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By Chris Joseph
"I'm into events too — war, famine, genocide," quips Sarah, the protagonist in GableStage's compelling production of Time Stands Still.... More >>
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By Chris Joseph
Minutes before you're released into the cell, your feet have been tightly manacled and locked into a stock. A steel frame is passed over your... More >>
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By Carlos Suarez De Jesus
On Centro Cultural Español's rambling patio, guayabera-clad men, well-heeled matrons, and curious theater lovers are gathered... More >>
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By Chris Joseph
Juan C. Sanchez knows how to craft richly drawn characters with wit and wisdom. The New World School of the Arts grad was a Carbonell
Award... More >>
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By Chris Joseph
Framed with audio clips from resonant figures in black history such as Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, Paul Robeson, and even Oprah Winfrey,... More >>
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By Chris Joseph
At times, A Steady Rain, now showing at GableStage, feels like a classic noir tale of good cops gone rotten in the Windy City. At others, it... More >>
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By Chris Joseph
The script of Lisa Loomer's Living Out, which runs through February 26 at the Main Street Playhouse in Miami Lakes, is rife with complexity,... More >>
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By Chris Joseph
Making its world premiere at New Theatre, Winter is about how we remember the ones we love but more often forget them while we're buried in the... More >>
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By Chris Joseph
Take a Haitian jitney down NE Second Avenue, as I recently did, and you can find the whole of Miami. After you pass the ash-tinted asphalt of... More >>
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By Chris Joseph
Stephen Adly Guirgis's controversially titled The Motherf**ker With the Hat, playing now at GableStage, is raw, darkly hilarious, and certainly... More >>
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By Chris Joseph
It's been an up-and-down year for South Florida theater. We saw mostly entertaining productions, with a few misses here and there, but those that... More >>
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By Chris Joseph
"Everyone looks retarded when you set your mind to it," exclaims Crumpet, a 45-year-old elf working the display window overlooking the throng of... More >>
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By Camille Lamb
The Roxy Performing Arts Center in West Miami-Dade is often filled on weekends with children wearing leotards and hopeful expressions. That is... More >>
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By Chris Joseph
Carried by Gregg Weiner's grounded yet forceful performance, Red is a semibiographical drama based on the life of Mark Rothko, the Russian-born... More >>
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By Chris Joseph
Taking inspiration from a Chinese folktale called The Magical Embroidery, the PlayGround Theatre, which prides itself on staging unique and... More >>
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By Chris Joseph
You might know the amiable and charming Madeline from Ludwig Bemelmans's popular children's book series about an all-girls Catholic boarding... More >>
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By Chris Joseph
Artistic geniuses are often volatile and ornery. Their creativity makes them iconic; the fact they are so difficult adds a patina of interesting.... More >>
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By Chris Joseph
"People have always been fascinated by the dark side of things," says actor Douglas Sills, one of the stars of The Addams Family, which opens... More >>
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By Chris Joseph
It's fitting that Miami native and New World School of the Arts graduate Tarell Alvin McCraney brought his younger brother to the South Florida... More >>
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By Chris Joseph
From Cain and Abel to the dudes from Oasis, brothers have a long history of fighting and generally acting like pricks with one another. Sometimes... More >>
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By Chris Joseph
If you like shows that combine witty comedy, textually dense psychodrama, trippy-ass quests of intellectual expression, philosophical... More >>
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By Chris Joseph
Extremities is an exercise in bold theater-making. Written in 1981 by William Mastrosimone, the play examines the aftermath of an attempted rape... More >>
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By Chris Joseph
It's easy to forget that Ilan Hatsor's tinderbox of a play, Masked — which opened last weekend and runs through August 7 at GableStage... More >>
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By Chris Joseph
In a city that is as diverse in lifestyle and taste as Miami, the International Hispanic Theatre Festival (IHTF) — presented by Teatro... More >>
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By Chris Joseph
Jai Rodriguez, formerly of the Emmy Award-winning Bravo reality show Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, has been working at breakneck speed,... More >>
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By Chris Joseph
Alfred Hitchcock's 1935 film The 39 Steps set the template for the innocent-everyman-caught-in-a-deadly-conspiracy plot line that has permeated... More >>
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By Chris Joseph
Celebrities are narcissistic, insecure people. But mostly they're dumber than a sack of hammers. And there's no better way to expose the bovine... More >>
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By Chris Joseph
Taking inspiration from a Chinese folktale called "The Magical Embroidery," the PlayGround Theatre, which prides itself in bringing unique and... More >>
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By Chris Joseph
Take a dash of Stephen King's Carrie, a splash of Edward Scissorhands, and a sprinkle of Greek mythology, and you have what is arguably one of... More >>
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By Chris Joseph
Written and presented in a kind of '70s sitcom vibe (think Chico and the Man with F-bombs), Superior Donuts is Tracy Letts's followup to his... More >>
