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Monday, March 11, 2019

Next Fall At Outre: How Can A Gay Couple Cope When One Has Faith, The Other Agnostic by Bill Hirschman

Theater does not have to be loud and careening to be memorable. Outré Theatre Company’s revival of the off-Broadway hit Next Fall courageously takes a huge chance staging this evening of …

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 01:47PM
Sunday, March 10, 2019

Miami Soprano Cuervo Takes On Challenging Role Of Frida Kahlo by Bill Hirschman

Miami-based, Colombian-born soprano Catalina Cuervo is best known for portraying Maria in Piazzolla's Maria de Buenos Aires -- more than 50 times. But since 2015, she has been forging a simi…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:38AM
Saturday, March 9, 2019

Pigs Do Fly’s ‘2 Across’: Strangers On A Train Of A Different Sort by Bill Hirschman

Pigs Do Fly’s production of 2 Across is the story of two radically different but similarly lonely neurotic urbanites who meet on a pre-dawn San Francisco commuter train. They start as str…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:48PM
Tuesday, March 5, 2019

Charlie Brown & Friends Still Sing For All Of Us At Slow Burn by Bill Hirschman

Charlie Brown is 68 years old, but as the musical You’re A Good Man Charlie Brown has proven year after year, Schulz’s offspring remains ageless. Slow Burn Theatre Company’s penny bri…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:42AM
Sunday, March 3, 2019

Ambitious ‘Promises, Promises’ Still Makes Good On Some by Bill Hirschman

Ambitious is the word for the Levis JCC production of the musical Promises, Promises. Sometimes the commitment by everyone involved to make the show work helps it stay aloft, and, other time…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:42AM
Saturday, March 2, 2019

Thought-Provoking Doll’s House Part 2 Examines Marriage by Bill Hirschman

There was no standing ovation for A Doll’s House Part 2 at Maltz Jupiter Theatre from an audience which had stood for Mamma Mia! It’s not that the incisive production didn’t deserve ac…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 02:45PM
Tuesday, February 26, 2019

‘Race’ Is Vital, Engrossing Theater At Main Street Players by Bill Hirschman

In Main Street Players’ riveting, unmissable mounting of David Mamet’s scorching play, Race, director Lowell Williams wastes no time in hammering us with a sadly telling stage picture.

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 05:19PM
Monday, February 25, 2019

Powerful Performances, Direction Make New City’s ‘Raisin In The Sun’ A Must See by Bill Hirschman

Attention to detail in each element of New City Players' Raisin in the Sun makes it truly spectacular on every level, and that especially goes for the directing and the acting.

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:57PM
Sunday, February 24, 2019

Fresh Look At Fiddler Ditches Some Traditions, Keeps Others by Bill Hirschman

There's the tradition of Fiddler on the Roof, and then there's the tradition of the musical itself. It's a difficult task, this dual tradition of Fiddler on the Roof to carry it through in …

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:33AM
Wednesday, February 20, 2019

Warm, Witty & Very Interactive: Every Brilliant Thing… Well..Is by Bill Hirschman

The premise of Every Brilliant Thing might fool you into thinking that it's kin to a “very special” Lifetime Movie of the Week: a boy tries to ease the pain of his suicidal mother and h…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:59PM
Sunday, February 17, 2019

Blonde Poison: Rationalization Of Evil Seen From The Inside by Bill Hirschman

Blonde Poison asks whether a Jewish woman who identified about 3,000 other Jews to the Gestapo for “deportation,” is “villain or victim?” But playwright Gail Louw, Primal Forces dire…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:04PM
Thursday, February 14, 2019

Love Among The Seniors: The Last Romance At Riverside by Bill Hirschman

Riverside Theatre serves up the sentimentality with a ladle in its production of The Last Romance. The play concerns a trio of senior citizens struggling with loneliness, delving into the hu…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 05:24PM
Wednesday, February 13, 2019

A Tight Family’s Tragic Past Is Key In Meet Me At The Oak by Bill Hirschman

The dominating vision of The Tree and its dark violent past is a theatrical masterstroke from writer-director Layon Gray that opens a stirring Meet Me At The Oak, posting yet another strong …

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:48PM
Sunday, February 10, 2019

Theatre Lab’s ‘Silent’ Articulates Questions About Integrity by Bill Hirschman

Although We Will Not Be Silent is suffused with a long dorm night’s worth of philosophical and moral gymnastics, playwright David Meyers and Theatre Lab inject the audience so deeply into …

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:06AM
Tuesday, February 5, 2019

Jekyll & Hyde May Split Theater Lovers But Will Please Fans by Bill Hirschman

Frank Wildhorn’s Jekyll & Hyde is one of those Continental Divides in musical theater: You either love it – or tolerate it. But if you’re going to perform a work by the pioneering…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:24PM
Monday, February 4, 2019

What FGO’s Figaro Lacks In Farce It Makes Up For In Gusto by Bill Hirschman

Florida Grand Opera does daring works (we're looking forward to the upcoming final two of the season, Frida and Werther), but, to satisfy audiences who prefer to see the familiar, there is c…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:48PM
Sunday, February 3, 2019

Dramaworks’ Spitfire Grill Is One Of The Season’s Finest Musicals by Bill Hirschman

When was the last time a musical slipped into your veins and rode your bloodstream for two hours? When did a musical speak so accurately of your own pain and longing that you knew you were n…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 07:36PM
Friday, February 1, 2019

Fascinating But Flawed Fake Makes Promising Debut by Bill Hirschman

Passions erupt as art, commerce and international politics collide and conflict in the world premiere of Carmen Pelaez’s intriguing Fake at Miami New Drama. This play centering on a possib…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:32PM
Thursday, January 31, 2019

Thinking Cap Unleashes The Wild Ambition of Dance Nation by Bill Hirschman

Dare your adult to take your inner child to see Dance Nation at Thinking Cap Theatre in which adults play teenagers prepping for a competition. Were a prize given out today for Best Ensemble…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:04AM
Wednesday, January 30, 2019

Next To Normal At Riverside Is Far More Than Just Normal by Bill Hirschman

One of contemporary theater’s most powerful rock operas, Next to Normal, concerns a family dealing with the mother’s bipolar disorder. And you have the opportunity to see this Tony Award…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 07:32PM
Tuesday, January 29, 2019

GableStage Mounts Its Unique Passionate Take On Indecent by Bill Hirschman

GableStage’s rendering of Paula Vogel's Indecent is freshly distinctive from Rebecca Taichman’s New York staging and from the rapturously received version that Palm Beach Dramaworks del…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:04AM
Monday, January 28, 2019

One Man, Two Guvnors Is Entertaining If A But Long by Bill Hirschman

There are probably 27 synonyms for the word funny and 157 familiar tropes. All the words apply and all the classic bits can be found in Actors’ Playhouse’s farce One Man, Two Guvnors.

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:04PM
Saturday, January 26, 2019

The Vision Is The Star In Highly Theatrical Curious Incident by Bill Hirschman

Usually, Zoetic Stage’s director Stuart Meltzer’s deft work is almost invisible to audience members other than bringing a fresh vision to familiar titles. But his masterful work in The …

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 05:18PM
Friday, January 25, 2019

Maltz Let’s Mamma Mia! Sing Keeping Stage Version Intact by Bill Hirschman

The Maltz Jupiter Theatre's Mamma Mia! gets its mojo from a strong, consistent cast to carry out the sitcom-esque plot that is held together as if by taffy – twenty 1970s radio hits that a…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:12AM
Monday, January 21, 2019

SoFla Symphony Delivers Many High Notes With Porgy and Bess by Bill Hirschman

If there is one disappointment about the South Florida Symphony’s ambitious staging of Porgy and Bess it is that there aren’t more opportunities to see the production. The Wilton Manors-…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:18PM
Sunday, January 20, 2019

Wick Actress’ Funny Girl Gives Fanny Her Own Endearing Stamp by Bill Hirschman

Few theatrical challenges are as a daunting as actor taking on an iconic role made unforgettable by an inimitable talent in a career-making performance engraved in the popular consciousness.…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:04PM
Friday, January 18, 2019

‘Bette & Barry’ Entertains, But Where’s The Story? by Bill Hirschman

Bette & Barry: From Bathhouse to Broadway at Island City Stage is an imagining of if Midler and Manilow decided to do a concert together. In real pop history, they never have. This revu…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:54PM
Thursday, January 17, 2019

Consistency Celebrated In Carbonell Nominations For 2018 by Bill Hirschman

The reliable consistency of quality of some South Florida companies’ work was underscored Thursday with the release of the nominations for the 43rd Carbonell Awards honoring excellence dur…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:54AM
Wednesday, January 16, 2019

Riverside’s A New Argentina And A New Look At Evita by Bill Hirschman

The musical may have been around for decades, but Riverside’s triumphant production of Evita proves that the show has a strong universality that rings as loudly today as it did 40 years ag…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:24PM

Deep And Complex, A Shayna Maidel Thrives In Its Contrasts by Bill Hirschman

Whether you have seen A Shayna Maidel before, Chicken Coop Theater at Levis JCC Sandler Center does a fine job keeping intact Lebow's touching drama and its very definite Holocaust theme. Bu…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:18AM
Tuesday, January 15, 2019

Powerhouse Actresses Serve Up A Century Of History In Having Our Say At Primal Forces by Bill Hirschman

Having Our Say is likely the first play in which both of its characters are centenarian women of color. At Primal Forces’ regional premiere, this means two roles of uncommon heft and histo…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:42PM

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2024-2025 BROADWAY SEASON
Jun 05, 2024: Home - Todd Haimes Theatre
Jul 11, 2024: Oh, Mary! - Lyceum Theatre
Jul 30, 2024: Job - Hayes Theater
Sep 12, 2024: The Roommate - Booth Theatre
Nov 14, 2024: Tammy Faye - Palace Theatre
Dec 12, 2024: Cult of Love - Hayes Theater
Dec 19, 2024: Gypsy - Majestic Theatre
Mar 17, 2025: Purpose - Hayes Theater
Apr 01, 2025: Glengarry Glen Ross
Apr 10, 2025: Smash - Imperial Theatre
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