Saturday, 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 Anne…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 04:33PM[SHARE]Friday, 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 it …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:54AM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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's…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:54PM[SHARE]Friday, 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 thousands…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:42PM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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 09:18AM[SHARE]Sunday, 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 is …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 03:42PM[SHARE]Saturday, 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 03:32PM[SHARE]Monday, 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 h…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:18AM[SHARE]Friday, 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: examining the…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:48PM[SHARE]Wednesday, 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 09:36AM[SHARE]Sunday, 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 inci…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 02:42PM[SHARE]Thursday, 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 04:06PM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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 figur…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:12PM[SHARE]Sunday, 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, becomes…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:06AM[SHARE]Wednesday, 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 hav…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:24AM[SHARE]Sunday, 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. But a…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:18PM[SHARE]Wednesday, 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 be a…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:42PM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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, nonpro…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:42PM[SHARE]Saturday, 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 melds …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 04:48PM[SHARE]Monday, 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[SHARE]Monday, September 20, 2021
Theater isn't just coming back to life, it's emerging in a score of ways. Here's a sampling of opening nights, fundraisers, new venues, even a call for ushers. News about Miami New Drama, Ma…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 03:06PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 14, 2021
Broad changes to the Carbonell Awards, designed to assuage a theatrical community whose love-hate relationship has exacerbated in recent years, were detailed Monday. Many changes reflect a r…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 03:03PM[SHARE]Sunday, September 12, 2021
The show will go on for South Florida theater, but 2021-2022 will be a season of asterisks, what ifs and when. In a three-part series, we talk to artistic and managing directors about why th…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:06PM[SHARE]Saturday, September 11, 2021
The show will go on for South Florida theater, but 2021-2022 will be a season of asterisks, what ifs and when. In a 3-part series, we talk to artistic and managing directors about awhy this …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:06PM[SHARE]Friday, September 10, 2021
The show will go on for South Florida theater, but 2021-2022 will be a season of asterisks, what ifs and when. In a three-part series, we talk to artistic directors and managing directors ab…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 05:54PM[SHARE]The 2021 Remy Awards honoring those who provide outstanding service behind the scenes to the region's theater community were announced this week by the South Florida Theatre League. The live…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:32PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 9, 2021
Major changes for the Carbonell Awards honoring excellence in South Florida theater will be unveiled Monday at a town hall meeting live and online will reveal a new team of judges, a new jud…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:12AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 7, 2021
The Broward Center in Fort Lauderdale and the Arsht Center in Miami will require all audience members to provide proof of a negative COVID test or proof of full vaccination to be admitted to…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 07:42PM[SHARE]Sunday, September 5, 2021
Yes, there is broad humor, over-the-top characters, cartoonish sets, a fairy tale vibe and a 10-foot tall puppet, but Theatre Lab makes it clear that Rachel Teagle's world premiere script of…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:48PM[SHARE]Saturday, August 21, 2021
Fuácata! has been tweaked by star Elena Maria Garcia and director Stuart Meltzer with references to non-binary, Uber and "draining the swamp." But the exuberantly hilarious and moving wor…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 05:24PM[SHARE]Monday, August 2, 2021
It's almost impossible to accurately depict the guts of the creative process, let alone make its intricacies interesting. But director-librettist James Lapine has not only conquered that tas…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:36PM[SHARE] 
