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…
If you wonder just how small the theater world is, consider how Paul Paul Ben-Victor's play This Little Jew Girl has found its way to a free reading at GableStage at 7:30 p.m. Monday with Be…
Unlikely but perhaps, secretly, Antonio Amadeo is actually a nasty misanthrope, but no one will ever believe it. Amadeo is widely-regarded as one of the nicest guys and quietly talented memb…
So much for the myth of the summer doldrums…. Besides recent and imminent openings at Mad Cat, Palm Beach Dramaworks, GableStage, Actors Playhouse, the XXVII International Hispanic Theatre…
About 150 friends and alumni of the Royal Palm Dinner Theater gathered Sunday evening at the Count de Hoernle Theater in Boca Raton to honor actress, producer, director and impresario Jan …
Lawyers banter about innocence and justice in David Mamet's incendiary play at GableStage, but the characters don't bother to dissect long-decided issues about how the judicial system's saus…
With brilliant but unrelieved corrosive cynicism, Cabaret Verborten, ausical revue at the Theatre at Arts Garage, mercilessly draws unnerving parallels between the dissolute Weimar Republic …
More than 400 free tickets to theatrical productions across South Florida are being offered as part of the Summer Free Fest Night being sponsored as an audience building program by the South…
Mark Harelik's The Immigrant, at Broward Stage Door Theatre, has a universal message at it's core, a fish-out-of-water story that engages the audience in the journey.