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]Sunday, August 12, 2018
Area Stage Company's Cabaret underscores how this warhorse musical still serves, not as a cautionary tale, but as a flat out warning to our current socio-political climate: The production's …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:32PM[SHARE]Friday, August 10, 2018
It's almost paternalistic to praise New City Players as one of the gutsiest theaters in the region. But with its carefully-wrought and moving production of Constellations, the Players have o…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 02:06PM[SHARE]Monday, August 6, 2018
No one could accuse the cast of Shorts Gone Wild 6 of being low energy. They spend the production's interstitial moments cartwheeling, performing splits, engaging in slapdash chicken dances…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:12AM[SHARE]Friday, August 3, 2018
Unsung heroes who provide outstanding service behind the scenes in local theater will receive recognition this year from the South Florida Theatre League's 2018 Remy Awards.
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:36PM[SHARE]Sunday, July 29, 2018
Worse than Spiderman Turn Off The Dark, the mega-epic The Big Bang may be the most bloated, overwrought, inept, politically incorrect, painfully lame, downright stupidest musical of all time…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:24PM[SHARE]Saturday, July 28, 2018
If you're over 40 and you heard that some theater was reviving that chamber musical I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change… come on, you said, "Again?" So here's the really good news: The …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 02:54PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 26, 2018
News of Florida Grand Opera, Florida International University, Knight Foundation, Broadway Across America and Costume World
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:12AM[SHARE]Sunday, July 22, 2018
Let's talk about sex, drugs and relationships. Let's dish about thoughtless cruel men we've known, love and loneliness, fears that hold us back and strengths that can empower us. Such is the…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 02:06PM[SHARE]Saturday, July 21, 2018
Aunt Jack, S.P. Monahan's world premiere play at Empire Stage, rejects pigeonholing sexuality with a single label or category. Sexual identity is what you choose it to be and Monahan champio…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 03:06PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 19, 2018
Breaking Up Is Hard To Do -- which hangs a plot or two around 18 of the songs by 1960s pop icon Neil Sedaka, is the perfect swan song to close this chapter of the Broward Stage Door as it g…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:42PM[SHARE]Sunday, July 15, 2018
Woody Guthrie's American Song is most decidedly a people's musical, at least in its vivifying production at Palm Beach Dramaworks is more of a communal hoedown with Guthrie's music as the so…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 05:48PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 3, 2018
For all the raunchy scenes in Michael Mizerany's new play The Big D, the message at the weepy comedy-drama's heart is serious and sincere. Sure, the characters engage in hard-core, unabashed…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:06PM[SHARE]Friday, June 29, 2018
In looking over my huge collection of play scripts, I kept coming across shows I either have seen and am anxious to see undertaken by a local company, or titles I've read but never seen " a…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:06AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 21, 2018
If there's any way to get folks to the theater who don't usually go, Slow Burn's Rock of Ages can do it. Director/choreographer Patrick Fitzwater knows exactly how to squeeze every inch of c…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 04:05AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 19, 2018
In the lovely confines of The Vanguard, Yasmin Reza's modern classic Art comes to life in New City Players' finely curated production.
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 05:48PM[SHARE]Monday, June 18, 2018
When did yesterday's renegades, who skirted AIDS and lived boheme on a ramen noodle diet in the go-go eighties, become today's get-off-my-lawners? These questions, and plenty more, linger be…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 04:32PM[SHARE]Sunday, June 17, 2018
Laura Turnbull in the solo show The Pink Unicorn from Primal Forces places us in the headspace of a widowed mother in a small"and small-minded"Texas suburb who transforms into an unwitting…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 05:18AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 14, 2018
In the current production of The M Ensemble Company, August Wilson's legendary Seven Guitars almost plays like a musical or a folk opera akin to Porgy and Bess or Floyd Collins.
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 07:06PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 12, 2018
Into the Woods' disturbing second act occurs in a boy's nightmare in Lightning Bolt Production's riveting, pulse-quickening production at the West Boca Performing Arts Center. Director Jessi…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 04:24PM[SHARE]Sunday, June 10, 2018
Human beings' desperate need for affirmation of their self-worth from some source outside themselves " whether it's from a parent or strangers' judgments " drives GableStage's scorching prod…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:42AM[SHARE]Friday, June 8, 2018
The intensifying Black Lives Matter conversation will be fueled on Broadway this fall in the unique vision of Christopher Demos-Brown, one of Florida's most esteemed theater professionals, i…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:24AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 5, 2018
They make it look so easy.
The 23rd annual City Theatre Summer Shorts crew slip seamlessly from broad comedy with a hint of a moral to bittersweet drama with a soupcon of dry wit…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 04:54PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 31, 2018
From Door to Door, a bittersweet comedy retracing the evolution of Jewish-American womanhood through 65 years of the 20th Century, is a procession of clichés spread over 80 minutes. But if …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:18PM[SHARE]Monday, May 28, 2018
Tons of news about South Florida Theatre League, MNM Theatre Company, GableStage, Palm Beach Dramworks, Spotlight on the Arts, Earl Maulding, Actors Playhouse, Broward Stage Door, Lightning …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:42AM[SHARE]Sunday, May 27, 2018
MNM Theatre 's Avenue Q, the musical comedy with foul-mouthed and copulating puppets, has never been as clearly about education as now. It's the curriculum about coping with disappointment w…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 02:06PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 23, 2018
The crush of more than a thousand cheering students, their parents and friends overflowed the orchestra seating and the boxes of the Broward Center's cavernous Au-Rene Theater at the Broward…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:32PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 22, 2018
Director Giancarlo Rodaz made a virtue out of a tiny budget by substituting imagination for cash plus a joyful embrace of theatrical artifice in his production of Shrek the Musical at Area S…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 02:48PM[SHARE]Sunday, May 20, 2018
With a cast of unfettered and inspired clowns, Thinking Cap Theatre has produced a hilarious edition of a 1687 comedy by Aphra Benn, The Emperor of the Moon, lathering almost every second of…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 02:42PM[SHARE]Saturday, May 19, 2018
Mere hours before the opening night of Equus at Palm Beach Dramaworks " a drama prompted by the true story of a troubled teen who blinded five horses " another troubled teen murdered 10 peop…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 05:54PM[SHARE]Friday, May 18, 2018
A new theater debuting by choosing a complex musical about mental illness, and in the small confines of the 50 or so seat theater? Now that takes confidence. And confident the professional, …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:54AM[SHARE] 
