Monday, 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 01:48PMSunday, December 17, 2017
Thinking Cap Theatre’s opening performance of Young Jean Lee’s Straight White Men might have been among the best nights of theater in South Florida so far this season. I say “might hav…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 03:36PMSaturday, December 16, 2017
For a show whose strengths are its celebration of nose-thumbing non-conformity and anarchic scenes of unrestrained thrash metal music, School of Rock is a surprisingly conventional musical t…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:12PMTuesday, December 12, 2017
Over 21 years, City Theatre’s ever-expanding enterprises have developed and maintained a brand-level reputation for entertaining theater; its return to cool weather programming with the cu…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 02:42PMSunday, December 10, 2017
Palm Beach Dramaworks’ production of the world premiere of Billy and Me, a fictionalization of the real life relationship between playwrights Tennessee Williams and William Inge, is a triu…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:18AMThursday, December 7, 2017
The Maltz Jupiter Theatre gives the Disney Broadway musical Newsies something to shout about with its energetic, acrobatic, tap-dancing, choreographic eye-popper of a staging about a group …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:42AMWednesday, December 6, 2017
When entering a theater playing a musical you’ve enjoyed numerous times, it’s comforting to open the playbill to find the names of proven talents that reassure that you and the material …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 05:18PMTuesday, December 5, 2017
Some works of art are born in a long gestation period of mulling almost in the unconscious; others leap gloriously to life in an exultant flash that is one of joys of being a creative person…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:42AMSunday, December 3, 2017
Most Wanted starts out like one of those wacky only-in-Florida tales, but as Peter Sagal’s world premiere at Theatre Lab, evolves the weirdness gives way to poignancy that eclipses the hum…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:24AMFriday, December 1, 2017
The Camp, a world premiere drama from the West Boca Theatre Company does not advance the age-old discussion how “good” people can be passively complicit in horrors, but Michael McKeever�…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:12AMThursday, November 30, 2017
In this 21st Century revision of 1988's M. Butterfly, it’s the wrongheadedness of that paternalistic hubris that is taken for granted. This incarnation delves more deeply into the human re…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 04:33PMTuesday, November 28, 2017
News about benefit concert for ailing choreographer Ben Solmor, another public hearing on the Coconut Grove Playhouse set for Thursday, and Andrews Living Arts closes
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 07:33PMMonday, November 27, 2017
Just in time for the start of the holiday, the Wick Theatre delivers a shiny ornament in the form of the unabashedly romantic musical She Loves Me.
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:48PMSunday, November 26, 2017
A genial older woman with a warm smile, a self-deprecating charm and a cute mittel-European accent via Brooklyn greets the audience to her apartment like new neighbors. While packing for a m…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:04PMSaturday, November 18, 2017
Florida Grand Opera promised a season of Divas to Die For, and it couldn't have been more on point in that respect with its 77th season opener, Lucia di Lammermoor. Gaetano Donizetti's bel c…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:24AMFriday, November 17, 2017
If producers mount the musical Dreamgirls, it’s a given that they have hired as Effie some astounding young diva capable of punching a hole in the back of the auditorium with her melisma. …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:04AMWednesday, November 15, 2017
Tune will headline a one-night-only benefit concert Nov. 18 for the Maltz Jupiter Theatre and its education programs. The theater hired a ten-piece orchestra and re-orchestrated the more mod…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:54PMMonday, November 13, 2017
In this uncertain world, the ever-changing standards of what life is or even should be make it nearly impossible to chart a path forward when we have less idea what might be ahead than Colu…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:36PMSaturday, November 11, 2017
Slow Burn Theatre Company’s rollicking race-down-the-hill production of Peter and the Starcatcher is a joyful hoot packed with more sight gags, puns, pratfalls, wordplay and even a bit of …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:04PMThursday, November 9, 2017
The cat and mouse game in Zoetic Stage's Topdog/Underdog moves as swiftly and cunningly as the two characters' dexterity in the shell game, which in this case is three-card monte, a street h…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 03:42PMWednesday, November 8, 2017
Love Never Dies is a sequel if not the equal to Phantom of the Opera from Broadway Across America at the Broward Center, but Andrew Lloyd Webber’s attempt for lightning to strike twice, wh…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:54AMTuesday, November 7, 2017
David Arisco has directed Evita for Actors' Playhouse three times. So, what's different this go 'round? Well, to hear him tell it, the Andrew Lloyd Webber-Tim Rice musical, written four deca…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:36AMMonday, November 6, 2017
Maltz Jupiter Theatre’s season-opening rendition of Born Yesterday can’t pave over the script’s glaring weaknesses, but it amplifies the source material’s progressive strengths. Dire…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:04PMFriday, November 3, 2017
From its upbeat tunes to soulful longings, Hank Williams: Lost Highway takes Riverside Theatre audiences on a revealing musical story about one of America’s most important country singers.
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:12PMMonday, October 30, 2017
Amazingly, in 2017 with its video games, alt right-antifa strife and uber-sophistication, Our Town is still our town. And no more so than in Miami New Drama’s inventive and often touching …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:04AMSunday, October 29, 2017
Right off the bat, Broward Stage Door's Tickling the Ivories shows the artistry of the piano wizards and of the inventiveness of a show that turns the typical musical revue theme on its ear.
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:18PMFriday, October 27, 2017
The South Florida Silver Palm Theatre Awards, founded ten years ago to honor theatrical excellence in South Florida, has announced the identities of the 28 individuals and organizations rece…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 02:48PMThursday, October 26, 2017
With genuine uncertainty of how successfully it will play, Miami New Drama artistic director Michel Hausmann keeps calling his unique undertaking “an experiment."
He’s mounting Our To…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:24PMWednesday, October 25, 2017
Tarzan: The Stage Musical, by regional theater troupe Slow Burn Theatre plays just fine in the smaller, almost 600-seat Amaturo Theater at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts, but, tr…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:24PMTuesday, October 24, 2017
The Wick Theatre’s marvelous and contemplative rendition pulls off The Drowsy Chaperone with boundless charm and effortless sophistication. The Wick has enjoyed its share of highlights ove…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:48PMMonday, October 23, 2017
Lizzie: The Musical, is making its highly entertaining South Florida debut at Thinking Cap Theatre at The Vanguard. Part of that is due to the snappy lyrics. But mostly it’s because of the…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:18PM 
