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When Bari Newport arrived in South Florida to begin her tenure as producing artistic director at GableStage a couple of years ago, one of her innumerable tasks involved asking the theater’s patrons what they’d like to see more of in the company’s intimate space at the historic Biltmore Hotel.

Zoetic Stage and GableStage's latest productions come at a time when the Israel-Gaza war is on the minds of many theatergoers.

Take a look at the best bets for South Florida’s theater season.

“They demand nothing of the reader,” says the host of NPR’s “All Things Considered,” whose new book is “The Best Strangers in the World: Stories From a Life Spent Listening.” “And every page has the promise of a happy ending.”

Jewish fashion designer Rudi Gernreich was a prophet, an iconoclast, an LGBTQ rights pioneer. He also invented the monokini.

5Q: Paint Your Wagon “5Q” is an online-only column featuring five questions about stage productions in the Metro Area with a special focus on the GLBTQ community’s relationship to the production. Periodically, “5Q” will take the form of an interview with actors, directors, writers, etc. to shed some light on the production process. A sweeping saga of the West and the pursuit of the “American Dream,” the musical Paint Your Wagon tells the inspiring story of the rise and fall of ...

The Australian opera and theater director Elijah Moshinsky, who died on Jan. 14 of COVID-19 complications at age 75, was celebrated for his onstage collaborations with superstar singers from Luciano Pavarotti to Plácido Domingo, and stage legends from Helen Mirren to Judi Dench. Yet Moshinsky’s most ardent lifelong inspiration was arguably drawn from his Jewish experience. The moral and ethical imperatives displayed in his work drew directly from wide-ranging exposure to Yiddishkeit. Moshins...