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Sunday, January 26, 2025

LPAC’s 9 To 5 Will Have You Laughing In The D4ive Home by Bill Hirschman

Broadway LPAC’s season is off to a clack, the clacking of a typewriter because of the entertaining 9 to 5 The Musical. The post LPAC’s 9 To 5 Will Have You Laughing In The D4ive Home fir…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 02:32PM
Saturday, January 25, 2025

‘To Life 5’ Proves A Worthy Successor at the Willow Theatre by Bill Hirschman

Just like “To Life,” the Fiddler on the Roof song that it’s named for, To Life 5 at the Willow Theatre is a celebration of the Jewish people, the latest in the ongoing series.. The pos…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 04:24PM
Thursday, January 23, 2025

Superb Cast & Direction Triumph In Island City’s Complex, Challenging A Delicate Balance by Bill Hirschman

A nameless terror has upended the fragile homeostasis in Agnes and Tobias’ carefully-ordered uppercrust existence, all the more frightening because its anonymity makes it uncomfortably uni…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:18PM
Tuesday, January 21, 2025

2025 Remy Awards Recognize Service to SoFla Theater by Bill Hirschman

The 2025 Remy Awards recognizing outstanding service of theater professionals who work behind the scenes and in the theater community have been announced by the of the South Florida Theatre …

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:36PM
Monday, January 20, 2025

Boca Stage’s Living on Love Is Lightweight But Full-Throttle Fun by Bill Hirschman

Living on Love at Boca Stage aims for full-throttle fun. It has no truck with deeper meanings or intellectual stimulation. The post Boca Stage’s Living on Love Is Lightweight But Full-Thro…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:32AM
Saturday, January 18, 2025

Mystic Pizza Offers A Slice of Fun at Riverside Theatre by Bill Hirschman

Snowbirds from the northeast will find a slice of home in Riverside Theatre’s infectiously fun jukebox musical production of Mystic Pizza. But here’s any issue with any jukebox musical:.…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:42AM
Friday, January 17, 2025

Maltz Jupiter’s Staged Frozen Musical Is Disney Turned To Gold by Bill Hirschman

How superb is the Maltz Jupiter Theatre;s newest production? Just ask the opening night audience of Frozen the Broadway Musical, who were on their feet cheering well before Elsa and Anna san…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:54AM
Thursday, January 16, 2025

“Life is Less Terrible” With My Old Lady at West Boca Theatre by Bill Hirschman

Rarely does a play come along where ieach character has a clearly defined story arc, or narrative path. Such is not the case with My Old Lady at West Boca Theatre Company, because when the f…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:48PM

Palm Beach Dramaworks Unveils Five Developing Titles You Definitely Have Not Seen by Bill Hirschman

Over the next few months, Palm, Beach Dramaworks and Theatre Lab based at FAU will be producing full productions and public readings that will give playwrights a chance to spot where to fine…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:12AM
Wednesday, January 15, 2025

Plucky Pompano Players Pleases With Herman’s Jerry’s Girls by Bill Hirschman

One note-worthy addition in Pompano Beach's evolution is the Pompano Players, a plucky new theater group offering Jerry’s Girls, a charming musical revue to tickle your funny bone and warm…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:18AM
Tuesday, January 14, 2025

Walk the Walk Productions’ First Effort ‘From Brooklyn To Boca’ Is Struggling Comedy by Bill Hirschman

From Brooklyn to Boca covers a lot of territory, geographically speaking. Not so much when it comes to the heavy-footed comedy making its world premiere at The Studio at Mizner Park in Boca …

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:24AM
Sunday, January 12, 2025

POTUS Embraces Everything From Farce to Political Satire by Bill Hirschman

Timing, of course, is a crucial element in comedy. But it doesn’t hurt that it occurs when the social-political world around you conveniently coincides as it dies in Zoetic Stage's hysteri…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:32AM
Sunday, January 5, 2025

Maltz Creates Frozen’s Olaf With The Magic Of Puppet And Actor by Bill Hirschman

The twin creators of the Olaf -- h is puppet designer and actor -- detail how the Frozen character is brought to life at the Maltz Jupiter Theatre's current production The post Maltz Creates…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 01:24PM
Thursday, December 26, 2024

Anastasia is Gloriously More Entertaining Than Other Editions by Bill Hirschman

By Oline Cogdill The myth that the Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna Romanova survived the Russian royal family’s execution by a group of Bolsheviks in 1918 has spawned numerous articles,…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:14PM
Tuesday, December 24, 2024

The Illusions of Theater Celebrated, Exposed in Dramaworks’ The Dresser by Bill Hirschman

Illusions – those we create for others, those ones we create for ourselves, those we create for survival – are at the heart of Palm Beach Dramaworks' laudatory yet merciless exposé The …

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:53PM
Monday, December 23, 2024

MiND Escorts You Through 3rd Immersive: Lincoln Road Hustle by Bill Hirschman

Miami New Drama's third immersive Lincoln Road Hustle is mounted in, on and around the titular locale -- a logistically and artistically challenging tale reflecting the cultural and economic…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 07:18PM
Friday, December 20, 2024

Open a New Window in Handle With Care at West Boca Company by Bill Hirschman

1.7 million packages a day get lost or stolen. If it's your new hairdryer, it might not be so bad, but if the lost item is your dead relative’s body, that’s a completely different story.…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 04:24PM
Wednesday, December 18, 2024

Joni Mitchell-Leonard Cohen Revue Freshly Re-Covers Precious Music Of Decades Ago by Bill Hirschman

The magic of Both Sides Now: The Music and Lives of Joni Mitchell and Leonard Cohen is that of a time machine. It instantly regenerates feelings and visions a half-century old as if they are…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 07:18PM
Monday, December 16, 2024

Once Again, Broadway’s Fifth Our Town Remains A Worthy Tale Despite Time And Place by Bill Hirschman

As the newest New York production of Our Town proves -- yet again over its 86 years –this acclaimed work is a reliable property whether it’s being done by this Broadway cast led by Jim P…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:06AM
Saturday, December 14, 2024

End of a Trilogy, Or Is It? New City Players’ The Last Christmas by Bill Hirschman

New City Players; premiere The Last Christmas by Tyler Johnson Grimes is the supposed final installment in a trilogy of annual holiday comedies revolving around radio station WNCP in Fort La…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 05:36PM
Thursday, December 12, 2024

Once is Not Enough In ‘Once’ At The Maltz Jupiter Theatre by Bill Hirschman

People come into our lives for a reason, a season, or a lifetime. Just ask the characters in Once – A Musical who would no doubt agree. At the Maltz Jupiter Theatre, Once tells the story o…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 07:12PM
Tuesday, December 10, 2024

Black Santa:  A Timely And Thoughtful Start To The Season by Bill Hirschman

City Theatre’s Black Santa peels the shiny veneer off the holiday season with its clever examination of unconscious racial bias present in America’s cultural traditions The post Black …

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:32PM
Monday, December 9, 2024

Did the Butler Really Do It? In ‘The Butler Did It’ At The Willow by Bill Hirschman

Produced by Curtain Call Playhouse,,, The Butler Did It is billed as “an evening of mystery, hoopla, and outrageous hijinks.” They’re not kidding, because it’s all that and more. The…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 03:18PM

Time Is A Crucial Element In Dramaworks’ Upcoming Return Of ‘The Dresser’ by Bill Hirschman

Time’s implacability and theater’s ephemerality seem inherently antithetical. Yet time is imbued several ways in Palm Beach Dramaworks’ upcoming production this month of the decades-ol…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:48AM
Friday, December 6, 2024

Report From New York: A Wonderful World Begun In Miami Bows On Broadway by Bill Hirschman

To begin with, yes, A Wonderful World is an exuberant trumpet call of a musical tracking the life of the legendary Louis Armstrong that will entertains tens of thousands of people as it rema…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:06PM
Saturday, November 30, 2024

Wick’s Joseph Production Is As Multi-Faceted As His Coat by Bill Hirschman

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, playing into next month at the Wick Theatre & Museum Club in Boca Raton, has something for everyone, or as Donny Osmond would tell you, it�…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 07:06PM
Saturday, November 23, 2024

Report From New York: Hills of California Intersects Ambition, Dreams & Family Relationships by Bill Hirschman

The Hills of California Intersects driving ambition, dreams and family relationships deteriorating over time; Catch it now before it closes next month because with a cast of 22 and a challen…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:31AM
Thursday, November 21, 2024

SSC’s Third Beauty & The Beast Is Just As Fine As Earlier Ones by Bill Hirschman

Mere inches from you, the titular characters dance slowly and gracefully to the soothing title song in Area Stage Company’s (ASC) multi award-winning professional immersive and participato…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:18PM
Wednesday, November 20, 2024

‘Every Brilliant Thing’ At Gulfshore Playhouse Lists What Makes Life Worth Living by Bill Hirschman

Every Brilliant Thing at the Gulfshore Playhouse in Naples is a moving and often funny one-man show in which the Storyteller comes up with a list of “every brilliant thing” that makes li…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:02PM
Monday, November 18, 2024

Compelling Tale of Artistic Anxiety In Jonathan Larson’s Pre-Rent ‘tick, tick… BOOM!’ by Bill Hirschman

Jonathan Larson’s semi-autobiographical pre-Rent musical tick, tick…BOOM! compellingly injects us deep into the agonized guts of a young man teetering on the Great Divide of pursuing his…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:31PM
Friday, November 15, 2024

The Gloves Come Off in The Long Weekend At Pigs Do Fly by Bill Hirschman

What happens when one unhappily married couple invites another unhappily married couple to spend a holiday weekend with them in their country home? As the claws come out, long-buried resentm…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:36AM

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2024-2025 BROADWAY SEASON
Jun 05, 2024: Home - Todd Haimes Theatre
Jul 11, 2024: Oh, Mary! - Lyceum Theatre
Jul 30, 2024: Job - Hayes Theater
Sep 12, 2024: The Roommate - Booth Theatre
Nov 14, 2024: Tammy Faye - Palace Theatre
Nov 17, 2024: Elf - Marquis Theatre
Dec 12, 2024: Cult of Love - Hayes Theater
Dec 19, 2024: Gypsy - Majestic Theatre
Mar 17, 2025: Purpose - Hayes Theater
Apr 10, 2025: Smash - Imperial Theatre