Friday, April 5, 2019
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]Thursday, April 4, 2019
Theatre Lab's world premiere of Jennifer Lane's Harlowe is indeed quiet, muted, dense. The titular heroine, who is coping with the emotional and literal scars from some horrific attack, can …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 03:48PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 2, 2019
Riverside Theatre turns down the volume and ratchets up the intellect in its production of Ghost-Writer, performing now on the Waxlax Stage.
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 05:13PM[SHARE]Monday, April 1, 2019
The electrifying choreography by Al Blackstone and the vibrant staging by Marcos Santana in the Maltz Jupiter Theatre's West Side Story not only wipe away any disappointment at not seeing Je…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:36PM[SHARE]Saturday, March 30, 2019
Perhaps the artists gifting us this superb tour of Dear Evan Hansen may not quite appreciate how some of its themes resound specifically in South Florida like the deafening battery of cannon…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:27AM[SHARE]Due to a power outage on opening night, the first performance of Dear Evan Hansen was unable to go on as scheduled. A performance has been added for Sunday, April 7 at 6:30 p.m. for audience…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:17AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 27, 2019
From White Plains at Island City Stage is ostensibly about bullying and responsibility, but it's really about something simpler and deeper: The past owns us.
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:41PM[SHARE]Last July, Lester Purry had just finished playing the volcanic Troy Maxson in August Wilson's most popular play Fences at Portland Playhouse in Oregon. "I told my wife, I'm never doing this …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:39AM[SHARE]Sunday, March 24, 2019
Neil Simon's dark comedy The Gingerbread Lady gets a fine production at Primal Forces featuring a bravura performance from Patti Gardner.
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:10PM[SHARE]Saturday, March 23, 2019
The world premiere of Confessions of a Cocaine Cowboy, a fact-based but stylistically executed play at Miami New Drama from filmmaker Billy Corben and screenwriter Aurin Squire, captures Mia…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:33AM[SHARE]Friday, March 22, 2019
In 2019, if you want some idea what the original production of Crazy For You was like, or what those Depression Era musicals were like, live and in the flesh, settle in for The Wick Theatre'…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:49AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 21, 2019
Broward Stage Door, which has battled through a dozen fiscal and artistic highs and lows over a quarter-century, has shut its doors. This week, the company cancelled the remaining performanc…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 05:08PM[SHARE]Actors' Playhouse is staging an electric, pulsating production of Memphis -- a high-octane, acrobatic dancing, believable performances and soulful, spirited singing. The performers' voices a…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:23AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 20, 2019
You'll be hard pressed to find a more energetic and exquisitely directed production of My Fair Lady than that on stage now at Riverside Theatre in Vero Beach. This production is a theatrical…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:12AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 19, 2019
Expectations: It's crucial that regular patrons know that Frida is unlike almost any other work previously offered by Florida Grand Opera. The eclectic score, surreal staging, use of microph…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 04:35PM[SHARE]Monday, March 18, 2019
How do you review a play without spoilers when perception-changing revelations occur every few minutes including one halfway through that shoves the play in a 90-degree angle? Just trust us …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:43AM[SHARE]Sunday, March 17, 2019
Levis JCC mounts charming and touching Crossing Delancey complete with matchmaker, a young woman eligible for a match and potential applicant.
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 07:14PM[SHARE]Saturday, March 16, 2019
One definition of classic theater is a piece that not only remains popular or relevant through time, but which can be endlessly reinterpreted or restaged without losing any of its brilliance…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 05:14PM[SHARE]Friday, March 15, 2019
It would be facile and unfair to say the one and only reason to see the Broward Stage Door production of the musical My One and Only is the exuberant joyful tap dancing. The leading lady has…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:30AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 14, 2019
For a director born in Puerto Rico, Marcos Santana sees West Side Story's depiction of gang warfare between New York natives and Puerto Rican immigrants containing some aspects that don't q…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:07AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 13, 2019
It's Wednesday, March 7, and Billy Corben's world premiere play Confessions of a Cocaine Cowboy has been in rehearsal for some time with Miami New Drama. It opens the next day for a week of …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:36AM[SHARE]Monday, March 11, 2019
Theater does not have to be loud and careening to be memorable. Outré Theatre Company's revival of the off-Broadway hit Next Fall courageously takes a huge chance staging this evening of em…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 01:47PM[SHARE]Sunday, March 10, 2019
Miami-based, Colombian-born soprano Catalina Cuervo is best known for portraying Maria in Piazzolla's Maria de Buenos Aires -- more than 50 times. But since 2015, she has been forging a simi…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:38AM[SHARE]Saturday, March 9, 2019
Pigs Do Fly's production of 2 Across is the story of two radically different but similarly lonely neurotic urbanites who meet on a pre-dawn San Francisco commuter train. They start as stran…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:48PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 5, 2019
Charlie Brown is 68 years old, but as the musical You're A Good Man Charlie Brown has proven year after year, Schulz's offspring remains ageless. Slow Burn Theatre Company's penny bright po…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:42AM[SHARE]Sunday, March 3, 2019
Ambitious is the word for the Levis JCC production of the musical Promises, Promises. Sometimes the commitment by everyone involved to make the show work helps it stay aloft, and, other time…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:42AM[SHARE]Saturday, March 2, 2019
There was no standing ovation for A Doll's House Part 2 at Maltz Jupiter Theatre from an audience which had stood for Mamma Mia! It's not that the incisive production didn't deserve accolade…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 02:45PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 26, 2019
In Main Street Players' riveting, unmissable mounting of David Mamet's scorching play, Race, director Lowell Williams wastes no time in hammering us with a sadly telling stage picture.
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 05:19PM[SHARE]Monday, February 25, 2019
Attention to detail in each element of New City Players' Raisin in the Sun makes it truly spectacular on every level, and that especially goes for the directing and the acting.
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:57PM[SHARE]Sunday, February 24, 2019
There's the tradition of Fiddler on the Roof, and then there's the tradition of the musical itself. It's a difficult task, this dual tradition of Fiddler on the Roof to carry it through in …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:33AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 20, 2019
The premise of Every Brilliant Thing might fool you into thinking that it's kin to a "very special" Lifetime Movie of the Week: a boy tries to ease the pain of his suicidal mother and his o…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:59PM[SHARE] 
