Fine talent, stirring music and Slow Burn Theatre's enthusiasm elevate the musical Violet, but the material has consistent void somewhere deep down in this musical's emotional investment.
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:02PMGableStage has produced a version Terrrence McNally's satire about theater, It's Only A Play, that is funnier and has far more heart than the Broadway edition.
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:04AMFlorida Grand Opera's infrequently mounted Norma, a marathon challenge for sopranos, is a superbly executed triumph that melds technical mastery and gut-wrenching emotion.
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 01:10PMThe scruffy damaged denizens of New Orleans’ underclass depicted in the musical The Journey: The Story of Your Life really only have one dimension and the subtlety of a freight train, but,…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 02:26PMRonald Harwood's script and Chicken Coop Theatre's production of Taking Sides supposedly even-handed look at art and politics isn't very subtle for most of the play, but it does have two sol…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:15AMIsland City Stage gives the first full performance of Michael Leeds' Who Killed Joan Crawford, a comedy mystery about male friends invited to a birthday party dressed as Crawford characters.…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:01PMNews items about Palm Beach Dramaworks, Barry University, City Theatre, FAU's Theatre Project
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 04:08PMMiami New Drama's musical The Golem of Havana melds warm comedy and profound tragedy in an intriguing, sometimes moving, often thought-provoking evening. It encompasses the Holocaust, the Ca…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:27PMArea Stage Company delivers an unsettling, thought-provoking evening with its musings on the implication of an unbridled Internet of the future in The Nether.
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:31PMGina Gionfriddo’s Rapture, Blister, Burn is rooted in an wry examination of post-feminism. But Zoetic Stage’s finely wrought comedy-drama goes much farther and deeper in examining the co…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:34PMThe Maltz Jupiter Theatre's pull-out-the-stops revival is about as lush and entertaining a rendition as anyone could hope for and benefits immeasurably from Matt Loehr in the title role.
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:45AMThe Jazz Singer: The Musical never really takes its audience back in time, but has a false feeling that we're watching actors put on a play. But there are reasons this production at the Will…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 07:55AMThree epic productions stretching the resources of their companies are among the musicals vying to collect the most gold in the 40th anniversary edition of the Carbonell Awards recognizing e…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:22PMComplete list of nominations for the 2015 Carbonell Awards and county, theater and show breakdown analysis
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:22PMBecause they write what they know, the five playwrights of Punchline Theatre Company’s #Unhappy Hour provide another peek into the evolving saga of Millennials in America in the 21st Centu…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 04:14PMIn the end, the success of the Wick Theater's South Pacific is something so obvious and simple: It’s the music, the glorious Rodgers and Hammerstein score and lyrics delivered by a talente…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:32AMThe latest edition of Diva Diaries about three aging drag performers lands inconsistently – sometimes entertaining or moving, other times feeling thin, perfunctory and artificial. But it;s…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:42PMThere’s more than one singular sensation in Riverside Theatre’s thrilling production of A Chorus Line. It takes that heady combination of Michael Bennett’s choreography and Marvin Ham…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 07:54AMBoth Sides of a Famous Love Affair - The Jackie Mason Musical, the semi-autobiographical comedy about a young South Florida woman whose affair with the famed comedian results in a love child…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:57PMFrom the sequin-bright sparkle to the propulsive power of the 20th Century Limited, the new national tour of 42nd Street at the Kravis on Broadway series is a polished, energizing and thorou…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 04:01PMBy Bill Hirschman Pompadour, the new musical subtitled Hits, Harmony and Hairspray bowing at Broward Stage Door, is what it is and is what it wants to be. So the question that only you can a…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:22AMThis is the power of the play King Charles III: Six weeks after seeing it, I found myself at intermission of a local show last weekend still raving about it to other audience members. So muc…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 02:19PMHow do you solve a problem of taking a 56-year old American musical classic and making it fresh for a modern audience? If you're director Jack O'Brien, you lovingly dust the tarnish off of T…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:01PM2015 produced a wild variety of snapshots to paste in the theatrical scrapbooks: a male Dolly Levi, a possibly homicidal dimwit slicing carrots, the heartbreaking consequence of passing on g…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:22PMThe tour of Dr. Seuss’ How The Grinch Stole Christmas is a reliable litmus test of just how deep into or disaffected you are with the holiday spirit. This definitively children’s musi…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 02:51AMAllegiance, the story of a Japanese-American family rent apart by their internment in World War II, has the potential to be a great play. Unfortunately, it’s a musical.
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:47PMMarquee Theater Company’s production of Jason Robert Brown’s Songs For A New World slices open the studied flat affect of the “Whatever” generation to expose inner lives as vibrant, …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:42AMLots of news items about Arts Radio Network, FAU’s Theatre Lab, Island City Stage, New Theatre, South Florida Theatre League, Lost Girls Theatre, and Cultural Council of Palm Beach Cou…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 05:04PMIf you thought you felt the pillars of the regional theatrical world shake violently this week, you weren’t wrong. Christine Dolen, the nationally-respected theater critic and arts journal…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:38PMThe national tour of Kinky Boots was a well-polished evening of musical comedy with soulful ballads and glitzy production numbers, but this construction felt so manipulative, so by-the-numbe…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:56AMActors Playhouse's production of The Trial of Ebenezer Scrooge has a talented cast working hard under the direction of David Arisco, but good grief, what a waste of the resources of Mark Bro…
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