When the great-grandmother in row K stopped clapping to the music long enough to take her glow light out of her purse and wave it weakly in the air Tuesday night, you knew that Rock of Ages had succeeded in …

If you were the kind of college student who sat up till the wee hours with your roommate arguing philosophical questions, you’ll revel in Palm Beach Dramaworks’ intellectual fencing match, Freud’s Last Session. Mark St. Germain’s play, which opened Friday, …

There was a takeaway moment in the mostly’ comic first act of Florida Stage’s’Goldie, Max & Milk on Friday in which a frazzled single mother, overwhelmed by the challenge of her crying newborn, calls out reflexively in pain and terror, …

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 …