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William Hayes, producing artistic director of Palm Beach Dramaworks, has been elected president of the Florida Professional Theatres Association , a group designed to encourage companies to …
Broward Stage Door Theatre in Coral Springs presents a super-energized rendition of the nostalgic musical Backwards In High Heels that follows the life of Ginger Rogers.
Theater Shelf, a recurring feature by our reviewer Brad Hathaway, reviews recently-released books, CDs and DVDs of interest to theater lovers. Some are popular titles like a new Original Cas…
The Ghost Light Series returns with different performances of theatrical readings at 8 p.m. each Tuesday next month beginning July 10 under the auspices of Conundrum Stages. Admission is fre…
New Theatre has a long tradition of promoting new works; now new works return the favor as 14 playwrights donate their efforts at a July 6-8 benefit for the Miami-Dade company dubbed the Mia…
Miami Stage Door's first season closer, Deathtrap, is a serviceable if not outstanding edition that understands Ira Levin's black comedy, appreciates his Swiss watchmaker's plotting and bene…
A goofball sensibility drenches Slow Burn Theatre Company's first summer froth-fest, the loopy lampoon of the flop movie musical Xanadu. To be truthful, the company was far funnier, crisper …
By Bill Hirschman As the two men eloquently pledge their lives and their loves to each other in the moving vows that close Standing On Ceremony: The Gay Marriage Plays, theater reasserts its…
Michael McKeever's Stuff, winner of the 2011 Carbonell for best new work, will receive a staged reading in New York on Thursday, June 28 featuring an A list of veteran actors, Stephen Spinel…
Theater Shelf, a recurring feature by our reviewer Brad Hathaway, reviews recently-released books, CDs and DVDs of interest to theater lovers. This week: the new Phantom of the Opera CD/DVD,…
Coinciding with Gay Pride celebrations here in South Florida, La Cage Aux Folles, the musical about a charming nightclub owner and his flamboyant partner, has landed at Broward Center in For…
n this edition, we visit Harriet Oser who talks about a career that encompasses playing the bride in Blood Wedding while pregnant to wondering if a scene partner was going to collapse on sta…
The gloriously over-the-top film incarnation of Rock of Ages is just as silly and stupid and surprisingly fun as the Broadway musical it's drawn from.What the film is missing, and its absenc…
Standing On Ceremony, a collection of short plays bowing next week at the Broward Center, is about the traditional values of love and marriage. Specifically, gay marriage. Produced by Miami'…
Theater Up Close, the series co-produced by the Arsht Center, has announced a 2012-2013 season partnering with the home-grown Zoetic Stage, the University of Miami's theater department, the …
The quality of New Theatre's work is famously variable, but every season or so, they deliver a moving, finely crafted gem of theater to be unreservedly proud about. In this case, it's the pr…
Playwright Adam Rapp shares Beckett's indifference to whether audiences comprehend his idiosyncratic depiction of his dark vision. But in Mosaic Theatre's The Edge of Our Bodies, he also is …
After an unnerving series of losses, several low-key announcements provide some encouraging news this week for the South Florida theater scene: Rising Action Theatre has succeeded in resurre…
Peter and the Starcatcher is not, as most people think, about the magic of Peter Pan. It's about the magic of theatricality and what theater can deliver that no other art form can. It's less…
The Caldwell Theatre Company remains locked out of the Count de Hoernle Theater, but the Boca Raton facility will reopen in July for a production of Jesus Christ Superstar by Entr'acte Execu…
A Facebook fan page for former employees of the Royal Palm Dinner Theatre has led to a planned reunion of employees, supporters, fans and friends to honor founder Jan McArt on July 8 connect…
Mosaic Theatre continues its pirouette along the leading edge of modern drama with the announcements of its 2012-2013 season that includes two works by up-and-comer Rajiv Joseph playing in r…
How do handle an era which is vibrantly alive in the memories of older audience members yet only an antiseptic chapter in a textbook to younger audiences? David Auburn's play The Columnist d…
City Theatre's annual rite of the season Summer Shorts has developed a well-earned reputation for being the dictionary definition of "uneven." So it's a relief that this 17th edition is the …
Veteran South Florida actor Dan Leonard has won Actors Playhouse at the Miracle Theatre's Page to Stage competition recognizing new plays. The three-time Carbonell nominee was selected for h…
