Island City Stage closes out its third season with a flourish, presenting the world premiere of Daniel’s Husband by multi-award-winning South Florida playwright Michael McKeever. The play, work-shopped at ‘Jan McArt’s New Play Reading Series’ at Boca Raton’s Lynn University last winter, delves into the lives of a gay couple. Mitchell, who does not believe in gay marriage and Daniel who desperately wants to be married.  After a life-altering event, both men learn that, even in an enlightened society, …more…

The Wick Theatre presents the musical Oklahoma! based on the 1931 play Green Grow the Lilacs, by author Lynn Riggs.  In 1943 Oklahoma! was the first musical written by composer Richard Rodgers and librettist Oscar Hammerstein II.  It marked a revolution in musical drama by introducing a number of new storytelling elements and techniques. Most important are its use of song and dance to further the plot, and define the …more…

Zoetic Stage and the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County are proud to present the Miami premiere of Harold Pinter’s BETRAYAL, a shattering dissection of marriage and infidelity inspired by the author’s real-life, clandestine extramarital affair in the 1960s.  

Originally premiered at London’s National Theatre in 1978, BETRAYAL was immediately hailed as one of Pinter’s masterworks, winning the 1979 Olivier Award for Best New Play and becoming …more…

The Critics’ Awards Program, or Cappies for short, will celebrate outstanding achievement in high school theater when students from 23 public and private schools throughout Broward and Palm Beach County vie for top honors in the 13th Annual Cappies Awards Gala on Tuesday, May 19, 2015 at 7 p.m. in the Au-Rene Theater at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts.  Modeled after Broadway’s Tony Awards, the Cappies Awards will …more…

The Broward Stage Door Theatre presents the musical comedy Waist Watchers The Musical!. Written by producer Alan Jacobson, the show originally premiered in October of 2007 at the Maltz Jupiter Theatre under the name Food Fight! A Musical Comedy for Waist Watchers. Set in Cook’s Women’s Gym, the show takes a lighthearted look at four adult women dealing with assorted body image issues by using some 25 popular songs with …more…

Underdog Productions will present Demerits, Detentions and Dismissals as part of the inaugural Fort Lauderdale Fringe Festival, Saturday, May 2, at 1:20pm and 6:50 pm in the White Box space on the downtown campus of Broward College.  Utilizing the works of former teacher, slam poet champion and teaching advocate, Taylor Mali, teacher and actor Jerry Seeger conducts “class” under the tutelage of director Elena Maria Garcia, herself a teacher of acting …more…

The Wick Theatre presents the musical Dames at Sea as the last show of their current season. (stay tuned for their upcoming Summer productions of George M and Peter Pan!) Dames at Sea has been described as a tap-happy, navy-crazy celebration of the golden era of movie musicals with a heart as big as the ocean.  This quintessential American musical was written by George Haimsohn and Robin Miller with music by …more…

Fresh off its world premiere at the 2014 Edinburgh Festival Fringe in Scotland,  the one-woman show The Wedding Warrior will be playing the first ever Fort Lauderdale Fringe Festival, Saturday May, 2nd, 2015!   Loosely based on playwright/Performer, Casey Dressler’s time working as a wedding coordinator in Islamorada, FL, The Wedding Warrior, is the tale of an unwed, 30-something, wedding coordinator in small town Key Largo who proves love truly is …more…

The national tour of ANYTHING GOES, the new Broadway revival of Cole Porter’s timeless classic musical theatre masterpiece, will make its Fort Lauderdale premiere Tuesday, May 5, 2015 at The Broward Center for the Performing Arts for a limited two week run. Winner of the 2011 Tony Award® for Best Revival of a Musical, ANYTHING GOES sails to The Broward Center for the Performing Arts under the direction of Sean …more…

Pigs Do Fly Productions will present No Fear of Flying! – seven brand new humorous short plays – to kick off  its second season.  The production will run from May 7th through May 24th at Andrews Living Arts in Ft. Lauderdale. Chosen to highlight ‘vibrant, healthy people over the age of 50 doing interesting things with their lives’, the plays were selected with all audiences in mind – their first two …more…

The Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County closes its 2014-2015 Free Family Fest signature series with the return of ROCK ODYSSEY, a family-friendly original rock ‘n’ roll musical produced by the Arsht Center based on Homer’s Odyssey. The epic production will bring its thrilling score to the John S. and James L. Knight Concert stage on May 16 at 1:30 p.m. for one free performance.

Originally created …more…

Curtain Call Playhouse, South Florida’s most active touring company, will present Dial M for Murder at various venues throughout the region through May and June. Now in their 18th year, Curtain Call Playhouse’ unique touring situation has allowed them to reach a much wider and more diverse audience than a traditional ‘one space’ theatrical company.  They currently partner with the City of Boca Raton, Pompano Beach, Miramar, Sunrise, and The Township …more…

The Outre Theatre Company, with Managing Director Sabrina Lynn Gore and Artistic Director Skye Whitcomb, announces the final show of their third season, the raucous Tony nominated musical Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson , by Alex Timbers and Michael Friedman.   This rock-musical /political satire reimagines America’s first populist president, casting him as a rock star.  It creatively blends historical fact and fiction to satirize our own contemporary political landscape. An unapologetic …more…

Ali MacGraw and Ryan O’Neal will star in the upcoming national tour of LOVE LETTERS, celebrated playwright A.R. Gurney’s enduring romance about first loves and second chances.  Following a critically acclaimed Broadway run, Gregory Mosher’s production will play an exclusive Florida engagement Tuesday July 21 through Sunday, July 26, at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts..

LOVE LETTERS is the story of Andrew Makepeace Ladd III (O’Neal) and Melissa Gardner …more…

Primal Forces Productions will present Landford Wilson’s Redwood Curtain.  This powerful commentary on the effects of war and remembrance from April 17th through May 3rd at Andrews Living Arts in Fort Lauderdale. And in keeping with the play’s theme, a percentage of the production’s revenue will be donated to Broward County’s VFW (Veterans of Foreign Wars) Post 8195.  Landford Wilson’s Redwood Curtain is a thought-provoking exploration of memories – of …more…

The national tour of the new Broadway revival of Cole Porter’s 1934 classic musical, Anything Goes, will make its Fort Lauderdale premiere Tuesday, May 5, 2015 at The Broward Center for the Performing Arts for a limited two week run. Anything Goes features music and lyrics by Cole Porter; original book by P.G. Wodehouse & Guy Bolton and Howard Lindsay & Russel Crouse; and new book by Timothy Crouse and …more…

Direct from Broadway, SISTER ACT, the hilarious, five-time Tony-nominated musical smash, is coming to Miami. Called “In a word, DIVINE!” by the Associated Press, SISTER ACT opens at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County on April 14 for a limited engagement! 

SISTER ACT closes the 2014-2015 Broadway in Miami subscription season presented by Bank of America. Produced by Whoopi Goldberg, TROIKA Entertainment and Sister Act On …more…

Stage Door Theatre will follow up their hit production of Cabaret with another classic musical.  Their production of A Chorus Line will open April 8th and run through May 17th.   One of the longest running shows of all time, A Chorus Line evolved from several workshop sessions with Broadway dancers (known as ‘gypsies’) taped by choreographer Tony Stevens. The dancers’ frank discussions, admissions, and often painful revelations about their experiences, hopes, …more…

After a successful run of the show Always . . .Patsy Cline  the story of Patsy Cline and Louise Seger might be thought by some to be a hard act to follow.  But Nicole Stodard, Thinking Cap Theatre’s producing artistic director has found the story of two women whom she knows can more than fill the bill. The fascinating relationship between Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West will be examined in Eileen Atkins’ …more…

Mainstreet Players presents God of Carnage by Yasmina Reza. Is there such a thing as the art of coexistence? God of Carnage deals with two sets of parents who meet to have a civilized discussion about a schoolyard scuttle between their sons. What begins as a cordial evening ends with the adults themselves acting like children. God of Carnage is a tight, taut, tense and funny play that deals with a host of subjects, including parenting, misogyny, …more…

Slow Burn Theatre continues it’s stellar SIXTH season with the South Florida professional premiere of the Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize winning musical Rent. Based loosely on Puccini’s La Boheme, Jonathan Larson’s Rent follows a year in the life of a group of impoverished young artists and musicians struggling to survive and create in New York’s Lower East Side, under the shadow of HIV/AIDS.

The physical and emotional complications of the disease pervade the …more…

The Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County and The House Theatre of Chicago are proud to present the regional premiere of The Magnificents, an original story by illusionist Dennis Watkins (Death and Harry Houdini). Playing April 8 – May 3, 2015 in the intimate Carnival Studio Theater (Ziff Ballet Opera House), The Magnificents continues the Arsht Center’s highly acclaimed Theater Up Close Series which features artistic …more…

From the creator of Making Porn and All Male Peep Show Empire Stage presents The Penis Talk Show, starring porn star Chad Donovan. The Empire Stage is located at 1140 N. Flagler Drive in Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33304 (1/4 mile north of Sunrise and just east of the train tracks). 

If you’ve spent a long, hard time looking for reliable information about the male sex organ and feel like you’ve just …more…

Island City Stage continues its 2014-2015 season with the Douglas Carter Beane’s  Broadway hit The Little Dog Laughed.  Nominated for a Best Play Tony Award, this comedy Ben Brantley of The New York Times describes as “truth and illusion Hollywood-style” follows the adventures of a movie star whose resourceful agent keeps pushing him back in the closet, even while he’s falling for a cute rent boy with a girlfriend.

Island City Stage Associate Artistic Director Michael Leeds helms …more…

Mad Cat Theatre Company returns to the South Beach Comedy Festival with the new play Earthquake, written and directed by company member Jessica Farr.   In an attempt to crawl out of obscurity and find himself relevant once again, Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Trevor Winston writes a new “hard hitting, important play” bent on changing the lives of its audience members.  But as the play passes through the producer’s fingers, the …more…