Thursday, April 6, 2023
Actors Playhouse’s lively Bright Star is a folk-country fable replete with spirited dances, classic character types, a genuine respect for everyday folk, and, ultimately, a moral about be…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:42AMWednesday, April 5, 2023
Always...Patsy Cline is a cross between a memory play, historical piece, and jukebox musical that is receiving an admirable production from Arts Center Management, the City of Lauderhill and…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:54AMMonday, April 3, 2023
You don;t want to go home again. Certainly, that’s the Weston family manse in the desolate prairie of Oklahoma as depicted in Palm Beach Dramaworks’ searing, devastating portrait of toxi…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 02:32PMFriday, March 31, 2023
Other than the outlines of Harper Lee’s plot, do not go to the superb national tour of To Kill a Mockingbird at the Broward Center expecting echoes of the cherished movie. ITe style, struc…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:42AMWednesday, March 29, 2023
The 2023-24 theater season in South Florida includes alliance of Boca Stage and MNM Theatre's Wait Until Dark and Boeing Boeing; Kravis Center has Tina, Six, Hamilton and Jagged Little Pill…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 01:06AMTuesday, March 28, 2023
Madeline Powell, who plays Eliza Doolittle, and Jonathan Grunert, who stars opposite her as Professor Henry Higgins, in the Broadway national tour of My Fair Lady coming to the Arsht Center,…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:54AMMonday, March 27, 2023
Of course, Mary Poppins does fly in Slow Burn Theatre Company's glorious production at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts. As the song goes, this Mary Poppins is “Practically Perfe…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 07:36PMSaturday, March 25, 2023
Skilled direction and excellent performances plumb the deep currents in Oleanna, currently on stage at Riverside Theatre in Vero Beach. In fact, Riverside’s production is as sharp and poin…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:48PMFriday, March 24, 2023
Remarkable for raging family furor, recriminations, love, regret, pain and torrents of alcohol-fueled vitriol, August: Osage County is accepted as one of The Great American Plays. Palm Beach…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 07:24PMWednesday, March 22, 2023
The zingers in Boca Stage's female version of The Odd Couple sound familiar but hardly stale like something left in Olive Madison’s refrigerator for who knows how long. Rather, you welcome…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 07:12PMTuesday, March 21, 2023
This Zoetic production of Next To Normal – easily one of the finest in its history -- blesses the audience with a deeply affecting meld of fluid staging, glorious music and five superb per…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:43PMMonday, March 20, 2023
It’s expected the Maltz Jupiter Theatre's Oliver! would be a tuneful, well-executed evening. But those mild adjectives would not begin to do this justice to a benchmark for this company. T…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:00AMSaturday, March 18, 2023
Florida Grand Opera brings back Tosca for nearly the 12th time with veteran villain Todd Thomas. Conductor Gregory Buchalter says this is the opera for people who haven’t been to an opera.…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:56PMThursday, March 16, 2023
In the early spring, flowers bloom and South Florida theaters announce 2023-24 seasons. Broadway In Fort Lauderdale will have Funny Girl and Moulin Rouge; Lake Worth Playhouse's season incl…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:00AMMonday, March 13, 2023
Michael Jackson never appears in the incisive Defacing Michael Jackson, although his influence is infused into the journey at Miami New Drama stage. But Aurin Squire’s insightful tale re…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:08PMSaturday, March 11, 2023
If you’re younger than Boomers and wonder what it felt like seeing a musical in the 1950s, or if you’re older and you yearn for what you saw in the 1950s, then take full advantage of the…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:34AMWednesday, March 8, 2023
You’ll probably love Pretty Woman: The Musical if you adored the 1990 hit movie that launched Julia Roberts’ career. The story about a hooker who lands a fabulously rich guy and lives ha…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:40PMDesigning Broadway, by Derek McLain and Eila Mell, Running Press (Hatchette Book Group), 272 pages; list price $45, $33.20 Amazon, used copies $30. By Bill Hirschman As a rule, responsibl…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:00AMMonday, March 6, 2023
The strength and vulnerability of non-sexual but emotionally intimate friendships are not focuses in 20th Century theater. But in works written by a new generation of playwrights, these rela…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:46AMSaturday, March 4, 2023
Cemetery Pub, a play in its second production by playwright-actor Tom Dugan at Pigs Do Fly Productions, is a mash-up of multiple genres as three relatives hash out troubled pasts and an unce…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 04:30PMMonday, February 27, 2023
The intense and dense cyclonic swirl of ideas expertly delivered in GableStage’s production of Lucas Hnath’s A Doll’s House Part 2 is the theatrical embodiment of “thought-provoking…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:00AMSunday, February 26, 2023
Those needing a good hearty laugh will find the right medicine in Riverside Theatre’s achingly hilarious production of A Comedy of Tenors. The show is awash with impeccable split-second t…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:24AMWednesday, February 22, 2023
The path we take in life and the place we end up – how much of that is a matter of luck, socio-economic circumstance, and how much is a matter of choices ? The insight-laden Good People at…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:00AMMonday, February 20, 2023
If you’ve got a competent, committed team as the Broadway at series does for 42nd Street, you’re nearly guaranteed a rousing gift of pure hallelujah as the love of musical theater grows …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:07PMSunday, February 19, 2023
Part 4 of a 4-part in-depth series tracking South Florida theater’s arc of paralysis and pivot through the pandemic and into the future, certainties becoming uncertain, and an unquenched d…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:00AMPart 3 of a 4-part in-depth series tracking South Florida theater’s arc of paralysis and pivot through the pandemic and into the future, certainties becoming uncertain, and an unquenched d…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:40AMPart 2 of a 4-part in-depth series tracking South Florida theater’s arc of paralysis and pivot through the pandemic and into the future, certainties becoming uncertain, and an unquenched d…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:38AMPart 1 of a 4-part in-depth series tracking South Florida theater’s arc of paralysis and pivot through the pandemic and into the future, certainties becoming uncertain, and an unquenched d…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:35AMFriday, February 17, 2023
So much has been written about Wicked—now 20 years on Broadway and making its umpteenth stop in South Florida—it seems like defying gravity to find something fresh to say about this popu…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:50PMWednesday, February 15, 2023
Part 3 of a 4-part in-depth series tracking South Florida theater’s arc of paralysis and pivot through the pandemic and into the future, certainties becoming uncertain, and an unquenched d…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:00AMTuesday, February 14, 2023
Area Stage's Giancarlo Rodaz’s visionary, deeply moving new production of Beauty and the Beast, a near identical production as it mounted last summer, but with two new leads, is as radica…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 04:52PM 
