Beautifully sung, passionately acted and staged with as much movement and business as anyone can ask of a limited rehearsal period, Palm Beach Dramawortks' concert version mines much of the…
Veteran New York actor Jim Brochu -- best known for his play about Mostel Zero Hour -- wants to honor and memorialize people like his close friend David Burns, the original Horace Vandergeld…
While some people may be broiling in the sun this holiday weekend, New Theatre is offering a cooler alternative with its inexpensive fund-raising program: its summer edition of the Miami 1-…
Bill Hirschman's interview with FAU Associate Professor Richard Gamble who talks at length about FAU's 27th Summer Festival Rep (A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum, Side By Side …
fSlow Burn Theatre Company's daffy production of the summer trifle The Wedding Singer feels like a sweet, sloppy kiss from a scruffy dog that could really use a trip to the groomer, but who'…
Conundrum Stages celebrates its fifth year as a low-key presenter of staged readings in South Florida this weekend with Five So Far: The Conundrum Stages Anthology, a retrospective showcase …
There's not one but two elephants in the room, actually in the auditorium, as Slow Burn Theatre Company prepares to take on the 2006 stage musical version of The Wedding Singer , which opens…
Playwrights Tina Howe, Lauren Gunderson, Robert Caisley and Steve Yockey are the headliners among an experienced group of speakers this weekend in Miami at the annual CityWrights conference …
GableStage's 2013-2014 slate includes the just- coronated Tony winner for best play, Christopher Durang's hilarious Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike. Equally notable is the debut of homet…
Tamarac Theatre of the Performing Arts will shut down, at least temporarily, after the end of its current show June 30 because its landlord is evicting the company after 13 years, said Gener…
If, as La Cage aux Folles' Zaza suggests looking at life from a different angle, The Women's Theatre Project's annual Girl Play series of staged readings June 21-23 examines life from yet an…
Members of the South Florida Theatre League are donating pairs of tickets in a revival of the Free Night of Theater lottery program this summer that encourages people to investigate theaters…
By Bill Hirschman Sometimes for actors, especially playing comedy, the only option is to jump off the cliff and see if you can fly. The miracle is that sometimes, as in City Theatre's Summer…
Imagine you're Ken Clement in City Theatre's Summer Shorts opening this week. One minute he's a dolphin, a few minutes later he;s Dracula and still later he has to find his inner Mothra. Per…
Acknowledge that Broward Stage Door's revival of Neil Simon's thirty-year-old warhorse Brighton Beach Memories is uneven and stumbles. Then acknowledge, at least this critic will, that Stage…
If this seems to be a summer jammed with play readings across the region (at least 18 set so far and we have more to announce over the next few days), musical theater fans will be penciling …
Get an early look-and-listen to works in progress by local playwrights every Monday night for 18 weeks beginning June 3 at theater across four counties through the South Florida Theatre Leag…
Forbidden Fruit Lynn University's fledgling theater program stays active during the sultry months thanks to the leadership of Jan McArt, its director of theatre arts program development. I's…
Actor, playwright, designer, dancer, choreographer, artistic director of New Theatre and probably a few other job descriptions we've left out, Ricky J. Martinez is one of the most hyphenate …
Outré Theatre Company has mounted a smooth and solid production of Jonathan Larson's other produced work, the semi-autobiographical rock musical tick, tick…BOOM! Built around an impassion…
Amid blockbuster musicals and dysfunctional family dramas, one of the disappearing genres of theater and much of art is the slow, sweet sad song. And as Palm Beach Dramaworks' slow, sweet sa…
Thinking Cap Theatre's production of Nick Hadikwa Mwaluko's Waafrika is a deeply earnest and illuminating if imperfect examination of the tragic toxicity of tradition. But even Waafrika's fl…
Theater students from 14 public and private high schools in Broward and Palm Beach counties received Cappies awards Tuesday, recognizing excellence in both productions and theater criticism …
Sex, despite the title at GableStage, and despite the plot, is not what Cock is about. And guess what? It's sexy. It's very sexy. But this is a story about love, labels and the pressure …
White Rose Miami, the tiny ad hoc drama troupe known for its varied venues including someone's backyard, is taking another show on the road around Miami-Dade County May 17-June 2 with the h…