Saturday, February 4, 2017
Chicken Coop Theatre’s production at the Levis JCC of Driving Miss Daisy is hardly among the most incisive nuanced editions you’ve seen of this oft-mounted warhorse, but the play itself …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:36AMFriday, February 3, 2017
Billy and Me, a world premiere by theater critic Terry Teachout about the difficult friendship of legendary playwrights William Inge and Tennessee Williams, will be one of the highlights in …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:36AMMonday, January 30, 2017
In a chilly sleek courtroom as clinical as a laboratory dissection tray, thousands of human lives, morality, principles and the law are piled on opposite pans of the scale – except it’s …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 01:54PMSunday, January 29, 2017
This may be heresy, but maybe grand opera shouldn’t always be so grand. Florida Grand Opera’s current production of Tchaikovsky’s romantic tragedy Eugene Onegin reportedly has a more i…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:32PMSaturday, January 28, 2017
The best art is a partnership between the creative mind and the viewer. That often requires the audience to expend some effort to get inside the artist’s mind or ethos or style. Witness th…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 05:32PMThursday, January 26, 2017
Most courtroom dramas metaphorically use the audience as a jury. But Terror, a German play receiving its U.S. premiere from Miami New Drama this week, literally requires the audience to vot…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:18PMBy Pam Harbaugh The plates may be empty, but you leave having feasted on Riverside Theatre’s satisfying production of An Empty Plate in the Cafe du Grand Boeuf. Written in 1994 by Michael …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:36AMWednesday, January 25, 2017
The enduring genius of Titanic the Musical beautifully limned by Slow Burn Theatre Company is that while it arely nods at what’s to come, it relies on the audience viewing the initial paea…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:33AMTuesday, January 24, 2017
Turn of the century newsboys cavorting in Jupiter, Tarzan swinging across a Fort Lauderdale stage and Tony Manero swiveling his hips in Margate -- the 2017-2018 season for South Florida thea…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:24AMSunday, January 22, 2017
Quirky denizens of Stephen Adly Guirgis' Between Riverside and Crazy strive to find second chances in GableStage's production.
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:18PMSaturday, January 21, 2017
A wave of sheer glory lifts the audience into a firmament of validation, redemption and pure beauty in the last ten minutes of Zoetic Stage’s production of the Stephen Sondheim-James Lapin…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 02:06PMFriday, January 20, 2017
Danny Kaye and Sylvia: A Musical Love Story at Willow Theatre, featuring Larry Buzzeo in a role he was born for, is filled to the brim with memories for audiences who will find familiarity i…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:04AMStephanie Ansin, who championed stylized and intellectually challenging theater for children, is stepping down from the leadership of Miami Theater Center, the groundbreaking company she co-…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 02:04AMWednesday, January 18, 2017
Familiar theaters, artists and titles dominated the 2017 Carbonell Award nominations list released Wednesday, but the roster included some previously unheralded performers and lesser-known t…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:42PMThe complete list of 2016 Carbonell nominations/finalists including a breakdown by county, theater and production.
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:42PMTuesday, January 17, 2017
Evening Star Productions’ regional premiere of the episodic musical See Rock City and Other Destinations, which has enthusiasm and heart to spare, suffers from inconsistencies across its …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:42AMMonday, January 16, 2017
The First Step (Diary of a Sex Addict), which makes the rounds of video porn parlors, urinals, gay baths and sessions of a self-help group, sounds like the premise for a Saturday Night Live …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:42PMSunday, January 15, 2017
There is nothing especially wrong with The Wick Theatre's riff on West Side Story, But if you’ve seen other productions, by comparison, the modestly entertaining result is competent but r…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:24PMFriday, January 13, 2017
The Maltz Jupiter Theatre's production of The Producers is one of most joyously over-the-top energetic rendition ever mounted, spotlighting more physical comedy than you’ve seen in some ti…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:33PMThursday, January 12, 2017
The 21st Century paradigm for developing new plays in on display this month at Palm Beach Dramaworks' Dramaworkshop "developmental" production of Jennifer Faletto's Domestic Animals.
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 03:48PMWednesday, January 11, 2017
Some directors say if you cast a show well, you’re more than halfway home to a successful production. So while the acting is just barely adequate in Broward Stage Door’s The Most Happy F…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:04PMTuesday, January 10, 2017
This 2016 tour of Cabaret does not break a shred of new ground artistically; it intentionally recreates with photo-copying accuracy the 1998 revival in which British director Sam Mendes reim…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 05:48PMThe challenge of mounting such an iconic musical as The Producers with its legendary Broadway production haunting any subsequent edition oddly isn’t chilling the principal talents at the M…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:12AMSunday, January 8, 2017
Riverside Theatre dishes it all out, from explosive talent to dazzling visuals in an immensely satisfying, professional production of Chicago.
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:04PMFriday, January 6, 2017
Music, sometimes tenderly introspective, sometimes upliftingly powerful, is deftly woven throughout the surging triumph of both the rise of the all-black 1939 New York Renaissance basketball…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:48PMTuesday, January 3, 2017
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 t…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:06AMThursday, December 29, 2016
Critics and award judges have been talking about it for weeks: The sheer amount of high quality work has made evaluating the last 12 months unusually challenging, but also an opportunity to …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 04:36PMWednesday, December 28, 2016
Even if you don’t think of yourself as a fan of the dance musical genre, this national tour of An American In Paris from Broadway Across America is the kind of don’t miss experience play…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:48AMMonday, December 26, 2016
Actor Etai Benson heaps praise on his South Florida roots in helping him to navigate his "role of a lifetime." The Coral Springs native plays Adam Hochberg in An American In Paris, now on a …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 02:42PMSaturday, December 24, 2016
So, a loved one has given you a nice check (is there any other kind?) to celebrate the holidays, but you have no idea what to do with it. Well, for theater lovers, there are scores of option…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:33PMThursday, December 22, 2016
Reviews of three recent Broadway shows likely to be be seen in South Florida at some point in national tours or regional productions: Holiday Inn, Heisenberg and Love,Love, Love..
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:06PM 
