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 08:16PMAndrews Living Arts makes a valiant effort to conquer the challenging Terrence McNally play Love! Valour! Compassion! but it proves more than they can handle.
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:30PMYou have to make allowances for the inexperience of the mostly high school students in handling Shakespeare’s verbiage in Evenig Star/Sol's production of A Midsummer Night's Dream. But the…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:37PMPolitical satire is like the finest champagne – delectable at the time but going flat with age. But in the meantime, as Shorts Gone Wild 4 (subtitled Decision 2016: It’s Gonna Be Yuuuuug…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:45PMMNM Productions at the Kravis Center's superb revival of the Kander and Ebb revue The World Goes Round takes us on a detailed tour of the landscape of the human heart, not just the joyful pe…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 01:24PMFor anyone who still thinks that theater disappears in South Florida during the summer, take a moment to absorb the schedule for the rest of the month – and this isn’t all of it.
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:31PMGableStage's Stalking the Bogeyman, a true life tale of sexual abuse and revenge, stands out for its intelligence, bravery, sobriety and sheer darkness Buoyed by the raw sting of truth tha…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:03PMNew City Players’ The Glass Menagerie starts a bit sluggishly, suffers throughout from some debatable technical decisions, and some performances are more compelling than others. But it bui…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:40AMA message is wrapped inside Buyer & Cellar about our relationship with celebrities, but it is only the anchor grounding Actors’ Playhouse’s hilarious trip down Alice’s rabbit hole…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 02:34PMBroward Stage Door's Broadway Bound may not land perfectly all the time, but these theater pros deliver a no-excuses-needed effort that works often and effectively and ultimately satisfies.
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:38AMCique Eloize's Cirkopolis cast has in common with their itinerant ancestors is the determination to thrill audiences with death-defying feats of agility, daredevil tricks and silly clown ant…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:29AMBy John Thomason Since its return to regular summer programming in 2014, Miami’s Ground Up & Rising has been specializing in a particular strain of western theater: the austere, bone-s…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:16AMSilly, stupoid and surprisingly successful, the Broadway musical spin on School of Rock works fine without Jack Black -- a good sign for the national tour.
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:01AMSometimes the confluence of talent that occurs in a New York City production creates something that won’t be duplicated elsewhere. South Florida has proven that a regional production actua…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 07:21PMThe Wick Theatre has nearly mastered the musical revue genre by hiring solid talent and adding in a few extra production values – all of it evident in this summer’s frothy paean to middl…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 04:52PMin these terrible times of violence, deprivation and polarization, the resonances in Palm Beach Dramaworks’ imaginatively reinvented production of 1776 are deafening. Amid the laugh lines,…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 01:42PMA deeply polarized citizenry, partisans with irreconcilable ideas about the role of government, a stalled deliberative body, confusion, anxiety. Sound familiar? The current political climate…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:53PMWhile the production of Waitress faithfully follows the schematics of Adrienne Shelly’s charming 2007 film, it does exactly what a musical should do: use the added tools of melody, lyrics …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:32AMBreaking news: New Theatre, Inc. (Coral Gables, Florida) New Theatre at South Miami-Dade Cultural Arts Center announces it is closing. This press release just in: Details to follow:
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 01:20PMThe new musical Bright Star is a 21st Century celebration of the folk tradition complete with plucky heroines, gentle humor, unbending fundamentalists, facile fiddling, profound personal tra…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:16AMThe running time for The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) (Revised) is advertised at 90 minutes On opening night at Evening Star Productions, it ran two hours. This is a tes…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 01:46PMThe Vanguard meant no self-aggrandizement posting photos of Lucy and Ethel, Carol and Vicki, across their set for the hilarious sketch comedy, Parallel Lives. But it’s apt. Because Elena M…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 03:50PMGreying Boomers may instinctively resist that the music of their lives is being repackaged into stage revues with little or no story the way Irving Berlin and Johnny Mercer’s songbooks hav…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:45AMThere’s a virtue, I suppose, in reliability. When you go to see something with Disney’s name in the title whether it’s the Pirates of Caribbean Ride in Orlando, Anaheim, Toyko or Paris…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:24AMFor about three seconds Sunday night, the Tony Awards broadcast a pre-recorded glimpse of Miles C. Wilkin and slipped in a sentence saying that he was receiving a “Special Tony Award. But…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:38AMYou know you wanted to murder some abusive soul-crushing bullies and snobs when you were in high school. Heathers knows it and wants to liberate your daydream. So do the cool kids and not-so…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:07AMRage and defiance – against racism, against betrayal, against cruelty, fate and death itself – washes out into the audience with a ferocity rarely seen in Florida theater in The M Ensemb…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 01:46PMAcknowledge that the premiere of The Wish Maker, written and directed by local playwright Cynthia Joyce Clay and produced by her Storycrafters Studio, is well-intentioned and earnest. But th…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 01:24PMWhen Danny Burgos steps on the Broward Center stage on June 15 in the national tour of Beauty and the Beast, the moment will resonate for him as few have before. It was on those same floorbo…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:37AMSome show business legends say they were born in a trunk offstage in between the matinee and evening performances. Daisy O. Tanner can’t quite say that. But the two-month-old daughter of a…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:09AMFeeding The Bear, a serio-comedy focused on caring for a father succumbing to Alzheimer’s (featuring a drag queen with a cooking TV show), has all the necessary ingredients for a tasty con…
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