Jon 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…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:07AMIf only for the opportunity to enjoy Aaron Bower inhabiting a role she was born to play, we’d urge you to see the Wick Theatre’s revival of the updated Cole Porter musical Anything Goes…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:53PMEver wondered what a blazing comet looks like a few yards from your face? Visit the Broward Center to catch the national tour of Tina, fa huge fireball smashing through the backwall powering…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 07:30PMTrue, there’s not particularly buff former factory workers stripping down to G-strings, pumping and grinding in a ladies’ bar, but The Full Monty is the kind of pleasant mainstream musi…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:45AMAmerican Rhapsody, Michael McKeever’s sprawling premiere at Zoetic Stage, is a history play, a bildungsroman, a tribute to fluid families, a cautionary tale about where the zeitgeist might…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:55AMIt’s really unfair to single out anyone in this outstanding ensemble, but Gabriell Salgado – the young local actor whose work over the past 15 months has been stunning — is terrific as…
SOURCE: cruz-directed-anna-in-the-tropics-melds-prosaic-and-poesy at 02:28PMMiami New Drama’s triumphant 20-year-anniversary production of Nilo Cruz’s Pulitzer-winning Anna in the Tropics., directed by Cruz, enables us to see ourselves and all around us more cle…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 05:39PMThe Maltz Jupiter Theatre’s Sweet Charity is a thorughly well-produced and inarguably entertaining time machine back to when the musical was created in 1966 and when the cutting-edge danc…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 03:17PMThe drama Anna in the Tropics, about a family of Cuban-American cigar makers in Ybor City near Tampa in 1929, has now turned 20, and Miami New Drama is presenting a production directed by i…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:59AMEvil thrives when good people, normal people, do nothing. This banality of evil provides the crux of playwright David Meyers’ incisive play We Will Not Be Silent, receiving a bold, powerfu…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 05:07PMTime alone often brings out moments of self-doubt; of deep, endless grief; questions of what ifs and should haves that crop up in the middle of the night—so skillfully explored in Boca Sta…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:26AMWith its soul-stirring theme ,” the musical Man of La Mancha is the ideal choice for Riverside Theatre to reflect on how it has triumphed over adversity.This abundantly satisfying producti…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:04PMD.T. Max got Stephen Sondheim to reveal glimpses of his work process in five "interviews" but clearly, Max is almost as crucial, at least to him, for what’s in this book as what Sondheim s…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:09PMQuite a come back year: World premieres, epic musicals, moving two-character dramas, you name it. Here's not so much a “best of the year” list – no such list can be reliable or complet…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 07:54PMIt has been said that this New York production of Into the Woods merging heart, humor, energy and imagination is better than the original. But that’s not the case; it is it’s own vision …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:48PMA hallmark of Slow Burn Theatre Company is its knack in finding new, mostly young talent and shaping those performers’ creativity. That approach—and this current round of talent—are on…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:18AMLeopoldstadt's breathtaking scene of a family's debate whether to flee the Third Reich -- ended by a knock on the door -- is only one facet in Tom Stoppard's borderline masterpiece that trac…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 05:48PMIn Aesop’s Fable-ous Christmas Tree at Main Street Players, Aesop’s fables receive a holiday spin in vignettes illuminating important life lessons by reinventing the classic fables. Humo…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:06AMCharm bubbles throughout the Wick Theatre’s lush production of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella, a very 21st Century riff on the classic musical that can legitimately be promoted as …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:54PMA baker’s dozen actors we’ve seen in myriad roles over the past decade or more submerge themselves so deeply in their characters that they are nearly unrecognizable. An unequalled assemb…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 01:06PMA tattoo of a sea serpent is playwright Lucas Hnath’s damning metaphor for the grip of ambition to the point that betrayal of anyone is an accepted expedient in the scathing Red Speedo fr…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 03:18PMThat every hero and heroine in The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee is a misfit we secretly recognize from the bathroom mirror explains how this musical has thrived 17 years. Add to su…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:24AMIn the 21st Century, the adjective “merry” has fallen out of use except in conjunction with a holiday. But “merry” is precisely the right word to describe the brew of warmth and humo…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:03PMThe contradictions of what we say the Constitution is, what we want it to be, and what it really is, what it really does are at the heart of one of the most timely and important pieces of t…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:06PMThe circus has come to town with A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum at the Maltz Jupiter Theatre. In this time of upheaval and uncertainty, sometimes what you need is a dose of s…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 01:54PMWhile the younger audience at & Juliet is beyond delighted how more than 30 beloved 21st Century standards were slipped into the plot, you don’t have to have a scintilla of familiarity…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:36PMActors and other artists are huddling at Palm Beach Dramaworks in preparation for a timely revival of 12 Angry Men that looks at interpersonal interplay as well as justice. The post Justice…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:36AMThe newest edition of Death of a Salesman emanates an unique vibe, not simply because the Loman family is African-American. Racial overtones inarguably add an extra topspin on the socio-econ…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 02:32PMHas the mega-hit musical Hamilton lost its sheen since it opened in 2015 before embarking on tours? It has not. Now playing at the Broward Center, this rendition actually is a stronger produ…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 05:32PMIn a time when so much theater and film seem dependent on sling-shots of unexpected left turns there’s a quiet life-affirming pleasure in a work that follows precisely the arc you expect …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:12PMElvis, Carl, Johnny and Jerry Lee return for the Million Dollar Quartet Christmas at Actors' Playhouse with the same virtues and flaws as the previous editions: impressive musicians with wi…
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