Wednesday, September 7, 2022
An array of artists and administrators who have helped build South Florida into a nationally-recognized regional theater hub will receive the Carbonell Awards’ highest honors this fall. Am…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:03AMMonday, September 5, 2022
Bent deserves honor for putting recognizable human beings amid Hitler’s decimation of homosexuals during the Holocaust – and re-reminding the public of this horror. But rising above the …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:19PMSaturday, August 27, 2022
I am begging every critic colleague, everyone who has seen Actors’ Playhouse’s Now and Then to NOT give away anything! One of the many pleasures in this drama laced with humor is watchin…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 05:24PMFriday, August 26, 2022
Fade predictably indicts talent succumbing to ambition, but what's special is how the verbally intense script infuses an insider’s incisive depiction of a diversity within modern Latinx li…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 02:54PMTuesday, August 23, 2022
Area Stage's Giancarlo Rodaz’s visionary, deeply moving new production is still Beauty and the Beast, but it’s as radical a restaging as John Doyle’s Sweeney Todd.
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SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:48AMMonday, August 15, 2022
Miami-Dade County’s long-aborning plan to resurrect the historic Coconut Grove Playhouse is once again underway at full throttle after navigating a complex maze of legal challenges that en…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 05:24PMSunday, August 7, 2022
More current than the classic AIDS plays written three decades ago, Donja R. Love’s 'one in two' examines the challenges of with HIV-positive when talk shows have ads for pills that make t…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 03:54PMSaturday, July 30, 2022
Eytan Deray’s courageous world premiere Educating Asher at Empire Stage – courageous not only because it has been drawn from the marrow of his being as playwright, but courageous because…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 04:54PMSaturday, July 23, 2022
Main Street Players struggles bravely to conquer Lee Blessing's satire on race and privilege in Black Sheep, but stumbles on tonal uncertainty. and fails to reach the script's potential.
The…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:33PMMonday, July 18, 2022
So when the political player at the center of a 1978 musical is a conscienceless, ambitious, charismatic and manipulative “populist” with a media background, 2022 audiences should be for…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:48PMSunday, July 17, 2022
A raft of country classics are interspersed in this clear-eyed yet affectionate bio-musical Hank Williams: Lost Highway at Actors Playhouse tracking the rise and collapse of the music legend…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 01:54PMFriday, July 15, 2022
In the 84-year-old Ruben Rabasa, a tall skinny but gnome-like looking creature brimming with life and humor, GableStage audiences are treated to a wild and quirky interaction with this winni…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 04:48PMMonday, July 11, 2022
Rarely has the immigrants’ connection to their past and future been so fully realized in a passionate embrace as in this premiere of Papá Cuatro at Miami New Drama. It is, by turns, alter…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:42PMFriday, July 8, 2022
Darius Daughtry and Grace Arts Center reimagine The Merchant of Venice in 1940s Fort Lauderdale to examine tensions when when infighting exists within the African American community.
The pos…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:33AMThursday, July 7, 2022
The play "Are You There, Bette Davis?" written and directed by Uruguayan Domingo Milesi is a centerpiece of the 36th International Hispanic Theatre Festival of Miami this month, featuring si…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 02:37PMThe cuatro, a small quintessential Venezualan instrument four-string guitar, is the focus of Papá Cuatro, Miami New Drama’s world premiere, opens. The director describes it as “somethin…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 02:37PMMonday, June 27, 2022
The world premiere in Miami of Borrowed examines with emotion and specificity the lasting tragic damage of father-son and son-father relationships that imploded years earlier. With copious v…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:18AMTuesday, June 21, 2022
The upcoming seasons listed here are as variedas anyone could plan with time-tested bets and works so new that no one knows what to expect. GableStage's Bari Newport spent months juggling a …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:18AMFriday, June 17, 2022
Carbonells name three high school students to receive its Jack Zink Scholarships ; Palm Beach Dramaworks, Darius V. Daughtry and Thinking Cap Theatre kick off play readings on stage and onli…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 07:12PMTuesday, June 14, 2022
In the charming, big-hearted Broadway musical, Head Over Heels, Slow Burn Theatre Company delivers a visually striking, lively, and credible production.
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SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:54PMMonday, June 13, 2022
Andy Rogow is the director of Island City Stage’s The Mystery of Irma Vep, but were he a less humble man, he might also take the title of chief illusionist or conjurer. For the production …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 01:48PMFriday, June 10, 2022
Thinking Cap Theatre returns to producing live on stage works that challenge the mind with Maria Irene Fornes' Fefu and her Friends, a densely packed contemplation on feminism, gender stereo…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:03PMWednesday, June 8, 2022
Eric Garcia, musician-storyteller, deliver an one-man autobiographical immersive experience through Juggerknot Theatre Company in his "The Blues Opera" is Miami.
The post Immersive ‘The B…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 03:06PMLike death and taxes, one of the few truly dependable things in life is that the venerable Summer Shorts from City Theatre is going to be a satisfying mix of light comedy with a few mildly s…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:54PMMonday, June 6, 2022
As death and grieving surround us, Joan Didion’s play at GableStage, The Year of Magical Thinking, is guaranteed to be uncomfortable, even upsetting. But that should not dissuade you. Her …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:37PMWednesday, May 25, 2022
BREAKING NEWS: The 45th annual Carbonell Awards gala has been moved a week to Nov. 7 so as not to conflict with a Celebration of Life scheduled to honor the late South Florida theater legend…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:12PMMonday, May 23, 2022
Palm Beach Dramaworks' The Belle of Amherst reveal Emily Dickinson not as the reclusive constricted old maid you perceived in American Lit class a, but as a deeply passionate and joy-radiat…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:36AMSunday, May 22, 2022
Do not go to Actors’ Playhouse’s Murder on the Orient Express expecting the grim locked-room mystery at the heart of the films or the novel. This 2017 edition is penned by the playwrigh…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:36AMFriday, May 20, 2022
A sign of recovery in theater, the Carbonell Awards have announced a firm date and location for the live resumption of the annual recognition of excellence in South Florida theater. “Theat…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:24AMThursday, May 19, 2022
After its January re-opening production of Carousel was cut short by Covid, the Riverside Theatre in Vero Beach re-re-opened its season on May 10 with a splendid production of Almost Heaven:…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:24AMWednesday, May 18, 2022
Those who believe that theater is dying would have seen a vibrantly healthy future Tuesday when hundreds upon hundreds upon hundreds of teenagers and their families and friends cheered and …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:06PM 
