Sunday, January 28, 2018
Spurred by mortality, human beings struggling to repair connections as conduits toward understanding their lives form the crux of Primal Force's intimate exploration of relationships in the …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:33AM[SHARE]Saturday, January 27, 2018
Playwright Eric Lane gives little to no direction for the setting in his play Ride. Had you not known this and watched the imaginatively drawn setting by Giancarlo Rodaz, who not only direc…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 01:00PM[SHARE]Friday, January 26, 2018
Meet the Ladies of Sassy Mamas, some of Washington, D.C.'s finest women who are going through a mid-life crisis of sorts. They've turned the tables on older men, a given that all is right wi…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:32PM[SHARE]Hamilton and Dear Evan Hansen " two of the most critically acclaimed and fantastically popular musicals of the past decade " headline the 2018-2019 Broadway Across America season slated for …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:43AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 25, 2018
Riverside Theatre's Waxlax stage turns into a high-spirited Victorian musical hall with its robust and meticulous production of The Mystery of Edwin Drood.
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:49AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 24, 2018
Noises Off is one of the funniest farces written in the English language and a solid match for Actors Playouse talents. The laughs are plentiful, but this production didn't wring everything …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:43AM[SHARE]Monday, January 22, 2018
Slow Burn Theatre Company's production of The Bridges of Madison County is what critics save up our credibility for " so that when a work of art is this effective, this moving, this captivat…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 05:05PM[SHARE]Saturday, January 20, 2018
They are unlike any trials you have ever seen on Law & Order. Zoetic Stage's world premiere of Christopher Demos-Brown's Wrongful Death And Other Circus Acts is a hilarious but merciles…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 02:06PM[SHARE]Thursday, January 18, 2018
Everything about the Maltz Jupiter Theatre's Hairspray has volume, and then some . . . from the bubblegum-bright lighting design to overdrawn characters that, while definitely animated, neve…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 03:44PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 16, 2018
Christopher Demos-Brown has a world premiere Friday of Wrongful Death And Other Circus Acts at Zoetic Stage, but his play American Son is slated to open on Broadway in November.
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:57PM[SHARE]Monday, January 15, 2018
The Wick's Singin' in the Rain, for all of its talent and technical achievements and good cheer, offers too few reasons to experience the stage version of the definitive MGM movie musical on…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:17AM[SHARE]Sunday, January 14, 2018
Island City Stage's highly entertaining production of the musical Zanna, Don't! will never be confused with a show by Stephen Sondheim, though there are numerous references to the famed comp…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:36PM[SHARE]Thursday, January 11, 2018
We could tell you that A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder is a satire of the artificiality of the class system and an affectionate lampoon of British theater genres such as the music …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:02AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 10, 2018
South Florida has long been home to minority-dominated theater companies as well as productions in which race was a central theme. But the Carbonell Award nominations for 2017 released this …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 07:11AM[SHARE]Monday, January 8, 2018
Two musicals open since March are still worth taking in any time you make to Manhattan. And if you can't afford a trip up north, rest assured that these will tour South Florida in the next c…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:13AM[SHARE]Sunday, January 7, 2018
They may not look like their counterparts, but they sure sound like them. They've got the moves, the stylings and so much rock 'n roll energy you'll feel like you're at a concert rather than…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:48PM[SHARE]Friday, January 5, 2018
Christopher Durang initially wrote Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike to precisely match the inimitable talents of David Hyde Pierce, Sigourney Weaver and Kristine Nielsen. So it's no surpr…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:36PM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 3, 2018
Broward Stage Door's production of Flashdance the Musical has aspects worth recommending such as two charismatic leads with powerful voices worthy of a brass band. That's fortunate because t…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:22PM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 26, 2017
One pleasure of a theater critic's job are these year-end retrospectives that require looking back at reviews and be reminded, "Oh, yeah, that was really great. And right, there was that. An…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:42AM[SHARE]Saturday, December 23, 2017
Smokey Joe's Café, the quintessential plotless rock n' roll jukebox revue, is as dependable as light entertainment gets in the hands of experienced directors like Kevin Black at Broward Sta…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:04PM[SHARE]Monday, December 18, 2017
Be grateful that Slow Burn Theatre Company with its audacious affection for large scale challenging musicals has decided to mount The Secret Garden, that ode to rebirth, memorable for its lu…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 01:48PM[SHARE]Sunday, December 17, 2017
Thinking Cap Theatre's opening performance of Young Jean Lee's Straight White Men might have been among the best nights of theater in South Florida so far this season. I say "might have been…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 03:36PM[SHARE]Saturday, December 16, 2017
For a show whose strengths are its celebration of nose-thumbing non-conformity and anarchic scenes of unrestrained thrash metal music, School of Rock is a surprisingly conventional musical t…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:12PM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 12, 2017
Over 21 years, City Theatre's ever-expanding enterprises have developed and maintained a brand-level reputation for entertaining theater; its return to cool weather programming with the curr…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 02:42PM[SHARE]Sunday, December 10, 2017
Palm Beach Dramaworks' production of the world premiere of Billy and Me, a fictionalization of the real life relationship between playwrights Tennessee Williams and William Inge, is a triump…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:18AM[SHARE]Thursday, December 7, 2017
The Maltz Jupiter Theatre gives the Disney Broadway musical Newsies something to shout about with its energetic, acrobatic, tap-dancing, choreographic eye-popper of a staging about a group …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:42AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 6, 2017
When entering a theater playing a musical you've enjoyed numerous times, it's comforting to open the playbill to find the names of proven talents that reassure that you and the material are …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 05:18PM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 5, 2017
Some works of art are born in a long gestation period of mulling almost in the unconscious; others leap gloriously to life in an exultant flash that is one of joys of being a creative person…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:42AM[SHARE]Sunday, December 3, 2017
Most Wanted starts out like one of those wacky only-in-Florida tales, but as Peter Sagal's world premiere at Theatre Lab, evolves the weirdness gives way to poignancy that eclipses the humor…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:24AM[SHARE]Friday, December 1, 2017
The Camp, a world premiere drama from the West Boca Theatre Company does not advance the age-old discussion how "good" people can be passively complicit in horrors, but Michael McKeever's in…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:12AM[SHARE] 
