A large-scale song and dance musical set in a tiny prison cell and a story of a woman’s search for the meaning of her entire life while stuck on a diving board are the headliners this weekend. Kiss of the …

2010 was a moving year for South Florida theater. Not moving in the quality of its productions, although there was plenty of that. Moving as in geographical relocations, announced and completed. The year marked Florida Stage moving to the Kravis …

Sharon Gless is afraid ‘ an appropriate irony since her role in the play A Round-Heeled Woman is partly about not allowing fear to rob you of a fulfilling life. Despite having acted on stage several times, the television icon …

The creators of the musical Rock of Ages know that the 1980s were a decade of big hair, spandex and metal studs, but above all, it boasted music that celebrated the joy of wretched excess. In these darker days, audience …

The young Floridians met in the kitchen of a Jupiter dinner theater in 1987 when they made the surprising discovery that they both loved musicals. Today, the former waiter and food server are back in Jupiter with 23 years of …

Among the highly anticipated evenings in local theater this season, few are in this league: a world premiere about South Beach to inaugurate a Miami theater company made up of some of the best talents in the region. Friday not …

The sparks fly when a Virginia playwright and a New York director discuss the unlikely topic of 1920s U.S. water policies, which created today’s threat of a water shortage, and served as inspiration for their new drama set in Florida. …

It won’t just be the presence of the Cuban-American community that will imbue a resonance in Nilo Cruz’s play set in 1960 Havana when it has its world premiere next week in Coral Gables. It’s that Miami’s favorite-son playwright is …

‘It’s been a long labor,’ said Kathi Glist, a producer of Motherhood the Musical. She’s got more of ’em: ‘I feel like we’re in the third trimester.’ She’s had a year to think up the puns in preparation for the …

World premieres exploring social issues. Last year’s Pulitzer-winning drama about a world-class dysfunctional family. Musicals about a mentally disabled young woman, temptation in a prep school and addictions like sex and chocolate. The upcoming theater season in South Florida explodes …