You know you wanted to murder some abusive soul-crushing bullies and snobs when you were in high school. Heathers knows it and wants to liberate your daydream. So do the cool kids and not-so…
Rage and defiance " against racism, against betrayal, against cruelty, fate and death itself " washes out into the audience with a ferocity rarely seen in Florida theater in The M Ensemble C…
Acknowledge that the premiere of The Wish Maker, written and directed by local playwright Cynthia Joyce Clay and produced by her Storycrafters Studio, is well-intentioned and earnest. But th…
When Danny Burgos steps on the Broward Center stage on June 15 in the national tour of Beauty and the Beast, the moment will resonate for him as few have before. It was on those same floorbo…
Some show business legends say they were born in a trunk offstage in between the matinee and evening performances. Daisy O. Tanner can't quite say that. But the two-month-old daughter of acc…
Feeding The Bear, a serio-comedy focused on caring for a father succumbing to Alzheimer's (featuring a drag queen with a cooking TV show), has all the necessary ingredients for a tasty confe…
Hardly unusual in musical theater, Meredith Bartmon strolls around the Carnival Studio stage singing passionately about her dreams and, later, her refusal to compromise those dreams. But th…
Eileen Suarez, who rose at New Theatre from working the box office in 1996 to shepherding the company through rocky shoals and significant growth, has resigned as managing director, she conf…
Audiences from Key West to Boca Raton for the fourth year may see new plays in development by area playwrights for free through the South Florida Theatre League's Summer Theatre Fest.
The ever-developing Summer Shorts Festival, now entering its 21st year in Miami, will sound a bit different this year: two of the ten-minute works will be musicals.
Sometimes critics use the words "ambitious" and "intriguing" as backhanded compliments or cowardly faint praise, but Mad Cat Theatre Company's production of the Pulitzer-winning The Flick ea…
Audiences will relish the superb GableStage production of The Royale -- Miami native Marco Ramirez's insightful pile-driving play about boxing, celebrity, racism, race relations and personal…
As Boomers become more of the theater-going public, we see more stories about how we are becoming a nation of caretakers of parents and grandparents. But the play The Father depicts increasi…
Looking at faded and listening to primitive , you wonder what productions were really like live when vaudeville was surrendering to legit Broadway. The proud, answer is fired back in specta…
The Critics' Awards Program, or Cappies, recognizing outstanding achievement in high school theater at the 14th Annual Cappies Awards Gala were held Tuesday at the Broward Center for the Per…
Hair never was and isn't now accurate reportage on the 1968 counter-culture,any more than Oklahoma was a faithful account of homesteading on the eve of statehood. But what the raw material g…
A double sense of "life after death" pervades the touching and beautifully rendered The Tin Woman drama suffused with wit now playing at Actors Playhouse as spring slides into summer.
The characters and themes of The Flick -- the newest production opening at Mad Cat Theatre next week -- were so fresh and crucial that it kept director Paul Tei from abandoning straight thea…
It's been a season of Stephen Sondheim the past 10 months or so in Florida, and Putting It Together, the musical at Broward Stage Door, puts a satisfying capstone on it as strong earnest voi…
Evening Star Productions and Infinite Abyss Productions deliver the 249th South Florida edition of the inarguably hilarious aggressively irreverent hoot. The cast successfully seduces a will…
Terry Teachout's play Satchmo at the Waldorf on view at Palm Beach Dramaworks -- and directed by Teachout in his first at-bat, comes close to allowing that communion with the unvarnished, un…
If his resume wasn't already unusually diverse for a theater critic, it might seem strange that Terry Teachout is adding "director" to his hyphenated professional description when his play S…
Validation " the affirmation that what you valued a " is one of the most powerfully effective facets of entertainment and art. That may be the overwhelming virtue of Beautiful " The Carole …
The opening scene of Will Eno's The Realistic Jones, as staged by Thinking Cap Theatre, is one of the funniest things I've seen in years.
The score of Beautiful " The Carole King Musical encompasses a dozen hits from the '60s and half of the iconic Tapestry album. But bookwriter Douglas McGrath assures theatergoers that this i…