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The pleasant, intriguing comedy bowing at the Alliance Theatre Lab is not an overwhelming triumph; something about it doesn't quite land as solidly as you're rooting for it to do. But the sc…
No question, David Ives' Venus In Fur is an intelligent, thought-provoking comedy-drama featuring a strong performance by Hugh Dancy and one breakout tell-your-grandkids-about-it tour-de-for…
Several theater-related projects are among the 57 finalists for the 2012 Knight Arts Challenge grants for special projects in South Florida including start-up funds for a regional scene shop…
Mosaic Theatre has announced the winners of its Stop! The Violence Video Contest that in ran this spring in conjunction with its recently-closed production of A Measure of Cruelty, a drama i…
M Ensemble's production of Jar the Floor, postponed from earlier this month, may have been rescheduled. The play is penciled in for June 21-July 8 at the Light Box at the Goldman Warehouse, …
The messiness of human relations as opposed to the precision of science is one of the underlying themes of David Auburn's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama Proof, enjoying a solid production at P…
All theater is a risky proposition, emotionally, artistically and financially. You can have a taste of that on June 2 at Mosaic Theatre's fund raiser, its 2nd annual Monte Carlo Night at Bon…
The Boca Raton Theatre Guild has announced its 's 2012-2013 season: the A.R Gurney thinking man's comedy Sylvia from Sept. 28-Oct. 14 and Kander & Ebb's acerbic musical Chicago in March…
An unusual theatrical presentation, at least for South Florida, will encourage the audience to walk freely around the performers in The Conquest of the South Pole slated to be performed at T…
When The Women's Theatre Project leaders announced in February that they had lost their performing space in Fort Lauderdale, some pessimists feared its unique voice would slide into limbo. B…
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…
Cleanup of the watery aftermath of a burst pipe joint will continue at the Arsht Center for the Performing Arts this week, but it is not expected to interfere with the next performance of Th…
Or Coming To A Theater Near You (Or Not) By Bill Hirschman Welcome to our semi-annual scouting trip for shows likely to appear in South Florida in a local production or national tour —…
New Theatre, which weathered eviction from its Coral Gables home late last year, has announced two world premieres and a late night program as part of its upcoming season at its new home at …
Seeing life through the prism of offbeat characters such as the oddballs populating the absurdist comedy Love Burns sometimes helps us perceive the modern world more clearly than any natural…
Floridians can see London/Broadway shows (kind of) without paying for a plane ticket. A film of the original London incarnation of the current New York comedy hit, One Man, Two Guv'nors is p…
Playwright Jon Robin Baitz's Other Desert Cities takes that staple, the dysfunctional family drama, and amps up the thematic value by linking the group's shortcomings to the social-political…
As the music swelled Monday at Outré Theatre Company's concert production of tick…tick…BOOM!, a thought kept interfering with my becoming completely lost in Jonathan Larson's chamber m…
Steven Dietz's insightful script, David Arisco's assured direction and a deceptively deft cast led by the ever-engaging Laura Turnbull deliver a thoroughly entertaining comedy in Becky's New…
The "S.S. Barry Manilow" songbook I Am Music! has tied up at the new Plaza Theatre in Manalapan. Your reaction to this entry depends precisely on your enjoyment of the cruise ship level of …
Rated P for Parenthood, an Off-Broadway musical comedy revue, will close out the 2012-2013 mainstage season at Actors' Playhouse in Coral Gables July 10 – August 11, 2013. The theater …
The Closet, a play by Miami writer Richard Janaro, gets a reading at 7:30 p.m. Monday at GableStage at the Biltmore Hotel, 1200 Anastasia Avenue, Coral Gables.
Gordon McConnell, Billy Bell and Beverly Blanchette have been honored for their achievements in the arts by the Judith Lanier Waldrop Frank and Randolph Adams Frank Foundation
As unassailable as television actress Nicole Ari Parker is as the wounded Southern belle, Blanche DuBois, Emily Mann's production of A Streetcar Named Desire leaps like it was hit with a cat…
Hamlet, Prince of Cuba is a new version adapted in English by Michael Donald Edwards, producing artistic director of the Asolo Repertory Theatre in Sarasota, and translated into Spanish by N…
