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Sometimes when the company is engaging, it doesn't matter whether the journey itself is a little bumpy or overly-familiar. Such is the power of winning performances by Christina Alexander an…
As if it was even needed, molten lava in the guise of scalding verbal acrimony ravages the apartment where incendiary family strife already was poised to detonate into devastation in GableSt…
For all the derision and adoration that the basic material has engendered over 28 years, the thoroughly-retooled The Phantom of the Opera gliding over a fog-shrouded lake into the Broward Ce…
Donald Margulies' The Country House riffs on Chekhov's The Seagull but stands as its own as a compassionately sad-funny portrait of an emotional landscape.
In 2014, no one should be able to make the ludicrous thrust of Madama Butterfly remotely credible, yet Florida Grand Opera's 74th season opener produces a perfectly plausible tale of an aba…
Old Jews Telling Jokes at Broward Stage Door is precisely what it wants to be and precisely what you think it will be. If it sounds mildly engaging, you will love it, for what they want to d…
Boca Raton Theatre Guild's Everyday Rapture is bliss and it's the reason to get yourself to the Willow Theatre. Jodie Langel, Ann Marie Olson and Leah Sessa possess some of the best voices y…
Fine acting and direction elevate a script that navigates intellectual mazes and human emotions in The How and the Why at Theatre At Arts Garage.
Detroit, Lisa D'Amour's finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, is a thought-provoking piece of theater. The Zoetic Stage production finds its own complex groove in Detroit to present a must see in…
Broward Stage Door, Outre Theatre Company and Slow Burn Theatre Company have agreed to honor some of the tickets sold to patrons of The Plaza Theatre which shuttered late last month in Manal…
Publishing student reviews of high school theater is the cornerstone of a new service from Florida Theater On Stage and the South Florida Critics and Awards Program, better known as The Capp…
Schedule of High School Shows evaluated by The Cappies
The tempest dies down, but the emotional tumult rages on in Nilo Cruz's superbly staged world premiere of Hurricane, getting a criminally brief run at Arca Images in Miami. Rarely do South F…
Brandishing pink boxing gloves as her totem and a defiant "F*** cancer" as her catchphrase, artist and theater activist Dana Castellano fought valiantly and very publicly against the disease…
The Foreigner at the Maltz Jupiter Theatre is a wry, knowing comedy, good-naturedly poking fun at human frailties and overlaid with a wacky daftness. The incisively observed social satire is…
The South Florida Theatre League has announced its 2014 Remy Awards recognizing outstanding service and pioneering efforts in the development of the arts in the region.
Rodgers + Hammerstein's Cinderella is a lush, imaginative and polished production nearly guaranteed to delight audiences of all ages. That said, if you're looking for Rodgers and Hammerstein…
Loaded with lots of laugh lines and inside theater jokes, POZ at Island City Stage has some supremely likeable characters. Yet there's just something a little bit too snappy about this world…
The devastation from a hurricane outside is only a reflection of the greater emotional destruction already crippling the protagonists in Nilo Cruz's play Hurricane set for only five performa…
The eighth annual 24-Hour Theatre Project on Monday had a slightly different vibe to it with everyone on stage and much of the audience wearing tiny teal ribbons representing the fight again…
After a half-century of sympathetic portraits of Hedda Gabler as a woman suffocating in a sexist societal straightjacket, Miami Theater Center gives us a cool, manipulative, self-centered cr…
Bodies seem to fly through the air and end up in a plethora of entwined positions worthy of a terpsichorean Kama Sutra in The Wick Theatre's thrilling musical revue Swing. Indulge yourself i…
Twenty-six theater professionals, activists and organizations are being honored for "outstanding or unique contributions to South Florida theater" with the Silver Palm Theatre Awards.
The temptation is to describe the nightmarish Back of the Throat as Kafkaesque as Outré Theatre Company depicts an America gone mad. But it's not. That's the real horror. The extremities un…
Broward Stage Door Theatre has mounted a warmly delightful production of Joe Di Pietro's The Last Romance, a bittersweet play about love, loss and loneliness and how the twilight years hold …