Friday, January 18, 2019
Bette & Barry: From Bathhouse to Broadway at Island City Stage is an imagining of if Midler and Manilow decided to do a concert together. In real pop history, they never have. This revu…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:54PMThursday, January 17, 2019
The reliable consistency of quality of some South Florida companies’ work was underscored Thursday with the release of the nominations for the 43rd Carbonell Awards honoring excellence dur…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:54AMWednesday, January 16, 2019
The musical may have been around for decades, but Riverside’s triumphant production of Evita proves that the show has a strong universality that rings as loudly today as it did 40 years ag…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:24PMWhether you have seen A Shayna Maidel before, Chicken Coop Theater at Levis JCC Sandler Center does a fine job keeping intact Lebow's touching drama and its very definite Holocaust theme. Bu…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:18AMTuesday, January 15, 2019
Having Our Say is likely the first play in which both of its characters are centenarian women of color. At Primal Forces’ regional premiere, this means two roles of uncommon heft and histo…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:42PMMonday, January 7, 2019
A celebration of the life of Tony Finstrom, playwright patron and theater lover, is scheduled for Monday, Jan 21 from 7 to 10 p.m. at the Wold Performing Arts Center at Lynn University where…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 01:48PMIt took Main Street Players’ lethargic production of Superior Donuts about 20 minutes to show much signs of life, and even then the primary electricity came from one actor as a young man a…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:42PMThursday, January 3, 2019
The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation has awarded $2 million to Miami-Dade County to complete the project for GableStage-FAU’s theatre department to rebuild and reopen the Coconut Gro…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:32AMSunday, December 30, 2018
By Bill Hirschman If you’re a theater aficionado and received a nice check from your mother for the holidays or maybe from a busy relative gave you a gift card to Barnes & Noble, what …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:04PMFriday, December 28, 2018
South Florida will reinforce its commitment to new play development in January with two simultaneous new play reading festivals at Palm Beach Dramaworks and FAU Theatre Lab during the first …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:12AMWednesday, December 26, 2018
Breathtaking tour de forces, heartbreaking tragedies on stage and in real life, shows you've never heard of and shows you've seen three times too often, troupes taking chances - some resulti…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:36AMTuesday, December 25, 2018
For theater artist Ronnie Larsen, “the roots are setting very deep” in Wilton Manors. “It just feels right to stay here.” Larsen is a playwright, actor, director and producer “whos…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:32PMThursday, December 20, 2018
Hamilton, which explodes with power, vitality and imagination in the Broward Center for a five-week run, is not the Second Coming as many overheated observers would have you believe. But thi…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 02:48PMWednesday, December 19, 2018
Tony Finstrom, who died Tuesday at the age of 71, was a prolific playwright, an arts journalist and a generous patron, but above all Tony Finstrom was a man who loved theater down through th…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 01:42PMMonday, December 17, 2018
The Christmas season officially opened this weekend wrapped in pink. Elle Woods, leading a perky singing and dancing ensemble in Slow Burn Theatre Company’s ebullient Legally Blonde, lit u…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 03:42PMSaturday, December 15, 2018
Much like the holiday season itself, there are things to endure and other instances that are jolly. That's the mixed bag of City Theatre's Winter Shorts now playing at the Carnival Studio Th…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:06PMSoul and spirit are characteristics we would expect from a production of the multi-Tony-winning musical The Wiz. And, to be fair, Stage Door Theatre’s mounting is, at times, spirited, hip,…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:04PMWednesday, December 12, 2018
For some who view two-part events on Broadway and five-hour epic tragedies as the height of the theatrical form, the 10-minute play is condescendingly tolerated as the poor relation at the a…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:12PMTuesday, December 11, 2018
The script and the production of Palm Beach Dramworks need some refining, but when it’s most in the pocket, the world premiere of Lyle Kessler's House on Fire dances a delicate pas de deux…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 01:04PMSunday, December 9, 2018
It’s not that it’s impossible to mess up the musical Annie, but when you have a reliable troupe of talented hands like those connected to the current Wick Theatre production, you are gua…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:36PMThe ground-breaking record-breaking Tony-winning Pulitzer-winning musical Hamilton is expected to attract unprecedented numbers of fans and newcomers when the national tour arrives at the Br…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:42AMSaturday, December 8, 2018
How do you get a younger demographic to go see a play? Well, if it isn't Hamilton, it is difficult, sometimes impossible, to get those, let's say, under the age of 40-somethings to a live th…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 01:06PMThursday, December 6, 2018
Angie Radosh’s face, not to mention her body language, provides an unimpeded view deep into the soul of a writer battling an inevitable descent into the spiral of Alzheimer’s disease in …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:24AMTuesday, December 4, 2018
The emotional cauterizing of an already withdrawn teenager by a family dynamic of furious fights and fierce sibling rivalry forms the core of Tammy Ryan’s Tar Beach, receiving a sensitive …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:32PMMonday, December 3, 2018
When a theater produces Death of a Salesman , it’s not unknown territory. The director can adopt, adapt or depart from what has been done before. But when it’s a world premiere such as P…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:12AMFriday, November 30, 2018
It’s unfair to the Maltz Jupiter Theatre’s Beauty and the Beast -- which is as thoroughly charming on its own merits as you could ask -- but understandable that the focus is diverted to …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 03:48PMTuesday, November 27, 2018
Usually in “fish out of water” comedies, the fish are surprised to find themselves out of the water and spend most of the evening trying to get back to familiar aquatic climes. But in th…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:12PMMonday, November 26, 2018
For those convinced that theater has no future among pre-Millenials, you should have been with us a few weeks ago when we made a belated visit to a Sunday matinee of the musical version of t…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:48PMSunday, November 25, 2018
It can be argued whether Anna Ziegler’s Actually is a perfect piece of art, but it’s hard to argue that the dizzyingly thought-filled drama at GableStage has captured the angst and confl…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:48AMSaturday, November 24, 2018
We’re back from our trip to New York to scout out productions you might want to see (or not), shows that might tour South Florida and scripts that might be worth reviving in our regional…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:32PMFriday, November 23, 2018
By Bill Hirschman When the musical Beauty and the Beast works, theater magic flows from the stage. But it’s been done so often – a long run on Broadway, multiple national tours, the orig…
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