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Life isn't fair. That's one of the bittersweet themes in Slow Burn Theatre Company's Avenue Q. But what's really unfair is that there's only five performances left and unless you hustle this…
Backstage at rehearsals for this weekend's opening of Slow Burn Theatre Company's Avenue Q, it was not unusual to find actors offstage talking to their puppets. Michael Westrich, who portray…
Openings and Closings Opening Oct. 26-Nov. 4 Avenue Q Slow Burn Theatre Company at West Boca Performing Arts Theatre 12811 West Glades Rd., Boca Raton (954) 323-7884 www.slowburntheatre.com …
Don't call Terri Girvin's Last Call a solo piece when it returns to the Broward Center this week. She's the first to say that the precisely timed sound effects ingrained into a comic monolog…
Maltz Jupiter theatergoers need to manage their expectations of next week's run of the play Amadeus, better known for the film about the mediocre composer Salieri's rivalry with Mozart. Pe…
The most affecting moments in the Plaza Theatre's solid, entertaining production of the venerable Driving Miss Daisy are the fleeting grace notes that have no dialogue, moments that result f…
It's not encouraging when all through New Theatre's production of Educating Rita you keep thinking what a great script Willy Russell wrote. This edition sloughs listlessly in the opening 45…
Opening this week: Oct. 18-Nov. 18 Driving Miss Daisy Plaza Theatre 262 S. Ocean Blvd., Manalapan (former Florida Stage site) (561) 588-1820 www.theplazatheatre.net The Pulitzer Prize-winnin…
THIS STORY WILL BE UPDATED ALL AFTERNOON By Bill Hirschman The gleaming building that symbolized the Caldwell Theatre Company's hard-fought dreams was sold at a foreclosure auction at 11:17 …
The interested parties aren't the usual suspects. A workout gym, a church, a charter school, a medical facility. Everything but a theater. When the house that the Caldwell Theatre Company bu…
Caldwell Theatre Company co-founder Michael Hall stepped down as artistic director in 2009, and has been travelling and writing ever since. But he returned to the Caldwell in February 2011 t…
The interested parties aren't the usual suspects. A workout gym, a church, a charter school, a medical facility. Everything but a theater. When the house that the Caldwell Theatre Company bu…
The All Night Strut The preliminary lineup of masochists has been announced for The Naked Stage’s 24-Hour Theatre Project 2012, currently slated for 8 p.m. Monday, Nov. 12, hosted a…
The sparse crowd Saturday night at Actors Playhouse must be a result of people thinking, "Oh, I like it well enough, but I've seen Godspell." But they'd be wrong, to their loss. This earnest…
ut Talley's Folly doesn't ask you to turn off your brain even as it embraces you with an enchanting pas de deux of emotions, at least in Palm Beach Dramaworks' charming seduction starring Br…
The state of Florida will take ownership of the shuttered Coconut Grove Playhouse Friday morning as officials warned a month ago, a state spokeswoman confirmed Thursday afternoon.
By Bill Hirschman If Florida Power & Light is looking for an auxiliary source of energy to forestall  another rate request , perhaps they simply ought to follow around the national to…
Is there a better high for a theater artist than to return home starring in a national tour of a hit Broadway show? Ask Miami native Dominique "Dom" Scott. When the Miami native takes the Ar…
I Am My Own Wife is so fascinating and on so many levels that long after actor Tom Wahl ascends the short staircase and exits through the double doors at the end of the one-person play, ther…
Audiences often marvel at actors' ability to memorize long speeches and complex dialogue. But few memorization jobs are as daunting as that of I Am My Own Wife. When Tom Wahl stands alone fo…
Openings and Closings Opening this week: Oct. 4-21 I Am My Own Wife Zoetic Stage at the Adrienne Arsht Center for Performing Arts 1300 Biscayne Blvd., Miami (305) 741-3180 zoeticstage.com Do…
Students cannot say theater tickets are too expensive. Culture Shock Miami has resumed offering $5 tickets to high school and college students " less than a movie matinee. Starting this week…
Boca Raton Theatre Guild's production of A.R. Gurney's comedy has some virtues starting with a delightful performance from Jacqueline Laggy and an admirably solid one from Patti Gardner. But…
Despite the raunchy discussion of every kind of sex, the flamboyantly omnisexual emcee, and, oh yes, the title " The All-American Genderf**k Cabaret " this irreverent satire from Thinking Ca…
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 …
