Theater Review

A stylish ‘Summer Shorts’ is off and running

Todd Allen Durkin emerges as the star of the mixed-bag 18th edition of the popular festival.

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Stage Door winningly revisits ‘Brighton Beach’

Neil Simon’s coming-of-age play turns on resonant family relationships.

Books

‘Vagina Monologues’ writer Eve Ensler chronicles cancer struggle

Writer and activist Eve Ensler chronicles a life-and-death struggle in her new memoir

Theater Review

Memory takes a turn in ‘Dancing at Lughnasa’

Palm Beach Dramaworks paints a gentle portrait of five Irish sisters in a lovely season closer.

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Love and brutality swirl in ‘Waafrika’

Thinking Cap Theatre tackles a shattering play about lesbian lovers in Kenya.

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Unorthodox lovers drive ‘Road Through Heaven’

New Theatre’s Ricky J. Martinez debuts the second play in his ‘Island Trilogy’

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A love triangle turns combative at GableStage

An imagination-fueled British hit has a young man’s male and female lovers squaring off.

Dining

Copperbox chef wowing diners at dinner-party-like ‘atelier nights’

At dinner-party-like ‘atelier nights,’ Copperbox chef Gabriela Machado is wowing diners with her artful food

A thrilling ‘War Horse’ thunders into the Broward Center

Theatrical magic and artful puppetry power the Royal National Theatre’s award-winning production.

Performing arts

Piano Slam 5 marries music, hip-hop and poetry at Arsht Center

The Dranoff event showcases duo pianists and student poets at the Arsht Center.

Theater Review

Anne Frank and Emmett Till meet in a flawed play

Despite common threads, the stories of two tragic teens don’t mesh in the new AAPACT production.

‘Anne & Emmett’

Playwright and journalist Janet Langhart Cohen, wife of former defense secretary William S. Cohen, imagines a meeting between Anne Frank (Zasha Shary) and Emmett Till (Shawn Burgess) in ‘Anne & Emmett.’ The African American Performing Arts Community Theatre is presenting the memory play about the two famous teen victims of hatred and prejudice at the African Heritage Cultural Arts Center, 6161 NW 22nd Ave., Miami, through May 12. Performances are 8 p.m. Friday-Saturday, 3 p.m. Sunday. Regular tickets are $20 ($25 for Saturday’s opening performance; $15 for first weekend Friday and Sunday performances). Call 305-456-0287 or visit www.aapact.com.

Theater Review

Clay Cartland shines in a funny, touching ‘Jeffrey’

The actor brings dimension and depth to a fearful guy in Miami Beach Stage Door’s production.

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Stage Door’s ‘Beau Jest’ explores a tangled web

James Sherman’s Beau Jest is well-suited — maybe ideal — for the core audience at Stage Door Theatre in Coral Springs.

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Slow Burn Theatre does well by ‘Sweeney Todd’

Matthew Korinko soars as the mad, vengeful barber in Stephen Sondheim’s challenging musical.

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Faith is a battleground in ‘Savannah Disputation’

Though well-acted, Evan Smith’s comedy doesn’t pay off for Zoetic Stage.

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A less snappy ‘Addams Family’ is back

The touring production at the Broward Center fails to invigorate a not-so-hot musical.

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‘An Iliad’ turns epic poem into a solo show

Avi Hoffman climbs a mountain of a text in Outré Theatre’s production.

Theater

Arsht’s 2013-14 ‘Up Close’ series boasts 2 world premieres

The Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts is raising the curtain on its 2013-2014 Theater Up Close programming, partnering again with Miami’s Zoetic Stage, the House Theatre of Chicago and the University of Miami for an eclectic season — including a pair of world premieres — in the center’s Carnival Studio Theatre.

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M Ensemble delivers a lively, sultry ‘Blues’

Six strong singers power a collection of classics, though history is barely addressed.

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A fashion-forward ‘Priscilla’ hits the stage

Three divas on a bus take a back seat to costumes at Miami’s Arsht Center.

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McPhillamy reigns over ‘Exit the King’

Palm Beach Dramaworks gives its audiences an accessible Eugene Ionesco play.

Maltz Jupiter Theatre sweeps musical Carbonells

GableStage, Zoetic Stage honored for plays during 37th annual ceremony.

In ‘Priscilla Queen of the Desert’ at Miami’s Arsht Center, wild costumes rule

Disco divas journey through the Outback in wild costumes in a Broadway musical at the Arsht

Reality TV pilot ‘Caribbean wives’ showcases South Florida women

Producer Maxine Tulloch aims reality TV cameras at diverse South Florida women.

Fashion + theater

At the Carbonells, the world’s a stylish stage

Five nominated for Carbonells get their looks together for South Florida’s ‘Theater Prom’

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A feisty woman and a lost soul bond in ‘4000 Miles’

Amy Herzog’s observant play gets a funny, poignant production at GableStage.

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A baby debate powers the provocative ‘Lungs’

Betsy Graver and Cliff Burgess shine in a simple, fine production at the Theatre at Arts Garage.

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In ‘Wiesenthal,’ a Nazi hunter looks back

Writer-actor Tom Dugan revisits the life’s work of ‘the Jewish James Bond.’