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Friday, June 8, 2018

Demos-Brown’s Bway Debut Gets Date, Theater and Cast Including Kerry Washington by Bill Hirschman

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
Tuesday, June 5, 2018

Miami’s Shorts Is Once Again A Welcome Summer Cooler by Bill Hirschman

They make it look so easy. The 23rd annual City Theatre Summer Shorts crew slip seamlessly from broad comedy with a hint of a moral to bittersweet drama with a soupcon of dry wit…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 04:54PM
Thursday, May 31, 2018

Women’s Journey Is Familiar in Stage Door’s From Door to Door by Bill Hirschman

From Door to Door, a bittersweet comedy retracing the evolution of Jewish-American womanhood through 65 years of the 20th Century, is a procession of clichés spread over 80 minutes. But if …

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:18PM
Monday, May 28, 2018

Lots of News: Summer Fest, Charlie Cinnamon, Dramaworks, GableStage, MNM, Stage Door, Spotlight On the Arts & More by Bill Hirschman

Tons of news about South Florida Theatre League, MNM Theatre Company, GableStage, Palm Beach Dramworks, Spotlight on the Arts, Earl Maulding, Actors Playhouse, Broward Stage Door, Lightning …

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:42AM
Sunday, May 27, 2018

MNM Theatre Co. Hosts A Welcome Return to Avenue Q by Bill Hirschman

MNM Theatre ’s Avenue Q, the musical comedy with foul-mouthed and copulating puppets, has never been as clearly about education as now. It’s the curriculum about coping with disappointme…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 02:06PM
Wednesday, May 23, 2018

Winners of 16th Annual Cappies Awards Presented This Week 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 11:32PM
Tuesday, May 22, 2018

Imagination Substitutes For Big Budget In Delightful Shrek by Bill Hirschman

Director Giancarlo Rodaz made a virtue out of a tiny budget by substituting imagination for cash plus a joyful embrace of theatrical artifice in his production of Shrek the Musical at Area S…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 02:48PM
Sunday, May 20, 2018

Thinking Cap’s Emperor of the Moon Is Delightful Lune-acy by Bill Hirschman

With a cast of unfettered and inspired clowns, Thinking Cap Theatre has produced a hilarious edition of a 1687 comedy by Aphra Benn, The Emperor of the Moon, lathering almost every second of…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 02:42PM
Saturday, May 19, 2018

Stunning Excoriating Equus Gallops Across Dramaworks by Bill Hirschman

Mere hours before the opening night of Equus at Palm Beach Dramaworks – a drama prompted by the true story of a troubled teen who blinded five horses – another troubled teen murdered 10 …

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 05:54PM
Friday, May 18, 2018

Nothing Average About Measure For Measure’s Next To Normal by Bill Hirschman

A new theater debuting by choosing a complex musical about mental illness, and in the small confines of the 50 or so seat theater? Now that takes confidence. And confident the professional, …

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:54AM
Thursday, May 17, 2018

Dramaworks Hopes 45-Year-Old Equus Remains Raw, Relevant by Bill Hirschman

Raw. The same carefully chosen adjective emerges in separate interviews with the two leading actors and their director to describe Equus, the shattering drama they are rehearsing for an open…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:54AM
Wednesday, May 16, 2018

Victor/Victoria Is Two Times The Fun With Emphasis On Antics by Bill Hirschman

There's more than a bit of Noel Coward running through Broward Stage Door Theatre's Victor/Victoria. It's what makes this production tick, a true understanding, and might we say, appreciatio…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:54AM
Tuesday, May 15, 2018

Million Dollar Quartet’s Reprise At Actors’ Rocks Once Again by Bill Hirschman

So…what do Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash, Elvis Presley and Jerry Lee Lewis have in store for an encore in Actors’ Playhouse at the Miracle Theatre’s much-anticipated return engagement of …

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:42PM
Monday, May 14, 2018

New Measure For Measure Troupe Prevails Over Irma by Bill Hirschman

Daimien J. Matherson and his new South Florida theater company Measure for Measure are finally about to put an undesired nickname -- and Hurricane Irma -- behind them Almost exactly eight mo…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 02:54PM
Saturday, May 5, 2018

Success Of Primal Forces’ New ‘An Accident’ Is No Accident by Bill Hirschman

The prickly problematic mutual attempts to heal physically and emotionally by an auto accident victim and the offending driver make an intriguing and rewarding drama at Primal Forces' An Acc…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 04:48PM
Sunday, April 29, 2018

FGO’s Gloriously Romantic Florencia en el Amazonas (Plus A Little Bit Of Magical Realism) by Bill Hirschman

Even more unflinchingly romantic than those starving Bohemians in the garret or those Egyptians being buried alive, the unalloyed passion coursing through Daniel Catan's Florencia en el Amaz…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 01:33PM
Saturday, April 28, 2018

Complete Cappies Nominations Released, Gala Set For May 22 by Bill Hirschman

Those who doubt that young people are no longer interested in theater should watch the hundreds and hundreds of teenagers producing a tsunami of enthusiastic cheering and celebrating they ge…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:36PM
Tuesday, April 24, 2018

Wick Continues Love Of Herman With Re-Imagined ‘Jerry’s Girls’ by Bill Hirschman

This familiar musical revue of Broadway legend Jerry Herman's hits and misses, Jerry's Girls, has been reimagined for the Wick theatre by Herman's buddy Lee Roy Reams and performed by a com…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:18PM
Friday, April 20, 2018

Second Round Of 2018-19 Titles Released For SoFla Theaters by Bill Hirschman

A second round of South Florida theater season announcements have coincided with the withdrawal of snowbirds, but if this year’s busy slate is any indication, the 2018-2019 season will bar…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 04:18PM
Thursday, April 19, 2018

MSP’s This Random World A Challenging Study In Character by Bill Hirschman

Main Street Players challenges itself and its audiences in This Random World, this 90-minute think piece that will make you question some of your own connections to the people in your life. …

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 05:06PM
Wednesday, April 18, 2018

Preach: Praise For Return Of M Ensemble’s God’s Trombones by Bill Hirschman

For those assigned to commit James Weldon Johnson's narratives to memory in their younger days, M Ensemble’s God’s Trombones will wrap them in warm nostalgia. For others, M Ensemble skil…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:06PM

Just Try To Resist Mamma Mia At Riverside In Vero. Good Luck. by Bill Hirschman

Riverside Theatre throws the gauntlet at your feet with its professional production of Mamma Mia! So relent. Pick it up and have a ball at this bouncy juke box musical. This Mamma Mia! is si…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 07:24PM
Monday, April 16, 2018

Queen Of Basel Reimagines Miss Julie in Modern South Beach by Bill Hirschman

Amid the rise of the #metoo movement, the surprise in the new play Queen of Basel, subtitled “Or an unapologetic response to Strindberg’s Miss Julie,” is just how closely this modern-d…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:33PM
Saturday, April 14, 2018

The Joy And Pain Of Discovery Make Zoetic’s Fun Home Soar by Bill Hirschman

The stirring musical Fun Home is a detective story in which the mystery is never solved, but the investigator comes to terms with the existence of the enigma. What Zoetic Stage’s triumphan…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:39PM
Thursday, April 12, 2018

The Importance Of Dreams: Waitress On Tour’s Poignancy by Bill Hirschman

This Broadway Across America production of Waitress at the Broward Center about the complexities and emotional truth of how dreams do and should form the backbone of life.arguably is even br…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:51AM
Wednesday, April 11, 2018

Be Here Now Is Engrossing Experience, Skillfully Staged, Acted By Theatre Lab by Bill Hirschman

Life is all about attitude and how you perceive what you encounter, whether it be a stack of garbage or a deadly disease, in Be Here Now, Deborah Zoe Laufer’s life-affirming, funny and tou…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:32AM

Time Step Taps With Originality At Broward Stage Door by Bill Hirschman

Time Step, the creative and original dance-centric revue at Broward Stage Door Theatre is a time travel tribute to tap dancing in all of its many guises.

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:45AM
Monday, April 9, 2018

Not Just Another Day At The Office: GableStage’s Caustic, Whipsmart Dramedy “Gloria” by Bill Hirschman

At some workplaces, employees indulge in healthy rivalry, support each other professionally and personally and, sometimes, forge deep friendships that last long after the job has ended. That…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 04:01PM

New City Players’ Uneven, Occasionally Brilliant Clybourne Park is Not Black & White by Bill Hirschman

Produced competently, with flashes of brilliance, by New City Players at the Vanguard, Clybourne Park’s expose of the evolving presentation of white privilege over generations has lost som…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:59AM
Saturday, April 7, 2018

Intriguing Script Needs A Lot More Work In Island City’s The Radicalization Of Rolfe by Bill Hirschman

The world premiere The Radicalization of Rolfe at Island City Stage implies a truly intriguing nesting of premises: starting with how Rolfe, the sweet messenger boy romancing Liesl in The So…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:46AM
Tuesday, April 3, 2018

Parkland Students ‘Shine’ In Highlight Of Carbonell Awards by Bill Hirschman

An emotion-choked audience leapt to their feet during Monday’s 42nd annual Carbonell Awards ceremony, but it had nothing to do with the recognition of excellence in South Florida theater. …

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:59AM

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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
TBA: Titanic