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Review: SIX: THE MUSICAL at Dr. Phillips Center For The Performing Arts


by Albert Gutierrez - June 04, 2026

Four years after first seeing SIX, I still remain impressed by how well the musical continues to work. What initially seemed like a clever gimmick – a pop concert starring the six wives of Henry VIII – has instead proven itself to be one of the most inventive pieces of musical theatre of the las...

Review: DOWNHILL THE PLAY at Education Is Cool - Get One, Inc. AS2 Productions, Ronald Diltz II Productions, Cee & Hear Productions


by Julie Gardieff - June 03, 2026

What did our critic think of DOWNHILL THE PLAY at Education Is Cool - Get One, Inc. AS2 Productions, Ronald Diltz II Productions, Cee & Hear Productions?...

Review: AN EVENING WITH EDGAR ALLAN POE at Midnight Creative


by Julie Gardieff - June 01, 2026

Edgar Allan Poe remains one of the most iconic American writers, known for his haunting exploration of death, grief, and the macabre. As a theater director, I selected a Poe adaptation for my Fall 2026 production (that will be licensed through Pioneer Drama). In my search for a script that would bes...

Reviews: OUT THERE, SOLOVELA, POEMS FOR GOD and ODYSSEA'S FAMILY TREE at The Orlando Fringe Festival


by Benoit Teves - May 24, 2026

Audiences packed into full houses for the final weekend of the festival featuring wilderness vlogs, an improvised telenovela, an angel getting their wings, and pole dancing trauma....

Review: THE $#!T, FOOL OF GRACE, and COLONIAL CIRCUS at Orlando Fringe Festival


by Benoit Teves - May 24, 2026

The festival's second weekend kicks off with intestinal trouble, a footloose priest, and imperialist clowns....

Review: THE REVIEW, THEN EVE AND MORE at The Orlando Fringe Festival


by Benoit Teves - May 22, 2026

Week two of the festival carries on with lawyers, Biblical transformation, bare honesty, and a firecracker First Lady....

Review: OH! I MISS THE WAR at DJP Productions


by Julie Gardieff - May 20, 2026

This one-man show is adapted from a work of a similar name, I Miss the War, which was originally commissioned by the BBC to mark the 50th anniversary of the 1967 Sexual Offences Act. This production serves as both a response to and homage to that piece....

Review: BREAKING BRAINS, TEA TIME, OZMA, and MORE at The Orlando Fringe Festival


by Benoit Teves - May 19, 2026

The second week of the festival kicks off with polyamory, English breakfast, the Emerald City, and UFOs....

Review: ESCAPE ROOM, LONGER THAN FOREVER, and MORE at The Orlando Fringe Festival


by Benoit Teves - May 19, 2026

The festival's first weekend closes out with grief, 'inspiration porn', and a cacophony of kazoos....

Review: INTIMI(DATING), SINGLE RIDER SONGBOOK, and more at The Orlando Fringe Festival


by Benoit Teves - May 17, 2026

What did our critic think of INTIMI(DATING), SINGLE RIDER SONGBOOK, AND MORE at The Orlando Fringe Festival?...

Past Shows

Once

Once

Nov 21 – Dec 21, 2025

From the very first note, ONCE draws you in and never lets go. This emotionally captivating musical is the only show to have earned an Academy Award,...

American Psycho

American Psycho

Oct 17 – Nov 2, 2025

BOOK by Roberto Aguirre-SacasaMUSIC & LYRICS by Dunkin SheikOCTOBER 17 - NOVEMBER 2A sexy and psychopathic new musical, based on the best-selling novel by Bret...

Rock of Ages

Rock of Ages

Jul 11 – Aug 17, 2025

This Tony Award-nominated Broadway musical features the hits of bands including Night Ranger, REO Speedwagon, Pat Benatar, Twisted Sister and more!It’s the tail end of...

Jesus Christ Superstar

Jesus Christ Superstar

May 23 – Jun 15, 2025

MUSIC by Andrew Lloyd WeberLYRICS by Tim RiceMAY 23 - JUNE 15A thrilling rock opera based on the last week of Jesus’ life, wowing audiences...

Sordid Lives

Sordid Lives

Apr 4 – Apr 20, 2025

A wickedly humorous comedy that uncovers the intricacies of life in the underbelly of small-town Texas.Authored by Del Shores, known for his previous work "Daddy's...

Next to Normal

Next to Normal

Feb 14 – Mar 2, 2025

FEBRUARY 14 - MARCH 2A family on the edge. A journey to healing. A musical like no other.An unflinching look at a suburban family struggling...

Calendar Girls

Calendar Girls

Jan 10 – Jan 26, 2025

JANUARY 10-26, 2024Based on the hit motion picture that charmed audiences with its effortless wit and humor!When Annie's husband John dies of leukemia, she and...

Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812

Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812

Nov 15 – Dec 8, 2024

From the celebrated and award-winning composer Dave Malloy comes Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812, an electropop opera based on a scandalous slice...

Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill

Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill

Sep 13 – Sep 29, 2024

The time is 1959. The place is a seedy bar in Philadelphia. The audience is about to witness one of Billie Holiday’s last performances, given...

The Rocky Horror Show

The Rocky Horror Show

Jun 7 – Jun 30, 2024

"A musical that deals with mutating identity and time warps becomes one of the most mutated, time-warped phenomena in show business." – The New York...

To Kill A Mockingbird

To Kill A Mockingbird

May 3 – May 19, 2024

Adapted from the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelMay 3 - May 19Adapted from the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, To Kill a Mockingbird opens in a sleepy Alabama town...

Pump Boys & Dinettes

Pump Boys & Dinettes

Apr 5 – Apr 28, 2024

A smash hit on and off-Broadway, this crowd-pleasing country-western musical features Prudie and Rhetta Cupp, from the Double Cupp Diner, singing and performing along with...

Steel Magnolias

Steel Magnolias

Feb 16 – Mar 3, 2024

The action is set in Truvy’s beauty salon in Chinquapin, Louisiana, where all the ladies who are “anybody” come to have their hair done. Helped...

The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee

The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee

Jan 5 – Jan 28, 2024

Winner of the Tony and the Drama Desk Awards for Best Book, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee has charmed audiences across the country...

The Full Monty

The Full Monty

Nov 10 – Dec 3, 2023

A raucous, pop-rock-musical send-up of gender expectations and stereotypes... that takes it all off.November 10 - December 3Based on the cult hit film of the...

Sweeney Todd

Sweeney Todd

Sep 7 – Oct 1, 2023

Sweeney Todd has become a bloody, worldwide success since being awarded eight Tony's, (including Best Musical), for its Broadway premiere. Stephen Sondheim's and Hugh Wheeler's...

The Prom

The Prom

Aug 4 – Aug 27, 2023

Four eccentric Broadway stars are in desperate need of a new stage. So when they hear that trouble is brewing around a small-town prom, they...

9 to 5

9 to 5

Jun 2 – Jun 25, 2023

9 to 5 The Musical, with music and lyrics by Dolly Parton and book by Patricia Resnick, is based on the seminal 1980 hit movie.June...

Spring Awakening

Spring Awakening

Apr 14 – May 7, 2023

An angsty rock musical adaptation of the seminal play about the trials and tribulations of growing up.APRIL 14 - MAY 7The winner of eight Tony...

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time

Mar 10 – Feb 26, 2023

15-year-old Christopher has an extraordinary brain: He is exceptional at mathematics but ill-equipped to interpret everyday life. He has never ventured alone beyond the end...

The Great American Trailer Park Musical

The Great American Trailer Park Musical

Jan 12 – Feb 5, 2023

The story has, at its center, a love triangle between an agoraphobe, a highway toll collector and an exotic dancer with an unhinged ex-boyfriend. A...

She Loves Me

She Loves Me

Nov 18 – Dec 4, 2022

In this scented case of mistaken identity and letter writing, two feuding perfume clerks have no idea that they are in love.An intimate and touching...

RENT

RENT

Sep 29 – Oct 16, 2022

La Vie Boheme! Jonathan Larson's iconic Pulitzer Prize-winning musical that shaped a generation of audiences and taught us all to measure our life in love.Set...

A Chorus Line

A Chorus Line

Aug 19 – Sep 4, 2022

It's one singular sensation! The groundbreaking, Pulitzer Prize-winning concept musical set a new standard for Broadway and remains relevant, poignant, provocative and explosively entertaining.A Chorus...

Memphis

Memphis

Jul 8 – Jul 24, 2022

Memphis is set in the places where rock and roll was born in the 1950s: the seedy nightclubs, radio stations and recording studios of the...

In The Heights

In The Heights

May 27 – Jun 12, 2022

In the Heights follows the many colorful residents of Washington Heights -- a New York City neighborhood on the brink of change. Usnavi, a first...

Bonnie & Clyde

Bonnie & Clyde

Apr 22 – May 8, 2022

At the height of the Great Depression, Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow went from two small-town nobodies in West Texas to America's most renowned folk...

Dogfight

Dogfight

Mar 18 – Apr 3, 2022

A young soldier learns the power of compassion when he plays a cruel joke on an unsuspecting girl.The hauntingly beautiful musical, Dogfight, by Pasek and...

Into The Woods

Into The Woods

Jan 28 – Feb 13, 2022

James Lapine and Stephen Sondheim take everyone's favorite storybook characters and bring them together for a timeless, yet relevant, piece... and a rare modern classic....

The Color Purple

The Color Purple

Sep 7 – Sep 23, 2018

Join us for Theater West End's inaugural production and Central Florida Regional Premiere of The Color Purple! Alice Walker’s Pulitzer Prize-winning triumph bolts joyously to...

Videos


Wicked in Orlando Wicked
Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts (1/06-1/31)
Gothic Attitude in Orlando Gothic Attitude
Gothic Attitude (4/16-1/16)
Hee Haw 2: Still Pickin' and A'Grinnin' in Orlando Hee Haw 2: Still Pickin' and A'Grinnin'
Breakthrough Theatre (6/05-6/22)
Disney's Finding Nemo in Orlando Disney's Finding Nemo
Athens Theatre (1/22-2/27)
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever: The Musical in Orlando The Best Christmas Pageant Ever: The Musical
Athens Theatre (11/20-12/13)
Zayn at Kia Center in Orlando Zayn at Kia Center
Kia Center (11/09-11/09)
Ted Swindley’s Honky Tonk Angels in Orlando Ted Swindley’s Honky Tonk Angels
Athens Theatre (2/26-3/21)
1776 in Orlando 1776
The News Journal Center (6/26-7/05)
SWAN LAKE by The United European Ballet Company in Orlando SWAN LAKE by The United European Ballet Company
Miramar Cultural Center (12/30-12/30)
Hamilton (Angelica Company) in Orlando Hamilton (Angelica Company)
Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts (9/29-10/18)