Michael Jackson never appears in the incisive Defacing Michael Jackson, although his influence is infused into the journey at Miami New Drama stage. But Aurin Squire’s insightful tale re…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:08PMIf you’re younger than Boomers and wonder what it felt like seeing a musical in the 1950s, or if you’re older and you yearn for what you saw in the 1950s, then take full advantage of the…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:34AMYou’ll probably love Pretty Woman: The Musical if you adored the 1990 hit movie that launched Julia Roberts’ career. The story about a hooker who lands a fabulously rich guy and lives ha…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:40PMDesigning Broadway, by Derek McLain and Eila Mell, Running Press (Hatchette Book Group), 272 pages; list price $45, $33.20 Amazon, used copies $30. By Bill Hirschman As a rule, responsibl…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:00AMThe strength and vulnerability of non-sexual but emotionally intimate friendships are not focuses in 20th Century theater. But in works written by a new generation of playwrights, these rela…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:46AMCemetery Pub, a play in its second production by playwright-actor Tom Dugan at Pigs Do Fly Productions, is a mash-up of multiple genres as three relatives hash out troubled pasts and an unce…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 04:30PMThe intense and dense cyclonic swirl of ideas expertly delivered in GableStage’s production of Lucas Hnath’s A Doll’s House Part 2 is the theatrical embodiment of “thought-provoking…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:00AMThose needing a good hearty laugh will find the right medicine in Riverside Theatre’s achingly hilarious production of A Comedy of Tenors. The show is awash with impeccable split-second t…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:24AMThe path we take in life and the place we end up – how much of that is a matter of luck, socio-economic circumstance, and how much is a matter of choices ? The insight-laden Good People at…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:00AMIf you’ve got a competent, committed team as the Broadway at series does for 42nd Street, you’re nearly guaranteed a rousing gift of pure hallelujah as the love of musical theater grows …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:07PMPart 4 of a 4-part in-depth series tracking South Florida theater’s arc of paralysis and pivot through the pandemic and into the future, certainties becoming uncertain, and an unquenched d…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:00AMPart 3 of a 4-part in-depth series tracking South Florida theater’s arc of paralysis and pivot through the pandemic and into the future, certainties becoming uncertain, and an unquenched d…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:40AMPart 2 of a 4-part in-depth series tracking South Florida theater’s arc of paralysis and pivot through the pandemic and into the future, certainties becoming uncertain, and an unquenched d…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:38AMPart 1 of a 4-part in-depth series tracking South Florida theater’s arc of paralysis and pivot through the pandemic and into the future, certainties becoming uncertain, and an unquenched d…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:35AMSo much has been written about Wicked—now 20 years on Broadway and making its umpteenth stop in South Florida—it seems like defying gravity to find something fresh to say about this popu…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:50PMPart 3 of a 4-part in-depth series tracking South Florida theater’s arc of paralysis and pivot through the pandemic and into the future, certainties becoming uncertain, and an unquenched d…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:00AMArea Stage's Giancarlo Rodaz’s visionary, deeply moving new production of Beauty and the Beast, a near identical production as it mounted last summer, but with two new leads, is as radica…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 04:52PMBoca Stage's Grand Horizons has A-list cast for an unusual mélange of considerable domestic comedy intersecting with serious themes about aging, dreams deferred and unrequited yearning. The…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:59PMM Ensemble Company revives the 1972 award-winning The River Niger capturing a crossroads in Black life in America with a depiction of passionate, intelligent people debating diametrically op…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:24PMPart 2 of a 4-part in-depth series tracking South Florida theater’s arc of paralysis and pivot through the pandemic and into the future, certainties becoming uncertain, and an unquenched d…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:00AMA newly revised version of the classic musical Peter Pan, plus a bio-musical about Cher, plus a couple shows you’ve might have heard about Hamilton and Les Misérables are among the offeri…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:01AMThe tour of the musical Tootsie, which makes large changes from the film, isn’t a deep show and falls short of scoring points in the battle between the sexes. But it sure is fun. The post …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 02:33PMPart 1 of a 4-part in-depth series tracking South Florida theater’s arc of paralysis and pivot through the pandemic and into the future, certainties becoming uncertain, and an unquenched d…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:00AMFrom Slow Burn Theatre Company’s brass-unleashed overture with a live band, to an ebullient cast, to winning music and witty lyrics, this musical version of the film Honeymoon in Vegas is …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:25PMEscape to Margaritaville at Actors' Playhouse accomplishes what its title suggests. Specifically, the show conjures the kind of laid-back escape during which you might sport a hat and sungla…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:00AMIf the 1920s gave birth to The Lost Generation, then the 2020s saw the taking root of The Trapped Generation. Palm Beach Dramaworks’ premiere of Carter W. Lewis' The Science of Leaving Oma…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 07:37PMFrom F-bombs to high-brow discourse, Riverside Theatre’s absorbing Bakersfield Mist provokes and expands boundaries of what we know about the power of art and broader meanings of authentic…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 01:46PMIn movies, “ordinary people” facing a dystopian challenge miraculously find courage and composure. We would be more like the extended family slowly coming unglued in Theatre Lab’s prem…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:18PMIs anything as entertaining as watching a pack of scoundrels maneuvering to snatch from each other what isn’t theirs to begin with? Puccini certainly thought not, as does composer Michael …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:43PMSomething old, something new; something borrowed, something blue. Well, not much blue, but Palm Beach Dramaworks, Maltz Jupiter Theatre & Slow Burn Theatre have announced 2023-24 season …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:00AMJon Brittain’s prescient, abundantly insightful play Rotterdam at Island City Stage, captures the messy, shattering fallout from gender fluidity for the transgender person as well as their…
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