Palm Beach Dramaworks's 2014-2015 season will continue its tradition of presenting classic American and British dramas and musicals, a few familiar, some rarely if ever done by professional …
The Full Monty is one of those scruffy street mongrels that are undeniably cute and even inexplicably winning for short periods, but not a stray you want to take home. The Wick Theatre's pro…
Jealousy, ego and unbridled schadenfreude that exist in any human being seem to be intensified among the rarefied spirits we call artists " at least that seems to be thrust of Mark Ravenhill…
All through the engrossing and ultimately wrenching second act of the Maltz Jupiter Theatre's production of Other Desert Cities, one question screamed for an answer: Where were you people in…
Few Broadway shows can equal the track record of 1986's Rags: closed after four performances, rewritten, remounted, rewritten again. There are at least 10 scripts. But something about the dr…
A brand-new troupe, Primal Forces, is targeting a group previously left to fend for themselves: the Boomers who came of age during the political and social tumult of the 1960s and 1970s. The…
Careful, he's got a gun. Nicholas Richberg is waving around a Civil War pistol and sporting an equally dangerous moustache while he sings as Booth in Zoetic Stage's Assassins. But there are …
Careful, he's got a gun. Nicholas Richberg is waving around a Civil War pistol and sporting an equally dangerous moustache while he sings as Booth in Zoetic Stage's Assassins. But there are …
War Horse is cherished by many of us who saw it at Lincoln Center as one of the most brilliantly executed pieces of theater we have seen. But it's hard to shake the heretical truth that the…
The Maltz Jupiter Theatre has been nudging its mainstream audience for years toward relatively riskier fare, but the slate announced today for its 2014-2015 season includes one entry that wi…
Until the final scene, it's not terribly clear what New Theatre's intriguing Visiting Hours is about or what it's trying to say " and then the ideas come at you so fast that it takes a while…
Some vibrant performances " one of them pure electricity " rescue M Ensemble's uneven production of Charles Smith's intriguing but flawed script about boldface names from the Harlem Renaissa…
A yearning so palpable it almost becomes corporeal and a heartache without a shred of self-pity pour unapologetically from the stage in the legitimately affecting musical Once touring throug…
Deborah Zoe Laufer's The Last Schwartz poses a difficult mélange of tones, and Parade Productions' production doesn't smoothly meld Laufer's various parts. That said, the stand-alone strand…
Anyone who tells you they understood every beat of Old Times at Palm Beach Dramaworks is probably lying. But investing close attention to Harold Pinter's play will be rewarded with a theatri…
"Something old (sort of), something new" characterizes the 2014-2015 season for Broadway Across America-Fort Lauderdale. Two current Broadway hits, Pippin and Motown the Musical, will be joi…
Zoetic Stage director Stuart Meltzer and a superb collection of actors and designers have scored, forgive me, a bull's eye with this production of Assassins. . Any Stephen Sondheim fan under…
The beauty of the one man play Wiesenthal at Broward Stage Door Theatre is it's more of an immersive theater experience than history lesson, actor/playwright Tom Dugan has the audience. eati…
After months of almost invisible activity, M Ensemble will resurface early next month far from its previous homes: South Miami-Dade Cultural Arts Center in Cutler Bay.
Those big budget companies make productions with much smaller budgets such as Boca Raton Theatre Guild seem to be missing something " when, in fact, their Pippin this season has outstanding …
On opening night at Florida Grand Opera's production of the infrequently-mounted Nabucco, the audience joined the chorus in singing "Va, pensiero, sull'ali dorate." The sing along was the hi…
Even if Slow Burn's moving production of the dark and dangerous musical Parade wasn't the success that it indeed is, the troupe would deserve honor for the fearlessness in choosing a pre-ord…
Renee Taylor's one-woman autobiographical show, My Life on a Diet, now at The Plaza Theatre is filled with humorous and self-deprecating stories of her life in image-conscious Hollywood. The…
The past is too much with us, to misquote Wordsworth. Beth Henley's Crimes of the Heart urges us to get past our pasts if we are to have some hope for the future. That homespun homily is del…
It's not exactly a wandering band of players, but New Theatre will move next month into its fifth "permanent" home in 27 years, a small flexible space at the South Miami-Dade Cultural Arts C…