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Monday, June 27, 2022

Amid Violence, Gay Sex and Kidnapping, ‘Borrowed’ Dissects Troubled Father-Son Relations by Bill Hirschman

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
Tuesday, June 21, 2022

SoFla Theaters Strive To Entice Patrons Next Season By Designing Intriguing Schedules by Bill Hirschman

The upcoming seasons listed here are as variedas anyone could plan with time-tested bets and works so new that no one knows what to expect. GableStage's Bari Newport spent months juggling a …

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:18AM
Friday, June 17, 2022

Carbs Name Scholarship Winners, Dramaworks, Daughtry & Thinking Cap Set Readings by Bill Hirschman

Carbonells name three high school students to receive its Jack Zink Scholarships ; Palm Beach Dramaworks, Darius V. Daughtry and Thinking Cap Theatre kick off play readings on stage and onli…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 07:12PM
Tuesday, June 14, 2022

Slow Burn’s Go-Gos Musical Comedy Perfect for Pride Month by Bill Hirschman

In the charming, big-hearted Broadway musical, Head Over Heels, Slow Burn Theatre Company delivers a visually striking, lively, and credible production. The post Slow Burn’s Go-Gos Musical…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:54PM
Monday, June 13, 2022

No Mystery Here: Irma Vep is a Madcap Hoot at Island City by Bill Hirschman

Andy Rogow is the director of Island City Stage’s The Mystery of Irma Vep, but were he a less humble man, he might also take the title of chief illusionist or conjurer. For the production …

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 01:48PM
Friday, June 10, 2022

Thinking Cap Returns With Challenging Fornes Classic by Bill Hirschman

Thinking Cap Theatre returns to producing live on stage works that challenge the mind with Maria Irene Fornes' Fefu and her Friends, a densely packed contemplation on feminism, gender stereo…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:03PM
Wednesday, June 8, 2022

Immersive ‘The Blues Opera’ Entertains 10 Patrons at a Time by Bill Hirschman

Eric Garcia, musician-storyteller, deliver an one-man autobiographical immersive experience through Juggerknot Theatre Company in his "The Blues Opera" is Miami. The post Immersive ‘The B…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 03:06PM

Summer Shorts Finally Gets to Celebrate 25th Anniversary by Bill Hirschman

Like death and taxes, one of the few truly dependable things in life is that the venerable Summer Shorts from City Theatre is going to be a satisfying mix of light comedy with a few mildly s…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:54PM
Monday, June 6, 2022

GableStage’s Magical Thinking Is Unnerving Look at Grieving by Bill Hirschman

As death and grieving surround us, Joan Didion’s play at GableStage, The Year of Magical Thinking, is guaranteed to be uncomfortable, even upsetting. But that should not dissuade you. Her …

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:37PM
Wednesday, May 25, 2022

Carbonells Reschedule a Week for Jan McArt Celebration by Bill Hirschman

BREAKING NEWS: The 45th annual Carbonell Awards gala has been moved a week to Nov. 7 so as not to conflict with a Celebration of Life scheduled to honor the late South Florida theater legend…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:12PM
Monday, May 23, 2022

Dramaworks’ Belle of Amherst Celebrates The Glory of Words by Bill Hirschman

Palm Beach Dramaworks' The Belle of Amherst reveal Emily Dickinson not as the reclusive constricted old maid you perceived in American Lit class a, but as a deeply passionate and joy-radiat…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:36AM
Sunday, May 22, 2022

Murder on the Orient Express Reimagined as Comic Trip by Bill Hirschman

Do not go to Actors’ Playhouse’s Murder on the Orient Express expecting the grim locked-room mystery at the heart of the films or the novel. This 2017 edition is penned by the playwrigh…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:36AM
Friday, May 20, 2022

Carbonells’ Set ‘Theater Prom’ Date, New Venue, Changes by Bill Hirschman

A sign of recovery in theater, the Carbonell Awards have announced a firm date and location for the live resumption of the annual recognition of excellence in South Florida theater. “Theat…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:24AM
Thursday, May 19, 2022

Vero Beach’s Riverside Reopens With John Denver Bio-Musical by Bill Hirschman

After its January re-opening production of Carousel was cut short by Covid, the Riverside Theatre in Vero Beach re-re-opened its season on May 10 with a splendid production of Almost Heaven:…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:24AM
Wednesday, May 18, 2022

Scores of Cappies High School Awards Given in 20th Year by Bill Hirschman

Those who believe that theater is dying would have seen a vibrantly healthy future Tuesday when hundreds upon hundreds upon hundreds of teenagers and their families and friends cheered and …

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:06PM

Report From New York: Stagecraft is, Indeed, Magical In Revamped Harry Potter Play by Bill Hirschman

In theatrical world when the tired complaint persists about reliance on chandeliers and helicopters, the revamped Harry Potter and the Cursed Child isn’t going to please those folks much. …

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:12AM
Tuesday, May 17, 2022

Report From New York: ‘American Buffalo’ Again Dives Into the Nation’s Lower Depths by Bill Hirschman

In a cold analysis, nothing much actually happens in the narrative sense during  David Mamet’s 1975 dive into the social gutter of the 20th Century United States, the classic American Buf…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:03AM
Monday, May 16, 2022

FGO’s Unique Vision Of Handel’s Agrippina Is Humorous by Bill Hirschman

It’s unlikely that Handel imagined his Baroque opera Agrippina, rooted in the Roman transfer of power from Claudius to Nero, quite like this: Set in Regency England, staged with laughter a…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:03PM
Sunday, May 15, 2022

M Ensemble Sings the Harlem Blues for an Alabama Sky by Bill Hirschman

If it’s possible to capture the depth and breadth of a tumultuous vibrant time and place by just focusing on the intersecting lives of five ordinary people, in this case Harlem in 1930, th…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 02:06PM
Friday, May 13, 2022

Report From New York: Pitch Black Comedy ‘Hangmen’ Is Classic McDonough by Bill Hirschman

Report From New York: When the playwright is Martin McDonough, it is a given that there will be pitch black darkness inside the drama and copious gallows humor (cheap pun intended in this Br…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 07:18PM
Wednesday, May 11, 2022

Report From New York: How I Learned to Drive Remains a Harrowing Trip 25 Years Later by Bill Hirschman

The horror in the revival of How I Learned to Drive is only in the audience. The characters in this drama about child abuse almost never raise their voice, least of all the middle-aged victi…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 07:06PM
Monday, May 9, 2022

Carbonells Seek Noms For New Vinnette Carroll Award; Zoetic Names Finstrom Winners by Bill Hirschman

The Carbonells is soliciting nominations for the Vinnette Carroll Award that will be given out for the first time at the 45th annual ceremony in November, and Zoetic Stage has announced the …

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 01:24PM
Sunday, May 8, 2022

Kim Ostrenko Gifts Benchmark Performance in The Sound Inside by Bill Hirschman

Kim Ostrenko’s performance under the direction of Keith Garsson in Adam Rapp’s The Sound Inside at Boca Stage is simply one of the most outstanding we’ve seen in this banner year of ex…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:36PM

Dark, Funny Rollercoaster Ride Through Adolescence In Zoetic’s Our Dear Dead Drug Lord by Bill Hirschman

Miami native Alexis Scheer's Our Dear Dead Drug Lord, a stygian dark and terribly funny play about modern day adolescence executed by Zoetic Stage, is a stunning – a carefully chosen word …

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:06AM
Friday, May 6, 2022

Damaged Souls Seek Redemption in New City Players’ Water by the Spoonful by Bill Hirschman

How do human beings in extreme pain provide compassion and support for each other when such connections risk even more pain alongside the possibility of resurrection? The answer is depicted …

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 04:12PM
Thursday, May 5, 2022

Cuban Vote Captures Essence of Miami Politics, People, Places by Bill Hirschman

A fight-to-the-finish Miami-Dade mayoral campaign meets gentle romance, a bit of Shakespearean inspiration and lots of affectionate satire in The Cuban Vote by Carmen Peláez, commissioned b…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:42PM
Wednesday, May 4, 2022

Art is in the Eye of the Beholder in Empire Stage’s Production by Bill Hirschman

A respectable production of an English language translation of the multi award-winning play, Art, is on stage through May 15 in Empire Stage’s extremely intimate playing space in Ft. Laude…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:24PM
Thursday, April 28, 2022

GableStage’s Comedy “Boca” Would Gladden The Golden Girls by Bill Hirschman

GableStage takes a break from race relations and Arthur Miller to create Boca, a chuckle-fest as well-constructed and skillfully executed as any episode of The Golden Girls, the Mary Tyler M…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 01:03AM
Tuesday, April 26, 2022

Main Street Players’ “Rapture, Blister, Burns” Misses Mark by Bill Hirschman

Main Street Players has gifted South Florida audiences with some memorable evenings such as a ferocious True West. But its current production of Rapture, Blister, Burn executed by earnest h…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 05:07PM
Sunday, April 24, 2022

FGO’s Fellow Travelers Depicts Gay Love In McCarthy Era by Bill Hirschman

Florida Grand Opera’s Fellow Travelers has no overweight heroines or bearded villains. This 2016 intimate-scale opera is set during the McCarthy Era when gays were hunted down. But this af…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:33AM
Friday, April 22, 2022

Hollywood’s Homophobic Hypocrisy Examined in The Code by Bill Hirschman

The soul-killing inherent in the film dream factory’s deconstruction and then sanitized reconstruction of its icons has been a popular topic, from 1932’s What Price Hollywood to four ver…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 03:36PM

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2024-2025 BROADWAY SEASON
Jun 05, 2024: Home - Todd Haimes Theatre
Jul 11, 2024: Oh, Mary! - Lyceum Theatre
Jul 30, 2024: Job - Hayes Theater
Sep 12, 2024: The Roommate - Booth Theatre
Nov 14, 2024: Tammy Faye - Palace Theatre
Dec 12, 2024: Cult of Love - Hayes Theater
Dec 19, 2024: Gypsy - Majestic Theatre
Mar 17, 2025: Purpose - Hayes Theater
Apr 10, 2025: Smash - Imperial Theatre
TBA: Titanic
TBA: Ragtime