35MM 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…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:51PMBy Bill Hirschman South Florida theaters still mount familiar warhorses, but the 2015-2016 season is proof that companies realize the future of theater is to attract pre-retirement audiences…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:30AMThese are not at all necessarily what we predict will be the best shows this season (although they may be) or the best attended or the most popular or the most award-winning. We don’t care…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:30AMThe writing seems a little sharper, the direction more incisive and the acting a bit more credible at Pigs Do Fly Productions' new Flying High. Some of the playlets still are a bit lamer tha…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:51AMWith its novelistic heft, lumbering pace and large cast, the 1953 Picnic is a product of its time. But rather than reproduce a propulsive Picnic for impatient 21st century audiences, Palm Be…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 05:10PMThe Wick Theatre's production of A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum benefits from Stephen Sondheims's score and lyrics, but the cast and director need to inject more vaudevillian…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 01:13PMAwash in issues of Arab-American assimilation and Anglo antipathy, GableStage's Disgraced is the classic contemporary example of the topical, thought-provoking drama that forces you to reval…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 01:13PMFolksy, intimate, and warmly fulfilling, the national tour of the musical Once is as intoxicating as a shot of Irish whiskey. The buzz remains long after the hummable Falling Slowly reprise …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 01:13PMDan Kelley, the tall rubber-faced actor-director who has been a fixture in South Florida musicals for nearly 30 years, has been named artistic director of Broward Stage Door.
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 01:13PMIf you like your theater schematic, clear-cut and requiring little cogitation, you will absolutely hate A Map of Virtue. But if you don’t mind wrestling with a production while it’s unde…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:39AMBroward Stage Door’s earnest intriguing revival of Promises, Promises embraces its up-to-the-moment pop score for 1968, a witty and insightful script, frenetic choreography that caught th…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:22AMBy Bill Hirschman It’s Stephen Sondheim redux for veteran Broadway actor Ken Jennings, although a bit backwards. It might seem a long, long stretch for the man who created the mentally cha…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:31AMThe surprisingly impressive bow of the new Marquee Theater Company with its production of the pop musical Aida is notable for, among other things, the professional debut of its star, Alexand…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:54PMKiller Joe, playwright Tracy Letts’ 1993 debut writ large in feral violence and bottomless venality, is such a powerful brew of toxicity that the script carries along an uneven production …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 07:25PMNot meaning disrespect to local producers, but the founders of the new Marquee Theater Company opening its second show this weekend in Boca Raton argue that there is no need to go to New Yor…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:52AMTheatre Lab, a professional venture specializing in new, developing and thought-provoking work, has opened as the resident company based at Florida Atlantic University under the leadership o…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 02:46PMFor those among us who enjoy going deeper than what's presented on the surface, Annie Baker's The Aliens from Alliance Theatre will be a treat. For others, the silences and pacing will be an…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:28AMJan McArt's New Play Reading Series at Lynn University, which mounts staged readings of new plays in progress by local authors opens another season this fall with four works.
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:46AMThe charismatic Jan McArt may be one of crucial developers of South Florida's cultural past as creator of the mainstream Royal Palm Dinner Theatre, but her focus today is firmly on its futur…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:46AMGallery of photos of Jan McArt and productions at the Royal Palm Dinner Theatre
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:46AMWhat is endlessly worth examining and celebrating is how human beings cope with tragedy and what that says about who we are, what we are capable of and some insightful guidance on how our so…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:13PMThe crucial test for whether a production of The Fantasticks truly succeeds, as Broward Stage Door’s does, is the last few minutes. If it’s been a little while since you saw the show liv…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:31PMSituated in Riverside Park along the scenic Indian River, Riverside Theatre may reside in a sub-tropical paradise, but it is a professional regional theater known for its Broadway-quality sh…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:58PMThe collision of two never-subtle art forms in Bed and Sofa is certainly intriguing as befits Outré Theatre Company’s mission of fearlessly pushing the boundaries of theater, thanks in pa…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 04:40PMIn Thinking Cap Theatre’s Waiting For Waiting For Godot, the absurdity of life is moved from the center stage spotlight of Samuel Beckett’s play in progress to the dingy dark wings where…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 02:38PMPalm Beach Dramaworks’ upcoming Dramalogue - Talking Theatre! series of talks about theater will feature conversations with three major names: veteran musical director Paul Gemignani, who …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:08PMPerhaps if Rent hadn't eclipsed everything that arrived in New York stage in 1996, maybe Bed and Sofa would have received the attention it deserved, in the eyes of Skye Whitcomb who is direc…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:28PMJack Zink, the theater critic and arts writer who co-founded the Carbonell Awards nearly 40 years ago, was honored this month when the organization named its scholarship awards after him. Th…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:32PMStop what you’re doing. Really. Go online right now and reserve tickets to see Ground Up and Rising’s harrowing and moving Vincent River, inarguably one of the best productions of the se…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 01:31PMIn Mad Cat Theatre Company’s world premiere of Lazy Fair, Theo Reyna’s drily funny treatise on greed, Money – or actually The Spirit of Money – droll deadpan humor suffuses this spo…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 07:57PMAfter seeing seven shows in a week this summer, the overarching lesson that the venerable Shaw festival in Canada has to teach South Florida theaters is jazz.
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