Tuesday, October 3, 2017
Gloria and Emilio Estefan once again are bringing it back home. The national tour of On Your Feet!, an autobiographical Broadway musical powered by their iconic songbook, will open this week…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:54PM[SHARE]City Theatre's production of Building the Wall opens with audio of then-candidate Donald Trump spewing some of his more incendiary anti-immigration rhetoric. The first line has yet to be spo…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:04AM[SHARE]Sunday, October 1, 2017
Conjuring the lowbrow folderol of an early 20th century burlesque, Steve Martin's adaptation of this 1910 German sex comedy Underpants performed by Main Street Players is all too quaint for …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:24PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 28, 2017
An Octoroon is the kind of art that defies a Siskel & Ebert thumbs up / thumbs down assessment. You can praise or fault elements of the script or a production, but Area Stage Company's …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:18PM[SHARE]In what is believed to be a groundbreaking move, Palm Beach Dramaworks and GableStage plan a co-production of the acclaimed Broadway play Indecent to be next fall.
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:18AM[SHARE]Sunday, September 24, 2017
A quarter-century on, the temptation is to r reinterpret Oleanna, David Mamet's incendiary screed about toxic relations between men and women. But Evening Star Productions' rendition in 2017…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:24PM[SHARE]Sunday, September 17, 2017
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' An Octoroon virtually defines the adjective "provocative." No matter the quality of the production that the courageous Area Stage Company actually delivers next week,…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:48AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 14, 2017
Talent, energy and enthusiasm strut across the Broward Stage Door production of Saturday Night Live " The Musical. Unfortunately, this company does not have enough of those virtues to rescue…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:06AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 5, 2017
With Hurricane Irma closing in, those in charge of theater performances and venues are considering whether to cancel or postpone productions and events. We will post this information on an o…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:18PM[SHARE]Monday, September 4, 2017
If you're coming to see Charles Busch camping it up in high drag at Palm Beach Dramaworks' inaugural event in its OutStage @pbd series on Sept. 16, you'll be disappointed. But if you're intr…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:33AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 29, 2017
The Riverside Theatre in Vero Beach has come up with a solution"build its own housing for professionals which has become a major expense for many theaters.
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:06PM[SHARE]Thursday, August 24, 2017
Seniors and caretaking Boomers recognize the real pain informing the facile catchphrase "Growing old is not for sissies" " a quality sharing the stage with copious laughs in Broward Stage Do…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:12AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 22, 2017
The Golden Gate Bridge, cable cars, Alcatraz, all beckon visitors. Yet in the popular consciousness, theater in San Francisco does not strike many as a stand-alone reason to book a week ther…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:36PM[SHARE]Monday, August 21, 2017
Shorts Gone Wild 5, co-produced by City Theatre with Island City Stage, follows the same entertaining pattern eliciting guffaws, chuckles and a few choked back sniffles with risque and luigh…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:36AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 17, 2017
If you know where to look, certainly you can find reliable warhorse titles in the upcoming theater season in South Florida, but it's easier to find vibrant, contemporary and challenging offe…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:36AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 16, 2017
Local stages have some special programs running for only one or two days starting tonight including Palm Beach Dramaworks, GableStage and Arts Garage.
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:06PM[SHARE]Sunday, August 13, 2017
Indisputably, regional theaters have been a significant wellspring for new plays reaching back 30 years. But a quickening sea change has occurred quietly but demonstrably over the past decad…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 01:24PM[SHARE]Friday, August 11, 2017
An explosion of passionate performances (and flying silverware) mark New City Players' production of the late Sam Shepard's True West.
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:18PM[SHARE]Saturday, August 5, 2017
Gregg Weiner captures the audience in Ground Up and Rising's bare bones production of Conor McPherson's monologue The Good Thief at South Miami-
Dade Cultural Arts Center
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 03:54PM[SHARE]Monday, July 31, 2017
Is knowledge always good? Is its pursuit inherently defensible regardless of the consequences? Is there Absolute Truth?These and another half-dozen ideas careen and crisscross GableStage lik…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:06AM[SHARE]Sunday, July 30, 2017
Marquee Theater Company is still an evolving troupe. but it's a shame that this production of Thoroughly Modern Millie isn't Carbonell Award eligible " many elements would have given other c…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:06AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 26, 2017
One of the joys of seeing local theater over the years is charting a new theater's growth and promise. But it's rare to see a fledgling theater develop so quickly as Main Street Players, as …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:33AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 25, 2017
Not every theatrical event has to be an outsized venting of passion filled with intellectual pyrotechnics. Sometimes a work can be satisfying to the brain and the heart as a gentle celebrat…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:36AM[SHARE]Sunday, July 23, 2017
MNM's production of Stephen Sondheim's groundbreaking musical Company is intermittently lit with incandescent performances worth the price of admission by themselves, but the overall piece d…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:36PM[SHARE]Friday, July 21, 2017
Pigs Do Fly Productions -- which has done mostly short plays by, for and about people 0ver 50 -- has jumped even deeper into the play-ing field by presenting the world premiere of Michael L…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:06AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 20, 2017
A production of Dreamgirls was already planned for the Miramar Cultural Center's summer season, but became the perfect "launching pad" for the City of Miramar's First Annual Broadway Festiva…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 07:24AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 19, 2017
For the third time in nine years, a blizzard is raging inside the Arsht Center in the middle of a blazing summer as Slava's Snowshow returns and you once again will be picking white stuff ou…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:12AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 18, 2017
The prescient genius of George Orwell is the blinding virtue in Outré Theatre Company's earnestly delivered but sluggish production of the painfully relevant 1984. It remains jaw-dropping t…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 01:12PM[SHARE]Monday, July 17, 2017
The world premiere of Michael McKeever's Finding Mona Lisa at Actors Playhouse initially might seem a light, fascinating beach read about Leonardo DaVinci's masterpiece -- a sometimes droll,…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 03:24PM[SHARE]Saturday, July 15, 2017
Homicidal rage against a corrupt world spews into the audience in Palm Beach Dramaworks' Sweeney Todd. But its singular spin is that the serial throat-slitting barber does not start as a ven…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 03:48PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 11, 2017
Those who love Stephen Sondheim and Sweeney Todd in particular should come with an open mind to this month's edition at Palm Beach Dramaworks expecting a different spin on the material.
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:04AM[SHARE] 
