Tuesday, September 17, 2019
Area Stage Company's Matilda is not really a children’s musical, although children will have a fine time when they are not storing up nightmarish images for future midnights. Matilda’s w…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:54PMSunday, September 15, 2019
When Man of La Mancha is performed as well as MNM Theatre Company’s production, then the magic is savoring how the innate worth of ideals ultimately prevails over an all-too-recognizable w…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:03PMSaturday, September 14, 2019
There are plays that you may have seen ithat, when you experience them in today's environment, bring more of a tear then they might have 10 years ago. This is the experience with JCAT's Dri…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 01:42PMFriday, September 13, 2019
Sitting in Circle In The Square’s deep-thrust proscenium-less theater, it’s inescapable that director Daniel Fish and his team have gone way, way out of their way to let you know that th…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:06AMWednesday, September 11, 2019
In this tarnished time of disaffection, divisiveness and abandoned ideals, the synergistic resonance of the musical Man of La Mancha is more than a welcome opportunity for director Bruce Lin…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:12AMTuesday, September 10, 2019
Theatre Lab’s family-friendly production of When She Had Wings posits a young girl, convinced she could fly before she could walk, trying to regain her power of flight.
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:33AMOft-produced plays can sometimes be a groaner to sit through, yet again. How many more laughs can be extracted from the same story line and same characters? However, sometimes a production s…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:33AMWednesday, August 28, 2019
It took a crushed femur for Boca Raton resident Bonnie Logan to find her passion – writing for the stage. Indeed, if Logan hadn’t broken the thickest bone of the human skeleton, she wou…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:18AMSaturday, August 24, 2019
What follows is a partial list of shows listed by producing company or venue from school auditoriums to strip malls to shipping containers to 1,000-plus seat houses. It’s as complete as we…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:48PMAnticipation is one of the real joys of scanning a coming season. What follows is a completely subjective and personal list of titles we’re looking forward to (besides the return of Hamilt…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:48PMGrowth and evolution occur across an arc, but when you’re living through the middle of it, sometimes it’s difficult to realize we’ve reached a new level. On top of one of the most memo…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:48PMFriday, August 23, 2019
Outré Theatre Company, a peripatetic troupe that has specialized in contemporary plays and musicals with an edgy sensibility since 2011, is planning to produce one last show and then close …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:54PMThursday, August 22, 2019
For theater folks and movie buffs, the title is a giveaway, Clemenza & Tessio Are Dead. Those with a knowledge of theater will think of Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead,…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:36AMWednesday, August 21, 2019
South Florida Theatre League will bestow Remy Awards Monday in Fort Lauderdale, honoring “unsung heroes who provide outstanding service behind the scenes of the South Florida Theatre Leagu…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 04:06PMSunday, August 18, 2019
By Bill Hirschman The ominous omens in New City Players’ energetic and passionate Macbeth actually portend promising things for South Florida theater. The rarely spoken of deficiency in of…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 07:03PMFriday, August 16, 2019
Fathers — becoming one, being one and losing one — are the connective tissue of Sea Wall/A Life, the emotional double bill of two one-acts currently at the Hudson Theatre . While the per…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:18AMThursday, August 15, 2019
The musical theater evening inspired by Steinman’s classic 1977 album Bat Out of Hell is precisely what you expect it to be. For some, that means pure nirvana. Others not as inclined shoul…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 02:18PMWednesday, August 14, 2019
The lovely, witty and sometimes caustic songs of Noël Coward are receiving an energetic and heartfelt revival in the highly entertaining Love, Noël: The Songs and Letters of Noël Coward, …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:03AMTuesday, August 13, 2019
Starmaker, getting its world premiere at Island City Stage, is about Henry Willson, the agent behind the hunky male stars of the 1950s, who, while fooling the cameras as straight sex symbols…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:36PMTuesday, July 30, 2019
Hair is a weird show, and not because the characters are weird. To the contrary, the flower children of the Vietnam era, which it explores with both affection and criticism, have arguably ag…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 04:36PMSaturday, July 27, 2019
The creators of Tootsie, a Broadway musical destined to tour near you , made a brilliant and courageous choice to abandon duplicating the 1982 Sydney Pollack film starring Dustin Hoffman, an…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 05:42PMWednesday, July 24, 2019
Main Street Players’ tongue-in-cheek production of Men On Boats -- in which women portray the male explorers of the Colorado River -- is basically a declamatory sixth grade history pagean…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:06AMMonday, July 22, 2019
Amid a constellation of superb theater from GableStage comes a supernova of passion, pain and socio-political protest in Dominique Morisseau’s scorching drama Skeleton Crew. Its portrayal …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 03:54PMSaturday, July 20, 2019
As in troubling days in the past, once again farce provides a welcome dose of mindless zaniness that even the real life actors on the world stage cannot not equal. Add the musical mystery Mu…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 01:33PMThursday, July 18, 2019
Alright ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, she’s and he’s, and those who would prefer not to self-identify, Thinking Cap Theatre and City Theatre’s summer short play fest, She Short…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 05:42PMSunday, July 7, 2019
Live theater’s ability to transport us to different situations and show us others’ stories makes a solid home run in the play Toni Stone, now receiving a rousing, heartfelt production th…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:03PMThursday, June 27, 2019
Theatreworks USA’s touring production of The Lightning Thief is what results from mixing a young adult classic with a rock concert vibe à la Rent: a sometimes intense, yet always laid bac…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:06AMWednesday, June 19, 2019
Even writing about it the next day, the warmth still glows. In this time, to quote a lyric from another show, “of cold and darkness, in this terrifying night,” the affirmation of basic h…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 07:42PMTuesday, June 18, 2019
The Wedding Singer musical is a lively winning goofball vibe poking good-natured fun at that geological era known as “The ‘80s” in the inaugural offering of Jolt Productions, a profess…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:24PMMonday, June 17, 2019
Intentional or not, Slow Burn Theatre Company producing Priscilla, Queen of the Desert at the height of Pride Week, near the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots, is the ultimate synergi…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:42AMWednesday, June 12, 2019
The national tour of A Bronx Tale is proof that if producers hire enough really talented people, you can make an inarguably entertaining musical out of damn near anything.
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:36PM 
