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…
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…