The Boca Raton Theatre Guild is evolving this season from a community theatre to professional company, in part by paying ‘competitive salaries,’ even hiring an occasional Equity actor, said artistic director Keith Garsson. The 20-year-old organization is moving from ’emerging …

‘ It’s November and there’s plenty on the theater scene to be thankful for in the week ahead. ‘ ”’ The most promising is Collected Stories, opening Friday at the Mosaic Theatre in Plantation. Pulitzer-winner Donald Margulies’ 1996 two-hander depicts …

When an actor inhabits a series of characters so well, even savvy theatergoers forget that he’s just playing a role. For years, South Florida audiences got accustomed to seeing white-haired Dennis Creaghan exemplify patrician Brahmins in A.R. Gurney’s The Dining …

The Alliance Theatre Lab could provide the dictionary definition of scrappy. The tiny company operates on a shoestring budget in a rented space in a Miami Lakes shopping center, taking on challenging contemporary dramas. Until a year and a half …

The New World School of the Arts has just announced a stunning fundraiser: alumni playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney will participate in a VIP reception and a staged reading of excerpts from his plays on Friday, Oct. 15. McCraney, one of …

Taking Spider-Man‘s place as the mega-musical least likely to open on Broadway is Love Never Dies, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s sequel to Phantom of the Opera, which, already postponed at least once, will not open this spring as planned. Mixed reviews …

Show tunes pop up in the most unexpected places and the best-constructed ones have a durability and universality that transcend their stage production. Case in point were some of the numbers in Saturday’s concert by Melissa Manchester as part of …

The South Florida theater season has been quietly churning for weeks with entertaining work like Mosaic Theatre’s Completely Hollywood (Adapted). But it erupts over the next two weekends. — Our Critic’s Choice has to be Caldwell Theatre’s Follies, another of …

The Kravis Center for the Performing Arts opens up the’ticket booth for non-subscribers 9 a.m. Saturday for 2010-2011 season of theater and concerts including Dreamgirls and Spring Awakening. Tickets for other shows in the Broadway series will be sold later …

There’s only one opening this weekend: Rising Action Theatre begins its new season in a new venue Friday with Nicky Silver’s dark comedy Fit to be Tied at Sunshine Cathedral, 1480 SW 9th Ave. in Fort Lauderdale. The plot follows …