Tennessee Williams’ Suddenly Last Summer presents a considerable challenge for theaters to pull off with its quirky characters, its quirkier premise and its total abandonment of theatrical…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 04:36PMSome of the most skilled theater artists in the region deliver a gloriously funny and moving celebration of the work of the finest musical theater genius of the 20th and 21st Century in Zoet…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 03:07PMA sea of unmasked faces at FGO’s opening Saturday signaled South Florida theaters on the cusp of relaxing restrictions, some only for certain productions and some cautiously gingerly peer…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:12AMTime changes how we view classic works: In this edition of Rigoletto at Florida Grand Opera, the title “villain” who gets his comeuppance at the end of this revenge tragedy seems for mor…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 04:37PMNo doubt most critics will try to weave in the title or lyrics of “Let It Go” in their reviews of the Broadway Across America production of the Disney’s Frozen at the Broward Center. I…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:33PMIf you’re expecting Miami New Drama’s world premiere When Monica Met Hillary to be some D.C. spin on an Andy Cohen catfight, you’re going to be disappointed. Playwright Winter Miller, …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:06PMYou may never view crossword puzzles the same way again after watching Jerry Mayer’s romantic, touching, and hilarious character-driven comedy, 2 Across. Fortunately, the Ft. Lauderdale-ba…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:54AMGulfshore Playhouse in Naples has used dependable artistic vision and generous patronage to defy the economic m breaking ground on a $60 million venue and being admitted to the League of Res…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 05:24PMShattering. Penetrating. Upsetting. Only a few of the adjectives elicited by Claudia Rankine's drama The White Card at GableStage, a searing if polemic evening cross-examining progressive wh…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:37AMSocial workers face tragedies in which there may be no satisfying solutions and in which the warring parties truly want “what’s best for the child.” Those dilemmas echo larger question…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 02:42PMBruce Graham’s world premiere The Duration developed at Palm Beach Dramaworks is an intellectually and emotionally powerful drama rooted deep in a post 9/11 world, but also in a timeless i…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 07:33PMMNM Theatre Company’s Sister Act, is a work that you may not have taken to the first time or two, but can surprise you when a company invests freshness, energy and skill. You see it as if …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:12PMThe moment after the house lights go down at Actors Playhouse, there’s a percussive warmup of Latin beat and then the auditorium explodes with a blinding almost deafening assault of light,…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:06AMThe art of acting – alternately glorious and mundane – is celebrated in the Maltz Jupiter Theatre’s return to live production after 700 days with Paul Rudnick’s delightfully comical …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 07:37PMFor the majority of white Americans, the word “colonialism” is an abstract term usually confined to college history courses. But in Layon Gray’s consciousness-expanding new drama The …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 01:48PMBio-jukebox musicals hinges on the strength of the music and the audience’s connection. Music takes you back to where you were and who you were. The exuberant production of Ain’t Too Pro…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 01:33PMA nerdy teenager struggling with being an outsider takes a pill with a dangerous computer that advises him on dealing with high school hell in Area Stage Company's intriguing but flawed sci-…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:18PMGet yourself down to where Slow Burn is delivering a gift you’ll prize for a long time to come: Once On This Island is a glorious evening of storytelling and song, myth and magic infused w…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:06PMArmature premiering at Island City Stage explores racism, politics, homosexuality, marital relations in tale suffused with humor and tragedy. The deeply committed work of the cast, co-direc…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 01:36PMGrease certainly is the word as the classic rock ‘n’ roll musical glides its way into a solid staging as the first joint production of MNM Theatre Company, North End Theater Company, and…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:18AMBlessed with a glorious score and soaring arias, you would think that André Previn’s take on A Streetcar Named Desire would be a triumph as Florida Grand Opera’s first major production …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:03PMFor older audiences who see the number of expensive pills they take each morning magically multiply over the years, the wicked satire of Big Pharma in the otherwise romantic comedy Rx is wel…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 04:24PMThe celebration of love in many permutations – from first connections to farewells – swirls around the stage like the snow and the aurora borealis lights in Palm Beach Dramaworks’ gent…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 07:18PMThere is a fifth crucial performer not mentioned in the playbill for Palm Beach Dramaworks’ upcoming production of “Almost, Maine.” High above the residents on a chilly Friday night in…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:12PMThe concepts of home and homeland—especially when they are no longer the same place— have become even more complicated in the 21st Century for Cuban-Americans highlighted in Hannah Benit…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 05:24PMJoining dozens of companies locally and across the country hoping a delay will outlast the worst of the surge, Theatre Lab has postponed its premiere of Last Night in Inwood slated for Feb. …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:42PMSometimes, all we want is to just sit in a chair and be entertained by full-throated singers, appealing actors, solid dancing and a script that offers more than a few laughs. That sheer ente…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:24AMDescribed as two CAT5 hurricanes striking at the same time, the Covid spike has dealt the Maltz Jupiter Theatre serious blows including cancelling one big-budget musical Sweet Charity becaus…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:12AMThe calendars in South Florida theater are being written in pencil—with erasers. Regional theaters are forging through the Covid spike with no panic and limited public fuss, but with a t…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 03:18PMThe big, emotion-charged music of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Carousel welcomes audience, actors and artists back to Riverside Theatre in Vero Beach. The post A Lush and Lovely Carousel Open…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:18PMIn this fourth or fifth reconnection with the glee-filled and glee-inducing musical comedy Hairspray, a truly apt term, what surfaced at the national tour’s all too brief bow at the Arsht …
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