Thursday, May 25, 2017
The surprisingly delight-filled musical Groundhog Day is well worth seeing on Broadway but the script, music, lyrics and replicable staging (all Tony-nominated) are so strong, so inventive, …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:54AMTuesday, May 23, 2017
The temptation is to announce that ‘a star is born’ in Actors’ Playhouse’s production of the musical It Shoulda Been You. But that would be mildly insulting to the fact that Cindy Pe…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:06AMMonday, May 22, 2017
The MNM production of Monty Python’s Spamalot is silly and stupid.
Thank goodness. This edition of one of the funniest musicals of the past couple of decades revels in, savors, exults, w…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:12AMSaturday, May 20, 2017
Palm Beach Dramaworks' team finds the special vibe of Martin McDonagh's dark comedy set in an unforgiving climate of the heart in The Cripple of Inishmaan.
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 03:18PMThursday, May 18, 2017
To avoid spoiling the specific emotional U-turns, all that veteran theatergoers need to know about The Cripple of Inishmaan opening at Palm Beach Dramaworks this month is that it’s a class…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 03:36PMWednesday, May 17, 2017
The din of cheering, hollering teenagers exploding Tuesday wasn’t to applaud the appearance of a hip-hop celeb. Instead, the tumult in the Broward Center recognized excellence in 25 publi…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:05PMTuesday, May 16, 2017
War Paint is primarily an opportunity to savor two of Broadway’s reigning divas Ms. Patti Lupone and Ms. Christine Ebersole commanding the stage with overwhelming power in volume and skill…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 04:48PMSunday, May 14, 2017
Trump may have paraded his demeaning objectification of women by using the word pussy, but it’s a word celebrated over and over in Thinking Cap Theatre’s production of Collective Rage, A…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 02:12PMFriday, May 12, 2017
Thinking Cap Theatre is presenting the Southeastern premiere of Jen Silverman's Collective Rage: A Play In Five Betties, a timely tale of feminism echoing last winter's women's march on Wash…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:36PMWednesday, May 10, 2017
Damaged by yet another homogenized film version of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s work, few think of The King and I as a piece deeply focused on incipient feminism, international politics an…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:54PMTuesday, May 9, 2017
So much news: GableStage and Zoetic Stage announcing their new season with titles like The Humans and Fun Home, MNM announces partnership with the Kravis, Conundrum Stages returns to tour. E…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:42AMSaturday, May 6, 2017
Revelation after revelation – none of which the playwright wants us to spoil – are exposed like the proverbial peeling of an onion until the underlying secret lays naked in the world pre…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:02AMThursday, May 4, 2017
Broward Stage Door's production of the musical Nine, based on Fellini's 8 1/2, is a fine evening of exuberant music and even more soaring voices.
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:48PMWednesday, May 3, 2017
Opera is all about technique, spotlighting it, honoring it, celebrating it. So when Florida Grand Opera took on one of the most demanding works in the entire canon, Verdi’s A Masked Ball, …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:06PMTuesday, May 2, 2017
A worn-out Hillary Clinton balked at putting on makeup before her first major address since the election. An alien queen who owns a pop-up bar came to claim its dead lounge singer. One play…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:31AMSunday, April 30, 2017
Matilda the Musical, with a national tour that's made a stop at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts in Fort Lauderdale, may star a cadre of kids, but it is no Annie. I say that in the…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:54AMSaturday, April 29, 2017
(The following is an updated review from 2012 plus a feature story written about this same production’s original visit to the Arsht four years ago. Most of the cast is the same, but …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 01:12AMThursday, April 27, 2017
Beehive, yet another innocuous transitorily entertaining revue tracing music sung by women through the 1960s, highlights, intentionally or not, one trenchant observation. The same early Baby…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:54PMTuesday, April 25, 2017
If American Idol produced a Broadway musical with choreography often found behind a diva in a stadium tour, the result would resemble Slow Burn Theatre Company’s production of Aida. The re…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:12PMSaturday, April 22, 2017
In Waiting For Godot, that classic of the Theater of the Absurd, nothing is more absurd than Man’s insistent search for some meaning in life. In Evening Star Productions’ courageous run …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 02:06PMThursday, April 20, 2017
There have been few musicals about a homicidal maniac. As far as peppy musical comedies with the accent on comedy, there’s only been one about a schizophrenic serial killer, No Way To Trea…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:06PMSaturday, April 15, 2017
Jordan Harrison’s Marjorie Prime at Main Street Players posits 21st Century technology giving people a chance to say what was left unsaid, to finish unfinished business. The insightful scr…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:24AMTuesday, April 11, 2017
Just about two years after Island City Stage premiered Michael McKeever's Daniel's Husband and it currently playing off Broadway, Island City Stage takes on another world premiere play that …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:06AMSaturday, April 8, 2017
The future of the 24-Hour Theatre Project – a popular fund-raiser that cemented the theater community’s solidarity – seemed endangered when its founders, the Amadeos, announced they wo…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:02AMMonday, April 3, 2017
Michael McKeever, a beloved and prolific figure in local theater, set a record Monday when he won his eighth Best New Work at Monday's Carbonell Awards for the scorching drama After, but he …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:31PMAll the winners, nominees and statistics for the 41st anniversary Carbonell Awards presented Monday.
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:31PMPalm Beach Dramaworks' production of Arcadia is Tom Stoppard's love letter to the miracle of human intelligence’s pursuit of learning -- with a gentle jab at the hubris of those who are so…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:12AMSaturday, April 1, 2017
Zoetic Stage’s brilliantly-executed bravura production of Harold Pinter’s 1960 The Caretaker may be as baffling as Waiting For Godot. But every element of this comic drama is superb from…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:42AMThursday, March 30, 2017
Niki Fridh gives a tour de force performance under Nicole Stodard's direction in Grounded at Thinking Cap Theatre
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:06PMWednesday, March 29, 2017
When idea-hungry audiences at Palm Beach Dramaworks who have cheered Ionesco and Albee are faced with something less challenging, some complain to Producing Artistic Director William Hayes t…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:31PMTuesday, March 28, 2017
Dry Powder, GableStage’s excoriating tour that delves into the barren ethical landscape of big business is an unsparing drama whose copious humor comes from one character’s blithely limi…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 04:42PM 
