Monday, October 2, 2023
By Oline H. Cogdill August Wilson was one of the most insightful—if not THE most insightful—chronicler of Black life in America. He found the music in the language of ordinary people,…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:25PMFriday, September 29, 2023
South Florida’s 2022-2023 theater season has been another terrific season. That excellence is shown in the nominations for the annual Carbonell Awards, as well as the Silver Pa…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 05:33PMWednesday, September 27, 2023
By Aaron Krause Picture yourself almost continuously laughing while maintaining an iron grip on the novel you are reading. Your eyes have remained wide open for so long that your ey…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:03PMMonday, September 25, 2023
South Florida continues to have stellar theater in the tri-county area. That level of excellence is reinforced by the list of Silver Palm honorees. The Silver Palm honorees will be recognize…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 07:13PMMonday, September 18, 2023
By Jan Sjostrom Jasmine Starr-Kidd is having a tough time dealing with her parents’ divorce. In that she’s much like many other 12-year-olds today. But Jasmine has a fix. A science prodi…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:37PMMonday, September 11, 2023
By Jan Sjostrom Five Guys Named Moe, the rollicking love letter to the music of Louis Jordan, works its magic in a tuneful production by Marcie Gorman & MNM Theatre Company through Sept.…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:07PMTuesday, August 29, 2023
We are looking for actors for our next production, Dr. Seward’s Dracula by Joseph Zettelmaier, this is a paid acting opportunity. Synopsis: “People need monsters. They need to believe th…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 07:25PMSunday, August 13, 2023
By Aaron Krause Nobody in their right mind would condone the titular character’s actions in Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. Yet, we can sympathize with this fictional se…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:49PMMonday, July 31, 2023
WOW, Women of Wilton launches its first production By Oline H. Cogdill Love and friendship, grief and death are timeless themes that are the foundation of the entertaining production of …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:43PMTuesday, July 25, 2023
Defending the Cavewoman explores the differences between women and men.
The post Lindsey Corey seamlessly slips into 15 characters in Defending the Cavewoman at Actors Playhouse first appear…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:33PMMonday, July 10, 2023
New City Players’ Little Montgomery starts as a satisfyingly cute summer chuckle of a comedy, but morphs into a deeper examination of human beings struggling awkwardly to cope with the wor…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:33AMSunday, June 25, 2023
What audiences have seen, are seeing and will see across stages has been crippled and artistically hidden in a strangulation that only insiders know about. Simply, it’s extremely difficult…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:04AMWednesday, June 21, 2023
ArtBuzz Theatrics’ compelling professional production of Six Dance Lessons In Six Weeks features impressively realistic, nuanced, and multi-faceted performances from veterans Larry Buzzeo …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:07PMFriday, June 16, 2023
Native Gardens is, indeed, a comedy infused with character-based humor that satisfies as a warm summer evening of laughs. But Karen Zacarías’ social satire at GableStage gently weaves in …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:55AMThursday, June 15, 2023
The musical Beetlejuice, part of the Broadway Across America series, is resplendent with silly, often stupid, jokes, over-the-top acting and sometimes forgettable songs that actually all com…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:04AMWednesday, June 14, 2023
The Newsboy Strike of 1899 is the foundation of a high-energy, enthusiastic and plain old fun production of the musical Disney’s Newsies closing out Slow Burn Theatre Company’s season.
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SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:55AMMonday, June 12, 2023
City Theatre’s Summer Shorts vibrates with the unique distinctive essence that exceeds traditional adjectives and can best be captured in the word “Miami.” Indeed, the production is su…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:49PMSaturday, June 10, 2023
The musical Kimberly Akimbo sounds like the premise for a Disney comedy: A teenager afflicted with a disease that ages her 4 ½ times faster than normal tries to cope at the same time with t…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 04:19PMFriday, June 9, 2023
Parade forces you watch to first-hand the inexorable horror of anti-Semitism, not in a newspaper, but rising feet in front of you with the complexity, the fear and the human enmity envelopin…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:55AMWednesday, June 7, 2023
The precise use of the technically forensic terms “fun,” “delightful” and “rollicking” are absolutely accurate when describing Peter Pan Goes Wrong, the latest in the development…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:07AMTuesday, June 6, 2023
Jodie Langel promises that audiences attending the inaugural production of South Florida’s newest theater company will be “blown away” by the young performers’ talent. Her Off Glades…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:33AMMonday, June 5, 2023
Lorraine Hansberry’sThe Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window about a liberal couple and their circle in Greenwich Village is an worth seeing (and mounting locally). but acknowledge that it …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:32AMSunday, June 4, 2023
After a season filled with provocative drama and lavish musicals, Riverside Theatre lets its hair down with Honky Tonk Angels, a juke box musical filled with country music and down-home humo…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:02AMFriday, June 2, 2023
Sweeney Todd has rarely been restored to the breathtaking visual scope of that initial production featured, but the current revival is the return of a full-fledged, full-throated, fully-pro…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:02AMThursday, June 1, 2023
It’s a safe bet that the stage floor has been reinforced and tts speakers upgraded to accommodate the pounding tap dancers and the whirlwind of music pouring out at Some Like It Hot. If y…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:24PMTuesday, May 30, 2023
On occasions, you run into people who have dismissed seeing plays without having seeing one, people who don’t understand the absolutely unique magic of live Theater. Drag them to see Life …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 04:54PMMonday, May 29, 2023
Palm Beach Dramaworks’ immersifying edition of Topdog/Underdog laudably justifies in its delivery, this masterwork has a depth and complexity that gifts each outing with the opportunity to…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:24AMWednesday, May 24, 2023
Amid protracted and repeated cheers of a volume rarely heard in the Broward Center for the Performing Arts, hundreds upon hundreds of high school students and their families celebrated the c…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:18PMTuesday, May 23, 2023
Tracy Jones bowing at Island City Stage is a comedy masking lonely people trying to make connections they don’t have the skill to achieve. It’s a briskly-moving smile with quirky charact…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:42AMSaturday, May 20, 2023
Genius and madness. Concrete calculations and unbridled theorizing. Humor and sorrow. But the greatest mysteries depicted in Proof reside in the human heart, conflicts on display that are ha…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 04:48PMThursday, May 18, 2023
Langston Hughes wrote of “a dream deferred” from the elevated promontory of poetry; but the great playwright August Wilson wrote from the street what it was like living through a dream b…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:24PM 
