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…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:32AM[SHARE]Friday, March 10, 2017
Although Jerry Herman's music and lyrics come alive again in Riverside Theatre's production of Mame, there's something missing. The larger-than-life part of this production is not eccentric …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:06AM[SHARE]Saturday, March 4, 2017
The Wick Theatre in Boca Raton hopes that musicals connected to popular films will be an alluring draw in its fifth season, based on the three of the five titles it announced this week. But …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:18AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 2, 2017
The Kid From Brooklyn, a bio-musical about Danny Kaye at Broward Stage Door, is blessed with strong singers, likable performers, a peppy period score, a fine live band, a few touching moment…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:54AM[SHARE]Monday, February 27, 2017
While Infinite Abyss deserves praise for attempting the abysmal script for Love and Human Remains, they simply cannot force this intentionally bizarre journey rife with explicit sex, nudity,…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:32AM[SHARE]Saturday, February 25, 2017
When Elena Maria Garcia, one of the finest comediennes in the region, and Stuart Meltzer, one of the finest directors, team up to co-write Fuácata! (Or a Latina's Guide to Surviving the U…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 03:54PM[SHARE]Friday, February 24, 2017
Mad Cat Theatre's production of Vaclav Havel's one acts Protest and Audience draw uncomfortably relevant visions of repressive totalitarian society.
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 03:54PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 23, 2017
The tour of The Little Mermaid is engaging and enthusiastic playing at the Broward Center's Broadway Across America series. The problem is you likely will not understand 10 percent of the wo…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:24PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 21, 2017
Outré Theatre Company and Curtain Call Playhouse, two troupes that have played at many different venues, plus TheatreSouth, a fledgling African-American company, will have a new base of ope…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:12PM[SHARE]Saturday, February 18, 2017
Florida Theatrical Association has announced the Charlie Cinnamon Theater Scholarship in honor of longtime FTA board member and dean of South Florida publicity agents Charlie Cinnamon, who d…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:18PM[SHARE]Friday, February 17, 2017
Disgraced, bravely offered to the Maltz Jupiter Theatre's mainstream audience, is an incisive drama dissecting intersecting issues of ethnic identity, assimilation and especially persisting …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 02:06PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 16, 2017
Disgraced, a drama dissecting ethnic relations in post 9/11 America, already has become one of the most produced plays in regional theaters over the past three years. But the Maltz Jupiter T…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:48AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 15, 2017
Broward Stage Door's The Bris, The Bar Mitzvah and Beyond is an amusing afternoon mixing early Neil Simon-Woody Allen humor with a lengthy parade of serious issues ranging from father-son re…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:36PM[SHARE]Validation " the affirmation that what you valued and invested yourself in does matter " is one of the most powerfully effective facets of both entertainment and art. And that, we'll venture…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:24AM[SHARE]Monday, February 13, 2017
The rollout of 2017-2018 seasons continues with some South Florida theaters pushing the edge of their audience's cultural envelopes and others relying on reliable titles in an uncertain time…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:36AM[SHARE]Saturday, February 11, 2017
Take Noel Coward's sophisticated wit, add exquisite direction and elegant acting, then tie it up with visuals you could plotz for, and it's no wonder that Riverside Theatre's production of P…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 07:42PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 9, 2017
Real Women Have Curves turns out be a no-excuses-needed production that justified the confidence that Main Street Players' leaders had in evolving from a community theater into a professiona…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:54PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 8, 2017
The miracle of the Carousel when it's done well, as it is in this Actors Playhouse production, is that although it's 72 years old and its protagonists are a wife-beating ne'er-do-well and th…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:42PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 7, 2017
Hamilton, On Your Feet, The Lion King, and a host of major Broadway titles will tour South Florida's three major presenting houses over the next two seasons,
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:36AM[SHARE]Monday, February 6, 2017
Palm Beach Dramaworks' production of Collected Stories is not only one of the most affective and effective dramas seen in the region for many months, it offers a superb performance by a youn…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:03AM[SHARE]Sunday, February 5, 2017
Slow Burn Theatre has certainly captured Xanadu's vibe in the company's spirited, stupidly happy revival of its own 2012 production, which opened last weekend in Aventura and which will soon…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:48PM[SHARE]Saturday, February 4, 2017
Chicken Coop Theatre's production at the Levis JCC of Driving Miss Daisy is hardly among the most incisive nuanced editions you've seen of this oft-mounted warhorse, but the play itself is s…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:36AM[SHARE]Friday, February 3, 2017
Billy and Me, a world premiere by theater critic Terry Teachout about the difficult friendship of legendary playwrights William Inge and Tennessee Williams, will be one of the highlights in …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:36AM[SHARE]Monday, January 30, 2017
In a chilly sleek courtroom as clinical as a laboratory dissection tray, thousands of human lives, morality, principles and the law are piled on opposite pans of the scale " except it's not …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 01:54PM[SHARE]Sunday, January 29, 2017
This may be heresy, but maybe grand opera shouldn't always be so grand. Florida Grand Opera's current production of Tchaikovsky's romantic tragedy Eugene Onegin reportedly has a more intimat…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:32PM[SHARE]Saturday, January 28, 2017
The best art is a partnership between the creative mind and the viewer. That often requires the audience to expend some effort to get inside the artist's mind or ethos or style. Witness the …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 05:32PM[SHARE]Thursday, January 26, 2017
Most courtroom dramas metaphorically use the audience as a jury. But Terror, a German play receiving its U.S. premiere from Miami New Drama this week, literally requires the audience to vot…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:18PM[SHARE]By Pam Harbaugh The plates may be empty, but you leave having feasted on Riverside Theatre's satisfying production of An Empty Plate in the Cafe du Grand Boeuf. Written in 1994 by Michael Ho…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:36AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 25, 2017
The enduring genius of Titanic the Musical beautifully limned by Slow Burn Theatre Company is that while it arely nods at what's to come, it relies on the audience viewing the initial paeans…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:33AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 24, 2017
Turn of the century newsboys cavorting in Jupiter, Tarzan swinging across a Fort Lauderdale stage and Tony Manero swiveling his hips in Margate -- the 2017-2018 season for South Florida thea…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:24AM[SHARE]Sunday, January 22, 2017
Quirky denizens of Stephen Adly Guirgis' Between Riverside and Crazy strive to find second chances in GableStage's production.
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