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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 …
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…
