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 09:42AMIn this post-9/11 time, we ruminate even more than during the Black Plague about the seeming randomness of blind fate or God’s inscrutable will — and wondering is there a meaning to life…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:03PMSlow Burn Theatre Company’s Shrek the Musical is pure unadulterated fun, not just youngsters in the audience watching familiar fairy tale characters cavort in atypical ways, or older kids …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 04:03PMMeasure For Measure Theatre’s rousing production in Sunrise brings into focus that Lin-Manuel Miranda and Quiara Alegría Hudes’s musical is, at its heart, about the twin themes of dream…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:03PMTo paraphrase A Chorus Line for the Wick Theatre’s Hot Shoe Shuffle: Dance 10, Books 3. Whenever this troupe of supremely talented terpsichoreans start tapping in precision sync, backed by…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 02:12PMThis past summer, tens of thousands of African-Americans from around the U.S. and other countries as well jammed 12 venues in Winston-Salem, North Carolina to savor more than 30 tragedies, m…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:33PMEven for Palm Beach Dramaworks, its A Streetcar Named Desire creates a category of its own with an emotionally scalding portrait of flawed human beings scraping each other raw until the ine…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:48AMUnderneath, Falling is not just about a family dealing with the complex challenge of living with an autistic adult. New City Player’s profoundly moving production seems to be as much about…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:36PMWhen tackling A Streetcar Named Desire, it’s impossible for artists to ignore the 1951 film that made a movie icon of Marlon Brando and provided the last great role for Vivien Leigh. But d…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:18PMYou may find this hard to believe, but An Evening With John Wayne Gacy Jr., -- easily the most off-putting title for a theater piece in many years – is a surprisingly effective, harrowing …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 07:33AMFlawed as it is, few would place Boys of a Certain Age in the same ranks as The Normal Heart and The Boys In the Band. But Dan Fingerman’s script being presented by Empire Stage is an inci…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 02:33PMLots of news about Palm Beach Dramaworks' new play festival, Lois Pope teams up with Jan McArt, Playgroup LLC to close, fundraisers for Slow Burn, GableStage and Insight for the Blind
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:48PMWith the fearful ferocity of twin jackhammers running amok, the brothers of Main Street Players’ True West clash and crash, attack and retreat in an anguish-fueled release of pent-up frust…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 03:54PMCrucial to know about Grindr Mom is that while the heroine is a middle-class pearl-wearing politically conservative Mormon who volunteers once a week at the local school, “The Wife” as s…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 07:33PMOver and over, Simon Wiesenthal’s words spoken in a biographical play written a decade ago based on a man who died 14 year ago, words about events that occurred more than 75 years ago, tho…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 07:48PMThe world premiere of the musical Boca Bound written by, about and for well-heeled senior condo residents of what is called here a “country club” summons up a raft of adjectives intermit…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 01:42PMThe South Florida Silver Palm Theatre Awards, founded twelve years ago to honor theatrical excellence in South Florida, has announced 26 individuals and organizations receiving the honor Nov…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:42AMThe Maltz Jupiter Theatre, one of the state’s most artistically and fiscally successful companies, has withdrawn its upcoming shows from consideration for Carbonell Awards for the coming s…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 05:18PMArea Stage Company's Matilda is not really a children’s musical, although children will have a fine time when they are not storing up nightmarish images for future midnights. Matilda’s w…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:54PMWhen Man of La Mancha is performed as well as MNM Theatre Company’s production, then the magic is savoring how the innate worth of ideals ultimately prevails over an all-too-recognizable w…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:03PMThere are plays that you may have seen ithat, when you experience them in today's environment, bring more of a tear then they might have 10 years ago. This is the experience with JCAT's Dri…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 01:42PMSitting in Circle In The Square’s deep-thrust proscenium-less theater, it’s inescapable that director Daniel Fish and his team have gone way, way out of their way to let you know that th…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:06AMIn this tarnished time of disaffection, divisiveness and abandoned ideals, the synergistic resonance of the musical Man of La Mancha is more than a welcome opportunity for director Bruce Lin…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:12AMTheatre Lab’s family-friendly production of When She Had Wings posits a young girl, convinced she could fly before she could walk, trying to regain her power of flight.
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:33AMOft-produced plays can sometimes be a groaner to sit through, yet again. How many more laughs can be extracted from the same story line and same characters? However, sometimes a production s…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:33AMIt took a crushed femur for Boca Raton resident Bonnie Logan to find her passion – writing for the stage. Indeed, if Logan hadn’t broken the thickest bone of the human skeleton, she wou…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:18AMWhat follows is a partial list of shows listed by producing company or venue from school auditoriums to strip malls to shipping containers to 1,000-plus seat houses. It’s as complete as we…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:48PMAnticipation is one of the real joys of scanning a coming season. What follows is a completely subjective and personal list of titles we’re looking forward to (besides the return of Hamilt…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:48PMGrowth and evolution occur across an arc, but when you’re living through the middle of it, sometimes it’s difficult to realize we’ve reached a new level. On top of one of the most memo…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:48PMOutré Theatre Company, a peripatetic troupe that has specialized in contemporary plays and musicals with an edgy sensibility since 2011, is planning to produce one last show and then close …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:54PMFor theater folks and movie buffs, the title is a giveaway, Clemenza & Tessio Are Dead. Those with a knowledge of theater will think of Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead,…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:36AM