Despite the death of director Laura Ruchala, Evening Star Productions' The Comedy of Errors is a rollicking ebullient edition of Shakespeare's farce of mistaken identities. Ruchala's playful…
Shadowing the 18-hour day when local musicians are first thrown together to rehearse and play opening night of the Miami visit of the national tour of Evita -- a job requiring skill, stamina…
The Arsht Center is t trying to keep talent in South Florida. They created MiamiArtsJobs.com, a job portal dedicated to helping find employees for Miami's growing cultural institutions and s…
When Mad Cat Theatre Company finds the right groove with the right piece as it has here with Centralia, even hidebound traditionalists need to recalibrate their definitions and expectations …
Lithe and graceful, Ron Hutchins stands out in any theater lobby on opening night, often noticeable for a quiet laugh that sounds like it's coming up out of a coal chute in the basement. But…
So the Cowardly Lion walks into a gay bar…. That premise pretty reliably lets you know that you must be watching the new edition of Shorts Gone Wild 2, the mildly risqué festival of short…
Sitting under a tent, sweating through the swelter, watching a faithful facsimile of a revival might not seem appealing to your everyday theatergoer. But bring an open mind to Thinking Cap T…
The script for 1969's Butterflies Are Free, holds up much better than you'd expect at its revival at Broward Stage Door. But while Stage Door's edition under director Michael Leeds is a plea…
An proposal resurrecting the Coconut Grove Playhouse as a $45 million theater complex likely run by the Adrienne Arsht Center is being solidified by Miami-Dade civic leaders headed by Mike E…
Theater Shelf, a recurring feature, reviews recently-released books, CDs and DVDs of interest to theater lovers. Some are popular titles like a new Original Cast Recording, others are works …
Michael Leeds is a director, teacher, actor, dancer and songwriter, but this interview shows he is a raconteur with a storehouse of stories ranging from the woman who did an I Love Lucy bit …
Jungle Fantasy is one of a dozen Cirque Dreams' productions that surround pretty impressive circus acts in otherworldly music, fluid lighting and spectacular costumes filled out by ultra-buf…
Worldless, disconnected, as neutral and interpretable as a Rorschach ink blot, H2OMBRE is a Cirque du Soleil-like show designed by and aimed at people raised on comic books and fantasy flick…
These fluffy summer fripperies at Actors' Playhouse must be successful because here's a sequel Mid-Life 2: the Crisis Continues, the off-spring of 2008's Mid-Life! The Crisis Musical. Once a…
Samuel D. Hunter's The Whale at GableStage focuses on a morbidly obese man wanting to reconnect with his abandoned daughter before his imminent death. But the darkly funny and affecting play…
Palm Beach Dramaworks' current staged concert of Frank Loesser's 1956 musical The Most Happy Fella overflows with a purity of emotions common to even the most ordinary of us, proclaiming the…
A five-foot tall assembly of beige bags hangs in the corner of Gablestage's cramped communal dressing room, vaguely shaped like a tan version of the marshmallow monster from Ghostbusters. N…
Friends, family and colleagues will share stories about the life and contributions of South Florida theater champion Jay Harris at a celebration at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at Gablestage.
Despite the more headline-grabbing 6,000 gallons of water, the significance of the Arsht's H2HOMBRE is that the public-private venue is cementing its commitment to a brand of imagistic, sens…
The Dana Plays, a program to raise funds for both the American Cancer Society and Dana Castellano, a member of the community battling the illness, is slated for 8 p.m. Monday at the Miami Th…
Ground Up & Rising's courageous production of 9 Circles is a dichotomy that is deeply felt and deeply flawed at the same time " bluntly and uninhibitedly slashing away at one dimension …
The musical revue Bernstein on Broadway at The Plaza Theatre is a bouncy bauble that achieves exactly what it aims to: deliver a diverting and entertaining summer evening. It's like one of t…
Coming to a theater near you in South Florida within a year or two " if it takes even that long " is Heathers: The Musical. It is closing off-Broadway, but it is destined to be a ubiquitous …
Pembroke Pines Theatre of the Performing Arts is laboring to make its masasive and expensive production of the epic Les Miserables a rebuke to silence those who dismiss community theater sig…
Mad Cat Theatre Company has named its third annual Nine Lives Scholarship Awards recipients: Cheyenne Nicole Hardy cited as outstanding high school senior and Kayla Bussel as outstanding col…