Feeding 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…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:09AMHardly unusual in musical theater, Meredith Bartmon strolls around the Carnival Studio stage singing passionately about her dreams and, later, her refusal to compromise those dreams. But th…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:41AMEileen Suarez, who rose at New Theatre from working the box office in 1996 to shepherding the company through rocky shoals and significant growth, has resigned as managing director, she conf…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:25AMAudiences from Key West to Boca Raton for the fourth year may see new plays in development by area playwrights for free through the South Florida Theatre League’s Summer Theatre Fest.
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:28AMThe ever-developing Summer Shorts Festival, now entering its 21st year in Miami, will sound a bit different this year: two of the ten-minute works will be musicals.
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:34AMSometimes critics use the words “ambitious” and “intriguing” as backhanded compliments or cowardly faint praise, but Mad Cat Theatre Company’s production of the Pulitzer-winning Th…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:13AMAudiences will relish the superb GableStage production of The Royale -- Miami native Marco Ramirez’s insightful pile-driving play about boxing, celebrity, racism, race relations and person…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:57AMAs Boomers become more of the theater-going public, we see more stories about how we are becoming a nation of caretakers of parents and grandparents. But the play The Father depicts increasi…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:51AMLooking at faded and listening to primitive , you wonder what productions were really like live when vaudeville was surrendering to legit Broadway. The proud, answer is fired back in specta…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:57AMThe Critics’ Awards Program, or Cappies, recognizing outstanding achievement in high school theater at the 14th Annual Cappies Awards Gala were held Tuesday at the Broward Center for the P…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:07PMHair never was and isn’t now accurate reportage on the 1968 counter-culture,any more than Oklahoma was a faithful account of homesteading on the eve of statehood. But what the raw material…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:44AMA double sense of “life after death” pervades the touching and beautifully rendered The Tin Woman drama suffused with wit now playing at Actors Playhouse as spring slides into summer.
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:54PMThe characters and themes of The Flick -- the newest production opening at Mad Cat Theatre next week -- were so fresh and crucial that it kept director Paul Tei from abandoning straight thea…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:21PMIt’s been a season of Stephen Sondheim the past 10 months or so in Florida, and Putting It Together, the musical at Broward Stage Door, puts a satisfying capstone on it as strong earnest v…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:39PMEvening Star Productions and Infinite Abyss Productions deliver the 249th South Florida edition of the inarguably hilarious aggressively irreverent hoot. The cast successfully seduces a will…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 01:48PMTerry Teachout’s play Satchmo at the Waldorf on view at Palm Beach Dramaworks -- and directed by Teachout in his first at-bat, comes close to allowing that communion with the unvarnished, …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 02:39PMIf his resume wasn’t already unusually diverse for a theater critic, it might seem strange that Terry Teachout is adding “director” to his hyphenated professional description when his …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 05:44PMValidation – the affirmation that what you valued a – is one of the most powerfully effective facets of entertainment and art. That may be the overwhelming virtue of Beautiful – The C…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 04:51PMThe opening scene of Will Eno’s The Realistic Jones, as staged by Thinking Cap Theatre, is one of the funniest things I’ve seen in years.
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:57AMThe score of Beautiful – The Carole King Musical encompasses a dozen hits from the ‘60s and half of the iconic Tapestry album. But bookwriter Douglas McGrath assures theatergoers that th…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:51AMSome of the most prominent names in playwriting today – plus a local actor and writer – headline an intensive series of readings May 11—14 at Theatre Lab, the professional resident com…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:31AMWith its short run production of "A Special Day" this week, Michel Hausmann and the fledgling Miami New Drama company begin an ambitious slate of projects that began earlier this year with T…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 03:18PMThe Critics’ Awards Program, or Cappies for short, will celebrate outstanding achievement in high school theater at 26 public and private schools throughout Broward and Palm Beach counties…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:58PMOn April 28, Marilynn Wick will sign a $5 million mortgage and take formal possession of the former Caldwell Theatre building, heralding the beginning of a new phase of The Wick Theatre.
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:55AMCharm, that most underrated of quiet virtues in a theater of brassy belters and in-your-face spectacle, suffuses the vagaries of a 24-year love affair in Broward Stage Door’s appealing rev…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:56PMWhen a theatrical production’s scenery, lighting and costumes get as much attention as the characters, chances are the story is a bit slim. You see that clearly with Riverside Theatre’s …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:20AMNot everyone is a fan of musical revues, but if you’re going to mount I Love A Piano, that justifiably popular evergreen staple of regional theaters over the past decade or so, this is the…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 01:04PMIn Evening Star's Murdered To Death, this comic murder mystery satire becomes so supremely silly with slapstick, overheated melodrama and an endless supply of verbal blunders that the actors…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:00PMThere's a rhythm to Ricky J. Martinez's writing in his new play Roof!, which is having its world premiere at New Theatre. If there was a tin roof in Roof! (there isn't), the words would soun…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:03AMBroadway Across America’s Dirty Dancing: The Classic Story On Stage on tour at the Broward Center is a flawed and misconceived project with a noticeable lack of fire, but much can be forgi…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 02:35PMThe new tour of Cabaret does not break a shred of new ground artistically; it intentionally recreates the 1998 revival in which Sam Mendes reimagined the initial vision by amping up the deba…
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