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Wednesday, June 12, 2019

Dancing Mobsters: Bronx Tale Shouldn’t Work But It Does by Bill Hirschman

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
Monday, June 10, 2019

Nick Duckart Is Coming Home With ‘Come From Away’ by Bill Hirschman

Hialeah-born actor Nick Duckart is coming home again from New York City. But he is a long way from the days struggling to sell televisions at Circuit City or vending souvenirs for shows at L…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:33AM
Saturday, June 8, 2019

M Ensemble’s ‘Sisters’ Delves Into Black Lives That Matter by Bill Hirschman

Sisters opens and closes exactly as expected – two women from disparate socio-economic backgrounds spar and clash, but two hours later have bonded over the common need to remake their liv…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:24PM
Tuesday, June 4, 2019

News: PPTOPA Goes Pro, Theatre League’s Summer Fest, Amico Honored, Amparo Extends Again by Bill Hirschman

News items about PPTOPA hiring professionals, the South Florida Theatre League opens its annual summer festival, Michael Amico wins the Vic Award, Amparo extends again

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:48PM

Sparkling Wit Suffuses Island City’s Veronica’s Position by Bill Hirschman

Creatures with the kind of quick wicked wit you only wish you had, the kind who rarely let pass the opportunity for a pithy exit line, populate Rich Orloff’s Veronica’s Position in Islan…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:06AM
Sunday, June 2, 2019

Summer Shorts 2019 Unusually Consistently Entertaining by Bill Hirschman

This 24th annual Summer Shorts festival of short plays scores as the most consistent, polished and satisfying work beginning to end that City Theatre has produced in recent seasons.

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:48PM
Wednesday, May 29, 2019

From Carbonells To Theater At Large, Is South Florida Serving Its Hispanic And Black Artists? by Bill Hirschman

This year’s Carbonells with its all-white roster of winners in the performance and directing categories was simply the boiling point in a discussion that has long simmered behind the curta…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:33AM
Friday, May 24, 2019

Winners Of 17th Cappies Honoring Students In The Theater And Criticism by Bill Hirschman

The crush of more than a thousand cheering students, their parents and friends overflowed the orchestra seating and the boxes of the Broward Center’s cavernous Au-Rene Theater at the Browa…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:54AM
Thursday, May 23, 2019

City Commissioners Fail To Override Mayor’s Veto On Coconut Grove Playhouse by Bill Hirschman

The Miami-Dade County plan to resurrect the iconic Coconut Grove Playhouse once again suffered a setback Thursday when the Miami City Commission failed to override its mayor’s veto. But co…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 02:06PM
Wednesday, May 22, 2019

No Doubt At All: Playhouse’s Doubt Will Make You Think by Bill Hirschman

Actors' Playhouse's Doubt is not about guilt or innocence. It’s about doubt. The nature of doubt. The fallout of doubt. Living with doubt. Deciding whether to act when you have doubt. In t…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:42PM
Monday, May 20, 2019

Breaking News: County “Prepared” To Sue City Over Grove Playhouse Rebuff by Bill Hirschman

Miami-Dade County is “prepared” to sue the City of Miami in order to proceed with its plan to resurrect the Coconut Grove Playhouse, said a county official spearheading the project.

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:24PM
Sunday, May 19, 2019

How Your Sausage Is Made in D.C.: GableStage’s Kings by Bill Hirschman

Few plays have been as ruthlessly photographic depicting the pornographic incest of lobbying and corruption as well as the clash of idealism and pragmatism as Sarah Burgess’ Kings, current…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:06PM

Funny & Tragic Pursuit Of Fame In The House Of Blue Leaves by Bill Hirschman

The House of Blue Leaves gets as funny and touching a production from Palm Beach Dramaworks as anyone can ask for. Its virtues include superb direction, a flawless creative team and a wall-t…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:18AM
Friday, May 17, 2019

Breaking News: Miami Mayor Scuttles Coconut Grove Playhouse Plan With Veto by Bill Hirschman

Miami-Dade County’s current plan to resurrect the Coconut Grove Playhouse was dealt what may be a fatal blow Friday when City of Miami Mayor Francis Suarez vetoed the project primarily on …

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 01:12PM
Tuesday, May 14, 2019

Theater Cues & News: Matilda Jr., New City Reading, A New Patsy, Moving Measure, Theatre Lab Experiments, Traffic Woes by Bill Hirschman

News of Broward Center & local students create Matilda Jr., New City Players seeks feedback on new play, Wick extends and gets new Patsy Cline, TCG brings 1,000 artists to Miami, Measure…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:54PM

An Absurdist Take On Celebrity Worship At PB Dramaworks by Bill Hirschman

Palm Beach Dramaworks is reviving the funny, poignant The House of Blue Leaves about a Queens family whose life is turned inside out when the Pope visits NYC in 1965. Ordinary people spurred…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:42AM
Saturday, May 11, 2019

Intriguing ‘Precious Little’ Delves Into Communication by Bill Hirschman

Thinking Cap Theatre director Nicole Stodard and her fine trio of actresses have inarguably produced an engrossing emotional and intellectual puzzle to stimulate the heart and mind in Precio…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:18PM
Thursday, May 9, 2019

Breaking News: County Plan For Coconut Grove Playhouse Passes Crucial Test Wednesday by Bill Hirschman

The 13-year journey to resurrect the fabled Coconut Grove Playhouse squeaked by what may have been the last serious roadblock Wednesday when the Miami City Commission voted 3-2 to overturn o…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 01:12AM
Tuesday, May 7, 2019

Theatre Lab Gathers Scores Of Artists For Overnight Project by Bill Hirschman

Self-absorbed celebrities adopting babies, patients bonding in an asylum and a batty New Age retreat featuring a large plastic cow – just a few of the offbeat moments in Theatre Lab’s Ov…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:06AM
Monday, May 6, 2019

Knowing How It Ends Is Part Of The Secret For Flight 232 by Bill Hirschman

The highly theatrical, superbly effective United Flight 232 presented by the House Theatre of Chicago makes a strong ending to the Arsht Center's Theatre Up Close series for the season.

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 05:33PM
Thursday, May 2, 2019

Viva La Parranda! Shares Soup, Stories And Song In A Very Original Production by Bill Hirschman

Viva La Parranda! from Miami New Drama is more than a documentary play. It's a microscopic and humanistic look inside a Venezuelan town, El Clavo, and singer Betsayda Machado has become the…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:06PM

Music Not The Plot Is The Attraction in FGO’s Werther by Bill Hirschman

Jules Massenet’s dramatic opera Werther is short on action, and its cast of characters limited. But it does have a reputation, however, of being the most French of French operas, and what …

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:54PM
Tuesday, April 30, 2019

Fandom And Great Music Are Key To Always… Patsy Cline by Bill Hirschman

Always…Patsy Cline at the Wick Theatre gifts the audience with recreations of about two dozen hits from the iconic country singer’s catalogue. But while the music is undeniably entertain…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:18PM

17th South Florida Cappies Nominations Announced by Bill Hirschman

The Critics’ Awards Program, or Cappies for short, will celebrate outstanding achievement in high school theater when students from 22 public and private schools throughout Broward and Pal…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:18PM

OMG, You Guys: Riverside’s Legally Blonde Is A Hoot by Bill Hirschman

The snappy, bubblegum musical Legally Blonde has come to energetic life at Riverside Theatre, bringing laughs to the unjaded and knocking at the heart of the weary.

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:06AM
Monday, April 29, 2019

McKeever’s Script Is The Star In Main Street’s 37 Postcards by Bill Hirschman

Sometimes the star of the show is the words.. Main Street Players does a credible job bringing life to the comedy 37 Postcards, but its prime virtue is Michael McKeever’s hilarious script,…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:24PM
Saturday, April 27, 2019

Lion King Roars Back To Kravis And The Arsht As Fresh as Ever by Bill Hirschman

The procession of savannah creatures –magnificent lions, leaping, a lithe leopard, soaring birds and a story-high elephant – strolling up the through aisles and onto a theater stage in t…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:10AM
Friday, April 26, 2019

Visually Stunning Anastasia Doesn’t Scrimp In Any Way by Bill Hirschman

In recent years, while producers and designers of Broadway musicals have found subtle ways to slim down the overall effort on national tours. But Broadway Across America’s current sit-down…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:49PM
Thursday, April 25, 2019

Crucial Meeting On Grove Playhouse Delayed To May 8 by Bill Hirschman

Breaking News: The Miami City Commission agreed Thursday to delay a meeting on what many believe is the last crucial decision regarding the future of the Miami-Dade County proposal to resurr…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 04:08PM
Sunday, April 21, 2019

Imagination Makes Area Stage’s Wizard Of Oz For Adults & Kids by Bill Hirschman

Hearing that Area Stage Company is mounting The Wizard of Oz might make childless theatergoers pass. It would be their loss. Director Giancarlo Rodaz, his inexhaustible cast and creative cre…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:42PM
Thursday, April 18, 2019

Obsession, Lust And Passion Rule At Measure’s Murder Ballad by Bill Hirschman

Lust, anger and anguish pour out of urban millennials with like molten liquid gushing from an open fire hydrant in the new Measure For Measure Theatre's production of the chamber rock opera…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:12PM

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