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There's more to Thinking Cap Theatre's inventive The Rover than staging a 300-year-old play with oomph enough to keep a 21st century audience interested. What director Nicole Stodard (who is…
The Delray City Commission voted unanimously Tuesday to postpone selling the Arts Garage's home base for two months, giving the venue a reprieve from relocating or even closing. Faced with a…
Admit up front that the world premiere of Christina Alexander's one-woman show Hate! An American Love Story is a tad unfocused, undisciplined, even sloppy theater. Then acknowledge that it's…
The Book of Mormon, Broadway's biggest hit musical since The Producers, is the headlining entry in the 2013-2014 season of national tours announced Sunday by Broadway Across America " Fort L…
You don't have to be a musicologist or opera aficionado to recognize the stunning meld of emotion and technique in the artistry of Rachele Gilmore's performance of the title role in Florida …
The Maltz Jupiter Theatre production under J. Barry Lewis' direction merits being seen for three finely-crafted performances by Maureen Anderman, Jim Ballard and Julie Kleiner, plus an outst…
By Bill Hirschman It's been a season of struggles between faith and reason, intellect and romanticism, science and religion in South Florida theater: Amadeus at the Maltz Jupiter Theatre, Th…
Audiences members should leave the Maltz Jupiter Theatre's production of Doubt: A Parable arguing whether Father Flynn did or didn't abuse a child, and some will be unable to make up their …
The Maltz Jupiter Theatre, with its reputation as a quintessential mainstream house, will mix up its 2013-2014 season with titles dating back decades and the hottest play on Broadway last ye…
There is more passion pouring off the stage in Slow Burn Theatre Company's thrilling Side Show than in ten other musicals we've seen in the past year put together. That may result in one too…
It starts slow, so slow that you fear it may never get going. But when Palm Beach Dramaworks' A Raisin in the Sun finally gets rolling, the emotional wallops arrive in every deepening wave o…
Parade Productions' collection of short plays by Michael McKeever, The Whole Caboodle, has the makings of a terrific evening of theatre, but an added conceptual element prevents the show fro…
In a classic opera depicting the battle between intellectual enlightenment and romanticism with allusions to ancient Masonic rituals, you don't expect a character to exclaim, "Mrs. Robinson,…
Thirty minutes before curtain at the Broward Center Wednesday, Miranda Palumbo ecstatically grinned as a clerk at the Oz Dust Boutique stuffed a grey hooded sweater jacket into a Wicked shop…
You have until just before midnight today (Thursday) to contribute to the Alliance Theatre Project's online funding campaign to raise money to help pay for its revival of the acclaimed Broth…
In the six years since the Coconut Grove Playhouse shuttered, irreplaceable theatrical history has festered in a fetid, crumbling structure, endangered by everything from larcenous-minded va…
By Bill Hirschman Illness has sidelined Valerie Harper from starring in the revival of Looped that was to kick off a new national tour at Parker Playhouse Feb. 26-March 3. The role of Tallul…
Looking for a peek at what might be part of next June's Summer Shorts? City Theatre is holding a free reading of as many as six contenders at 6:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 1, on the second floor of…
With the upfront caveat that we saw an early preview, Broward Stage Door's Damn Yankees is a base hit but no triple. The cast needs to pitch with a little more spin on the ball, even with ta…
Israel Horovitz's Gloucester Blue, getting a gleefully mischievous world premiere at the Arts Garage, is a black comedy with all three Aristotelian verities " beer, blackmail and blood. The …
The fledgling Plaza Theatre began its existence relying on musical revues and cabaret shows, although it has recently added plays like Driving Miss Daisy, Luv and Chapter Two. Now, the compa…
The 2013 Carbonell Award nominations announced today mirror the changing face of South Florida theater. There are farewells for three companies that closed in 2012 and recognition of five tr…
Best New Work (play or musical) Baby GirL, Kim Ehly, Kutumba Theatre Project A Measure of Cruelty, Joe Calarco, Mosaic Theatre Moscow, Michael McKeever, Zoetic Stage Off Center of Nowhere, D…
Law schools are not the usual sponsors for theater, but the University of Miami School of Law is presenting Jan. 27 Â a staged-reading of "8," a play chronicling the historic trial of the …
As part of our On The Boards podcasts in cooperation with Arts Radio Network, Florida Theater On Stage's Bill Hirschman sits down for a conversation with Arts Garage Artistic Director and fo…
