Actors 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…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:27AMNearly everyone in the Palm Beach Dramaworks’ superb production of The History Boys is in love with unleashing flash floods of verbiage in an orgy of ideas illustrated by their addiction t…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 02:46PMThe Maltz Jupiter Theatre has successfully re-imagined Billy Eliot the Musical into winning edition that is more effective than the national company that toured South Florida a few seasons b…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 07:28PMProbably the last place you'd want to be after rehearsing with the same cast and crew for weeks, then knowing you're heading into a month-long run would be gathering at a table for Thanksgiv…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:37AMFrom the defiant, fierce and joyful opening phrases about a bastard immigrant destined to become “a hero and a scholar,” Hamilton proves itself an electrifying game changer in the world …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:38PMIt is long past time for theaters and theater patrons to come down hard on audience members who text, talk incessantly, photograph set designs, video production numbers, check messages from …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 07:56PMTheater buffs are the easiest people to shop for on your holiday list, as our Brad Hathaway proves in his annual roundup.
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:40AMAny production of Gypsy that spotlights Ann Marie Olson's golden voice n can be forgiven nearly anything. But otherwise, much of this production is as thin as the tinny tracks and high schoo…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 04:22PMA low-rent motel room on the edge of the Mojave Desert has never been more claustrophobic—nor more intense—than the shabby one in which three people collide against each other in Sam She…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:16AMNine people who have changed the face of South Florida culture will receive the South Florida Theatre League’s Remy Awards at the League’s annual holiday celebration on December 7 in For…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:26PMSusan J. Westfall’s Two Weekends and a Day at New Theatre is a classic example of a world premiere that has admirable virtues worth exploring further, but a serious need for more re-toolin…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 01:28PM“A blank page or canvas. So many… possibilities.” . –Stephen Sondheim’s Sunday in the Park With George By Bill Hirschman Like a spinning gem with an inf…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:33AMThinking Cap Theatre sets The Importance of Being Earnest in a madcap lampoon of New York City’s disco era. The urbane and farcical elements are irreconcilably at war, but each facet – o…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 03:08PMStart the clock, Florida. The moment tickets go on sale for the national tour of On Your Feet!, get on line. In fact, if you’re planning to be anywhere near the Big Apple, shell out the du…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 05:38PMEven the Bugs Bunny The Barber of Seville (which gets a subtle nod in Florida Grand Opera’s new outing) never featured the tenor and baritone-bass dueling with a plumber’s plunger and a …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:20PMBy Hap Erstein In the same way that Slow Burn Theatre Company’s artistic director Patrick Fitzwater has a good eye for spotting performance talent, he also is savvy at identifying worthy n…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:45PMImmersive technology goes a long way in elevating Topher Payne's Angry Fags at Island City Stage, but the play still suffers from elephantine pacing and a sense of crippling logorrhea. Yet t…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:42PMBy Keren Moros Special to Florida Theater On Stage Just because something isn’t a success at first, it doesn’t mean it can’t be a success later. Take Disney’s Newsies, a success stor…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:52AMThe first question that everyone wants answered is: Is it possible to buy Lee Roy Reams as Dolly Levi in The Wick Theatre’s Hello, Dolly! The answer is “sometimes.” The answer also dep…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:51PMIn Christopher Demos-Brown’s shattering world premiere Stripped at Zoetic Stage, the audience is faced with a complex child custody case is forced to judge past the surface facets of a cas…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 01:31PMThe classic 1952 crime play Dial M For Murder is a brilliantly-designed timepiece of plotting and dramatic construction. Unfortunately, Broward Stage Door’s barely serviceable production o…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:33AMWhat does a man profiteth if he gains technology and loses his artistic soul? And can romance survive ambition when the two collide? Those issues, along with scores of corollaries, swirl thr…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 04:40PMIt’s not a drag show. Broadway veteran Lee Roy Reams may become only the second man to play Dolly Levi in a sanctioned production of Hello, Dolly! when it bows this week at The Wick Theatr…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:57AMThe Mousetrap at the Maltz is indeed a hoary old chestnut chock full of clichéswhich weren’t even new when it bowed in 1952. But director Peter Amster and his cast wisely don’t try to …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:08PMVERO BEACH -- Good songs tell compelling stories. And after seeing Riverside Theatre’s stylish, smart and vivacious production of Swinging on a Star, you’ll think no one did it better th…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:09AMPublishing student reviews of high school theater is the cornerstone of a service from Florida Theater On Stage and the South Florida Critics and Awards Program, better known as The Cappies.
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:55PMWith this production of Big Fish, Slow Burn Theatre Company has proven itself with no asterisks to be the equal of any company producing musicals in the region, some with far more resources,…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 02:38PMAfter five years of staging its shows in a high school auditorium in West Boca, Slow Burn Theatre Company moves to the Broward Center for the Performing Arts with its season opener, the larg…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:20AMTwenty-seven theater artists and organizations will receive the eighth annual South Florida Silver Palm Theatre Awards honoring an outstanding or unique contribution,” the group announced …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:50PMSomewhere under the green slime encrusted set of The Toxic Avenger at Actors Playhouse, a nuclear plant must be melting down all China Syndrome like. That might explain the raw power emanati…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:01AM35MM and this production require some effort from the audience to meet it more than halfway. It is, as they say, not for everyone’s taste. But it does represent an intriguing example of th…
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