The Carbonell Award limits eligibility to shows that run a minimum number of performances so the judges can see it. That’s the only thing keeping dynamic Marissa Rosen from nabbing a best supporting actress nomination for her turn in an …

In the darkness, an announcer intones in movie-trailer voice, full of cultural import and dire portent: ‘From Akira Kurosawa and Walt Disney comes . . .’ A spotlight hits a bearded man wearing full Snow White regalia. Then the light …

One joy of Shakespeare is his sublime language, but mastering the words is only the starting point for any staging. When pressed for rehearsal time, a cast might worry less about conquering the poetry and more about bringing truth to …

The real-life story of director Mack Sennett and actress Mabel Normand is the stuff that movies–and musicals–are made of. Their romance, and the scrappiness of the silent movie era, are brought to vivid life in the Stage Door Theatre’s production …

Demonic dismemberment is played for laughs in Evil Dead The Musical, the stage homage to the cult horror movie franchise, which kicks off the sixth season at the Promethean Theatre in Davie. ‘You’re not going to learn a thing tonight,’ …

People are work. Relationships are serious work. Marriage is’ . . . well, marriage is what is so incisively depicted in the harrowing domestic drama Fifty Words, given a superb opening-night performance Saturday night in GableStage’s season-closing production. The disintegration …

It is difficult to tell whether Joel Gross’s script for the world premiere of The Comfort of Darkness is as ham-handed as it sounded Friday night at the Caldwell Theatre. More likely, its modest virtues were flattened by the two-dimensional …

Australia is home to strange creatures that seem pasted together: the cuddly but prickly koala, the grounded emu and the duck-billed platypus. None are as strange an ill-fitting hybrid as Alma De Groen’s play from down under, Wicked Sisters, seen …

Murder and imagination take centerstage in the harrowing play, The Pillowman, by Martin McDonagh, now enjoying a strong production by the Miami theatre company Ground Up and Rising. The Pillowman is set in an unnamed totalitarian dictatorship.’ Katurian (Curtis Belz) …

It’s summer, and camp is in session at Empire Stage in Fort Lauderdale.’ The cozy theatre’s current production is He’s Coming Up the Stairs, a kitschy, cross-dressing, comic take-off on Sorry Wrong Number, a thriller about an invalid who overhears …