The magic of serendipity: It's difficult to imagine -- without being boxed into it as Miami Theater Company was -- how an artistic director would thematically put together a season encompass…
The primary pleasure of Slow Burn Theatre Company's run at the legendarily miserable (but subsequently overhauled) musical Carrie is enjoying how glowing talent, unbridled earnestness and to…
Teo Castellanos' solo work Third Trinity, a commissioned work by Miami Light Project, is bold in its presentation, mostly because it's an autobiographical story of Castellanos' growing up " …
The Plaza Theatre in Manalapan declared bankruptcy and closed its doors Friday on the day that it was poised to begin its third season due to a precipitous drop in ticket sales and an inabil…
They know. It seems beyond hubris for Slow Burn Theatre to mount a musical whose debut has become a catchphrase for famous flops, as in "Not since Carrie has there been such a theatrical dis…
Peter and the Starcatcher, an alternative origin story for Peter Pan, is an ensemble piece featuring a dozen chameleonic storytellers, each with moments in the spotlight. But Theater Up Clos…
For such a seemingly simple play, Our Town requires the audience to generously invest their attention and imagination. Thornton Wilder's classic set in a small town in New Hampshire only wor…
The overall picture may seem a bit disjointed and fuzzy, but the world premiere of The Cuban Spring at New Theatre incisively depicts the complexities of Cuban-American families in modern Mi…
The Naked Stage's annual 24-Hour Theatre Project is scheduled for 8 p.m. Monday, Oct. 27, hosted this year by Palm Beach Dramaworks in West Palm Beach. All proceeds will go directly to Dana …
Every couple of years, Actors' Playhouse " home of the mainstream musical "mounts an edgy modern work that nourishes the creative soul of the theater's more adventurous patrons like next to …
Underneath all the imagination and playfulness inherent in the upcoming fantasy of Peter and the Starcatcher at the Arsht Center, a practical apprenticeship has been forged among students an…
Why should you go to see Annie yet once again? First is that director Martin Charnin has banished a lot of the saccharine overkill and played the remaining cuteness and heart-tugging moments…
Slow Burn Theatre Company, the acclaimed troupe specializing in musicals that many companies shy from, is moving its main operation from Boca Raton to the Amaturo Theatre at the Broward Cent…
Slow Burn Theatre Company's The Marvelous Wonderettes at the Broward Center is a sweet and tasty cotton candy confection of girl group standards from 1950s and 1960s delivered by four terrif…
Jamaica Farewell -- Debra Ehrhardt's semi-autobiographical comedy about her emigration to America " has passages of tension and tears, but it's not exactly the heart-warming tale of a life-t…
A quick roundup of miscellaneous miscellany and assorted assortments.
I Love Lucy® Live On Stage is mildly amusing, mildly humorous, mildly pleasant and very mildly entertaining --- phrases never attached to Lucille Ball® or I Love Lucy®. There is lit…
Some patrons might be a tad uncomfortable at Murder Ballad at Actors Playhouse. After all, a lovesick swain likely will pour his heart out while standing on a chair a few inches away from an…
Actors' Playhouse's crew spent weeks ripping up its second floor balcony theater and reconfiguring it for its upcoming production of the noirish musical Murder Ballad, set in a dark East Vi…
The ultimate themes and intended resonances of Dying City dance just out of intellectual reach in Ground Up and Rising's brave but flawed production, but the audience gets some reward siftin…
GableStage's production of Terrence McNally's script Mothers And Sons surpasses the Broadway premiere by depicting close-up the devastating pain when deep emotional wounds inflicted decades …
Halloween has arrived early with a wildly uneven but strangely intriguing production of Ira Levin's 1973 exercise in creepiness, Veronica's Room at Andrews Living Arts. The evening never qui…
News about Summer Shorts reading potential plays tonight, Lake Worth Playhouse fundraiser and Stage door extends run of What's New Pussycat
Evening Star Production's The Subject Was Roses underscores the insightful script, but the valiant effort leaves far too much crucial passion AWOL.
Conundrum Stages has been working quietly on the edges of the South Florida theater scene for so long that it's both surprising and not surprising to hear that their current project this mon…