Come and Meet Those Dancing Feet at Delray Beach Playhouse’s Masterful, Vibrant Production of Perennial Audience Favorite, ’42ND STREET’

It’s no wonder 42ND STREET won two Tonys (for Best Musical and Best Choreography) in 1980, another for Best Revival on Broadway in 2001 and London’s Olivier Award for Best Musical in 1984 as well. The musical is based on Bradford Ropes’ 1932 Depression-era novel about what goes into developing and rehearsing a new Broadway show, and Hollywood’s 1933 musical film adaptation. Still set in 1933, the 1980 Broadway hit, featuring music by Larry Warren, lyrics by Al Dubin, and a book by Michael Stuart & Mark Bramble, ran for almost nine years (one of Broadway’s longest running shows, at the time) and hasn’t stopped entertaining us mightily ever since! 

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Theatre Lab Begins 12th Season With Annual Heckscher Theatre for Families Production in New Performance Space

Theatre Lab, the professional resident company of Florida Atlantic University’s Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, announced its 2026–27 season, beginning with its annual a Heckscher Theatre for Families production – the world premiere of “Baker Street Beginnings” commissioned for Theatre Lab and written by local playwright and educator Gina Montét. All performances take place at the Heckscher Stage in the Marleen Forkas Studio One Theatre in FAU’s Performing Arts Building, 777 Glades Road, Boca Raton campus.

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Bridge Across The Pond Theater Company Mounts a Most Powerful Production of Pulitzer Finalist ‘OTHER DESERT CITIES’ Just Before Its First Broadway Revival

As a theater critic, there’s nothing I love more than discovering a talented new theater company who’s come to town with great enthusiasm and an original outlook that can only add to our highly rated, established drama scene. Another thing I love is when a rarely produced classic is chosen by one of our local companies … and then suddenly appears as the hottest show on Broadway. I got to see a Sondheim Merrily We Roll Along revival at Delray Beach Playhouse in the spring of 2024 … while the play was still creating a sensation on the Great White Way. And now find myself amazed and delighted to discover playwright Jon Robin Baitz (a new personal favorite) and his 2011 Broadway hit, OTHER DESERT CITIES, playing at Fort Lauderdale’s Empire Stage … just about a month before the show opens at the Hudson Theatre for its first-ever Broadway revival. Yup! Our South Florida theater community definitely has its finger on the pulse of Broadway and Off-Broadway … making sure those of us who can’t regularly travel north don’t miss out (too much)! 

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ISLAND CITY STAGE MOUNTS NATIONWIDE LEAD ACTOR SEARCH FOR ITS 15TH ANNIVERSARY SEASON PRODUCTION OF PAPER CUT BY ANDREW ROSENDORF, A DRAMATIC LOOK AT THE EMOTIONAL TOLL OF WAR

ISLAND CITY STAGE MOUNTS NATIONWIDE LEAD ACTOR SEARCH FOR ITS 15th ANNIVERSARY SEASON PRODUCTION OF PAPER CUT BY Andrew Rosendorf, A DRAMATIC LOOK AT The EMOTIONAL TOLL Of WAR.

Authentic disability representation – Actors with lower limb amputation encouraged to audition 

Island City Stage, an award-winning South Florida theater company, is mounting a nationwide lead actor search for its 15th anniversary season production of Paper Cut by Andrew Rosendorf, a dramatic look at the emotional toll of war. The award-winning theater company is seeking male applicants, aged 25 – 40, of any ethnicity, who embody true authentic disability representation. Performers with lower limb amputations (left, right, or bilateral) are encouraged to apply for the role of Kyle, a veteran dealing with the emotional cost of war long after the battlefield has been left behind. The show will run March 11 – April 4, 2027, with rehearsals from February 16 – March 10, 2027.

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Arca Images presents a new Spanish language adaptation of Arthur Miller’s “Death of a Salesman” with simultaneous English translation

What does Arthur Miller’s iconic American play, Death of Salesman (La muerte de un viajante), have to say to today’s Miami audiences – especially in a newly created Spanish-language adaptation from one of South Florida’s leading theater companies, Arca Images? Quite a lot, as its searing insights remain sharply relevant and incisive.

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Lake Worth Playhouse Announces Transformational $1 Million Endowment Gift

 The Lake Worth Playhouse has announced a transformational $1 million endowment gift, one of the most significant financial milestones in the Playhouse’s history. 

The gift, generously provided by an anonymous donor, establishes a permanent endowment that will provide a reliable source of annual funding to support the Playhouse’s artistic programming, preserve its historic home, and expand educational opportunities for young people throughout the community. 

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WORLD PREMIERE OF THE MUSICAL SOUP BRINGS THE INSPIRING STORY BEHIND MIAMI’S BELOVED RESTAURANT HY VONG TO THE STAGE

Long before Hy Vong became one of Miami’s most beloved restaurants, it began with an unlikely friendship between two women whose lives were forever changed by war, then brought together through resilience, compassion, and hope.

This August, their remarkable story takes the stage in SOUP The Musical, based on the memoir Mango & Peppercorns, which tells the true story of Tung Nguyen and Kathy Manning.

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New City Players Announces Season 11: America at 250 – What Holds Us Together When We’re Pushed Apart?

As the nation marks its semi-quincentennial, Broward County’s ensemble theatre company presents its most ambitious season yet. 

As America celebrates its 250th birthday (July 4, 2026), New City Players announces Season 11: a bold exploration of communities at breaking points spanning a century of American struggle. This season, New City Players will present five productions across two venues—three MainStage productions at Island City Stage and two limited runs at Broward Center for the Performing Arts through their Amplify Arts partnership.

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FUNNY CONFRONTATIONS BETWEEN DREYFUSS AND SHAW HIGHLIGHT PLAY ‘THE SHARK IS BROKEN’ AT ACTORS’ PLAYHOUSE IN CORAL GABLES

Capitalizing on the popularity of the 1975 film “Jaws” (which ironically played at Actors’ Playhouse back in the era when the venue was a movie theater), playwrights Ian Shaw and Joseph Nixon created both a dramatic and  humorous behind the scenes look at the making of “Jaws” in their one act play “The Shark Is Broken”, running now through August 9 at Actors’ Playhouse in Coral Gables.

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