Wednesday, December 29, 2021
In 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 …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 02:03PMTuesday, December 28, 2021
If Dickens’ opening line in A Tale of Two Cities has become a trite cliché through overuse it has become a painfully accurate truism about theater over the past two years, especially Sout…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:24AMSunday, December 26, 2021
Time as well as the pandemic have robbed the South Florida theater community of so many beloved and respected colleagues. The loss in 2020-2021 was not only to fellow artists, but to the pat…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:06PMWednesday, December 22, 2021
In the wake of several cast or crew members testing positive for Covid, Miami New Drama has cancelled its performances for A Wonderful World until resuming Dec. 29, the company confirmed Wed…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:42PMTuesday, December 21, 2021
Put aside the messages of acceptance, being comfortable in your own skin, family bonds and making your own path, Slow Burn Theatre gifts audiences with the sheer entertainment in its Kinky B…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:18AMSunday, December 19, 2021
Avi Hoffman is ensuring that proper homage is paid to Joe Papp, the visionary who intersected art and community by making theater accessible to the general public in comprehensibility, neigh…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:33PMWednesday, December 15, 2021
In these difficult times, sometimes all you want, all you need is a good ol’ Big Broadway Musical Comedy with a rousing score, enthusiastic performers, an unabashedly uplifting message and…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 03:06PMTuesday, December 14, 2021
There are stunning actors in this premiere A Wonderful World, breath-taking choreography and visuals in this life of jazz legend Louis Armstrong as he navigates a racist world and his own fa…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:42AMThursday, December 9, 2021
For all of us who have seen 17 too many editions of A Christmas Carol, City Theatre gifts us a joy-inducing riff on Charles Dickens’ public domain property, the gospel according to Jacob M…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:48AMWednesday, December 8, 2021
Few an resist feisty, foul-mouthed septuagenarians such as Helen Wheeler because, well, we do not normally expect a woman in her 70’s to tackle someone into submission, or use a blowtorch …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:33AMTuesday, December 7, 2021
There’s nothing especially wrong with Boca Stage’s The Unremarkable Death of Marilyn Monroe, certainly not with the admirably tireless, skillful efforts of Leah Sessa or Keith Garsson. B…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:18AMSaturday, December 4, 2021
Theater is often political: but sometimes, like The People Downstairs, Michael McKeever’s harrowing world premiere at Palm Beach Dramaworks, the relevancy of the Dutch people hiding the An…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 04:33PMFriday, December 3, 2021
This is not a traditional review because we saw the world premiere of Nilo Cruz’s latest play Hotel Desiderium at its fifth sold-out performance Nov. 21 at Arca Images, that late because i…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:54AMTuesday, November 30, 2021
The creation of a musical always contains more drama than what ends up on the stage. But then there is the anguish and celebration that commandeered the pre-virus birth and now this winter�…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:54PMFriday, November 26, 2021
There will be hundreds of “appreciation” pieces during the next few days memorializing the life and work of Stephen Sondheim who died Friday at the age on 91. There will be tens of thous…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:42PMTuesday, November 23, 2021
Secretly, we wonder if we could be heroic in real life, whether we could find the courage to risk our lives to protect or rescue someone else. The question is at the heart of Michael McKeeve…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:18AMSunday, November 21, 2021
Despite two of the finest performances in what already has been a surprisingly benchmark season so far in South Florida, the most memorable player in Theatre Lab’s superb To Fall In Love i…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 03:42PMSaturday, November 20, 2021
Middletown is a charming, comfortable evening at Actors Playhouse, sitting around a living room with genial middle-class couples (Loretta Swit, Didi Conn, Adrian Zmed and Donny Most) telling…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 03:32PMMonday, November 15, 2021
GableStage’s Joseph Adler died shortly after his direction of The Price was cut short by the pandemic. His successor, Bari Newport, took his notes, cast, creative team and infuses it with…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:18AMFriday, November 12, 2021
The protagonists’ primary fear in Lungs -- bringing a child into an environmentally crumbling world and an economy in freefall – is secondary to the challenging script’s focus: examini…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:48PMWednesday, November 10, 2021
Lots of news here as the theater season heats up in South Florida: Over the long weekend of Nov. 10-14, there are TEN shows opening across the region and four still running: dramas, comedies…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:36AMSunday, November 7, 2021
Reading today's headlines about corruption, you wonder not so much the why of weakness for the lure of power, but the process of how it happens. Kenneth Lin’s Warrior Class, enjoying an in…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 02:42PMThursday, November 4, 2021
It seems fitting that Broadway Across America marks its return to the Broward Centerwith the Tony and Olivier Award winning musical Come From Away that honors themes of community, perseveran…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 04:06PMTuesday, November 2, 2021
Noël Coward meant to write a full tome on “Theatre” but time, health and a score of other projects apparently got in the way. But Barry Day, a stage producer, biographer of literary fig…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:12PMSunday, October 24, 2021
PPTOPA’s earnest, merely passable production of Cabaret is notable for a few solid performances, but especially for the resonating script by Joe Masteroof which, decade after decade, becom…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:06AMWednesday, October 20, 2021
As you read this, no matter the time zone, country or phase of the moon, it’s playing somewhere, in this case an inarguably competent production at The Wick Theatre. Even those of us who h…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:24AMSunday, October 17, 2021
The “horror” in Zoetic Stage’s Frankenstein shares little kinship with the film monster with bolts in his neck terrorizing the countryside or even the 1818 novel of science gone wrong.…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:18PMWednesday, October 13, 2021
Jason Robert Brown’s brilliantly insightful and emotionally powerful Songs for a New World lets you know you're not going crazy all alone in Slow Burn Theatre’s season opener that would …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:42PMTuesday, October 5, 2021
What better way to mark the return of live, in-person theater than to celebrate the major role that an audience’s imagination plays in this unique art form? In fact, the professional, nonp…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:42PMSaturday, October 2, 2021
The Twentieth Century Way creates intersecting, overlapping realities in Island City Stage’s celebration of its 10th season by restaging its 2012 inaugural play. This thought-provoker meld…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 04:48PMMonday, September 27, 2021
The premise: A white director leads a multi-ethnic cast in a production of Midsummer's Night as an answer to charges of institutional racism in society. But with wry humor and painfully inci…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:36AM 
