Saturday, August 24, 2019
Anticipation 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 Hamilton…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:48PM[SHARE]Growth 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 memorable …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:48PM[SHARE]Friday, 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 12:54PM[SHARE]Thursday, 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 11:36AM[SHARE]Wednesday, 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 League …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 04:06PM[SHARE]Sunday, 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 offe…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 07:03PM[SHARE]Friday, 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 perform…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:18AM[SHARE]Thursday, 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 should …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 02:18PM[SHARE]Wednesday, 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 Co…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:03AM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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 11:36PM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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 04:36PM[SHARE]Saturday, 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 05:42PM[SHARE]Wednesday, 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 pageant …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:06AM[SHARE]Monday, 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 of…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 03:54PM[SHARE]Saturday, 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 01:33PM[SHARE]Thursday, 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 Shorts is f…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 05:42PM[SHARE]Sunday, 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 throug…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:03PM[SHARE]Thursday, 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 12:06AM[SHARE]Wednesday, 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 human…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 07:42PM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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 professional …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:24PM[SHARE]Monday, 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 12:42AM[SHARE]Wednesday, 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[SHARE]Monday, June 10, 2019
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[SHARE]Saturday, June 8, 2019
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 lives…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:24PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 4, 2019
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[SHARE]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 Island Ci…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:06AM[SHARE]Sunday, June 2, 2019
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[SHARE]Wednesday, May 29, 2019
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 curtain…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:33AM[SHARE]Friday, May 24, 2019
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 Broward…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:54AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 23, 2019
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 coun…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 02:06PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 22, 2019
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 the…
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