Thursday, September 20, 2018
A “celebration’ of the life of Iris Acker – the iconic actress, teacher, producer and theater booster through her television shows -- has been scheduled for 7 p.m. Monday October 15 a…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:12PMShe Kills Monsters is a dramatic comedy given an inventive and enthusiastic production by Area Stage Company -- a show proudly described as “theater for nerds,” or more accurately, for y…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 03:36PMTuesday, September 18, 2018
Iris Acker -- the vivacious actress, teacher, author, dancer, artistic director, producer and groundbreaking union leader who helped transform South Florida theater – died Sunday night aft…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:36AMMonday, September 17, 2018
Thinking Cap Theatre’s Crooked superbly captures the fear, confusion and pain of being an adolescent – and the same fear, confusion and pain struggling to raise one. With vibrant perform…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:54PMSaturday, September 15, 2018
Now & Then, a world premiere musical in Wilton Manors, is a quiet gentle love story told with an inventive twist. But it’s a tale tracing the episodes of an arc so familiar that it mi…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:06AMMonday, September 10, 2018
Ronia, the Robber's Daughter -- the first offering of Theatre Lab's family-friendly series -- satisfies the parameters of youth theatre but with a pedigree that transcends its genre, a produ…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:04AMTuesday, September 4, 2018
Broward Stage Door’s La Cage aux Folles stresses the universal virtues of love and loyalty, delivered with only a wry smile to acknowledge that its protagonists are an aging gay couple inc…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:48PMFriday, August 31, 2018
An Hour Without TV -- in which an abused wife convinces her husband to give her one hour without ESPN so she can tell him she leaving – is easily the most mistitled drama in many years. It…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:24PMMonday, August 20, 2018
News about Broward Teen Ambassadors' application deadline, Theatre Lab's new series for families, Kravis Center's volunteer opportunities, a benefit for Insight for the Blind, and a terrific…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:06PMMonday, August 13, 2018
White Guy on the Bus at GableStage is a merciless dissection of race relations in the 21st Century, but stunning plot twists prevent us from explaining much further than a wealthy white bus…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:32AMSunday, August 12, 2018
Area Stage Company's Cabaret underscores how this warhorse musical still serves, not as a cautionary tale, but as a flat out warning to our current socio-political climate: The production's …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:32PMFriday, August 10, 2018
It’s almost paternalistic to praise New City Players as one of the gutsiest theaters in the region. But with its carefully-wrought and moving production of Constellations, the Players have…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 02:06PMMonday, August 6, 2018
No one could accuse the cast of Shorts Gone Wild 6 of being low energy. They spend the production’s interstitial moments cartwheeling, performing splits, engaging in slapdash chicken danc…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:12AMFriday, August 3, 2018
Unsung heroes who provide outstanding service behind the scenes in local theater will receive recognition this year from the South Florida Theatre League’s 2018 Remy Awards.
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:36PMSunday, July 29, 2018
Worse than Spiderman Turn Off The Dark, the mega-epic The Big Bang may be the most bloated, overwrought, inept, politically incorrect, painfully lame, downright stupidest musical of all time…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:24PMSaturday, July 28, 2018
If you’re over 40 and you heard that some theater was reviving that chamber musical I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change… come on, you said, “Again?” So here’s the really good …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 02:54PMThursday, July 26, 2018
News of Florida Grand Opera, Florida International University, Knight Foundation, Broadway Across America and Costume World
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:12AMSunday, July 22, 2018
Let’s talk about sex, drugs and relationships. Let’s dish about thoughtless cruel men we’ve known, love and loneliness, fears that hold us back and strengths that can empower us. Such …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 02:06PMSaturday, July 21, 2018
Aunt Jack, S.P. Monahan’s world premiere play at Empire Stage, rejects pigeonholing sexuality with a single label or category. Sexual identity is what you choose it to be and Monahan champ…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 03:06PMThursday, July 19, 2018
Breaking Up Is Hard To Do -- which hangs a plot or two around 18 of the songs by 1960s pop icon Neil Sedaka, is the perfect swan song to close this chapter of the Broward Stage Door as it g…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:42PMSunday, July 15, 2018
Woody Guthrie’s American Song is most decidedly a people’s musical, at least in its vivifying production at Palm Beach Dramaworks is more of a communal hoedown with Guthrie’s music as …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 05:48PMTuesday, July 3, 2018
For all the raunchy scenes in Michael Mizerany’s new play The Big D, the message at the weepy comedy-drama’s heart is serious and sincere. Sure, the characters engage in hard-core, unaba…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:06PMFriday, June 29, 2018
In looking over my huge collection of play scripts, I kept coming across shows I either have seen and am anxious to see undertaken by a local company, or titles I’ve read but never seen �…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:06AMThursday, June 21, 2018
If there's any way to get folks to the theater who don't usually go, Slow Burn's Rock of Ages can do it. Director/choreographer Patrick Fitzwater knows exactly how to squeeze every inch of c…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 04:05AMTuesday, June 19, 2018
In the lovely confines of The Vanguard, Yasmin Reza's modern classic Art comes to life in New City Players' finely curated production.
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 05:48PMMonday, June 18, 2018
When did yesterday’s renegades, who skirted AIDS and lived boheme on a ramen noodle diet in the go-go eighties, become today’s get-off-my-lawners? These questions, and plenty more, linge…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 04:32PMSunday, June 17, 2018
Laura Turnbull in the solo show The Pink Unicorn from Primal Forces places us in the headspace of a widowed mother in a small—and small-minded—Texas suburb who transforms into an unwit…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 05:18AMThursday, June 14, 2018
In the current production of The M Ensemble Company, August Wilson’s legendary Seven Guitars almost plays like a musical or a folk opera akin to Porgy and Bess or Floyd Collins.
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 07:06PMTuesday, June 12, 2018
Into the Woods’ disturbing second act occurs in a boy’s nightmare in Lightning Bolt Production’s riveting, pulse-quickening production at the West Boca Performing Arts Center. Director…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 04:24PMSunday, June 10, 2018
Human beings’ desperate need for affirmation of their self-worth from some source outside themselves – whether it’s from a parent or strangers’ judgments – drives GableStage’s sc…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:42AMFriday, June 8, 2018
The intensifying Black Lives Matter conversation will be fueled on Broadway this fall in the unique vision of Christopher Demos-Brown, one of Florida’s most esteemed theater professionals,…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:24AM 
