Wednesday, February 7, 2018
You might want to don protective gear before seeing Clark Gable Slept Here, a pitch-black comedy by multi award-winning, versatile Miami-area playwright Michael McKeever. Folks won’t find …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:16AMTuesday, February 6, 2018
In a move that will spread the brand of Miami-based City Theatre around the world, the company begins this month producing collections of its short plays on Azamara Club Cruises luxury ships…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:21AMMonday, February 5, 2018
Raging family dysfunction played against an equally volatile backdrop of social upheaval makes for two seemingly separate but brilliantly acted and directed plays united in GableStage’s pr…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:22PMYou can’t really blame the playwright Erika Soerenson or artistic directors for thinking that a distaff reinterpretation of the Quentin Tarantino film Reservoir Dogs might make an intrigui…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:52AMSunday, February 4, 2018
Palm Beach Dramaworks’ production of On Golden Pond is a pleasing charmer suffused with warmth and aided immeasurably by a skilled cast and director. It’s well worth an evening’s diver…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:59PMSaturday, February 3, 2018
Broward Stage Door, which has weathered a dozen fiscal and artistic highs and lows, will leave the home it established 23 years ago in an abandoned Margate movie house, and move this summer …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:01AMTuesday, January 30, 2018
Audiences sitting down this weekend to see Palm Beach Dramaworks’ production of the venerable play On Golden Pond will get a visual shock. It’s intentional, but not quite as originally p…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 07:21PMThe co-production of Miami New Drama and the Asolo Repertory Theatre Company resonates so deafeningly with the current zeitgeist that it seemed to have been written last month. This mercile…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:03AMSunday, January 28, 2018
Someone asked opening night whether Florida Grand Opera’s Salome was anything like early productions when its psycho-sexuality caused it to be banned in a few countries. Well, it’s doubt…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:00PMSpurred by mortality, human beings struggling to repair connections as conduits toward understanding their lives form the crux of Primal Force’s intimate exploration of relationships in th…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:33AMSaturday, January 27, 2018
Playwright Eric Lane gives little to no direction for the setting in his play Ride. Had you not known this and watched the imaginatively drawn setting by Giancarlo Rodaz, who not only direc…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 01:00PMFriday, January 26, 2018
Meet the Ladies of Sassy Mamas, some of Washington, D.C.'s finest women who are going through a mid-life crisis of sorts. They've turned the tables on older men, a given that all is right wi…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:32PMHamilton and Dear Evan Hansen – two of the most critically acclaimed and fantastically popular musicals of the past decade – headline the 2018-2019 Broadway Across America season slated …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:43AMThursday, January 25, 2018
Riverside Theatre’s Waxlax stage turns into a high-spirited Victorian musical hall with its robust and meticulous production of The Mystery of Edwin Drood.
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:49AMWednesday, January 24, 2018
Noises Off is one of the funniest farces written in the English language and a solid match for Actors Playouse talents. The laughs are plentiful, but this production didn’t wring everythin…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:43AMMonday, January 22, 2018
Slow Burn Theatre Company’s production of The Bridges of Madison County is what critics save up our credibility for – so that when a work of art is this effective, this moving, this capt…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 05:05PMSaturday, January 20, 2018
They are unlike any trials you have ever seen on Law & Order. Zoetic Stage’s world premiere of Christopher Demos-Brown’s Wrongful Death And Other Circus Acts is a hilarious but merc…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 02:06PMThursday, January 18, 2018
Everything about the Maltz Jupiter Theatre's Hairspray has volume, and then some . . . from the bubblegum-bright lighting design to overdrawn characters that, while definitely animated, neve…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 03:44PMTuesday, January 16, 2018
Christopher Demos-Brown has a world premiere Friday of Wrongful Death And Other Circus Acts at Zoetic Stage, but his play American Son is slated to open on Broadway in November.
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:57PMMonday, January 15, 2018
The Wick’s Singin’ in the Rain, for all of its talent and technical achievements and good cheer, offers too few reasons to experience the stage version of the definitive MGM movie musica…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:17AMSunday, January 14, 2018
Island City Stage’s highly entertaining production of the musical Zanna, Don’t! will never be confused with a show by Stephen Sondheim, though there are numerous references to the famed …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:36PMThursday, January 11, 2018
We could tell you that A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder is a satire of the artificiality of the class system and an affectionate lampoon of British theater genres such as the musi…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:02AMWednesday, January 10, 2018
South Florida has long been home to minority-dominated theater companies as well as productions in which race was a central theme. But the Carbonell Award nominations for 2017 released this …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 07:11AMMonday, January 8, 2018
Two musicals open since March are still worth taking in any time you make to Manhattan. And if you can’t afford a trip up north, rest assured that these will tour South Florida in the next…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:13AMSunday, January 7, 2018
They may not look like their counterparts, but they sure sound like them. They’ve got the moves, the stylings and so much rock ‘n roll energy you’ll feel like you’re at a concert rat…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:48PMFriday, January 5, 2018
Christopher Durang initially wrote Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike to precisely match the inimitable talents of David Hyde Pierce, Sigourney Weaver and Kristine Nielsen. So it’s no sur…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:36PMWednesday, January 3, 2018
Broward Stage Door’s production of Flashdance the Musical has aspects worth recommending such as two charismatic leads with powerful voices worthy of a brass band. That’s fortunate becau…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:22PMTuesday, December 26, 2017
One pleasure of a theater critic’s job are these year-end retrospectives that require looking back at reviews and be reminded, “Oh, yeah, that was really great. And right, there was that…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:42AMSaturday, December 23, 2017
Smokey Joe’s Café, the quintessential plotless rock n’ roll jukebox revue, is as dependable as light entertainment gets in the hands of experienced directors like Kevin Black at Broward…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:04PMMonday, December 18, 2017
Be grateful that Slow Burn Theatre Company with its audacious affection for large scale challenging musicals has decided to mount The Secret Garden, that ode to rebirth, memorable for its lu…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 01:48PM 
