Friday, February 14, 2020
Another round of 2020-2021 season announcements has arrived with some promising titles -- this time from Primal Forces and the Maltz Jupiter Theatre – plus a headline-making offering from …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:48AMWednesday, February 12, 2020
In 2016, the interactive gay wedding theatrical experience Diego & Drew Say I Do had a successful run at the Broward Center. Now it's back for a second go 'round. It has grown up just a …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 03:18PMTuesday, February 11, 2020
There’s something irresistibly intriguing when a whimsical fairy tale is invoked to teach life lessons to adults. Theatre Lab’s The Glass Piano may have a befuddled king, a savvy servant…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:06AMDon’t say we didn’t warn you: If you purchase a ticket to the fourth and latest iteration of Miami Motel Stories, you will be put to work. You may have to repair a costume, or apply an a…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:06AMMonday, February 10, 2020
Plenty of laughter, and quite a few tears, punctuate the dramatic comedy, or comic drama, if you prefer in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Gynecologic Oncology Unit at Memorial Sloa…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:32AMSunday, February 9, 2020
Church & State, about the collision of faith, politics and gun control after a school shooting, obviously could not be more timely or more resonant for South Florida audiences. Unfortuna…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:48AMSaturday, February 8, 2020
A war of words smoothly flows between two articulate, bright people with immensely opposing views on nearly every subject in British playwright David Hare’s drama Skylight, receiving a per…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 03:06PMFriday, February 7, 2020
Sometimes the joint is jumpin’ in M Ensemble Company’s Ain’t Misbehavin’, sometime things are sluggish; sometimes you can savor the brilliant lyrics coming from a talented quintet , …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 04:48PMThursday, February 6, 2020
Skylight might seem just an intriguing play focusing on an older widower trying to rekindle a relationship with a younger woman with whom he was having an affair with while he was married. B…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:48AMWednesday, February 5, 2020
Hamilton, which explodes with power, vitality and imagination in the Kravis Center through Feb. 16, is not the Second Coming as many overheated observers would have you believe. But this tou…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:54AMTuesday, February 4, 2020
The first things to know about Slow Burn Theater Company’s musical Groundhog Day is (a) do not go expecting to see the movie and (b) do not go expecting Bill Murray. The third thing is tha…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:18AMMonday, February 3, 2020
You are invited to a wedding this month, well, a theater experience recreating a wedding. It may seem at first blush not your everyday wedding with the title Diego & Drew Say I Do, but a…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:24AMSunday, February 2, 2020
Face it. Resistance is useless when it comes to enjoying The 39 Steps. Any theater worth its comic salt will plunge head long into this madcap Hitchcock parody -- Vero Beach’s Riverside Th…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:48AMAcross the face and embedded in the voice of the hero-narrator we can see a drive he can’t ignore, the profound costs and the unequaled joy of creating art in West Boca Theatre Company’…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:48AMFriday, January 31, 2020
Given the multiple challenges inherent in mounting a stage version of the iconic film The Graduate, the Empire Stage production does reasonably well because of the commitment of everyone inv…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:24PMThursday, January 30, 2020
Michael Leon’s world premiere The Cubans at Miami New Drama delivers an almost tactile depiction of how an extended family with multiple generations prioritize family unity while trying to…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:33AMWednesday, January 29, 2020
If Area Stage Company’s world premiere production of Peter x Wendy documents anything, it’s that Giancarlo Rodaz is the Orson Welles-like wunderkind of South Florida theater. It is a tes…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:43AMTuesday, January 28, 2020
Amid a backdrop of changes and challenges, the Carbonell Awards nominations were released Tuesday recognizing excellence in South Florida professional theater. Classics, world premieres mark…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:54AMBest New Work (play or musical) + An Evening with John Wayne Gacy, by Ronnie Larsen, Ronnie Larsen Presents/Infinite Abyss + Confessions of a Cocaine Cowboy, by Billy Corben and Aurin Squire…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:54AMSunday, January 26, 2020
Mamma Mia! is another one of those Great Continental Divides in theater: you either love it – or you hate yourself for standing up and clapping along in the final mega-mix medley of infect…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 04:54PMTuesday, January 21, 2020
Franklin Graham, the homophobic alt-right son of Billy Graham, just finished a revival tour of Florida this weekend. Too bad he didn’t attend the revival of the musical Altar Boyz at Islan…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 02:12PMMonday, January 20, 2020
GableStage's co-production with Palm Beach Dramaworks of the world premiere of Ordinary Americans traces TV icon Gertrude Berg as she battles blacklisting, featuring stellar performance by E…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:54AMSunday, January 19, 2020
Later we’ll get to the surprisingly strong performance of an America’s Got Talent semi-finalist in the title role; more importantly, the Wick Theatre’s production of Evita is a painful…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 01:06PMSaturday, January 18, 2020
Riverside Theatre puts a new shine on old tropes in its snappy and vibrant production of Thoroughly Modern Millie.
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:06AMFriday, January 17, 2020
By Bill Hirschman When hearing that the Maltz Jupiter Theater is presenting Chicago, potential audiences could be forgiven for thinking silently: “Chicago? Again? Seen it two or five times…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:18PMThursday, January 16, 2020
Area Stage Company, the Miami theatrical icon since 1989, will be moving this spring from Coral Gable’s old Riviera Theatre to a temporary home two blocks south in a a shopping center – …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 01:48PMWednesday, January 15, 2020
One sign that the South Florida snowbird season has fully arrived is that theaters are trotting out the titles for next season in hopes of enticing early subscriptions. On Monday, Palm Beach…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:42PMTuesday, January 14, 2020
It takes courage to mount a play whose 1992 film version is as iconic as A Few Good Men with an unforgettable performance by Jack Nicholson . But this production of Aaron Sorkin’s play by …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:06PMMonday, January 13, 2020
American Son at Zoetic Stage doesn’t offer solutions to the complexity of race so much as explore with increasing intensity the exact craggy contours of the gulf. Christopher Demos-Brown�…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 02:42PMSunday, January 12, 2020
The first half to two-thirds of the West Boca Theatre Company’s Brighton Beach Memoirs is sincere, but unsubtle and unsatisfying theater. Then this production slowly starts to ramp up with…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:12AMFriday, January 10, 2020
The Disneyization of Broadway has brought a whole new world of theater to a new generation of audiences who, hopefully, will be theatergoers for a lifetime. Put the highly entertaining Aladd…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 03:18PM 
