Director Michael Leeds and a solid cast at the Plaza Theatre in Manalapan have mastered Neil Simon's challenging meld of witty comedy and throat-choking heartache, and make both perfectly pl…
Jon Robin Baitz's finely-crafted play asks whether there is such a thing as unconditional love in Actors Playhouse's rock solid production of last season's Broadway triumph which surgically …
Outré Theatre Company has scheduled a staged reading of Nicky Silver's Fat Men In Skirts at 8 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 22 at Empire Stage, 1140 N Flagler Drive in Fort Lauderdale. The plot is des…
There's the canny germ of an idea in producer Zev Buffman's pet project to fuse radio, theater and modern technology into a hybrid exemplified in his latest production, Agatha Christie's The…
The Alliance Theatre Lab is about to graduate to another level when its successful Gen-X comedy Brothers Beckett is revived in a co-production with the Arsht Center's Theater Up Close series…
South Florida impresario and veteran Broadway producer Zev Buffman foresees a future for stage theater -- in radio. Not just for any theater, but orphans like the Parker Playhouse that are t…
Florida Theater On Stage Editor and Chief Critic Bill Hirschman will speak about the past, present and future of South Florida theater at noon Tuesday and Friday as a guest on Jason Fisher a…
Assuredly, the Maltz Jupiter Theatre's Singin' In the Rain is a pleasant, skillfully executed, beautifully produced evening of cotton candy entertainment. The asterisk is that this Singin' I…
The miracle of Tarell Alvin McCraney's streamlined Hamlet at GableStage is that even after surgically slicing two-thirds of the script, the result remains not only effective theater but pure…
Jan McArt's Theatre Arts Guild Florida New Play Workshop will give a platform through this spring to four playwrights: Tony Finstrom, Michael McKeever, Dan Clancy and Jay Stuart. The product…
South Florida theater critics have to kiss a lot of comedy frogs before they find a prince, so we're exhilarated when we discover one as magical as Zoetic Stage's hilarious and touching All …
South Florida Theater has a full slate of special events this weekend in addition to the openings of Zoetic Theatre's All New People, Maltz Jupiter Theatre's Singin' In The Rain, Cirque du S…
A tribute show of sorts to two of Broadway's most prolific composers, John Kander and Fred Ebb, is the foundation for The World Goes 'Round
Four years ago, The Women's Theatre Project mounted Faye Sholiton's The Interview about the persisting damage that the Holocaust wreaked across generations. As solid as the first production …
For a comedy about the magical transformation of man into a pig and how that opens up his lover's ability to commit to true love, there's plenty of laughs but not a lot of magic in Pig Tale,…
By Bill Hirschman "I'm doing all right as long as I don't pass out." It's November and Tarell Alvin McCraney has sandwiched in a trip back to his hometown to prep his January 12 production o…
Kristina Wong's Cat Lady at Mad Cat Theatre Company is downright hilarious while shot through with pathos and insights into the search for human connection. It seems to be exactly the offbea…
Who besides Mad Cat Theatre Company would take a talking cat, who persistently pees on the rug, and a professional pickup artist instructing wannabees how to pretend to be genuine " and meld…
After taking barely a breather, the South Florida theater season resumes with a tsunami of shows, at least 26 professional productions alone through the first weekend in February. Here's the…
In theater, that most mutable and evolving art form, the passage of time is the forgotten factor in what the audiences see. So while having critics review a show opening night is unavoidable…
In this edition of Talkin' In The Green Room With, Angie Radosh explains why she panics upon seeing reruns of a particular I Love Lucy episode and she reveals the job you'll never guess that…
Theater Shelf, a recurring feature, reviews recently-released books, CDs and DVDs of interest to theater lovers. Some are popular titles like a new Original Cast Recording, others are works …
A couple of off-beat repostings for the holidays: Playbill.com posted 50 Iphone photographs taken of or by Janet Dacal of her homecoming to Miami as she rehearsed for Actors Playhouse's The …
Theater in South Florida ebbed and flowed like the beach surf in 2012 with triumphs and tragedies encompassing the death of three theater companies and the birth of four others.
We're entering another period of as many as six productions opening in one week. As a result, reviews may not remain in the center featured position more than one day. Please check out recen…