Reviews
Caldwell’s “Next Fall” examines love and religion in powerful production
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 …
Jolson lives again at the Maltz Jupiter Theatre
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 …
Young actress’s breakout performance highlights shattering “Eclipsed”
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 …
Even with flaws, Promethean’s new play of Cuban sisters is compelling and hilarious
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 …
Actor goes from Zero to 70 in Mostel play
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 …
Timeless choreography and humanity make for an energized “West Side Story” at the Broward Center
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 …
Stage Door’s “Plaza Suite’ scores its comic points
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 …
“The Irish Curse” measures up quite well at Mosaic Theatre
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, …
Versatile Miami City Ballet at their finest in varied program
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 …
Crowning Glory: Gospel musical is uplifting and entertaining
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. …

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