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  • Esteemed Theater-Film Critic Hap Erstein Died Saturday

    The theater community, our community as a whole has lost a force who helped forge all of them for decades. Hap Erstein, 74, died Saturday at an Aventura hospital where he had been since Monday when he collapsed in a movie theater where he had gone to do a review.

  • Upcoming Kutumba Theatre Project Blends LGBTQ+ Advocacy With Artistry

    After a long hiatus, Kutumba Theatre Project is back a with the East Coast premiere of Spy for Spy. Artistic Director Kim Ehly discovered this “playful, sophisticated, funny and heartfelt” play in London and knew it was time to head back to South Florida audiences.

  • Slow Burn’s Bodyguard Musical Is A Welcome Surprise

    It’s not necessary to be a fan of Whitney Houston’s music, or the film to enjoy The Bodyguard the Musical, wrapping up Slow Burn Theatre Co.’s fifteenth season, proving that just about anything can be made into a musical,, and a real audience pleaser from the get-go.

  • City Theatre Fights Government Funding Cuts With Imaginatively Rethought Summer Shorts

    South Florida arts organizations are struggling with government funding cuts. A prime example is how City Theatre iis scaling back with a good-natured thumb-your-nose attitude that acknowledges, even embraces the sparing steps that have been taken in their 29th annual Summer Shorts festival.

  • Latiné Theater Lab Debuts Unsettling Production of Mud

    For its inaugural presentation, Latiné Theater Lab has chosen to mount María Irene Fornés’ Mud, a raw and unsettling drama that explores the limits of human aspiration in the face of poverty, ignorance, and control.

  •  Dying Gaul Explores Cost of Doing Battle at Island City Stage

    Like the ancient Roman statue upon which it is named, the ending of The Dying Gaul recognizes a hard-earned victory while exploring the cost of doing battle. The production at Island City Stage will have you pondering it long after you leave the theater.

  • Pompano Players’ I Do! I Do! Returns To Follow Highs and Lows of a Half-Century Marriage

     You are cordially invited to the wedding of Michael and Agnes at Pompano Players, just the beginning of the classic two-character musical I Do! I Do!, that tracks fifty years of the highs and lows of a typical marriage.

  • Dramaworks’ Hayes & Beryl To Receive Carbonell’s Highest George Abbott Award

    The Carbonell Awards recognizing excellence will bestow its highest honor, the George Abbott Outstanding Achievement in the Arts, to two of the founders of Palm Beach Dramaworks, married couple William Hayes and Sue Ellen Beryl.

  • Scores of Theater and Journalism Students Reap Cappies Awards

    Hundreds upon hundreds of students from Broward and Palm Beach counties cheered loudly enough to rattle the auditorium May 20 at the 23rd awards gala  recognizing achievements in theater and journalism by their classmates from 28 public and private schools in the South Florida Cappies program.

  • Society’s Failure To Help Impaired Children Is At Heart Of Dangerous Instruments

    Pain, despair and desperation deepen in a swirling descent into a dread-encrusted darkness in the premiere of Gina Montét’s Dangerous Instruments at Palm Beach Dramaworks.
    Clearly, not a spring lark musical; instead, a grueling message drama with gallows wit that should be performed throughout the country.