The world premiere of Jolson at the Winter Garden at the Maltz Jupiter Theatre Thursday was exactly what you’d expect: a well-produced songbook revue jammed with familiar crowd-pleasing tunes and featuring a bravura turn by Mike Burstyn as the self-styled …

The physically and emotionally ravaged Liberian women in Eclipsed are reminiscent of raw wounds with still-forming scabs. When fresh outrages rip them away, harrowing agonies bleed out in a torrent of scathing emotion. Dania Gurira’s script and The Women’s Theatre …

  A Bearded Lover turns on the revelation of secret after secret ‘ secrets that three sisters keep from each other, other secrets that playwright Juan C. Sanchez keeps from the audience and parcels out over two hours. The secrets …

Not since George C. Scott has an actor impersonated righteous outrage with the skill and intensity that Jim Brochu brings to Zero Mostel’s paint-blistering jeremiad against colleagues naming names during the 1950s in Zero Hour. Brochu’s railing against the betrayal …

What still stuns in this revival of West Side Story, 54 years on, is how Jerome Robbins uses the movement of human bodies to tell stories. For the huge percentage of Broadway audiences unfamiliar with modern dance or ballet, Robbins”genius …

  Plaza Suite has been staged a multitude of times since its Broadway debut in 1968, the subsequent introduction to the masses on film in 1971, and a television adaptation in 1987. The challenge today for any theater group that …

For every man who has been dragged to the theater unwillingly to see a play about female bonding, the miseries of menopause, or overdrawn soliloquies describing what’s going on “down there,” The Irish Curse is their revenge. For the uninitiated, …

Miami City Ballet’s versatility was showcased with the program of three contrasting works by George Balanchine, Paul Taylor and Twyla Tharp, which opened Friday night at the Arsht Center. In a week that saw the announcement of the company’s three-week …

The relationship between black women and their hats is explored in Crowns, an uplifting, enlightening and entertaining musical written by actress-playwright Regina Taylor, and now playing through Sunday at the Carnival Studio Theater in the Adrienne Arsht Center in Miami. …

  High Dive is the shaggiest of shaggy dog stories, but with Barbara Sloan as the storyteller Saturday at New Theatre, it was akin to spending a delightful hour listening to an unusually entertaining luncheon partner. Sloan is the narrator …