Hairspray isn't a "new" musical anymore. But with director Patrick Fitzwater at the helm of this Slow Burn Theatre Co. production, Hairspray is as fresh and even more relevant as when it lan…
We all have scripts. In her INFERNA at Theatre Lab playwright'actress Joanna Castle Miller says they are values and mores inculcated since childhood especially by religion. Â But sometimes…
Louis Tyrrell, one of the core visionaries transforming South Florida theater from safe predictable fare to a birthplace for new plays challenging intellect as well as emotion, died Friday a…
Before Suffs or Liberation looking at women's rights movement, Bull in a China Shop gives another historical view of the fight of more than a century ago, now being staged by Bridge Across t…
The musical Kimberley Akimbo at the Broward Center may focus on a teenager with a disease aging her four times faster than normal, but the evening is suffused with life-affirming qualities a…
, A Beautiful Noise, the Neil Diamond Musical at the Kravis Center but coming to the Arsht, is a visually flashy, high-energy parade of more than two dozen of the acclaimed singer/songwrite…
Gracefully directed by Bruce Linser with an expert cast of three, Everything Beautiful Happens at Night explores the creative process, the secrets we keep that bind us/handcuff us/prevent…
Fear becomes tactile in Palm Beach Dramaworks' shattering The Crucible because the nightmare on display is as much a mirror of our times as a tale of the witchcraft purge in 1692 Salem. The …
Theater lovers in South Florida are about to experience double the pleasure with two festivals of new work this month. The Second Annual Owl New Play Festival in Boca Raton kicks off on Apri…
A fourth edition of new feature "My Take On::" Short reviews from New York shows by Nunzio Michael Lupo, veteran journalist and an insightful appraiser of the arts. Some of these are still r…
There are musicals we enjoy, and then there are the ones we feel compelled to tell everyone within earshot about, so sound the trumpets because we're convinced you'll love the old-school rev…
Declaring their feelings changes several small-town couples in one night in Riverside Theatre's Almost, Maine, taking place in a small far Northern Maine town that might/not exist, as differ…
The Importance of Being Earnest playing at Gulfshore Playhouse has the singular quality of being both sly and …well, earnest. This comedy of manners builds absurdity upon absurdity. The po…
Pembroke Pines Theatre of the Performing Arts has mounted a genuinely moving production of Neil Simon's Broadway Bound, written in 1986, before an enthusiastic audience that clearly finds…
Would we abandon our history, our nationality or our faith to maintain another part of our identity if we faced overwhelming social prejudice? GableStage's Prayer for the French Republic dep…
 Man of La Mancha is always a dependably affecting evening of theater and the Maltz Jupiter Theatre's current production certainly delivers that. But there's something nearly indefinable,…
Pompano Players has unearthed a sparkling treasure in Jessica Provenz's Boca, a wickedly fun comedy set in the sun-soaked retirement community of Boca Raton, where a band of New York t…
Stephen Sondheim's oft-revamped Merrily We Roll Along prevails in Zoetic Stage's glorious production in a fresh vision of the musical, visually and passionately different than the acclaimed …
Dear Jack, Dear Louise, a dramatic comedy now playing at the West Boca Theatre Company, is the kind of show that makes you wish your Greatest Generation relatives were still alive because yo…
Enjoy Hell's Kitchen an engrossing, engaging, coming-of-age story about a sometimes fraught relationship of a mother and daughter, learning to find your purpose"in this case music"and the pe…
Dominique Morisseau's compelling drama, Detroit '67, rooted in that year's violent unrest achieves mixed results as it deeply dissects exploring dreams, economic struggles, racial injustice,…
After being shuttered for far too long, Boca Stage returns with a bang, literally and figuratively, with the outrageously dark and raunchy comedy Damaged Furniture, returning to the Willow …
Heed the warning. This Jesus Christ Superstar at the Riverside Theatre is a contemporary telling of a story that feels as fresh in 2026 as it did in 1971 when it opened on Broadway, and as d…
Expect emotional whiplash in Main Street Players' heart-pounding production of a lean and riveting modern adaptation of Euripides' Greek tragedy, Medea. The dizzying contrast between moods"…
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