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In keeping with Outré's commitment to go-big-or-go-home, its Much Ado About Nothing is a valiant effort that only works some of the time. There are low comedy laughs, but the intricate word…
Daniel Maté holds up a mirror so we can examine ourselves in his new musical The Longing and The Short Of It at the Theatre at Arts Garage. But his vision has such incisive clarity that he …
If you wonder what theater was like back when it was as popular as film and far more influential than the upstart television, you can see a prime example in the Maltz Jupiter Theatre's time …
Photos of Thursday's ribbon cutting for the Maltz Jupiter Theatre's $2.5 million renovation plus photos of the new interior.
Broward Stage Door's Sophisticated Ladies resurrects a vibrant echo of that class and panache in their entertaining revue of Duke Ellington's music. If the show doesn't quite sizzle and snap…
It's easy to be snarky about The D*Word this mélange of a Lifetime movie, Harlequin romance, Mamma Mia sing-along and the racy banter of Sex in the City. But if you can ignore feeling manip…
New Theatre is postponing opening night one week for its world premiere of Megan Breen's My First, My Fist, My Bleeding Seeded Spirit, moving from Nov. 8 to Nov. 15.
Time is not always kind to continuing enterprises like The Naked Stage's annual fundraiser The 24-Hour Theatre Project. But the seventh edition on Monday proved once again to be stronger and…
Director Michael Leeds and stars Michael McKeever and Mike Westrich triumph in Island City Stage's production of The Timekeepers by mostly navigating quietly and gingerly through the halting…
When the finished $2.5 million project is unveiled at an open house Monday, the transmogrified Maltz Jupiter Theatre will serve as a valediction and validation of its decade growing from Bur…
The Royal Poinciana Playhouse may yet rise again as a professional regional theater. A non-profit group known for its youth programs signed a long-term lease with the property's landlord, ac…
Twenty of the most respected and beloved figures who have built South Florida theater -- from impresario Jan McArt to critic/arts journalist Christine Dolen -- have been selected to receive …
Palm Beach Dramaworks is launching Dramalogue, a fresh program designed to provide theater enthusiasts with an entertaining and educational glimpse of various facets of theater production.
The power of storytelling " swapping tales on the porch or watching a familial drama unfold on stage " is the keystone of AAPACT's production of August Wilson's Fences. The earnest edition n…
Critics are congenitally awash in self-doubt when they adore something. But to heck with it. Slow Burn Theatre Company's profoundly moving production of the musical next to normal is about a…
Photos of the Slow Burn Theatre Company production next to normal by Gemma Bramham.
Spotlight On The Arts is a weekly panel discussion of issues facing the local creative community and their audiences, featuring an irreverent group including actress/teacher/producer Iris Ac…
Not quite as life-and-death as the TV series 24, but every bit as nail-biting, the Naked Stage's 24-Hour Theatre Project is one of the most highly anticipated events of the theater season.
It's hard part to do Neil Simon well. The Plaza Theatre in Manalapan does not fall into that trap. They do Neil Simon very, very well. Earlier this year the Plaza produced a fine Chapter Two…
The University of Miami/Arsht Center production of Metamorphoses is akin to a daring young gymnast attempting a difficult advanced maneuver: admirably brave, visually arresting, but not quit…
Scenes from the University of Miami/Arsht Center production of Ovid's Metamorphoses / Photos by Justin Namon
Everything about Ruthless! The Musical at Actors Playhouse from dripping furs to the Ethel Merman voices, everything is over the top. Way over the top. Thank goodness. Well, actually, don't …
Human beings have to dream " no matter their likelihood, no matter the cost. This sampler cliché find its truth in the tactile tragedy that is Palm Beach Dramaworks' muted but moving reviva…
Productions of some musicals are like Original Cast Recordings that you don't play too often for fear they might get stale. When you do revisit them, you say, "Oh, right, that's why I liked …
Never have the undead been more alive than in South Florida theaters this month as companies take advantage of the spooky season to raise money or just let their unnaturally hirsute hair dow…