Theater Reviews

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — It’s Disney like you’ve never seen before. The above hardly refers to the wholesome, family-friendly, magical entertainment and theme parks that have become synonymous with the term “Disney.” No, the darkly humorous, unconventional, intriguing play on-stage in an intense, fine production through Oct. 2 at Ft....

CORAL GABLES, Fla. — There is a new crop of talented playwrights which includes Annie Baker who, at age 35, has already won a Pulitzer Prize and other high accolades. The young writer has a gift for creating realistic dialogue and characters through subtlety and gradually developing them. Slowly, but...

BOCA RATON, Fla. — Each seat for Evening Star Productions’ hilarious, tour-de-force staging of “Gutenberg! The Musical!” is reserved for producers. Audience members can sit in them anyway. Why? Well, they’re producers – at least for the afternoon or evening they’re attending. Audience members play a pivotal role in any...

NORTH MIAMI — Watching Miami playwright Guillermo Ramon’s riveting, challenging new play “Fortune’s Ire” brings to mind a similarly mysterious work featuring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. as the title character. Both plays begin seemingly harmless: In Katori Hall’s shocker, King spends his last night alive in a Memphis motel...

WILTON MANORS, Fla. — Where does the right to free expression guaranteed under the First Amendment end and where does the right to one’s privacy begin? Is the meaning of privacy and what constitutes its “invasion” as black and white as, say, the definition of libel or the First Amendment’s...

MARGATE — A recording of “The Impossible Dream” played before the start of a recent performance of the musical “The Rothschilds,” which is receiving a mostly commendable production through Oct. 16 at Stage Door Theater to open its new season. Perhaps it’s no accident that production director Peter J. Loewy...

 FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Real tears stream down the pained face of actor Jason Fazio during a top-notch production of the heartbreaking and hilarious Terrence McNally play “Love! Valour! Compassion!” In the tiny Ft. Lauderdale theater Andrews Living Arts Studio, where McNally’s Tony-Award-winning play about eight gay men is on-stage...

BOCA RATON, Fla. — Even if your best beauty sleep occurred during Shakespeare study in class, you probably know that “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” involves mischief and romance. During your waking hours, you also were likely aware that misbehavior, “cliques” and plenty of drama involving relationships were all part of...

CORAL GABLES, Fla. — Time doesn’t necessarily heal wounds. We’ve learned that repeatedly as molestation victim after molestation victim of the Roman Catholic priest sex abuse scandal came forward many years after the incidents. Silence doesn’t always have healing powers either. In fact, it can lead to devastating consequences, as...

CORAL GABLES, Fla. — Have you ever awoken from a dream that seemed too good to be true and contained unusual developments? You woke up, shook your head slowly and wondered “How did that ever sneak its way into my subconscious? Jonathan Tolins hit comedy “Buyer & Cellar” seems like...