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  • Wonderettes Entertain With Blasts From The Past

    If you dream of reliving your high school prom, Pompano Players can help you approximate the experience. The new theater company invites audiences to attend the Springfield High School Class of 1958 prom — the setting for the 1999 jukebox musical The Marvellous Wonderettes, by Roger Bean.

  • GableStage’s Penetrating Harry Clarke Asks Us Who We Are

    The answer to the question posed by the title character of who is “Harry Clarke?” is to us, of course, who are we individuals in the audience.  With considerable humor, banked anger and penetrating insight, the powerful 80-minute monologue Harry Clark at GableStage depicts how we choose and craft an identity separate from whatever is our true inner self.

  • The Spitfire Grill Is Rewarding Evening Of Joy And Hope

    Profound joy, infectious joy, genuine joy emerging out of prosaic life, out of darkness, out of life-scraped people, that joy in musical theater is rare and precious. Arguably nowhere can audiences mesh with the expert evocation of joy and hope than in Actors’ Playhouse’s glorious The Spitfire Grill.

  • No Place Like Home For 2 SoFla Natives In Nat’l Tour of ‘The Wiz’

    Two cast members on the national tour of “The Wiz” at the Adrienne Arsht Cente are performing on a stage where, as youngsters, they watched from the seats. Amitria Fanae’, who plays Addaperle, The Good Witch of the North and Kameren Whigham, a member of the ensemble, is

  • New City Players’ The 39 Steps Revels In Wicked Lampoon

    Comic theater is a challengingly adroit meld of wry humor, physical slapstick, verbal timing, invisible stagecraft and a devotion to maximizing the opportunities for unscripted bits of business. All of this is delivered with an infectious joy in New City Players’ rendition of the ever-reliable The 39 Steps.

  •  From Miami to Manhattan: Florida’s Ryan Crout Stars as John Belushi Off-Broadway

    Saturday Night Live was a major part of South Florida performer Ryan Crout’s childhood. Understandably, then, he’s excited to perform in a play about the show’s beginnings – in New York City, the metropolis that birthed SNL. Crout is part of the Off-Broadway cast of Not Ready for Prime Time, which opens Oct. 20.

  • Wide Ranging Quality of Absurdist ‘Art Duty’ Requires Audience’s Commitment

    Art Duty, a work passionately delivered with brimming enthusiasm by the LakeHouseRanchDotPng troupe in Miami Lakes, appears to be – at least in this subjective assessment – intermittently insightful and vague, deliberate and manic, entertaining and frustratingly undisciplined.

  • Plenty of Scares For The Whole Family At Heebie Jeebies

    Halloween season is full of tricks and treats, and do we have a treat for you and the Theatre Lab at the Heckscher Theatre comes a spooky and witty anthology play that’s sure to give you the, dare we say it, heebie jeebies. 

  • Latiné Theater Lab’s Last of the Red Hot Robots Is Immersive Comedy

    The world premiere of Brian Harris’s comic Last of the Red Hot Robots, Latiné Theater Lab doubles down on their signature style. Billed once again as an immersive, multi-sensory experience, the production bombards the senses with flashing lights, blaring sound effects, and kaleidoscopic visuals.

  • An Unusually Diverse Array of Carbonell Nominations: Full List

     Diversity in many forms – ethnicity, genres, performers, titles, geography, scope of performances values —  dominate the nominees in 20 competitive categories to bestowed in November at the 48th annual Carbonell Awards.