If you thought the Actors’ Playhouse production of’August: Osage County was taking a gamble outside its audience’s comfort zone, now comes news of a much bigger risk. Next to Normal, the rock-flavored musical about a suburban housewife struggling with bipolar …

A family you don’t want to see move in next door, naked hippies, cross-dressing chorus boys (or girls), the ghost of Frank Sinatra and those singing revolutionaries will be bused in to West Palm Beach during next season’s slate of …

A mildly creepy family will move into Miami just before Halloween this year, that bizarre collection of seeming refugees from a television series and more recent comic horror movie known as The Addams Family. The oddball musical of the same …

It took more than two years, but one of Broadway’s biggest hits,’Billy Elliot, is coming to South Florida as the headlining slot in the Broadway Across America-Fort Lauderdale’s tour schedule for 2011-2012. The uplifting musical about a working-class English boy …

Tickets are now on sale for the Carbonell Awards ceremony, that event known to insiders as Theater Prom when even stage managers and carpenters put on tuxes and gowns to walk down the red carpet, to pat each other on …

Virtually every theater company in South Florida has been struggling in the current economy, but the Maltz Jupiter Theatre is celebrating a welcome financial boost reflecting what its administration hopes is increasing long-term support. Its eighth annual gala, ‘A Night …

Major changes are imminent at the venerable City Theatre in Miami which has produced Summer Shorts since 1996, said Producing Artistic Director Stephanie Norman. New plans include producing works beyond the summer, mounting longer works than the usual 10-minute playlets …

Even before the current season is half over, Slow Burn Theatre Company has announced its schedule for the 2011-2012 slate. Slow Burn, whose logo is a fuse burning down to sticks of dynamite, is a fledgling professional troupe in Boca …

The Maltz Jupiter Theatre announced a 2011-2012 season Thursday marked by the mainstream fare that the Maltz does so well — with one outstanding exception. Sandwiched between Cabaret and Hello Dolly! comes the stunning drama about art and creativity, Red. …

When Heather Jane Rolff was trying to make it in New York City in 2004, she and a friend went to see Neil LaBute’s off-Broadway biting social satire Fat Pig. ‘I remember sitting in that theater bawling my eyes out,” …