If you’re in the mood for a stroll down a musical memory lane, the current production at Broward Stage Door Theatre, A Taffeta Wedding, is right up your alley. A Taffeta Wedding is the fourth show in the Taffetas musical …

An infectious earnestness and compassion imbue Maltz Jupiter Theatre’s production of Academy, a heartfelt pop chamber musical about the angst of teens struggling toward responsible adulthood. If this world premiere stumbled at times Thursday, director/conceiver Andrew Kato ably led a …

One thing theater does better than film is put you right there in the room with surreal images that disorient your equilibrium. When it successfully enlists your willing suspension of disbelief and the active participation of your imagination, you can …

There’s a riveting monologue that actor Michael McKeever ardently delivers Friday (written by playwright Michael McKeever) during the world premiere of his wicked satire South Beach Babylon. ‘Why do we work so hard to produce something that brings in so …

Miami City Ballet’s presentation of The Nutcracker began its annual run Friday night at the Kravis Center in West Palm Beach. Despite the immense popularity of this perennial holiday spectacle, there were a considerable number of empty seats in the …

Sometimes theater is not fair. You can have strong singers and skilled character actors, you can have an experienced director, you can have a glorious score, you can invest lavishly in sets, costumes and a stageful of chorus members including …

Comic Kristina Wong loves dancing near the precipice of what society considers acceptable topics in mixed company, then diving over it. She revels in the profane and the gross, not for shock’s sake, but simply as tools in her kit …

If you saw the Caldwell Theatre Company’s world premiere musical Vices: A Love Story a year ago, rest assured the reprise is as sultry and sensual as you remember. What worked before works even better now; what didn’t work still …

The temptation is to liken Barbara Bradshaw and Kim Morgan Dean’s performances in Mosaic Theatre’s Collected Stories to shooting stars intertwining on their blazing path across the heavens. But the miraculous artistry on display Friday was pointedly not pyrotechnic. These …

There is something achingly nostalgic about a 1954 script built on the premise that men of good will can engage in rational debate and persuade each other to change their minds because both sides acknowledge that truth matters. And yet …