Friday, 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 03:18PMMonday, January 6, 2020
When Christopher Demos-Brown’s racially charged drama American Son -- which has played in other cities and bowed on Broadway -- finally opens this week at Zoetic Stage in Miami, it will be…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:06AMThursday, January 2, 2020
At the beginning of Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, now at the Arsht Center, Willy Wonka says chocolate is “quite simply, the greatest invention in the entire history of …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:18PMMonday, December 30, 2019
In the current Broadway stratosphere, several leading actresses belie the idea that there are no more Carol Channings or Ethel Mermans. But it’s hard to argue that other than Audra McDona…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:18PMSunday, December 29, 2019
Seth Rudetsky is living the dream of every theater geek, except that he is not an outsider, he is an insider who doesn’t name drop A-list performers by first name to impress; they really …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:12AMSaturday, December 21, 2019
Writing a review of Primal Force’s Villainous Company, which has more plot twists than a Christmas corkscrew, is going to be hard because we wouldn’t dare to give away any spoilers. Suff…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 01:36PMThursday, December 19, 2019
Other than two crippling developments, South Florida theater 2019 was marked by a wide array of what seemed like points on a volatile stock market chart marking the ebb and flow of an evolvi…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:32PMMonday, December 16, 2019
There’s a scene of pure hallelujah in Slow Burn Theatre’s A Christmas Story the Musical in which adults and children dressed in sparkly costumes echoing the fabled Major Award leg lamp a…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:36PMSaturday, December 14, 2019
If you’ve never seen the Broadway production of the charm-infused musical Once or missed the Actors’ Playhouse version (or just want to see it again), this national touring version curre…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:18AMFriday, December 13, 2019
City Theatre's production of The Cake, about a baker who refuses to make a cake for a lesbian couple, digs deep below stereotypes to examine the contemporary clash between sincerely held pri…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:42AMThursday, December 12, 2019
The world premiere of Joseph McDonough’s Ordinary Americans needs more work but it has enough promise and fine performances at Palm Beach Dramaworks that it’s worth the effort. The story…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:36AMWednesday, December 11, 2019
Exuding a lushness, attention to technical detail and an overarching sense of fun, the Maltz Jupiter Theatre's The Mystery of Edwin Drood is a prime example of its skill. Proof is that the m…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 01:24PMMonday, December 9, 2019
How we deal specifically with the inevitability of death, whether we let it inhibit us or inspire us, is at the heart of Michael McKeever’s comic fantasy Charlie Cox Runs With Scissors now…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:54PMWednesday, December 4, 2019
As we get older, the reality of loss becomes an inescapable fact of life. How we deal with that is the core of Stephen Brown’s Everything is Super Great at Theatre Lab (subtitled “a come…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 05:06PMTuesday, December 3, 2019
There may never be as great a production of The Music Man as the lightning-in-a-bottle original with performances of Barbara Cook and Robert Preston. But the Wick Theatre edition led by Norb…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:18PMAwe is not a quality you usually hear in the voices of theater pros when they describe the central character in a work. But that is the sense listening to director William Hayes, playwright …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:12AMSunday, December 1, 2019
Have you ever watched a play and complained, “I could end it better than that!” Here’s your chance. You – along with everyone else in the audience—gets to choose this month among 5…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:42PMSaturday, November 30, 2019
Some of the shows we saw on our recent trip to New York -- Tracy Letts' Linda Vista and The Height of the Storm -- were limited runs and closed before many of our readers could get there. Bu…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:33AMThursday, November 28, 2019
MNM Theatre Company’s delightfully silly production of A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum is a musical that prides itself on broad low and often ribald humor, pratfalls, double…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 07:03PMSunday, November 24, 2019
A central facet of his premiere Watson at GableStage is depicting what may be the world’s first personal information disaster, a horrifying tragedy as American-licensed technology is sold …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:03PMFriday, November 22, 2019
Escape to Margaritaville, the Jimmy Buffett musical at the Broward Center would work so much better as a concert version of the singer-songwriter’s infectious songs imploring you, no, dema…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:12AMWednesday, November 20, 2019
As the writer with 28 best-selling mystery novels, James Grippando is usually focused on whodunits. But the Florida author is about to see the world premiere of his first playscript, Watso…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:42PMThe West Side Story from the Prather family’s new Broadway Palm series at the Lauderhill Performing Arts Center has so much to praise, yet, joins local productions to underscore how there…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:42PMSunday, November 17, 2019
Island City Stage, which focuses on gay-themed work, apparently thought it was time to revive the genus of the British sex comedy with the world premiere of Lipstick, whose primary twist is …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 01:48PMSaturday, November 16, 2019
Resulting from Down syndrome as an adult, Andy’s simple, blunt and truthful verbal reactions to the complex statements and relationships swirling around him slice through the theater space…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 01:33PMWednesday, November 13, 2019
Ring of Fire: The Music of Johnny Cash playing at Actors' Playhouse finds its entertainment in having performers, sing, dance, act and play the instruments much as with the company's succes…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:06PMMonday, November 11, 2019
The Lost Virginity Tour, produced by Pigs Do Fly Productions, tells of four senior women who take a roadtrip across the country to revisit the sites where they.... well, read the title.
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:36PMSunday, November 10, 2019
Let’s get it out quickly because this show’s twice-extended off-Broadway run at the MCC Theater ends Nov. 24. The Wrong Man is a superbly wrought, profoundly affecting work, ranking up t…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:03PMSaturday, November 9, 2019
The Wolves fits the bill for Zoetic Stage's Theater Up Close series. It's an up-close, navel gazer. Nine teenaged girls are part of a high school indoor soccer team that meets each Saturday.…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:36PMThursday, November 7, 2019
Riverside Theatre hits the mark for a designated demographic with its season opener, Beehive – The 60s Musical. The show is a musical revue of songs from the 1960s made popular by girl gro…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:48AMWednesday, November 6, 2019
In the prologue of Maltz Jupiter Theatre’s production of Dracula: A Comedy of Terrors, the actors literally throw out the book—chucking their musty copies behind them with the satisfacti…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:42AM 
