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In addition to the two major productions still running that opened earlier this month and the four productions that opened last week, there will be 10 " count 'em 10 " productions opening th…
The Book of Mormon was unveiled Monday as the headliner in the 2014-2015 Kravis on Broadway season. It's joined on the schedule by Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella, Flashdance, Anything …
Slow Burn Theatre Company has once again tackled a difficult show in Chess that few if any Florida companies would attempt. And once again, it has come out the victor, at least as victorious…
Death, drug overdose, murder, lies, hypocrisy, soulless creatures willing to do absolutely anything for greed and glamour " you really shouldn't be laughing this much or this hard. But after…
Not taking a thing away from Sondheim or anyone else who followed them, but the Maltz Jupiter Theatre's glorious production of The King and I reminds you that when it's done right, nobody ca…
Jews honor a direct bond with their forebears stretching across 6,000 years. That cornerstone of Passover also underlies James Sherman's The God of Isaac, enjoying an enthusiastic and effect…
A pre-holiday foray to a snow-struck Broadway delivered a master class of insights that last beyond a temporary season, whether it was Macbeth or Matilda, The Glass Menagerie or A Gentleman'…
When it came time to cast the roles of the King's children for its production of The King and I, the Maltz Jupiter Theatre did more than just a casting call. They consulted data, sent more …
Certainly, The Mountaintop is about Martin Luther King's place in the civil rights struggle, but the superb production at GableStage examines a more universal issue of how ever-present morta…
Not every show is a home run. But that doesn't deprive the audience of an interesting night when talented actresses make a flawed script land as well as can be hoped. Patti Gardner and Jacqu…
Three of Broadway's most popular hits come to the Arsht Center next season through the Broadway Across Miami series: the irreverent satire The Book of Mormon, the exuberant Disney's Newsies …
A delightfully demented cast enhanced by the inventive imagination of chief jester/director David Arisco and choreographer Ron Hutchins make Actors' Playhouse's Spamalot a satisfying pleasur…
Entirely well-acted, thoughtfully directed, in a evolved play about past loves we can't leave behind, Fighting Over Beverley by Israel Horovitz has its way way off Broadway tryout at Theatre…
It is wonderful to see creativity in approaching a work that isn't usually staged; the bad news is, when it doesn't come together, all of the inventiveness is lost. Such is the case with The…
Among the reasons to see The Women's Theatre Project's Red Hot Patriot are Carbonell Award-winner Barbara Bradshaw as she holds court for 68 minutes in a one-woman show about Texas journalis…
With its ingenious, acrobatic score, and exceptional singers who could handle both the drama and the demands, FGO's No Exit may have been a depiction of hell, but the production was hot damn…
Christopher Demos-Brown is among six finalists for one of the most esteemed playwriting honors in the country, the Harold and Mimi Steinberg/American Theatre Critics Association New Play Awa…
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 …