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  • Report From New York: ‘Beau’ Kick-Butt Country Rock Musical

    Off-Broadway’s Beau the Musical successfully spins from endless kick-ass energy to moving introspection and back to tongue in cheek humor, melding country, rock and gospel in a basement temporarily converted into a honky-tonk.

  • 60-Year Old Man of La Mancha’s Relevance Resounds Today In Actors’ Playhouse’s Edition

    It’s 60 years old, but Actors’ Playhouse re-re-production of Man of La Mancha resounds loudly with undeniable resonances today, remaining a relevant clarion call for us to remain steadfast in our integrity to the principles we hold – regardless of the cost.

  • Love and Grief Explored in GableStage’s Left On Tenth

    Love and grief don’t have a timetable but can occur at anytime, often blindsiding.  Love can vanish too quickly while grief can linger too long. Both emotions are in full force in the sweet, poignant comedy-drama Left on Tenth, at GableStage,

  • Marriage in the Combat Zone: Gulfshore Playhouse’s Sublime Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

    Kristin Coury has directed an astounding production of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? that’s more a master class in acting than yelling. You’ve likely not seen a production as nuanced and as superb as Gulfshore Playhouse’,

  • Only One Out of Four Visits Lands, But California Suite is Not Neil Simon’s Best

    Neil Simon’s California Suite produced by Curtain Call Playhouse, is a series of four playlets revolving around guests at the Beverly Hills Hotel.
    Three vignettes are disappointments that don’t land at all, but one is the proverbial “diamond in the rough” that is worth the visit.

  • Redesigned Carbonell Awards Gala Bestows Annual Honors

    Many of this year’s Carbonell Awards recipients were familiar names with acclaimed artistry, but the gala itself Monday was filled with changes and a few surprises. From a new location at Florida Atlantic University to changes in hosting duties to an 11-piece orchestra, the wryly nicknamed “theater prom” had a new look.

  • Flying High in the Circus with Water for Elephants

    Finding your place in this world, loving what you do and never giving up your dreams, no matter how young or old you are, reverberate throughout the entertaining musical Water for Elephants that revolves around a down at luck circus, people who’ve made it their home cris-crossing the country and the animals that inhabit it, currently at the Broward Center,

  • Better Late Proves It’s Never Too Late at Pigs Do Fly

    An actress dealing with guilt from of her first marriage as she copes with her second marriage is the core of Better Late, a present-day dramady from Pigs Do Fly Productions.

  • Ambition Never Looked So Good As In  Ruthless!

    Island City Stage’s Ruthless! The Musical fires on all cylinders, literally everything clicking be it the cast, the direction, the design, the music, the choreography, or the costumes. This is theatrical excess in the best, and worst, way: is a perfectly choreographed train wreck, and that’s a compliment.

  • Heart and Humor Melt Pompano Players’ Steel Magnolias

    Pompano Players’ Steel Magnolias captures all the heart and humor that made this story a classic with a strong ensemble, deft direction, and performances that spark both hearty laughter and heartfelt tears.