Sunday, October 23, 2016
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 02:33PMSaturday, October 22, 2016
It almost should go without saying that the rock ’n’ roll blisters the paint off the walls of Actors’ Playhouse’s balcony theater in its thoroughly satisfying edition of Million Doll…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:03PMThursday, October 20, 2016
The South Florida Silver Palm Theatre Awards committee honoring theatrical excellence in South Florida will present the award to 28 individuals and organizations in its ninth season. Recipie…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:12PMSlow Burn Theatre Company’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame staged on a relatively epic scale underscores another benchmark of growth for the once modest company that has solidly arrived as a …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:39AMWednesday, October 19, 2016
The skill, power and imagination that Kevin Black, Ben Bagby and their colleagues have invested make Swing! Swing! Swing! as good or better than any other revue that Broward Stage Door has p…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:22AMMonday, October 17, 2016
Benefiting from a Neil Simon script and a winning turn by Andrea McArdle,
The Wick Theatre is betting its older doggedly mainstream audience will be won over by this effectively sweet but …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:51AMSunday, October 16, 2016
The emotional histrionics and pyrotechnic acting in the first act notwithstanding, it’s the quiet poignant moments of compassion and connection in the second act that are the most deeply a…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:32AMFriday, October 14, 2016
The intersection, overlap and conflict of love and sex – but above all how they affect relationships -- form the basis of Theatre at Arts Garage’s uneven but intriguing entry appropriate…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 05:33PMThursday, October 13, 2016
Back in 1977 when 13-year-old Andrea McArdle’s name exploded across the country, the moniker Broadway Baby recognized the talent powering her performance as Annie singing the iconic anthe…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:40PMThe Night of the Iguana is the “other” Tennessee Williams play, the one most theatergoers have heard of, maybe even seen the Richard Burton-John Huston film, but likely have never gotten…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:56AMWednesday, October 12, 2016
Effectively cloaked in high-tech flourishes from pounding music to a rock concert-worthy light show plus classic theatrical accoutrements like dancers, The Illusionists gathers seven inventi…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 01:07PMSaturday, October 8, 2016
A different season advance: Quietly, oh so quietly, the 2016-2017 theater season in South Florida is shaping up to be as notable for tidal growth, contraction, ebb and flow as it is for the …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:24AMThese are not at all necessarily what we predict will be the best shows this season (although they may be) or the best attended or the most popular or the most award-winning. We don’t care…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:24AMTuesday, October 4, 2016
No one knows what effect Matthew will have on performances this weekend or even next weekend because of damage to buildings, power outages, road passability and the status of cast and crew m…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 01:48PMChristian Thompson saw his first Broadway musical at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts when he was seven years old. A national touring company of Cats was what hooked him on the mus…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:20AMMonday, October 3, 2016
Okay, yes, Hand to God has cute obscenity-spouting puppets having sex on stage, but the similarities to Avenue Q stops dead right there. This scorchingly funny and aggressively irreverent pl…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:32AMSunday, October 2, 2016
Why Not? With Richard Nixon is perhaps Mad Cat Theatre Company’s most Mad Catty show ever, a production for company insiders that is esoteric enough to reference another Mad Cat show in it…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 01:19PMSaturday, October 1, 2016
When the young Boca Raton company Marquee Theater’s production nails key moments of the indestructible Fiddler on the Roof, it’s exhilirating and entertaining on its own merits; when it …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 03:32PMTuesday, September 27, 2016
Antonio and Katherine Amadeo, who separately and together championed cutting edge work through their Naked Stage company and who helped unite the local artistic community with their 24-Hour …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:04PMMonday, September 26, 2016
The level of anger, helplessness and sorrow rises inexorably along with the death toll like flood waters from a storm surge in Outré Theatre Company’s shattering production of The Normal …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:43PMFriday, September 23, 2016
Hats off, Evening Star Productions, for insider's theater that is satirically spot on in the comedy Gutenberg! The Musical.
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 03:33PMThursday, September 22, 2016
What do Cabaret, Chicago, Fun Home, Almost Maine and Angels in America have in common? Somebody somewhere has banned their production at some point. To push back, Zoetic Stage and the Dramat…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:01AMMonday, September 19, 2016
Circle Mirror Transformation is finally receiving its professional regional premiere by the intrepid Area Stage Co., and the disarmingly funny production is a ravishing success for Baker pur…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 04:40PMSunday, September 18, 2016
A Public Reading of an Unproduced Screenplay about the Death of Walt Disney is not easy theater, by any means, but not one that Thinking Cap would ever shy away from. Their tagline is "theat…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 05:54PMSaturday, September 10, 2016
Larry Parr’s Invasion of Privacy from Pigs Do Fly Productions, based on a lawsuit against Florida’s beloved Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, lays intriguing thought-provoking ideas on the table…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:58AMThursday, September 8, 2016
The Broward Stage Door Theatre production of the 1970 musical The Rothschilds, about the famed family's rise from the German ghetto to become on the wealthiest families in the world, is a re…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:51PMWednesday, September 7, 2016
This year, Sept. 10 might just mark the unofficial kickoff to the season, at least for Miamians when the Arsht will present its second-annual ARTSLAUNCH2016, a festive daylong confab at all …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 07:50AMSaturday, September 3, 2016
We’ve written a paragraph like this only two or three times: Stop what you are doing. Stop reading this review. Go to the phone or online and order tickets right now for Ground Up & R…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:54AMWednesday, August 24, 2016
By Bill Hirschman The dictionary translates the Latin phrase “sui generis” as “constituting a class of its own,” but more commonly it’s used to mean “not like anything else,” o…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:04PMThe easiest way to grasp a sense of the Festival, its styles and ethos is to recount and review the individual productions we saw during a trip last month. Hidden within may be insights that…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:04PMSaturday, August 13, 2016
Juliet Among the Changelings, the inaugural full-length production from Lost Girls Theatre, succeeds most if not all of the time in establishing and staying in that difficult groove of fanta…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:16PM 
