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Thursday, December 22, 2016

Report From New York: Love x 3, Heisenberg And Holiday Inn by Bill Hirschman

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
Thursday, December 15, 2016

Stage Door’s “Vegas: Night On The Strip” Is Blazing Revue by Bill Hirschman

It won’t be hard for patrons to locate Broward Stage Door’s newest revue, Vegas: A Night on the Strip. All they have to do is look for the flames from the three-alarm fire as the product…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 02:12PM
Wednesday, December 14, 2016

National Tour of Cinderella Has Unintentional Bite This Season by Bill Hirschman

We were planning just to freshen up the review from when the national tour of Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella played the Arsht and the Kravis two years ago, and note that this was a new…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:33AM
Monday, December 12, 2016

Breaking News: Arts Garage Cancels Theater Season — Will Try To Revive Next Season by Bill Hirschman

The multi-disciplinary Arts Garage has cancelled the rest of its theater season as it rethinks the logistics and finances that have lost money, said its new CEO Marjorie Waldo on Monday afte…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 05:33PM
Friday, December 9, 2016

Mixed Nuts Is Mixed Bag Of New Spoofs On The Holiday Season by Bill Hirschman

Like the requisite ballet's presentation of The Nutcracker, theater troupes have been turning over their Decembers as of late to holiday-themed plays: David Sedaris's Santaland Diaries comes…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:54AM
Thursday, December 8, 2016

Commitment Makes Up For Spectacle In Outre’s Tommy by Bill Hirschman

Outré Theatre Company's edition of Tommy demonstrates how skill, imagination and pure guts can triumph over the most modest of means. Its greatest virtue in bringing the classic rock opera…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:12AM
Tuesday, December 6, 2016

Steven Dietz Wants Us To Open Our Eyes In This Random World by Bill Hirschman

With humor, poignancy and insight, Dietz portrays just such a patchwork invisible to its residents in his new play This Random World at Theatre Lab, the professional resident company at Flor…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:18PM
Monday, December 5, 2016

Donohoe’s Fine Acting Channels Capote In Dramaworks’ Tru by Bill Hirschman

Audiences can marvel at the artistry from actor Rob Donohoe and director Lynnette Barkley in Palm Beach Dramaworks’ production of Tru, but the one-man bio-play about Truman Capote never qu…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:54AM
Sunday, December 4, 2016

Local Theater Singers Invited To Open Mike Cabaret In Delray by Bill Hirschman

South Florida singers, especially theater actors, often seek a place to try out new material, a haunt where they can keep their chops honed, a venue to show off a range their colleagues migh…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:06PM

My Back Pages: In Middletown, Detached Formalism Hamstrings A Touching Narrative by Bill Hirschman

A top drawer cast marks an unusually but intentionally bare bones production of Dan Clancy's new play Middletown tracking the arc of four lives.

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:06AM
Saturday, December 3, 2016

Breaking News: Plans For Coconut Grove Playhouse Saves Some Of Existing Building by Bill Hirschman

A specific plan finally has been unveiled by county officials and consultants for a new 300-seat theater on the site of the legendary Coconut Grove Playhouse – a plan which preserves some …

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:06AM
Friday, December 2, 2016

Take The Lambeth Walk With Crowd Pleasing Me And My Girl by Bill Hirschman

Led by the talents of Matt Loehr, the Maltz Jupiter Theatre's Me and My Girl is the precisely the antidote for the seasonal angst – a couple of hours of escapist entertainment. The cast is…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:54PM
Tuesday, November 29, 2016

Becoming Truman Capote At Dramaworks: Rob Donohoe Transforms Himself Inside & Out by Bill Hirschman

Sitting at a table in Palm Beach Dramawork’s rehearsal hall, Rob Donohoe doesn’t look or sound a thing like Truman Capote. He’s taller, his hair is brown and full and his voice is a wa…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:42AM
Sunday, November 27, 2016

Wick Theatre Resurrects Revival Of Mediocre ‘Sister Act’ With Winning Charm And Verve by Bill Hirschman

Sister Act is not a great musical, not even a good one, but the Wick Theatre’s resurrection is so engaging, so energetic, so much pure fun that it will convert you and make you glad you bo…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:06PM
Friday, November 25, 2016

Delray Beach Actor Having Time of His Life in Dirty Dancing Tour by Bill Hirschman

78-year-old Delray Beach actor Alan Scharf is loving the featured role in the national tour of Dirty Dancing.

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:31PM
Tuesday, November 22, 2016

Guaranteed To Split The Audience: Seriously Strange ‘Cuddles’ At Arts Garage by Bill Hirschman

“Here be monsters” repeatedly warns one of the two weird sisters at the center of the bizarre Gothic horror play Cuddles at Theatre at Arts Garage, but the creatures to beware are much d…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:36PM
Sunday, November 20, 2016

A Hilarious God Sits Down To Explain It All To You, Sort Of by Bill Hirschman

God is just like you and me – genial, well-meaning, chatty and, while omniscient and omnipotent, also flawed enough to make universe-shaking mistakes. At least that’s the God that actor …

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 01:02PM
Thursday, November 17, 2016

‘Curious Incident’ Brings You Inside The World of Autism by Bill Hirschman

Sometimes stage theatricality more effectively thrusts you inside the head of someone completely alien to your own experience than the hyper-reality of a film is able to convey. A prime exam…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:48AM
Tuesday, November 15, 2016

Current Events Amp Audience Angst In Perfect Arrangement by Bill Hirschman

When Topher Payne’s Perfect Arrangement bowed in 2013, the satirical indictment of homophobia, hypocrisy and a half-dozen other themes was a witty and insightful commentary. In the context…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:02AM
Sunday, November 13, 2016

FGO’s Classic Carmen Features Director’s Imaginative Touches by Bill Hirschman

Oddly, for all the technical artistry that the assembled talents are displaying in Florida Grand Opera’s thoroughly satisfying 10th run at Georges Bizet’s deathlessly popular masterwork,…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:42PM
Saturday, November 12, 2016

Slow Burn Takes A Welcome Return Trip Home To Avenue Q by Bill Hirschman

Thomas Wolfe warned that you can’t go home again, but Slow Burn Theatre Company’s revival of its 2012 production of Avenue Q is a welcome and joyful return to the neighborhood and the ol…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 03:06PM
Friday, November 11, 2016

Sweet Charity’s Optimistic Hope Is A Strange Fit For This Week by Bill Hirschman

Sweet Charity is a fundamentally flawed showcase that virtually no one has ever pulled off satisfyingly, but Broward Stage Door director Michael Leeds makes a solid enough stab at it that a …

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:31AM
Thursday, November 3, 2016

Charlie Cinnamon, Who Transformed The Region’s Culture, Died Thursday Morning by Bill Hirschman

Charlie Cinnamon, the beloved dean of South Florida publicity agents whose work over a half-century helped transform the region’s cultural landscape and national profile, died Thursday mor…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:18AM
Tuesday, November 1, 2016

Riverside’s Johnny Cash Revue Ring Of Fire Walks The Line by Bill Hirschman

In Riverside Theatre’s polished production of the musical revue Ring of Fire, four pitch perfect voices and a host of skilled musicians bring to life the legacy of America’s greatest hom…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:12AM
Monday, October 31, 2016

Sublime Acting, Extravagant Design Grapple With Stolid Structure In The Audience by Bill Hirschman

The Audience, the West End sensation turned Tony winner , conjures 10 meetings, between Queen Elizabeth II and her prime ministers. The play’s regional premiere at Maltz Jupiter Theatre,…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:24AM

A Peek Behind The Throne: Making The Audience by Bill Hirschman

For 60 years, Queen Elizabeth has been beloved, despised, served as a role model for some and a target for others, but always been the somewhat removed iconic image of unflappable composure …

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:24AM
Sunday, October 30, 2016

Zoetic Stage Debuts Premiere of McKeever’s Emotion-Filled After by Bill Hirschman

There's something thrilling about seeing a world premiere play unfold. And when the playwright is one of South Florida's great hopes to get an original play to the Great White Way, there's e…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:48AM
Wednesday, October 26, 2016

Chekhov’s Sisters Waiting To Exhale In Beckett’s New Jersey by Bill Hirschman

Deborah Zoe Laufer’s world premiere The Three Sisters of Weekhawken is, indeed, funny in its daffy way, but this imaginative mashup of Chekhov’s meditation on yearning refracted through …

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 05:54PM
Tuesday, October 25, 2016

Thinking Cap Theatre’s Director And Cast Add Color To ‘Mud’ by Bill Hirschman

Tension is at the heart and soul of Thinking Cap Theatre's Mud, a three-hander by Maria Irene Fornes, now at The Vanguard in Fort Lauderdale. Director Nicole Stodard puts her stamp on the …

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 05:09PM
Monday, October 24, 2016

Maltz Kicks Off $30 Million Campaign To Expand Facility Including Second Stage by Bill Hirschman

The Maltz Jupiter Theatre on Monday publically kicked off a five-year campaign to raise $25 million to $30 million for a massive construction expansion to enable it to expand its offerings. …

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 07:14PM
Sunday, October 23, 2016

Emotions & Sound Swell On Epic Scale In Slow Burn’s Hunchback by Bill Hirschman

A near epic vision unfolds in Slow Burn Theatre Company’s brave, ambitious and dark The Hunchback of Notre Dame resulting in the one of the most powerful musicals seen in South Florida in …

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 02:33PM

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2024-2025 BROADWAY SEASON
Jun 05, 2024: Home - Todd Haimes Theatre
Jul 11, 2024: Oh, Mary! - Lyceum Theatre
Jul 30, 2024: Job - Hayes Theater
Sep 12, 2024: The Roommate - Booth Theatre
Nov 14, 2024: Tammy Faye - Palace Theatre
Dec 12, 2024: Cult of Love - Hayes Theater
Dec 19, 2024: Gypsy - Majestic Theatre
Mar 17, 2025: Purpose - Hayes Theater
Apr 01, 2025: Glengarry Glen Ross
Apr 10, 2025: Smash - Imperial Theatre
TBA: Titanic
TBA: Ragtime