Tuesday, January 23, 2024
By Mariah Reed Neil Simon’s longest-running hit, Barefoot in the Park opened at the Biltmore Theatre on Broadway on October 23, 1963. It was only the second play Simon had ever written, ye…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:02AMSaturday, January 20, 2024
By Oline H. Cogdill The relationship between student and teacher often goes beyond the learning experience, fraught on both sides with understanding, resentment, frustration, respect, among …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:02PMFriday, January 19, 2024
By Oline Cogdill It’s doubtful any statistics exist to back this up, but probably a week doesn’t go by in which at least one professional, community or student theater somewhere isn’t …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:48PMWednesday, January 17, 2024
By Britin Haller Beautiful: The Carole King Musical is some kind of wonderful, but don’t expect to groove along with the songs from her greatest hits album, because that’s not what this …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:48PMSunday, January 14, 2024
By Oline H. Cogdill Family get-togethers can be fraught with underlying disagreements, resentments augmented by past histories. But in the case of the extended family in Zoetic Stage’s sol…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:32PMWednesday, January 10, 2024
By Oline H. Cogdill Can a musical that is on the surface highly entertaining, clicks all the buttons with strong acting, singing and dancing, with an innovative set enhanced by solid lightin…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:54PMSunday, January 7, 2024
By Pam Harbaugh Add an enthusiastic audience shooting to its feet and whooping out its approval and a musical transcends into something more immediate. That’s the case of Riverside Theatre…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:32PMMonday, December 25, 2023
By Aaron Krause A patriotic feeling envelops you as you hear Tevye the Dairyman talk about his share of the American Dream over the strains of The Stars and Stripes Forever. After all, Tevye…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:54PMWednesday, December 20, 2023
By Oline Cogdill Disney has become the master of crossover entertainment that appeals to both children and adults, especially those who can tap into their inner child. Proof positive of this…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:32AMSaturday, December 16, 2023
By Bill Hirschman Over 24 years, from its time in a compact storefront theater, Palm Beach Dramaworks has always produced a mix of classic titles, more modern works and a handful of debuts. …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:54PMTuesday, December 12, 2023
By Britin Haller The Wick Theatre & Museum Club’s 10th anniversary season is off to a rollicking start with Bye-Bye Birdie, a winner of four Tony Awards, including Best Musical, whe…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:42PMSunday, December 10, 2023
By Oline H. Cogdill “The only thing necessary for evil to triumph in the world is that good men do nothing.’’ That quote, attributed to 20th-century German philosopher Hannah Arendt an…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:54PMThursday, December 7, 2023
By Britin Haller Is there any literary character portrayed more than Ebenezer Scrooge? There are, but not many. The miserly grinch has been interpreted over many decades in myriad incarnatio…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:32AMTuesday, December 5, 2023
By Britin Haller The Maltz Jupiter Theatre’s rendition of A Christmas Carol will make audiences forget previous incarnations of this holiday classic. Forget about your favorite TV or film …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:18PMSaturday, December 2, 2023
By Raquel V. Reyes City Theatre brings the long-running Off-Broadway hit La Gringa to the studio stage at Adrienne Arsht Center. Carmen Rivera’s immersive bilingual full-length play dir…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 05:24PMTuesday, November 28, 2023
By Oline H. Cogdill Families are complicated, comprised of people who may have little in common but bloodlines, sometimes weighted down by secrets, lies, myths. Add to that mix a horrific ev…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:06PMTuesday, November 21, 2023
By Oline H. Cogdill Years ago, one of my sisters-in-law said that Thanksgiving was her favorite holiday because it was not connected to any religion and had no political nor controversy conn…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:18PMSaturday, November 18, 2023
By Bill Hirschman Outstanding work in the South Florida theater season was recognized this week at the 46th annual Carbonell Awards, but a highlight of the evening was the presentation of th…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 04:24PMSunday, November 12, 2023
By Raquel V. Reyes Richard Blanco’s and Vanessa Garcias’ Sweet Goats & Blueberry Señoritas is steeped in Cubanisms that will delight Miami audiences. The 90-minute play runs through…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 04:06PMSaturday, November 11, 2023
By Christine Dolen Not long after filmmaker-screenwriter Jonathan Jakubowicz published his debut novel in late 2016, Venezuelans at home and abroad began asking each other the same question:…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 03:12PMTuesday, November 7, 2023
By Oline H. Cogdill A sandwich is more than ingredients between two slices of bread at Clyde’s, the truck stop diner that is the setting and title of Lynn Nottage’s deliciously insightfu…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 07:42PMFriday, November 3, 2023
By Jan Sjostrom Prepare to be entertained when you board Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express. The play, which was adapted for the stage by Ken Ludwig from Christie’s classic 1…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:06AMWednesday, November 1, 2023
By Britin Haller Pigs Do Fly’s Morning After Grace is laugh-out-loud funny, with Carey Crim’s script chock with just about every adult theme imaginable, this is a big feat indeed. It’s…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:42PMTuesday, October 31, 2023
By Oline H. Cogdill Boca Stage smoothly navigates the psychological thriller’s nuances in its suspenseful production of Wait Until Dark that launches its 2023-2024 season and marks its deb…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:13AMSaturday, October 28, 2023
By Jan Sjostrom They really ought to have a starting gun to fire off I Love a Piano. The song-and-dance tribute to Irving Berlin that opens the season at the at The Wick Theatre in Boca Ra…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:13AMWednesday, October 25, 2023
By Aaron Krause Few plays are as riveting as Reginald Rose’s tense classic drama, Twelve Angry Men. In it, the stakes are sky-high as 12 people must decide whether a stranger lives or dies…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:25AMFriday, October 20, 2023
By Jan Sjostrom You might be hard-pressed to identify the hero in Lobby Hero, the 2023-2024 season opener at Palm Beach Dramaworks in West Palm Beach. None of the show’s four characters qu…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:07PMThursday, October 19, 2023
By Oline H. Cogdill The forest explored in Slow Burn Theatre Company’s vigorous production of the musical “Into the Woods” is the place to be. These woods might seem to be a sett…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:03PMThursday, October 12, 2023
By Oline H. Cogdill Theater is timeless, ever evolving, ever expanding. Themes that playwrights explored a thousand years ago are—with a bit of updating—still relevant. There’s a…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:43PMFriday, October 6, 2023
So many people contribute their talents to making South Florida theater soar—directors, actors, technical expers, support staff, playwrights—the list is endless. But also many p…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:19PMMonday, October 2, 2023
By Oline H. Cogdill August Wilson was one of the most insightful—if not THE most insightful—chronicler of Black life in America. He found the music in the language of ordinary people,…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:25PM 
