Wednesday, February 9, 2022
A nerdy teenager struggling with being an outsider takes a pill with a dangerous computer that advises him on dealing with high school hell in Area Stage Company's intriguing but flawed sci-…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:18PMMonday, February 7, 2022
Get yourself down to where Slow Burn is delivering a gift you’ll prize for a long time to come: Once On This Island is a glorious evening of storytelling and song, myth and magic infused w…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:06PMSunday, January 30, 2022
Armature premiering at Island City Stage explores racism, politics, homosexuality, marital relations in tale suffused with humor and tragedy. The deeply committed work of the cast, co-direc…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 01:36PMTuesday, January 25, 2022
Grease certainly is the word as the classic rock ‘n’ roll musical glides its way into a solid staging as the first joint production of MNM Theatre Company, North End Theater Company, and…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:18AMSunday, January 23, 2022
Blessed with a glorious score and soaring arias, you would think that André Previn’s take on A Streetcar Named Desire would be a triumph as Florida Grand Opera’s first major production …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:03PMSaturday, January 22, 2022
For older audiences who see the number of expensive pills they take each morning magically multiply over the years, the wicked satire of Big Pharma in the otherwise romantic comedy Rx is wel…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 04:24PMThursday, January 20, 2022
The celebration of love in many permutations – from first connections to farewells – swirls around the stage like the snow and the aurora borealis lights in Palm Beach Dramaworks’ gent…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 07:18PMThere is a fifth crucial performer not mentioned in the playbill for Palm Beach Dramaworks’ upcoming production of “Almost, Maine.” High above the residents on a chilly Friday night in…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:12PMSaturday, January 15, 2022
The concepts of home and homeland—especially when they are no longer the same place— have become even more complicated in the 21st Century for Cuban-Americans highlighted in Hannah Benit…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 05:24PMFriday, January 14, 2022
Joining dozens of companies locally and across the country hoping a delay will outlast the worst of the surge, Theatre Lab has postponed its premiere of Last Night in Inwood slated for Feb. …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:42PMThursday, January 13, 2022
Sometimes, all we want is to just sit in a chair and be entertained by full-throated singers, appealing actors, solid dancing and a script that offers more than a few laughs. That sheer ente…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:24AMWednesday, January 12, 2022
Described as two CAT5 hurricanes striking at the same time, the Covid spike has dealt the Maltz Jupiter Theatre serious blows including cancelling one big-budget musical Sweet Charity becaus…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:12AMSaturday, January 8, 2022
The calendars in South Florida theater are being written in pencil—with erasers. Regional theaters are forging through the Covid spike with no panic and limited public fuss, but with a t…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 03:18PMThursday, January 6, 2022
The big, emotion-charged music of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Carousel welcomes audience, actors and artists back to Riverside Theatre in Vero Beach.
The post A Lush and Lovely Carousel Open…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:18PMWednesday, December 29, 2021
In this fourth or fifth reconnection with the glee-filled and glee-inducing musical comedy Hairspray, a truly apt term, what surfaced at the national tour’s all too brief bow at the Arsht …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 02:03PMTuesday, December 28, 2021
If Dickens’ opening line in A Tale of Two Cities has become a trite cliché through overuse it has become a painfully accurate truism about theater over the past two years, especially Sout…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:24AMSunday, December 26, 2021
Time as well as the pandemic have robbed the South Florida theater community of so many beloved and respected colleagues. The loss in 2020-2021 was not only to fellow artists, but to the pat…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:06PMWednesday, December 22, 2021
In the wake of several cast or crew members testing positive for Covid, Miami New Drama has cancelled its performances for A Wonderful World until resuming Dec. 29, the company confirmed Wed…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:42PMTuesday, December 21, 2021
Put aside the messages of acceptance, being comfortable in your own skin, family bonds and making your own path, Slow Burn Theatre gifts audiences with the sheer entertainment in its Kinky B…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:18AMSunday, December 19, 2021
Avi Hoffman is ensuring that proper homage is paid to Joe Papp, the visionary who intersected art and community by making theater accessible to the general public in comprehensibility, neigh…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:33PMWednesday, December 15, 2021
In these difficult times, sometimes all you want, all you need is a good ol’ Big Broadway Musical Comedy with a rousing score, enthusiastic performers, an unabashedly uplifting message and…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 03:06PMTuesday, December 14, 2021
There are stunning actors in this premiere A Wonderful World, breath-taking choreography and visuals in this life of jazz legend Louis Armstrong as he navigates a racist world and his own fa…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:42AMThursday, December 9, 2021
For all of us who have seen 17 too many editions of A Christmas Carol, City Theatre gifts us a joy-inducing riff on Charles Dickens’ public domain property, the gospel according to Jacob M…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:48AMWednesday, December 8, 2021
Few an resist feisty, foul-mouthed septuagenarians such as Helen Wheeler because, well, we do not normally expect a woman in her 70’s to tackle someone into submission, or use a blowtorch …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:33AMTuesday, December 7, 2021
There’s nothing especially wrong with Boca Stage’s The Unremarkable Death of Marilyn Monroe, certainly not with the admirably tireless, skillful efforts of Leah Sessa or Keith Garsson. B…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:18AMSaturday, December 4, 2021
Theater is often political: but sometimes, like The People Downstairs, Michael McKeever’s harrowing world premiere at Palm Beach Dramaworks, the relevancy of the Dutch people hiding the An…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 04:33PMFriday, December 3, 2021
This is not a traditional review because we saw the world premiere of Nilo Cruz’s latest play Hotel Desiderium at its fifth sold-out performance Nov. 21 at Arca Images, that late because i…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:54AMTuesday, November 30, 2021
The creation of a musical always contains more drama than what ends up on the stage. But then there is the anguish and celebration that commandeered the pre-virus birth and now this winter�…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:54PMFriday, November 26, 2021
There will be hundreds of “appreciation” pieces during the next few days memorializing the life and work of Stephen Sondheim who died Friday at the age on 91. There will be tens of thous…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:42PMTuesday, November 23, 2021
Secretly, we wonder if we could be heroic in real life, whether we could find the courage to risk our lives to protect or rescue someone else. The question is at the heart of Michael McKeeve…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:18AMSunday, November 21, 2021
Despite two of the finest performances in what already has been a surprisingly benchmark season so far in South Florida, the most memorable player in Theatre Lab’s superb To Fall In Love i…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 03:42PM 
