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]Friday, July 7, 2017
Merriment is a word we don't use much in the 21st Century, but that is the precise adjective to reflect the madcap abandon, tireless physical comedy and unflagging enthusiasm that makes a su…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 03:04PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 5, 2017
Minnie's Boys is a light comic highly homogenized version of how stage mother Minnie Marx utzed, kvetched and kibbitzed her five sons to transform from a doomed vaudeville singing group to, …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:04PM[SHARE]Monday, July 3, 2017
With Fireman Are Rarely Necessary, this world premiere of a socially satirical comedy falls solidly in the anarchic absurdist vibe with grunge icing championed by Mad Cat Theatre Company.
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:42PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 29, 2017
It's difficult to say if the music and lyrics of Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812 are noteworthy, but they are overwhelmed by a production and performances arguably beyond nearly …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:12PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 28, 2017
Caldwell Theatre co-founder Michael Hall, among the pioneers who transformed a fledgling theater scene focused on molding warhorses and built it into a vibrant regional force embracing chall…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:36PM[SHARE]For some reason, Six Degrees of Separation has fallen off the radar of regional theaters mounting semi-contemporary plays that depict and dissect the angsty zeitgeist of modern life. But the…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:36PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 21, 2017
The stage is a fungible place. Sets can transform, actors can fly, characters can break walls, especially the fourth. There is limitless potential in the blank canvas of floorboards and ligh…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:24PM[SHARE]The skill, power and imagination that Kevin Black, Ben Bagby and their colleagues have invested make Swing! Swing! Swing! as good or better than any other revue that Broward Stage Door has p…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:24PM[SHARE]Splendidly gorgeous to watch, the creativity of the staging is reason enough to embrace Finding Neverland at the Broward Center On a deeper level, though, there's something profoundly moving…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:24PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 14, 2017
Leave it to M Ensemble to teach an audience a bit of Black history in Pearl Cleage's Flyin' West , while entertaining the masses.
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:06PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 13, 2017
If you wonder what the term "coup de theatre" means, it's easier to illustrated it with a moment from the new Paula Vogel-Rebecca Taichman play Indecent.
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:24PM[SHARE]Monday, June 12, 2017
The final tear-inducing five minutes of Beauty and the Beast, if executed effectively as it is at The Wick Theatre production, is a good barometer of whether you're dead inside.
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:06AM[SHARE]Friday, June 9, 2017
In this dispiriting time of eroding international relations, the incisive play Oslo is both hearteningly optimistic and existentially pessimistic about human beings' ability to negotiate and…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:42PM[SHARE]Acknowledging that WWII vets also came home to challenges from their nightmarish service, the rousing new mainstream musical Bandstand has serious issues under the original score and heartfe…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:42PM[SHARE]Granted, a farce documenting the doomed efforts of a hapless British theater troupe already has been brilliantly explored in Noises Off. But there is hilarity yet to mine as evidenced by The…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:42PM[SHARE]The wobbly foundations of fledgling New City Players' production of David Auburn's reliable Proof are unlikely to impress seasoned theatergoers, especially those who have seen the play befo…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:42PM[SHARE]City Theatre's Summer Shorts, which only recently began showcasing musicals, includes three this year including one by Lin-Manuel Miranda.
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:42PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 30, 2017
Lots of news: South Florida Theatre League's free Summer Theatre Fest, Curtain Call Playhouse is honored, City Theatre's Margaret Ledford is promoted, Bruce Linser takes on a new job,and Pet…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 01:18PM[SHARE]Monday, May 29, 2017
One pleasure watching a drag show regardless of your sexual orientation is the vicarious joy of seeing people uncorset their secreted urges and find the liberating self-worth to parade it pu…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:12AM[SHARE]Friday, May 26, 2017
Infinite Abyss, which has produced some solid work like last season's Extremities, just falls flat this time out with Quills which reeks of amateurism.
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:48PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 25, 2017
The surprisingly delight-filled musical Groundhog Day is well worth seeing on Broadway but the script, music, lyrics and replicable staging (all Tony-nominated) are so strong, so inventive, …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:54AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 23, 2017
The temptation is to announce that 'a star is born' in Actors' Playhouse's production of the musical It Shoulda Been You. But that would be mildly insulting to the fact that Cindy Pearce has…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:06AM[SHARE]Monday, May 22, 2017
The MNM production of Monty Python's Spamalot is silly and stupid.
Thank goodness. This edition of one of the funniest musicals of the past couple of decades revels in, savors, exults, wal…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:12AM[SHARE]Saturday, May 20, 2017
Palm Beach Dramaworks' team finds the special vibe of Martin McDonagh's dark comedy set in an unforgiving climate of the heart in The Cripple of Inishmaan.
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 03:18PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 18, 2017
To avoid spoiling the specific emotional U-turns, all that veteran theatergoers need to know about The Cripple of Inishmaan opening at Palm Beach Dramaworks this month is that it's a classic…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 03:36PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 17, 2017
The din of cheering, hollering teenagers exploding Tuesday wasn't to applaud the appearance of a hip-hop celeb. Instead, the tumult in the Broward Center recognized excellence in 25 public …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:05PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 16, 2017
War Paint is primarily an opportunity to savor two of Broadway's reigning divas Ms. Patti Lupone and Ms. Christine Ebersole commanding the stage with overwhelming power in volume and skill. …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 04:48PM[SHARE]Sunday, May 14, 2017
Trump may have paraded his demeaning objectification of women by using the word pussy, but it's a word celebrated over and over in Thinking Cap Theatre's production of Collective Rage, A Pla…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 02:12PM[SHARE]Friday, May 12, 2017
Thinking Cap Theatre is presenting the Southeastern premiere of Jen Silverman's Collective Rage: A Play In Five Betties, a timely tale of feminism echoing last winter's women's march on Wash…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:36PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 10, 2017
Damaged by yet another homogenized film version of Rodgers & Hammerstein's work, few think of The King and I as a piece deeply focused on incipient feminism, international politics and …
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