Tuesday, June 18, 2013
There’s not one but two elephants in the room, actually in the auditorium, as Slow Burn Theatre Company prepares to take on the 2006 stage musical version of The Wedding Singer , which ope…
Linked From Florida Theater On Stage at 10:12PMMonday, June 17, 2013
Playwrights Tina Howe, Lauren Gunderson, Robert Caisley and Steve Yockey are the headliners among an experienced group of speakers this weekend in Miami at the annual CityWrights conference …
Linked From Florida Theater On Stage at 06:45PMSaturday, June 15, 2013
GableStage's 2013-2014 slate includes the just- coronated Tony winner for best play, Christopher Durang’s hilarious Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike. Equally notable is the debut of hom…
Linked From Florida Theater On Stage at 06:07PMThursday, June 13, 2013
Tamarac Theatre of the Performing Arts will shut down, at least temporarily, after the end of its current show June 30 because its landlord is evicting the company after 13 years, said Gener…
Linked From Florida Theater On Stage at 05:24PMIf, as La Cage aux Folles’ Zaza suggests looking at life from a different angle, The Women’s Theatre Project’s annual Girl Play series of staged readings June 21-23 examines life from …
Linked From Florida Theater On Stage at 11:17AMTuesday, June 11, 2013
Members of the South Florida Theatre League are donating pairs of tickets in a revival of the Free Night of Theater lottery program this summer that encourages people to investigate theaters…
Linked From Florida Theater On Stage at 06:39PMSunday, June 9, 2013
By Bill Hirschman Sometimes for actors, especially playing comedy, the only option is to jump off the cliff and see if you can fly. The miracle is that sometimes, as in City Theatre’s Summ…
Linked From Florida Theater On Stage at 04:59PMFriday, June 7, 2013
Imagine you’re Ken Clement in City Theatre’s Summer Shorts opening this week. One minute he’s a dolphin, a few minutes later he;s Dracula and still later he has to find his inner Mothr…
Linked From Florida Theater On Stage at 09:13AMThursday, June 6, 2013
Acknowledge that Broward Stage Door’s revival of Neil Simon’s thirty-year-old warhorse Brighton Beach Memories is uneven and stumbles. Then acknowledge, at least this critic will, that S…
Linked From Florida Theater On Stage at 02:58PMWednesday, June 5, 2013
If this seems to be a summer jammed with play readings across the region (at least 18 set so far and we have more to announce over the next few days), musical theater fans will be penciling …
Linked From Florida Theater On Stage at 09:32AMSaturday, June 1, 2013
Get an early look-and-listen to works in progress by local playwrights every Monday night for 18 weeks beginning June 3 at theater across four counties through the South Florida Theatre Leag…
Linked From Florida Theater On Stage at 10:24PMForbidden Fruit Lynn University’s fledgling theater program stays active during the sultry months thanks to the leadership of Jan McArt, its director of theatre arts program development. I…
Linked From Florida Theater On Stage at 06:21PMFriday, May 31, 2013
Actor, playwright, designer, dancer, choreographer, artistic director of New Theatre and probably a few other job descriptions we’ve left out, Ricky J. Martinez is one of the most hyphenat…
Linked From Florida Theater On Stage at 11:58AMMonday, May 27, 2013
Outré Theatre Company has mounted a smooth and solid production of Jonathan Larson’s other produced work, the semi-autobiographical rock musical tick, tick…BOOM! Built around an impassi…
Linked From Florida Theater On Stage at 08:33AMSaturday, May 25, 2013
Amid blockbuster musicals and dysfunctional family dramas, one of the disappearing genres of theater and much of art is the slow, sweet sad song. And as Palm Beach Dramaworks’ slow, sweet …
Linked From Florida Theater On Stage at 02:03PMFriday, May 24, 2013
Thinking Cap Theatre’s production of Nick Hadikwa Mwaluko’s Waafrika is a deeply earnest and illuminating if imperfect examination of the tragic toxicity of tradition. But even Waafrika…
Linked From Florida Theater On Stage at 12:43PMThursday, May 23, 2013
Theater students from 14 public and private high schools in Broward and Palm Beach counties received Cappies awards Tuesday, recognizing excellence in both productions and theater criticism …
Linked From Florida Theater On Stage at 11:21AMWednesday, May 22, 2013
White Rose Miami, the tiny ad hoc drama troupe known for its varied venues including someone’s backyard, is taking another show on the road around Miami-Dade County May 17-June 2 with the…
Linked From Florida Theater On Stage at 08:10PMThe latest podcast entry is Bill Hirschman's interview with Alan Jacobson, founder and artistic director of the Plaza Theatre in Manalapan, about opening, and maintaining, a successful arts …
Linked From Florida Theater On Stage at 08:10PMSex, despite the title at GableStage, and despite the plot, is not what Cock is about. And guess what? It’s sexy. It’s very sexy. But this is a story about love, labels and the press…
Linked From Florida Theater On Stage at 08:10PMTuesday, May 14, 2013
2012-2013 CAPPIES NOMINEES BY SCHOOL Archbishop McCarthy High School (Nine nominations for Bus Stop) Best Play Lead Actor in a Play: Eric Maltz Lead Actress in a Play: Emilie Colon Supportin…
Linked From Florida Theater On Stage at 06:34AMTheater students from 23 public, private and charter schools throughout Broward and Palm Beach counties will vie for top honors in the 11th Annual Cappies Awards Gala at 7 p.m. Tuesday, May …
Linked From Florida Theater On Stage at 06:34AMSunday, May 12, 2013
The Fox on the Fairway, plays more like a 1970s sitcom. When any one of the comedy's exaggerated characters comes bursting through the door (and this happens more than a few times), you expe…
Linked From Florida Theater On Stage at 01:59PMSaturday, May 11, 2013
While the actual production of Ann at Lincoln Center has a few shortcomings, you yearned to toss back a few with former Texas Governor Ann Richards and kick around how to save the country.
Linked From Florida Theater On Stage at 11:40AMFriday, May 10, 2013
The Wick Theatre, currently renovating and refurbishing the former Caldwell Theatre toward a fall opening, will sell off hundreds of Caldwell items from 9.m. to 4 p.m. Friday through Sunday,…
Linked From Florida Theater On Stage at 01:24PMThursday, May 9, 2013
Sing A Song of Sondheim Veteran leading man Wayne LeGette and Mia Mathews, his co-star in The Plaza Theatre’s recent production of Chapter Two, will perform a revue of show tunes by Stephe…
Linked From Florida Theater On Stage at 12:58PMSay what you will about the joys and shortcomings of Memphis the Musical -- starting with exuberant performances and unimpressive lyrics –it has one of the most infallibly infectious final…
Linked From Florida Theater On Stage at 12:58PMWednesday, May 8, 2013
War Horse is cherished by many of us who saw it at Lincoln Center as one
of the most brilliantly executed pieces of theater we have seen. Certainly, audiences continue to be thrilled by the…
Linked From Florida Theater On Stage at 03:41PMMonday, May 6, 2013
So among the fine, entertaining evenings and afternoons in theater this trip, the highlight hands down was watching a brilliant cast under Nicholas Martin’s direction make Christopher Dura…
Linked From Florida Theater On Stage at 11:59AMSaturday, May 4, 2013
Lake Worth Playhouse, the community theater recognized as one of Florida’s oldest continuing troupes of any kind at age 60, set its upcoming season that encompasses ambitious big- budget m…
Linked From Florida Theater On Stage at 03:20PMTuesday, April 30, 2013
Mad Cat Theatre Company, the Miami troupe that has been obliterating Florida’s reputation for safe mainstream theater for 13 years, is moving to the intimate black box space at Miami Theat…
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