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 …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:54PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 9, 2017
So much news: GableStage and Zoetic Stage announcing their new season with titles like The Humans and Fun Home, MNM announces partnership with the Kravis, Conundrum Stages returns to tour. E…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:42AM[SHARE]Saturday, May 6, 2017
Revelation after revelation " none of which the playwright wants us to spoil " are exposed like the proverbial peeling of an onion until the underlying secret lays naked in the world premier…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:02AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 4, 2017
Broward Stage Door's production of the musical Nine, based on Fellini's 8 1/2, is a fine evening of exuberant music and even more soaring voices.
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:48PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 3, 2017
Opera is all about technique, spotlighting it, honoring it, celebrating it. So when Florida Grand Opera took on one of the most demanding works in the entire canon, Verdi's A Masked Ball, it…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:06PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 2, 2017
A worn-out Hillary Clinton balked at putting on makeup before her first major address since the election. An alien queen who owns a pop-up bar came to claim its dead lounge singer. One play…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:31AM[SHARE]Sunday, April 30, 2017
Matilda the Musical, with a national tour that's made a stop at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts in Fort Lauderdale, may star a cadre of kids, but it is no Annie. I say that in the…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:54AM[SHARE]Saturday, April 29, 2017
(The following is an updated review from 2012 plus a feature story written about this same production's original visit to the Arsht four years ago. Most of the cast is the same, but se…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 01:12AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 27, 2017
Beehive, yet another innocuous transitorily entertaining revue tracing music sung by women through the 1960s, highlights, intentionally or not, one trenchant observation. The same early Baby…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:54PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 25, 2017
If American Idol produced a Broadway musical with choreography often found behind a diva in a stadium tour, the result would resemble Slow Burn Theatre Company's production of Aida. The resu…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:12PM[SHARE]Saturday, April 22, 2017
In Waiting For Godot, that classic of the Theater of the Absurd, nothing is more absurd than Man's insistent search for some meaning in life. In Evening Star Productions' courageous run at t…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 02:06PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 20, 2017
There have been few musicals about a homicidal maniac. As far as peppy musical comedies with the accent on comedy, there's only been one about a schizophrenic serial killer, No Way To Treat …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:06PM[SHARE]Saturday, April 15, 2017
Jordan Harrison's Marjorie Prime at Main Street Players posits 21st Century technology giving people a chance to say what was left unsaid, to finish unfinished business. The insightful scrip…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:24AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 11, 2017
Just about two years after Island City Stage premiered Michael McKeever's Daniel's Husband and it currently playing off Broadway, Island City Stage takes on another world premiere play that …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:06AM[SHARE]Saturday, April 8, 2017
The future of the 24-Hour Theatre Project " a popular fund-raiser that cemented the theater community's solidarity " seemed endangered when its founders, the Amadeos, announced they would be…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:02AM[SHARE]Monday, April 3, 2017
Michael McKeever, a beloved and prolific figure in local theater, set a record Monday when he won his eighth Best New Work at Monday's Carbonell Awards for the scorching drama After, but he …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:31PM[SHARE]Palm Beach Dramaworks' production of Arcadia is Tom Stoppard's love letter to the miracle of human intelligence's pursuit of learning -- with a gentle jab at the hubris of those who are so t…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:12AM[SHARE]Saturday, April 1, 2017
Zoetic Stage's brilliantly-executed bravura production of Harold Pinter's 1960 The Caretaker may be as baffling as Waiting For Godot. But every element of this comic drama is superb from act…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:42AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 30, 2017
Niki Fridh gives a tour de force performance under Nicole Stodard's direction in Grounded at Thinking Cap Theatre
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:06PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 29, 2017
When idea-hungry audiences at Palm Beach Dramaworks who have cheered Ionesco and Albee are faced with something less challenging, some complain to Producing Artistic Director William Hayes t…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:31PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 28, 2017
Dry Powder, GableStage's excoriating tour that delves into the barren ethical landscape of big business is an unsparing drama whose copious humor comes from one character's blithely limitles…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 04:42PM[SHARE]Saturday, March 25, 2017
Although the Actors' Playhouse folks are working very hard to master this Everest of a play, All The Way, about Lyndon Johnson's campaign to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964, this time they…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 01:32PM[SHARE]Friday, March 24, 2017
Merman. Lupone. Daly. Lansbury. Taking not a scintilla away from those iconic performances, you have never seen a Mama Rose like the one Vicki Lewis incarnates in Maltz Jupiter Theatre's uni…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 02:03PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 22, 2017
If there is a corner of Heaven reserved for musical theater nerds who know Stephen Sondheim's middle name, likely one stage is rotating The Drowsy Chaperone, [title of show] and, as proven b…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:48PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 21, 2017
Once it gets going, Miami New Drama's A Special Day, is a hallmark of wily invention and Brechtian artifice, a celebration of theater's ability to create something from nothing in front of o…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:36AM[SHARE]Monday, March 20, 2017
The true-life narrative in Before Night Falls is profoundly powerful and undeniably affecting: Reinaldo Areneas, the gay Cuban poet, inspired by the beauty of the island but brutally oppress…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:12AM[SHARE]Sunday, March 19, 2017
Classic American values of friendship, tolerance, freedom and a sense of subversive independence are lovingly and joyously resurrected in Slow Burn Theatre Company's Big River, a revival-lik…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:36AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 16, 2017
When a theater revives the musical Gypsy as the Maltz Jupiter Theatre is doing this month, there is always the ghost in the room. So the challenge for director Marcia Milgrom Dodge and her f…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:02AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 14, 2017
One quiet fear of frequent theatergoers is that some well-meaning troupe will bungle a piece they love and override precious memories with mediocrity. Well, breathe easier. The Wick Theatre…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:12AM[SHARE]Sunday, March 12, 2017
Blood may be thicker than water, but Brothers of the Dust at M Ensemble asks whether it's thicker than land or greed or, crucially, dreams. M Ensemble presented this family drama three years…
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