Broward Center for the Performing Arts

Here's the challenge: Teach Miami City Ballet's classical dancers how to tap-dance like a Broadway hoofer. Here's the solution: Bring in Palm Beach's Philip Neal. The former principal dancer at the New York City Ballet is not only Miami City Ballet&...

The surprising virtue of Florida Grand Opera's 11th retelling of Verdi's "La Traviata" is that for all the performers singing high E's at the top of their lungs, for all their falling to their knees in sorrow or illness, and for all their oversize...

"I can't wait to get to Fort Lauderdale," choreographer Trey McIntyre moans. "I love it so much. I love the beaches. I'm so happy just kayaking and exploring the canals there. I’m so tired of winter weather." That's because one of the dance world'...

I was wrong. Having seen a turgid and sluggish production of "The Addams Family" on tour at Miami's Adrienne Arsht Center in 2011, I didn't have high hopes for the musical that's now at Fort Lauderdale's Broward Center. I even smugly suggested to my...

Taking cartoon panels from the page to the stage was a tricky thing for "The Addams Family." For the musical-comedy coming to Broward Center April 9 through 21, it wasn't the whole bizarro-macabre thing that was the challenge for the show’s book...

While South Florida may not be considered a jazz mecca, our region remains an attractive tour stop for many of the jazz world's top practitioners. Following a month that brought brilliant jazz pianists Fred Hersch, Eddie Palmieri and Chick Corea to the...

Tift Merritt is the restless sort. You can read it in her lyrics, yearning, deep-rooted narratives about moving around and moving on, often alone. You can hear it in her music, which rests comfortably within many genres without settling for any. And you...

"Flashdance – The Musical" whips by in a mad dash to get to...well...who knows where? The show sure has a lot of momentum for something that fails to move anywhere. Based on the 1983 movie, the musical looks fabulous, with its energetic...

At one time, the mega-hit "Flashdance" was imagined as a stage musical, and not a movie. That 1983 film made Jennifer Beals a star and turned dance togs into fashion must-haves. And now, we can see how things might have been with "Flashdance — the...

Get 50 percent off tickets to see Miami City Ballet's performances of "Program III: The Masters"  at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts in Fort Lauderdale on March 1-3. The shows, in the Au-Rene Theater, feature the three classic ballets by...

They are loud and proud, but they weren't always that way. Michelle Krzyk, 17, is one of more than 60 teenagers who share a secret but who have found understanding, acceptance and kinship through their music with a message. "It's a band for everyone...

The moment that rising basketball star Jeanette Vecchione realized she wanted to be an opera singer came, awkwardly enough, during a high school basketball game, when she sang the National Anthem at half-court. So she traded basketball for the twinkling...