Some of the most prominent names in playwriting today " plus a local actor and writer " headline an intensive series of readings May 11"14 at Theatre Lab, the professional resident company o…
With its short run production of "A Special Day" this week, Michel Hausmann and the fledgling Miami New Drama company begin an ambitious slate of projects that began earlier this year with T…
The Critics' Awards Program, or Cappies for short, will celebrate outstanding achievement in high school theater at 26 public and private schools throughout Broward and Palm Beach counties i…
On April 28, Marilynn Wick will sign a $5 million mortgage and take formal possession of the former Caldwell Theatre building, heralding the beginning of a new phase of The Wick Theatre.
Charm, that most underrated of quiet virtues in a theater of brassy belters and in-your-face spectacle, suffuses the vagaries of a 24-year love affair in Broward Stage Door's appealing reviv…
When a theatrical production's scenery, lighting and costumes get as much attention as the characters, chances are the story is a bit slim. You see that clearly with Riverside Theatre's eye-…
Not everyone is a fan of musical revues, but if you're going to mount I Love A Piano, that justifiably popular evergreen staple of regional theaters over the past decade or so, this is the w…
In Evening Star's Murdered To Death, this comic murder mystery satire becomes so supremely silly with slapstick, overheated melodrama and an endless supply of verbal blunders that the actors…
There's a rhythm to Ricky J. Martinez's writing in his new play Roof!, which is having its world premiere at New Theatre. If there was a tin roof in Roof! (there isn't), the words would soun…
Broadway Across America's Dirty Dancing: The Classic Story On Stage on tour at the Broward Center is a flawed and misconceived project with a noticeable lack of fire, but much can be forgive…
The new tour of Cabaret does not break a shred of new ground artistically; it intentionally recreates the 1998 revival in which Sam Mendes reimagined the initial vision by amping up the deba…
The question that patrons and colleagues have kept asking critics with trepidation during the past week or so is whether they should invest more than 9 3/4 hours and $150 for each ticket to …
Arts Garage has appointed a new management team to replace its founding administrator who resigned abruptly. Keith Garsson, who has led the theater operation will become the director of op…
Jeff Talbott's The Submission, enjoying its regional premiere from Island City Stage, is predicated on the realization that "Everyone's a little bit racist." It charts the ignition of a raci…
There's a daringness to Stephanie Ansin's vision " a fearlessness in her direction at Miami Theater Center that makes you find things to love about a piece, even one that ends up having more…
The tent-pole theater companies in South Florida took home a majority of the Carbonell Awards for excellence Monday night with one major exception " although several up-and-coming troupes ha…
All the winners, nominees and statistics for the 40th anniversary Carbonell Awards presented Monday.
Alyona Ushe, the founding administrator of the embattled Arts Garage in Delray Beach, is resigning to lead a similar Pompano Beach operation in what an Arts Garage spokesman characterized as…
Florida Grand Opera's shattering production of Mieczyystaw Weinberg's The Passenger. explains why opera exists and what it can be.
Even though it's April, we remain in one of the busiest seasons in South Florida theater. If you don't see a review of a show that has opened while looking at the top of the front page, plea…
Diego & Drew Say I Do, the new interactive theater wedding show in Broward Center's Abdo New River Room, is so authentic that a group of Chinese performers from the Cirque Dreams troupe…
There are two crucial and easily misunderstood aspects to comprehend about The Hammer Trinity, a piece of epic storytelling playing eight weekends at the Arsht Center beginning this Saturday…
Opening Thursday in the Abdo New River Room is Diego & Drew Say I Do, a twist on the popular Tony 'n' Tina's Wedding in which audience members join in the show and become "guests" at t…
When a company like GableStage takes risks so many others will not, there's bound to be some triumphs, some failures, and mixed results as in A Minister's Wife. The local artists give everyt…
Regardless of your politics, Punchline Theatre Company's 50 Shades of Hillary is a treat to relish for the machine-gun comedy and the high octane performances of these four remarkable actors.