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Thrill Me, a stunning musical about the child murderers Leopold and Loeb, closes out Outre Theatre Company's season with a two-man, one-act piece noteable for offbeat immediacy and barebones…
This national tour of the 2012 Broadway revival of Evita is a strong fresh edition that gives the raw material a thorough makeover but does not deconstruct the piece. The experience is helpe…
For a century, August Strindberg's tragedy Miss Julie has been interpreted as a seesaw of power exercised through class and sexual politics. But in Naked Stage's operatic production, as live…
This is why we go to theater. New Theatre's Gidion's Knot " wrenching, thought-provoking, shocking, visceral in ways no film can be" exemplifies why we spend time in dark rooms watching live…
The unreliability of memory -- and the resulting doubt and guilt -- swirl through Zoetic Stage's finely crafted production of The Great God Pan.
High school theater students from 18 public and private schools throughout Broward and Palm Beach counties took home awards from the 12th annual Cappies Awards Gala held Monday, hosted by th…
Under the vanities and inanities, the witty literary allusions and the silly sight gags, "Vanya and Sonia and Marsha and Spike" gently pokes fun at people who have wasted their lives. But do…
Scott and Hem, an imagined reunion of Fitzgerald and Hemingway, is half comprised of deadly accurate insights into the angst of creative souls; the other half is just deadly dumps of name-dr…
Thinking Cap's U.S. premiere of Sarah Kosar's Hot Dog comes across as a mean-spirited hate letter to a dying parent whose time can't come soon enough. It's a play about caring, yet we hardly…
A swirling spiral of emotional DNA echoes the emotional dance in The Tryst at Palm Beach Dramaworks. It's a psychologically-rooted tale of romance, albeit an unconventional definition of rom…
The snowbirds have gone home, but South Florida theater never seems to go dark these days. This year-round trend has never been clearer than right now with a calendar is jammed with an overw…
Terrence McNally's drama Mothers and Sons examines the chasm that AIDS opened when troubled families were forced to face the sexuality of a loved one. But the play also shines a spotlight on…
Robert Schenkkan's Tony-nominated play All The Way is blessed with a fascinating portrait by Tony-nominated Bryan Cranston as LBJ, but it's his script's premise that makes the evening stay w…
Something remarkable happened opening night when the band played the entr'acte to the second half of the Wick Theatre's Ain't Misbehavin'. What had been a merely competent if unremarkable ev…
Even though Miami Theater Center wants "children's shows" to be enjoyed by all generations, Everyone Drinks The Same Water is likely to be most appreciated by middle schoolers. As always, th…
Awash in sex, war, adversity, sex, divorce, achievement, motherhood, determination, sex, the Holocaust and sex, it's difficult to understand how the biographical play Becoming Dr. Ruth can b…
Although Eglise Gutiérrez's performance in the title role of Thais is indeed glorious, equally fascinating in the current edition at Florida Grand Opera is what happens when no one is singi…
Tone is the secret behind the tragically soon-to-close Broadway production of Jason Robert Brown's lovely, heartfelt and thought-filled musical, The Bridges of Madison County. The theatrical…
While it does give actors and audiences of the 50-plus demographic a forum to create, Pigs Do Fly's Fifty Plus " A Celebration of Life As We Know It isn't just for those fifty or older; the …
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But perhaps the biggest illusion of Ghost: The Musical at the Broward Center is that, at its face value, it's an ordinary Broadway musical. Because of this notion, it doesn't seem to get its…
Meeting people, networking, building relationships " these are necessary skills in any business, but critically important for writers hoping to bring their words to the stage. Giving playwri…
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 …
"Learning to work through inbred intolerance" is not the kids' stuff of an ABC Afterschool Special, but Miami Theater Center's vision has always differed radically from what is often dismiss…
In three visits to Miami, the House Theatre of Chicago has always exuded an underlying love of the gloriously imaginative storytelling only theater can deliver. But its current entry at the …
