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Wednesday, May 22, 2019

No Doubt At All: Playhouse's Doubt Will Make You Think by Bill Hirschman

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…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:42PM[SHARE]
Monday, May 20, 2019

Breaking News: County "Prepared" To Sue City Over Grove Playhouse Rebuff by Bill Hirschman

Miami-Dade County is "prepared" to sue the City of Miami in order to proceed with its plan to resurrect the Coconut Grove Playhouse, said a county official spearheading the project.

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:24PM[SHARE]
Sunday, May 19, 2019

How Your Sausage Is Made in D.C.: GableStage's Kings by Bill Hirschman

Few plays have been as ruthlessly photographic depicting the pornographic incest of lobbying and corruption as well as the clash of idealism and pragmatism as Sarah Burgess' Kings, currently…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:06PM[SHARE]

Funny & Tragic Pursuit Of Fame In The House Of Blue Leaves by Bill Hirschman

The House of Blue Leaves gets as funny and touching a production from Palm Beach Dramaworks as anyone can ask for. Its virtues include superb direction, a flawless creative team and a wall-t…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:18AM[SHARE]
Friday, May 17, 2019

Breaking News: Miami Mayor Scuttles Coconut Grove Playhouse Plan With Veto by Bill Hirschman

Miami-Dade County's current plan to resurrect the Coconut Grove Playhouse was dealt what may be a fatal blow Friday when City of Miami Mayor Francis Suarez vetoed the project primarily on hi…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 01:12PM[SHARE]
Tuesday, May 14, 2019

Theater Cues & News: Matilda Jr., New City Reading, A New Patsy, Moving Measure, Theatre Lab Experiments, Traffic Woes by Bill Hirschman

News of Broward Center & local students create Matilda Jr., New City Players seeks feedback on new play, Wick extends and gets new Patsy Cline, TCG brings 1,000 artists to Miami, Measure…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:54PM[SHARE]

An Absurdist Take On Celebrity Worship At PB Dramaworks by Bill Hirschman

Palm Beach Dramaworks is reviving the funny, poignant The House of Blue Leaves about a Queens family whose life is turned inside out when the Pope visits NYC in 1965. Ordinary people spurred…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:42AM[SHARE]
Saturday, May 11, 2019

Intriguing 'Precious Little' Delves Into Communication by Bill Hirschman

Thinking Cap Theatre director Nicole Stodard and her fine trio of actresses have inarguably produced an engrossing emotional and intellectual puzzle to stimulate the heart and mind in Precio…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:18PM[SHARE]
Thursday, May 9, 2019

Breaking News: County Plan For Coconut Grove Playhouse Passes Crucial Test Wednesday by Bill Hirschman

The 13-year journey to resurrect the fabled Coconut Grove Playhouse squeaked by what may have been the last serious roadblock Wednesday when the Miami City Commission voted 3-2 to overturn o…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 01:12AM[SHARE]
Tuesday, May 7, 2019

Theatre Lab Gathers Scores Of Artists For Overnight Project by Bill Hirschman

Self-absorbed celebrities adopting babies, patients bonding in an asylum and a batty New Age retreat featuring a large plastic cow " just a few of the offbeat moments in Theatre Lab's Overni…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:06AM[SHARE]
Monday, May 6, 2019

Knowing How It Ends Is Part Of The Secret For Flight 232 by Bill Hirschman

The highly theatrical, superbly effective United Flight 232 presented by the House Theatre of Chicago makes a strong ending to the Arsht Center's Theatre Up Close series for the season.

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 05:33PM[SHARE]
Thursday, May 2, 2019

Viva La Parranda! Shares Soup, Stories And Song In A Very Original Production by Bill Hirschman

Viva La Parranda! from Miami New Drama is more than a documentary play. It's a microscopic and humanistic look inside a Venezuelan town, El Clavo, and singer Betsayda Machado has become the…

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Music Not The Plot Is The Attraction in FGO's Werther by Bill Hirschman

Jules Massenet's dramatic opera Werther is short on action, and its cast of characters limited. But it does have a reputation, however, of being the most French of French operas, and what ha…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:54PM[SHARE]
Tuesday, April 30, 2019

Fandom And Great Music Are Key To Always… Patsy Cline by Bill Hirschman

Always…Patsy Cline at the Wick Theatre gifts the audience with recreations of about two dozen hits from the iconic country singer's catalogue. But while the music is undeniably entertainin…

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17th South Florida Cappies Nominations Announced by Bill Hirschman

The Critics' Awards Program, or Cappies for short, will celebrate outstanding achievement in high school theater when students from 22 public and private schools throughout Broward and Palm …

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OMG, You Guys: Riverside's Legally Blonde Is A Hoot by Bill Hirschman

The snappy, bubblegum musical Legally Blonde has come to energetic life at Riverside Theatre, bringing laughs to the unjaded and knocking at the heart of the weary.

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:06AM[SHARE]
Monday, April 29, 2019

McKeever's Script Is The Star In Main Street's 37 Postcards by Bill Hirschman

Sometimes the star of the show is the words.. Main Street Players does a credible job bringing life to the comedy 37 Postcards, but its prime virtue is Michael McKeever's hilarious script, r…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:24PM[SHARE]
Saturday, April 27, 2019

Lion King Roars Back To Kravis And The Arsht As Fresh as Ever by Bill Hirschman

The procession of savannah creatures "magnificent lions, leaping, a lithe leopard, soaring birds and a story-high elephant " strolling up the through aisles and onto a theater stage in the o…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:10AM[SHARE]
Friday, April 26, 2019

Visually Stunning Anastasia Doesn't Scrimp In Any Way by Bill Hirschman

In recent years, while producers and designers of Broadway musicals have found subtle ways to slim down the overall effort on national tours. But Broadway Across America's current sit-down o…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:49PM[SHARE]
Thursday, April 25, 2019

Crucial Meeting On Grove Playhouse Delayed To May 8 by Bill Hirschman

Breaking News: The Miami City Commission agreed Thursday to delay a meeting on what many believe is the last crucial decision regarding the future of the Miami-Dade County proposal to resurr…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 04:08PM[SHARE]
Sunday, April 21, 2019

Imagination Makes Area Stage's Wizard Of Oz For Adults & Kids by Bill Hirschman

Hearing that Area Stage Company is mounting The Wizard of Oz might make childless theatergoers pass. It would be their loss. Director Giancarlo Rodaz, his inexhaustible cast and creative cre…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:42PM[SHARE]
Thursday, April 18, 2019

Obsession, Lust And Passion Rule At Measure's Murder Ballad by Bill Hirschman

Lust, anger and anguish pour out of urban millennials with like molten liquid gushing from an open fire hydrant in the new Measure For Measure Theatre's production of the chamber rock opera…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:12PM[SHARE]
Tuesday, April 16, 2019

M Ensemble's Old Settler Starts With Laughs, Ends With Tears by Bill Hirschman

The Old Settler at M Ensemble starts off like a TV sitcom featuring witty banter between sisters living in 1943 Harlem. But slowly, characters start referencing race, sex, age, loneliness an…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 05:54PM[SHARE]
Monday, April 15, 2019

Hundred Days: Grief As Part Of Life "With Music & A Few Laughs by Bill Hirschman

It may often feel like a concert, but Hundred Days at the Arsht Center's Theater Up Close series is a moving, heartening and deceptively polished theater piece with song and story hewing to …

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Saturday, April 13, 2019

Amparo Immersion Theater Is More Effective Than you Expect by Bill Hirschman

The experience of losing everything to the Cuban revolution, the visceral experience of being oppressed, the experience of leaving your beloved country, those are the hallmarks of the surpr…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 04:21PM[SHARE]
Wednesday, April 10, 2019

Love Is A Battlefield In Casey Dressler's The Wedding Warrior by Bill Hirschman

Casey Dressler brings her one-woman comedy with a score of characters, The Wedding Warrior, back to Fort Lauderdale's The Vanguard, redirected by Elena Maria Garcia

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:26PM[SHARE]

Amparo Aims To Immerse Patrons In Cuban Epic Tale by Bill Hirschman

Its creators acknowledge that the drama Amparo has familiar elements, especially the story of a family escaping Cuba and finding success in a new land. But the way the story is designed to s…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 01:21PM[SHARE]
Monday, April 8, 2019

Surprises & Cheers At Theater Prom " The 43rd Carbonells by Bill Hirschman

Monday was an evening of firsts at the 43rd Carbonell Awards for newcomers and veteran companies in which Palm Beach Dramaworks' moving Indecent won Best Play and Slow Burn Theatre Company's…

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Complete List of 2018 Carbonell Recipients And Statistics by Bill Hirschman

The complete list of Carbonell Award winners, nominees and breakdown by theater and county for the 2018 performance year.

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Saturday, April 6, 2019

Slow Burn's 9 to 5 Carries A Little Extra Spin In #metoo Era by Bill Hirschman

When the 9 to 5 bowed in 1980 , the movie about women rebelling against being taken advantage of was downright funny, even if the injustice and sexism it depicted was universally acknowledge…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:21AM[SHARE]
Friday, April 5, 2019

Dramaworks' Fences Rages Against The Dying Of The Light by Bill Hirschman

In Palm Beach Dramaworks' triumphant production of August Wilson's Fences, this Troy Maxson rages. Whether this physical kinetic Troy is delivering a defiant challenge to death, railing at t…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:37AM[SHARE]

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