Something old and something new graces local stages this week. With the world premiere of Beckett Brothers, David Michael Sirois affirms his place among the burgeoning ranks of Florida playwrights that encompass Nilo Cruz, Michael McKeever, David Caudle, Marco Ramirez …

The saying goes that simply to be nominated for an award among a field of esteemed colleagues is honor enough and those of us who judge these things know how true that statement is. The final selection of a winner …

Even though the list of shows worth seeing this season just keeps growing, we’re not even close to exhausting the possibilities. Beginning Saturday, Broward Stage Door in Coral Springs is taking on its most challenging material in many years, The …

As with A Round-Heeled Woman at GableStage, now Mosaic Theatre has a super-sized hit with The Irish Curse and has increased performances to keep up with the big audience demand (or insert your own pun). The show has added Sunday …

Extensive travelling, photography, and writing books: Michael Hall’s non-retirement as head of the Caldwell Theatre has been full and satisfying since he turned over the reins to Clive Cholerton in May 2009. Although he never ruled out directing again, serendipity …

columbinus, a drama about teen violence and alienated youth, will have an added layer of verisimilitude in The Actor’s Workshop & Repertory Co. production this month in Lake Worth; the actors will all be high school students. Students in the …

Another piece of major casting news: Ever since New Theatre announced it would mount Tennessee Williams’ iconic A Streetcar Named Desire to close its season in May, veteran theatergoers and actors sat around various bars guessing who was going to …

Theater may be an ephemeral art form, but playwrights have a slightly better shot at immortality if they can get their work published. Susan ‘Susi’ Westfall , one of the founders of City Theatre and its Summer Shorts program, will …

Sex after sixty must sell. The demand for tickets has persuaded GableStage to shoehorn extend its run of A Round-Heeled Woman. The comedy-drama starring Sharon Gless depicts a 66-year-old schoolteacher who has not had sex in 30 years and sets …

A varied program focusing on the choreography of George Balanchine and Twyla Tharp opened the new year for Miami City Ballet Friday night at the Arsht Center. Four highly contrasted works found the company dancing in high gear with not …