Friday, November 2, 2018
Thirty individuals and organizations will receive the South Florida Silver Palm Theatre Awards this December, founded eleven years ago to honor theatrical excellence, the organization announ…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:42AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 30, 2018
Maybe it's walking under a Times Square marquee with his name emblazoned overhead. Maybe it's seeing a title memorialized on that distinctive Playbill cover. Maybe it's being asked for his a…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:36AM[SHARE]Sunday, October 28, 2018
Confessions of a Nightingale spends time listening to Tennessee Williams escorts visitors through a rambling tour of his life. Actor Christopher Dreeson and director Jeffrey Bruce have worke…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:24AM[SHARE]Saturday, October 27, 2018
There's a party going on at the Riverside Theatre where the jukebox is smokin'! The nostalgic revue Smokey Joe's Cafe celebrates the music of Leiber and Stoller, whose tunes influenced Ameri…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:32PM[SHARE]Friday, October 26, 2018
This may seem a backhanded compliment, but it is meant with awe : The most memorable aspect of The Wick Theatre's The Pirates of Penzance is you can understand the bloody words. The producti…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:04AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 25, 2018
Put aside your expectations that the musical Freaky Friday is going to be yet another manipulative Disney raid on its popular film titles, designed primarily for those who fondly recall one …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:12AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 24, 2018
From the trumpet blast opening the world premiere Havana Music Hall at Actors' Playhouse, the stage explodes with color and light and dancing and singing and, above all, that pulsing music, …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:48PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 23, 2018
All too apropos for our bitterly divided time, Outré Theatre Company's intellectually stimulating production of Lucas Hnath's The Christians asks what happens when two sincerely held but di…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:36AM[SHARE]Sunday, October 21, 2018
Palm Beach Dramaworks' Indecent is precisely the kind of thrilling evening that glories in what theater can be " a unique art form that cannot be matched by anything on film, anything hangin…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:33PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 18, 2018
Paula Vogel welcomes, even celebrates how imaginative directors and committed casts use her work as a starting blueprint for their own explorations. o she is pleased that this week the team …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:54AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 17, 2018
It's a genuine compliment when a critic doesn't particularly look forward to a show based on past productions and recordings " and then reassesses his antipathy based on seeing a fresh new p…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:06AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 16, 2018
GableStage's Admissions is one of the more uncomfortable evenings of theater that avowed liberals and proud progressives will sit through any time soon. It holds up an unsparing mirror that …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:12AM[SHARE]Sunday, October 14, 2018
In Zoetic Stage's premiere Dracula, the vampire is a sexist pig (as are several men in the play). The protagonists are strong-willed proto-feminists. Together, they embody a society struggli…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:12AM[SHARE]Friday, October 12, 2018
It would be intriguing and accurate, but misleading to say that Havana Music Hall, the hopeful Broadway musical about Cuban artists before and after the Revolution, is the brainchild of 72-y…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 02:42PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 11, 2018
The memorial celebration of Iris Acker will be held Monday at The Wick Theatre in Boca Raton with doors opening at 6:30 p.m. and the celebration starting at 7 p.m. Playwright, producer and …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 07:12PM[SHARE]Sunday, October 7, 2018
Some South Florida theaters are scrapping some of what they plan to put on stage this season or next. Some are leaving support positions unfilled. Some plan smaller cast shows. Some have sid…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:54PM[SHARE]Lightning Bolt Productions,' Little Shop of Horrors delivers yet another merry recreation of one of the most amusing small musicals in the canon: an intentionally silly, unapologetically uns…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:54PM[SHARE]Saturday, October 6, 2018
A thrilling cast and an impossibly talented young director from the African Heritage Cultural Arts Center mine all the raucous mirth and underlying blues in George C. Wolfe's stinging social…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 03:32PM[SHARE]Saturday, September 29, 2018
Instead of attempting the impossible task for imitating Ol' Blue Eyes, MNM Theatre Company's My Way, A Tribute to Frank Sinatra, is a solid, polished, thoroughly entertaining stroll through…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 01:18PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 25, 2018
News About Dramaworks' January festival of readings of works in development, Susan Danis stays at Florida Grand Opera, Infinite Abyss and Island City Stage rename their home Wilton Theater F…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 04:12PM[SHARE]Friday, September 21, 2018
It doesn't matter how beautifully these performers sing with strength and skill, no matter how tight the bands, no matter how much energy flows , if a musical is primarily a song cycle relia…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 07:04PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 20, 2018
A "celebration' of the life of Iris Acker " the iconic actress, teacher, producer and theater booster through her television shows -- has been scheduled for 7 p.m. Monday October 15 at a lo…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:12PM[SHARE]She Kills Monsters is a dramatic comedy given an inventive and enthusiastic production by Area Stage Company -- a show proudly described as "theater for nerds," or more accurately, for young…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 03:36PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 18, 2018
Iris Acker -- the vivacious actress, teacher, author, dancer, artistic director, producer and groundbreaking union leader who helped transform South Florida theater " died Sunday night after…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:36AM[SHARE]Monday, September 17, 2018
Thinking Cap Theatre's Crooked superbly captures the fear, confusion and pain of being an adolescent " and the same fear, confusion and pain struggling to raise one. With vibrant performance…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:54PM[SHARE]Saturday, September 15, 2018
Now & Then, a world premiere musical in Wilton Manors, is a quiet gentle love story told with an inventive twist. But it's a tale tracing the episodes of an arc so familiar that it migh…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:06AM[SHARE]Monday, September 10, 2018
Ronia, the Robber's Daughter -- the first offering of Theatre Lab's family-friendly series -- satisfies the parameters of youth theatre but with a pedigree that transcends its genre, a produ…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:04AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 4, 2018
Broward Stage Door's La Cage aux Folles stresses the universal virtues of love and loyalty, delivered with only a wry smile to acknowledge that its protagonists are an aging gay couple inclu…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:48PM[SHARE]Friday, August 31, 2018
An Hour Without TV -- in which an abused wife convinces her husband to give her one hour without ESPN so she can tell him she leaving " is easily the most mistitled drama in many years. It c…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:24PM[SHARE]Monday, August 20, 2018
News about Broward Teen Ambassadors' application deadline, Theatre Lab's new series for families, Kravis Center's volunteer opportunities, a benefit for Insight for the Blind, and a terrific…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:06PM[SHARE]Monday, August 13, 2018
White Guy on the Bus at GableStage is a merciless dissection of race relations in the 21st Century, but stunning plot twists prevent us from explaining much further than a wealthy white bus…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:32AM[SHARE] 
