Theatre
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The 39 Steps
New City Players' Production in South Florida
By: - Oct 01st, 2025New City Players is set to stage a professional production of the stage adaptation of Alfred Hitchcock's "The 39 Steps." Four performances will portray a variety of characters.
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La Traviata
Avery Boettcher's Performance Highlights Livermore Valley's Outstanding Production
By: - Sep 30th, 2025One of the canon's most fabled operas, the story of a frail, doomed courtesan and her star-crossed love for a man from the upper class has resonated with audiences of all ilks for over 170 years. Verdi's sumptuous score with stunning arias and ensembles is matchless.
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Noises Off at the Legacy Theatre in Branford
Riotous Laughter.
By: - Sep 30th, 2025If you are lucky enough to have tickets for Noises Off at the Legacy Theatre in Branford, prepare yourself for riotous laughter.This farce by Michael Frayn combines a behind-the-scenes look at a play (Nothing On) as well as the complicated relationships among the cast.
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Art Duty
World Premiere Production by LakeHouseRanchDotPNG
By: - Sep 29th, 2025The absurdist and experimental South Florida professional theater company, LakeHouseRanchDotPNG, is giving the absurdist play, "Art Duty" a fine world premiere production. The production runs one more weekend at Main Street Players' intimate black box space in Miami Lakes. The play reflects the zeitgeist.
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Kim's Convenience
From Stage to Five Seasons on Netflix and Back
By: - Sep 26th, 2025Korean-Canadian immigrant Appa Kim owns a mini-mart in Toronto. He faces challenges in the two areas of greatest importance to him, his family and his business. Those interests intersect as the store sustains the family; as he has no succession plan because his children aren't interested in running the business; and because he has a good offer to sell the store. But isn't it funny how conditions change?
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The Price
South Florida co-production
By: - Sep 25th, 2025New South Florida theater company Bridge Across the Pond has teamed up with Barclay Performing Arts, and The Find Your Voice Foundation to stage Arthur Miller's "The Price." The production will take place in an intimate venue in Boca Raton, Fla.
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The Weekend: A Stockbridge Story by Ben Diskant
World Premiere at Barrington Stage
By: - Sep 22nd, 2025It’s shoulder season for the arts. With deft serendipity Alan Paul, artistic director of Barrington Stage has maxed on bucolic euphoria by going local with The Weekend: A Stockbridge Story by Ben Diskant. It is being given a world premiere directed by Paul.
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Heebie Jeebies: Tales from the Midnight Campfire
Theatre Lab at FAU in Boca Raton, Fla.
By: - Sep 22nd, 2025Theatre Lab, Florida Atlantic University's professional resident theater company, presents the world premiere production of "Heebie Jeebies: Tales from the Midnight Campfire."
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Dead Man Walking
San Francisco Opera Reprises 21st Century's Most Successful Opera
By: - Sep 19th, 2025Joseph de Rocher faces execution for the grisly murders of young lovers. Though unrepentant, he requests and receives spiritual counseling from Sister Helen Prejean. The opera based on the true story scintillates on all dimensions.
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Carbonell Awards in South Florida
Nominees Announced for 48th Annual Ceremony in November
By: - Sep 18th, 2025The Carbonell Awards, which represent the best of South Florida theater, has announced nominees for the past year. The ceremony will take place at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 17 at Florida Atlantic University's University Theatre in Boca Raton. For the first time in a while, the ceremony will take place in Palm Beach County. The Carbonells cover Miami-Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach Countiess.
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Cosi fan Tutte
Opera San Jose Charms with a Bright Version of the Mozart / da Ponte Favorite
By: - Sep 17th, 2025A small-scale grand opera, Cosi revolves around a bet that two sisters will be unfaithful to their fiances within 24 hours. To tempt the women, the men are required to dress like Albanians, with each man pursuing the other's beloved. Cosi is full of beautiful, if unmemorable music, but the comic chops of the singers are what makes the opera most appealing.
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Last of the Red Hot Robots
World Premiere by South Florida's Latiné Theater Lab
By: - Sep 16th, 2025Latiné Theater Lab has mounted its second ever production, a world premiere of a Science Fiction comedy titled Last of the Red Hot Robots. A social media influencer learns from a DNA test that she is among the 40 percent of individuals who can smell asparagus in their urine. An otherworldly being tells two zoo-goers that ants, not humans, are among Earth’s dominant species.
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Indecent
Center Rep's Compelling Paean to Paula Vogel's Allegory on Humanity and Acceptance
By: - Sep 15th, 2025The playwright deftly envelopes the essence of Sholem Asch's "God of Vengeance" into a dramatic wrapper of the history detailing Asch's unending challenges from his community and from authorities concerning the play's alleged obscenity.
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The Reservoir
Memory Loss Two Ways in Thoughtful Dramedy from Berkeley Rep
By: - Sep 12th, 2025Josh returns home to Colorado in hopes of recovering from alcoholism and getting to know his grandparents better. A shared characteristic between them is memory loss, the difference being that the cause of Josh's is reversible, while that of the older generation is not.
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The Heart at La Jolla
By Kate Kerrigan, Music and Lyrics by Anne Eisendrath and Ian Eisendrath
By: - Sep 08th, 2025The Heart is written by Kate Kerrigan, with music and lyrics by Anne Eisendrath and Ian Eisendrath. It is based on the novel, Réparer les Vivants by Maylis de Kerangal. In the LA Jolla Playhouse production, over 24 hours, the heart of a person in the wrong place at the wrong time is connected to another person who was in the right place at the right time to answer the call.
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A Night with Janis Joplin
Sonoma Arts Live's Lively Jukebox Musical
By: - Sep 06th, 2025Janis Joplin was one of rock-and-roll's greatest icons. This musical tribute to her which has thrilled audiences across the country and around the world returns to the San Francisco Bay Area, where she earned her fame.
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Eureka Day
Marin/Aurora's Masterful Revival of Tony Award Winner Commissioned by Aurora
By: - Sep 05th, 2025The board of a private school in Berkeley, CA must make policy decisions following a mumps outbreak. Jonathan Spector's brilliant script reveals archetypes and arguments, and an exemplary cast enlivens the characters. The arguments concerning vaccinations are timely given the anti-vaxxing crusade of the current federal administration.
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A.R. Gurney’s play, Sylvia,
At Sharon Playhouse
By: - Sep 04th, 2025Sylvia is an excellent play, being given a good, but not outstanding, production.
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Mother Play: A Play in Five Evictions by Paula Vogel
Regional Premiere at Shakespeare & Company
By: - Sep 01st, 2025Mother Play: A Play in Five Eviction by Paula Vogel is grating, harrowing, complex and difficult to endure. It is given a stunning, meticulously directed regional premiere at Shakespeare & Company. Members of the company, director Ariel Bock, and actress, Tamara Hickey, excel at executing this excruciatingly difficult play.
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Charlie Siedenburg Legendary PR Maven Retires
Leaving Barrington Stage Company After 21 Years
By: - Aug 29th, 2025“Barrington Stage has been more than a workplace — it’s been a home, a family, and a true creative community,” said Charlie Siedenburg. “One of the great joys of my career has been shaping the narrative of BSC — celebrating its artists, championing its productions, and helping to tell the story of a theatre that has become such an essential part of the Berkshires."
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Good People
Altarena's Masterful Look at Working Class South Boston
By: - Aug 25th, 2025Working-class Margie is fired from her job and desperately needs an income. She calls on Mike, now a successful doctor who she dated just before giving birth 30 ago and hasn't seen since. Unexpected clashes occur in this well-produced and riveting play.
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Mark Twain Tonight
At TheaterWorks
By: - Aug 24th, 2025Twain was known for his satire, humor, and often darker view of mankind and its plights. The performance I saw talked about slavery and threats to democracy.
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Circus & the Bard at Shakespeare & Company
Best Fun of the Season
By: - Aug 22nd, 2025Much of the spoken word flew over my head but the circus elements had the kids bounding up from their seats and the rafters shaking. It may have been, at least for me, the most entertaining fun I have enjoyed in a heck of a long time.
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London Theatre
Five Plays in Five Days
By: - Aug 20th, 2025I had wanted to see Giant, starring John Lithgow, since it won rave reviews during a limited run at the Royal Court. Now it is in the West End (Broadway), and I hope it will come to NYC. Lithgow gives a stunning performance as Roald Dahl, the author of children’s books such as James and the Giant Peach, Matilda, and others.
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Re-Inventing Judy Rhines at Cape Ann Museum
Gloucester Artists Gabrielle Barzaghi and Peter Littlefield Collaborate
By: - Aug 20th, 2025Gabrielle saw Judy as a fighter. She's a witch and also a pissed off teenager. It was Gabrielle's idea that a beast should attack Judy, who strangles it. She skins it with her teeth and takes its power (figure 4). “After blood-stained clothing was found, it was reported that Judy was killed by a beast. But in a fit of rage, she strangled it, gutted and skinned it with her teeth. Then she cooked it. She was stuffed with meat and took a nap.”
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