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Nancy Barnett, the former managing director of Florida Stage, has taken a job as executive director of Actors' Express Theatre in Atlanta effective immediately.
In Irving Berlin Salutes America at The Plaza Theatre, four capable performers plus the pianist/ arranger delivered the musical equivalent of a familiar old down comforter and a hot toddy fo…
You're invited to a birthday party today. Ours. One year. Florida Theater On Stage is celebrating and you're invited. You don't have to bring any gifts because you already have. Our very ex…
Island City Stage's The Twentieth Century Way is an intellectual theater game worthy of Pirandello or Stoppard in which facets swirl at such a dizzying speed that individual ideas become too…
After many months wandering in the wilderness, the critically-acclaimed but homeless Ground Up & Rising troupe has resurfaced with an upcoming season featuring one black box play, two f…
The Company Company, a group of current and former New World School of the Arts students, is holding its fourth annual New Play Project comprised of short works written, acted and directed b…
After many months wandering in the wilderness, the critically-acclaimed but homeless Ground Up & Rising troupe has resurfaced with an upcoming season featuring one black box play, two f…
After many months wandering in the wilderness, the critically-acclaimed but homeless Ground Up & Rising troupe has resurfaced with an upcoming season featuring one black box play, two f…
About 200 arts organization in Miami-Dade County will split an unexpected $1.5 million this fall because of a rebound in tourism, Mayor Carlos Gimenez told an elated crowd of arts administra…
Empire Stage, the vest pocket theater next to the railroad tracks at 1140 N. Flagler in Fort Lauderdale, is becoming a popular center for staged readings as well as temporary digs for small,…
A colleague recently referred to Gregg Weiner as South Florida's Gene Hackman " always working, highly-respected, focused, intense, funny, an actor who brings a character actor's technique t…
The Donkey Show, the cross between Studio 54 and Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, has been extended one week, and special deals have been added.
Built around a superb performance by Paulette Dozier, Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill mounted at Broward Stage Door intersperses more than a dozen Holiday classics with the jazz chant…
Sometimes it seems George Gershwin isn't gone at all. Even now, Broadway is blessed with the revival of Porgy and Bess and the new Nice Work If You Can Get It. In regional theater, hardly a …
The Turn of the Screw, Henry James' psychological thriller gets a superbly accomplished production as The Naked Stage's first outing in almost two years featuring flawless performances by Ka…
Playwrights Paul Tei and Jessica Farr's Hamlet Dog and Pony Show at ad Cat Theatreis a stylized mashup of Shakespeare, Brecht and 21st Century performance art that examines existentialism v…
City Theatre will begin accepting ten-minute play scripts next month for consideration for production in its annual Summer Shorts festival, highlighted by its National Award for Short Playwr…
Audience members have few joys as pungent as discovery. Which brings us to the fledgling Outré Theatre Company and Tuesday night's staged reading of the ink-black comic drama Dog Sees God: …
South Florida playwrights Jessica Farr and Paul Tei hope that for all the philosophical profundity and political comment, their world premiere of The Hamlet Dog and Pony Show on July 26 deli…
—Illness delayed the opening of Naked Stage's production of The Turn of the Screw at the Pelican Theatre at Barry University. But it’s ready to go with a run now scheduled for Ju…
By Bill Hirschman Reviewing The Donkey Show is irrelevant. The immersive multi-media experience at the Arsht Center joyfully cross-dressing as spectacle-drenched theater is about surrender, …
The Arsht Center is laying a six-figure bet on The Donkey Show, a very loose version of A Midsummer Night's Dream transmuted into the glitz and glitter of Studio 54. A hybrid of theater and …
Kim Ehly's touching and rollicking play Baby GirL, the inaugural effort of her newly-minted Katumba Theatre Project in association with Empire Stage in Fort Lauderdale,is a wryly comic look …
The world premiere musical comedy Real Men Sing Show Tunes…and play with puppets lazing through the summer at Actors' Playhouse reveals men's deepest darkest secrets, namely life-long conf…
By Bill Hirschman A gentle, compassionate smile at human folly suffuses The Fantasticks when it's produced as well as Palm Beach Dramaworks has. Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt's classic chambe…
