Early in’The Sparrow, teenagers stand at the cusp of a railroad embankment as a roaring freight train hurtles past them inches away. It’s an exhilarating reminder of classic adolescence when you dare Fate to challenge your invulnerability. The fact that …

How infectious is the unrestrained joy spilling over the footlights at the Maltz Jupiter Theatre during Crazy For You? After the curtain calls Thursday, with the band still slamming out I’ve Got Rhythm, the house lights exposed two dozen people …

When you’re a playwright like Shirley Lauro, fascinated by the passionate and flawed human beings under the veneer of textbook history, your enemy is exposition ‘ essential but bloodless information that threatens to clog up the works like hairballs in …

Brothers Beckett is a scruffy teddy bear of a play about twenty-somethings struggling to find something satisfyingly real and emotionally sustaining in a cold world. It’s also nearly as funny as anything South Florida has produced this season. The world …

Two elements injected electricity into GableStage’s entertaining production of Tracy Letts’ flawed script for Superior Donuts: Marckenson Charles’ breakout performance as a street kid with unfettered dreams, plus one of the most convincing brawls ever seen on a Florida stage. …

If words were scalpels, the stage of Actors Playhouse would be slick with blood and viscera. After all, who knows better where to aim the blade than our loved ones? August: Osage County is the epic tragedy of family dysfunction, …

To embrace the risk of hyperbole: The Broward Stage Door production of The Light in the Piazza may be the finest locally-produced musical theater since Floyd Collins at Actors’ Playhouse in 2003. It’s not a perfect edition and it requires …

Michael Hollinger’s Ghost-Writer, which opened at Florida Stage Friday, delves into the link between creativity and human relationships. In 1919, a secretary claims that a dead novelist continues to dictate the end of his masterpiece to her, the true love …

Dread festers just underneath the confident facade of Gabe and Karen’s picture book life. The couple may not even know why, but they are treating the disintegrating marriage of their best friends Tom and Beth like a virulent disease. On …

Ever since Next Fall became an off-Broadway hit in 2009, audiences have debated whether the comedy-drama is about the travails of gay life or the challenges of religious faith in the 21st Century or the improbable coexistence of the two …