Tuesday, January 28, 2020
Best New Work (play or musical) + An Evening with John Wayne Gacy, by Ronnie Larsen, Ronnie Larsen Presents/Infinite Abyss + Confessions of a Cocaine Cowboy, by Billy Corben and Aurin Squire…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:54AMSunday, January 26, 2020
Mamma Mia! is another one of those Great Continental Divides in theater: you either love it – or you hate yourself for standing up and clapping along in the final mega-mix medley of infect…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 04:54PMTuesday, January 21, 2020
Franklin Graham, the homophobic alt-right son of Billy Graham, just finished a revival tour of Florida this weekend. Too bad he didn’t attend the revival of the musical Altar Boyz at Islan…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 02:12PMMonday, January 20, 2020
GableStage's co-production with Palm Beach Dramaworks of the world premiere of Ordinary Americans traces TV icon Gertrude Berg as she battles blacklisting, featuring stellar performance by E…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:54AMSunday, January 19, 2020
Later we’ll get to the surprisingly strong performance of an America’s Got Talent semi-finalist in the title role; more importantly, the Wick Theatre’s production of Evita is a painful…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 01:06PMSaturday, January 18, 2020
Riverside Theatre puts a new shine on old tropes in its snappy and vibrant production of Thoroughly Modern Millie.
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:06AMFriday, January 17, 2020
By Bill Hirschman When hearing that the Maltz Jupiter Theater is presenting Chicago, potential audiences could be forgiven for thinking silently: “Chicago? Again? Seen it two or five times…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:18PMThursday, January 16, 2020
Area Stage Company, the Miami theatrical icon since 1989, will be moving this spring from Coral Gable’s old Riviera Theatre to a temporary home two blocks south in a a shopping center – …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 01:48PMWednesday, January 15, 2020
One sign that the South Florida snowbird season has fully arrived is that theaters are trotting out the titles for next season in hopes of enticing early subscriptions. On Monday, Palm Beach…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:42PMTuesday, January 14, 2020
It takes courage to mount a play whose 1992 film version is as iconic as A Few Good Men with an unforgettable performance by Jack Nicholson . But this production of Aaron Sorkin’s play by …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:06PMMonday, January 13, 2020
American Son at Zoetic Stage doesn’t offer solutions to the complexity of race so much as explore with increasing intensity the exact craggy contours of the gulf. Christopher Demos-Brown�…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 02:42PMSunday, January 12, 2020
The first half to two-thirds of the West Boca Theatre Company’s Brighton Beach Memoirs is sincere, but unsubtle and unsatisfying theater. Then this production slowly starts to ramp up with…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:12AMFriday, January 10, 2020
The Disneyization of Broadway has brought a whole new world of theater to a new generation of audiences who, hopefully, will be theatergoers for a lifetime. Put the highly entertaining Aladd…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 03:18PMMonday, January 6, 2020
When Christopher Demos-Brown’s racially charged drama American Son -- which has played in other cities and bowed on Broadway -- finally opens this week at Zoetic Stage in Miami, it will be…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:06AMThursday, January 2, 2020
At the beginning of Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, now at the Arsht Center, Willy Wonka says chocolate is “quite simply, the greatest invention in the entire history of …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:18PMMonday, December 30, 2019
In the current Broadway stratosphere, several leading actresses belie the idea that there are no more Carol Channings or Ethel Mermans. But it’s hard to argue that other than Audra McDona…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:18PMSunday, December 29, 2019
Seth Rudetsky is living the dream of every theater geek, except that he is not an outsider, he is an insider who doesn’t name drop A-list performers by first name to impress; they really …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:12AMSaturday, December 21, 2019
Writing a review of Primal Force’s Villainous Company, which has more plot twists than a Christmas corkscrew, is going to be hard because we wouldn’t dare to give away any spoilers. Suff…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 01:36PMThursday, December 19, 2019
Other than two crippling developments, South Florida theater 2019 was marked by a wide array of what seemed like points on a volatile stock market chart marking the ebb and flow of an evolvi…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:32PMMonday, December 16, 2019
There’s a scene of pure hallelujah in Slow Burn Theatre’s A Christmas Story the Musical in which adults and children dressed in sparkly costumes echoing the fabled Major Award leg lamp a…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:36PMSaturday, December 14, 2019
If you’ve never seen the Broadway production of the charm-infused musical Once or missed the Actors’ Playhouse version (or just want to see it again), this national touring version curre…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:18AMFriday, December 13, 2019
City Theatre's production of The Cake, about a baker who refuses to make a cake for a lesbian couple, digs deep below stereotypes to examine the contemporary clash between sincerely held pri…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:42AMThursday, December 12, 2019
The world premiere of Joseph McDonough’s Ordinary Americans needs more work but it has enough promise and fine performances at Palm Beach Dramaworks that it’s worth the effort. The story…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:36AMWednesday, December 11, 2019
Exuding a lushness, attention to technical detail and an overarching sense of fun, the Maltz Jupiter Theatre's The Mystery of Edwin Drood is a prime example of its skill. Proof is that the m…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 01:24PMMonday, December 9, 2019
How we deal specifically with the inevitability of death, whether we let it inhibit us or inspire us, is at the heart of Michael McKeever’s comic fantasy Charlie Cox Runs With Scissors now…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:54PMWednesday, December 4, 2019
As we get older, the reality of loss becomes an inescapable fact of life. How we deal with that is the core of Stephen Brown’s Everything is Super Great at Theatre Lab (subtitled “a come…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 05:06PMTuesday, December 3, 2019
There may never be as great a production of The Music Man as the lightning-in-a-bottle original with performances of Barbara Cook and Robert Preston. But the Wick Theatre edition led by Norb…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:18PMAwe is not a quality you usually hear in the voices of theater pros when they describe the central character in a work. But that is the sense listening to director William Hayes, playwright …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:12AMSunday, December 1, 2019
Have you ever watched a play and complained, “I could end it better than that!” Here’s your chance. You – along with everyone else in the audience—gets to choose this month among 5…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:42PMSaturday, November 30, 2019
Some of the shows we saw on our recent trip to New York -- Tracy Letts' Linda Vista and The Height of the Storm -- were limited runs and closed before many of our readers could get there. Bu…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:33AMThursday, November 28, 2019
MNM Theatre Company’s delightfully silly production of A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum is a musical that prides itself on broad low and often ribald humor, pratfalls, double…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 07:03PM 
