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BroadwayWorld presents a comprehensive weekly roundup of regional stories around our Broadway World, which include videos, editor spotlights, regional reviews and more. This week, we feature ...

the all time irreverentist, funniest, outragiest, precision dancingest, wonderfully singingest, touring America show.

Playwright Mark St. Germain's 'Becoming Dr Ruth' is a tender ode to an unusual woman with an unusual life.

it's Clay Cartland as the world's favorite pirate captain, Black Stache.

The cast performs with a precision remarkable in a brawling rock and roll musical

The South Florida Silver Palm Theatre Awards, founded ten years ago to honor theatrical excellence in South Florida, has announced that this year it will present the coveted award to 28 individuals and organizations.

The world premiere of playwright Tom Jacobson's WALKING TO BUCHENWALD receives a sturdy outing from Open Fist with the ensemble's strong performances of his three-dimensional characters steered firm-handedly by Roderick Menzies.

They're at it again up at Island City Stage, bouncing off the walls, ahootin' and ahollerin' and lighting up the Broward sky with their shattering smiles.

There's a Dublin thug, a walking knuckle duster with an accent straight from Sheriff Street, on stage.

The Grand Canyon's Havasupai tribe are dying out from diabetes. They have a champion. Social anthropologist Ken (Carlos Orizondo) has lived with them, studied them, and written a book about them and he's trying to help them survive. So he brings in a genetic anthropologist Jillian (an outstanding Betsy Graver) to draw their blood and from this discover why the diabetes.

You think the Mona Lisa's smirking? Well, so do I. She's got that tight little smile because she's survived 450 years of slightly perverted adoration culminating in being whacked by a tossed rock.

If you've never seen a drag show, or if you have, or even better, if you've starred in one, you'll love THE LEGEND OF GEORGIA MCBRIDE at GableStage.

Just watch the brilliant Carol Sussman as Marjorie, sliding through dementia to death and beyond.

THE CARETAKER is a long play. Plenty of room for brilliant monologues and Pinter's lengthy silences, words left unsaid, emotions implied. A tightening tension building THE CARETAKER to its enigmatic climax.

There's a lovely presentation of a beloved old musical at Boca Raton's Wick Theatre

Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of earth, And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings

A cynical, wittily written revelation by Sarah Burgess and this production by GableStage captures every greedy spasm.

the homage to singer songwriter Carole King, and there were whistles, woo hoos and woots

...open their revival of 1945's CAROUSEL in a swirl of brilliant costumes, glorious singing, dancing and music from show business heaven.

A court room drama that asks how many people can be killed to justify saving the lives of others.