagging first act completely redeemed by two acts of joculari…
Tom Stoppard's play about the war between head and heart in romance, The Real Thing, is reputedly his most accessible. Yet on my fourth connection with it through the revival at Roundabout T…
Seeking "Who am I?" is the defining journey of most lives, and our religious heritage is part of the solution, even if we don't embrace that religion or its culture. Such is the soul of Sta…
Here's a look back at 2014 including a very subjective subjunctive reductive list of outstanding shows, performances and developments guaranteed to make someone unhappy they were not on the …
This production of Five Guys Named Moe is an energetic romp with some of the most energized performers to burn up the floorboards at Broward Stage Door. The joint is most definitely jumpin'.
If you can accept that film is a different storytelling medium from theater, this version of Into The Woods is not only faithful to Sondheim and Lapine's vision of darkness and light, it act…
News about a fundraiser for Slow Burn Theatre Company, the semi-annual 1-Acts at New Theatre and the resurrection of Infinite Abyss
Actor's Playhouse at the Miracle Theatre's production of ,Miracle on South Division Street has all the makings to become a perennial holiday comedy favorite.
Whenever Leslie Uggams lets loose that glorious voice, whenever the live band swings into one of Jerry Herman's standards, the Wick Theatre's production of Mame is an irresistible pleasure. …
Delray Beach Center for the Arts' first in-house theater production, A Chorus Line, delivers a faithful recreation with young local talent, although it's almost a carbon copy of the origina…
Israel Horovitz's My Old Lady at Palm Beach Dramaworks is a cornucopia of delightful wordplay and an insightful examination of human relationships, featuring superb performances by Estelle …
More than a dozen shows are open and a lot of holiday/family demands are battling for space on your calendar. But shoehorn in Primal Force's stunning production of a scorching play few have …
Audiences need to savor the undeniable virtues and achievements of local Shakespearean productions -- even when counter-balanced by well-intentioned even courageous but equally undeniable fl…
Director Marcia Milgrom Dodge triumphed reinventing Hello Dolly! in 2012; this time she hasn't been quite as unassailably successful, but the overall evening grows on you as it swells into a…
Puzzled what to give that theater fan for the holidays. Check out Brad Hathaway's suggestions. And of course, a season subscription is always welcome.
Hallelujah, children! We are delivered from the bondage of political correctness, the oppression of reactionary repression and the tyranny of the status quo. Raise up your voice and praise t…
When Brian Stokes Mitchell comes to the Broward Center with the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra and his deep, lush baritone on Dec. 8, he will be among numerous stage stars swinging through South …
Timekeepers bowed at Island City Stage in October 2013. In April, the production won Carbonells for best play, best director, best actor Michael McKeever, best sound, best lighting and best …
Estelle Parsons, Angelica Page, Tim Altmeyer, about to open in Israel Horovitz's My Old Lady at Dramaworks, talk about the life of "a working actor."
For someone who has been singing virtually the entire Jerry Herman songbook for decades, it's ironic that only now is Leslie Uggams getting to play the title role of Mame in the musical bowi…