Saturday, October 22, 2022
Zoetic Stage’s Mlima’s Tale is a theatrically-lush indictment of illegal ivory trafficking and shared responsibility for the slaughter of animals, not so much for the artistic trinkets t…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 01:07PMFriday, October 21, 2022
Unabashed charm is not a quality one associates with modern musicals, but it is the predominant and reasonably satisfying virtue if you take the Wick Theatre’s time machine back 61 years t…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 01:03PMTuesday, October 18, 2022
Don't feed the plants! Once again, nebbishy Seymour just won't listen, so we get another evening of wackiness in Slow Burn Theatre's edition of Little Shop of Horrors.
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SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:33PMA love of language and a love of theatricality meld in Thinking Cap Theatre’s ingeniously staged re-interpretation of The Importance of Being Oscar, a celebration of Oscar Wilde. The trio …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:25AMSunday, October 16, 2022
Sometimes, the worthwhile reason to see Palm Beach Dramaworks’ mounting of 4000 Miles, the satisfying treat is watching the vibrating depiction by up-and-comer Gabriell Salgado of a deepl…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:07AMThursday, October 13, 2022
The energetic, sexy Six definitely delivers the royal treatment—a lively score, strong singing and a can’t miss story. And the opening night audience at the Broward Center were more than…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:33AMWednesday, October 12, 2022
One of the great truisms of human nature is that often our greatest opponent is ourselves. So while the drama The Opponent is set in a boxing ring where an young fighter and his trainer spar…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:25AMTuesday, October 11, 2022
A significantly corrected list of 2021-22 Carbonell Awards nominations was released Monday encompassing added nominees, removed nominees, substitutions and recalculations from the list distr…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 02:43PMMonday, October 10, 2022
An unintended resonance echoes in Empire Stage’s production of Misery that Stephen King likely did not quite foresee. In a world where some people steadfastly, even violently believe whate…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 02:33PMThursday, October 6, 2022
Patricia Conolly is one of the most prolific actresses you’ve likely never heard of. But you’ve very likely seen her: 3 times as Blanche, 1 as Stella, 2 as Hedda, 16 Shakespearean hero…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 05:03PMTuesday, September 27, 2022
A familiar slate of names and talents have been announced as recipients for the newly reconfigured Silver Palm Awards celebrating honoring South Florida theater artists. As with last year, a…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 02:49PMMonday, September 26, 2022
Main Street Players' version of Suzan-Lori Parks' Topdog/Underdog rewards the patient patron is watching a slow-motion shattering of two brothers struggling with institutionalized racism, po…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:13PMSunday, September 25, 2022
So Allison Gregory’s Red Riding Hood is a delightful hoot in which Theatre Lab has mounted a production meant to enrapture young theatergoers, but also liberally peppered with jokes, aside…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:03PMThursday, September 15, 2022
Savor an unqualified success with playwright-actor Ronnie Larsen’s The Actors. Copious laughs dominate a seemingly silly sit-com situation, but they recede (though never disappear) as the …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 07:49PMWednesday, September 7, 2022
An array of artists and administrators who have helped build South Florida into a nationally-recognized regional theater hub will receive the Carbonell Awards’ highest honors this fall. Am…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:03AMMonday, September 5, 2022
Bent deserves honor for putting recognizable human beings amid Hitler’s decimation of homosexuals during the Holocaust – and re-reminding the public of this horror. But rising above the …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:19PMSaturday, August 27, 2022
I am begging every critic colleague, everyone who has seen Actors’ Playhouse’s Now and Then to NOT give away anything! One of the many pleasures in this drama laced with humor is watchin…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 05:24PMFriday, August 26, 2022
Fade predictably indicts talent succumbing to ambition, but what's special is how the verbally intense script infuses an insider’s incisive depiction of a diversity within modern Latinx li…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 02:54PMTuesday, August 23, 2022
Area Stage's Giancarlo Rodaz’s visionary, deeply moving new production is still Beauty and the Beast, but it’s as radical a restaging as John Doyle’s Sweeney Todd.
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SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:48AMMonday, August 15, 2022
Miami-Dade County’s long-aborning plan to resurrect the historic Coconut Grove Playhouse is once again underway at full throttle after navigating a complex maze of legal challenges that en…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 05:24PMSunday, August 7, 2022
More current than the classic AIDS plays written three decades ago, Donja R. Love’s 'one in two' examines the challenges of with HIV-positive when talk shows have ads for pills that make t…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 03:54PMSaturday, July 30, 2022
Eytan Deray’s courageous world premiere Educating Asher at Empire Stage – courageous not only because it has been drawn from the marrow of his being as playwright, but courageous because…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 04:54PMSaturday, July 23, 2022
Main Street Players struggles bravely to conquer Lee Blessing's satire on race and privilege in Black Sheep, but stumbles on tonal uncertainty. and fails to reach the script's potential.
The…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:33PMMonday, July 18, 2022
So when the political player at the center of a 1978 musical is a conscienceless, ambitious, charismatic and manipulative “populist” with a media background, 2022 audiences should be for…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:48PMSunday, July 17, 2022
A raft of country classics are interspersed in this clear-eyed yet affectionate bio-musical Hank Williams: Lost Highway at Actors Playhouse tracking the rise and collapse of the music legend…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 01:54PMFriday, July 15, 2022
In the 84-year-old Ruben Rabasa, a tall skinny but gnome-like looking creature brimming with life and humor, GableStage audiences are treated to a wild and quirky interaction with this winni…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 04:48PMMonday, July 11, 2022
Rarely has the immigrants’ connection to their past and future been so fully realized in a passionate embrace as in this premiere of Papá Cuatro at Miami New Drama. It is, by turns, alter…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:42PMFriday, July 8, 2022
Darius Daughtry and Grace Arts Center reimagine The Merchant of Venice in 1940s Fort Lauderdale to examine tensions when when infighting exists within the African American community.
The pos…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:33AMThursday, July 7, 2022
The play "Are You There, Bette Davis?" written and directed by Uruguayan Domingo Milesi is a centerpiece of the 36th International Hispanic Theatre Festival of Miami this month, featuring si…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 02:37PMThe cuatro, a small quintessential Venezualan instrument four-string guitar, is the focus of Papá Cuatro, Miami New Drama’s world premiere, opens. The director describes it as “somethin…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 02:37PMMonday, June 27, 2022
The world premiere in Miami of Borrowed examines with emotion and specificity the lasting tragic damage of father-son and son-father relationships that imploded years earlier. With copious v…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:18AM 
