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]Sunday, February 17, 2019
Blonde Poison asks whether a Jewish woman who identified about 3,000 other Jews to the Gestapo for "deportation," is "villain or victim?" But playwright Gail Louw, Primal Forces director Kei…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:04PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 14, 2019
Riverside Theatre serves up the sentimentality with a ladle in its production of The Last Romance. The play concerns a trio of senior citizens struggling with loneliness, delving into the hu…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 05:24PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 13, 2019
The dominating vision of The Tree and its dark violent past is a theatrical masterstroke from writer-director Layon Gray that opens a stirring Meet Me At The Oak, posting yet another strong …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:48PM[SHARE]Sunday, February 10, 2019
Although We Will Not Be Silent is suffused with a long dorm night's worth of philosophical and moral gymnastics, playwright David Meyers and Theatre Lab inject the audience so deeply into su…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:06AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 5, 2019
Frank Wildhorn's Jekyll & Hyde is one of those Continental Divides in musical theater: You either love it " or tolerate it. But if you're going to perform a work by the pioneering princ…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:24PM[SHARE]Monday, February 4, 2019
Florida Grand Opera does daring works (we're looking forward to the upcoming final two of the season, Frida and Werther), but, to satisfy audiences who prefer to see the familiar, there is c…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:48PM[SHARE]Sunday, February 3, 2019
When was the last time a musical slipped into your veins and rode your bloodstream for two hours? When did a musical speak so accurately of your own pain and longing that you knew you were n…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 07:36PM[SHARE]Friday, February 1, 2019
Passions erupt as art, commerce and international politics collide and conflict in the world premiere of Carmen Pelaez's intriguing Fake at Miami New Drama. This play centering on a possible…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:32PM[SHARE]Thursday, January 31, 2019
Dare your adult to take your inner child to see Dance Nation at Thinking Cap Theatre in which adults play teenagers prepping for a competition. Were a prize given out today for Best Ensemble…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:04AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 30, 2019
One of contemporary theater's most powerful rock operas, Next to Normal, concerns a family dealing with the mother's bipolar disorder. And you have the opportunity to see this Tony Award and…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 07:32PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 29, 2019
GableStage's rendering of Paula Vogel's Indecent is freshly distinctive from Rebecca Taichman's New York staging and from the rapturously received version that Palm Beach Dramaworks deliver…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:04AM[SHARE]Monday, January 28, 2019
There are probably 27 synonyms for the word funny and 157 familiar tropes. All the words apply and all the classic bits can be found in Actors' Playhouse's farce One Man, Two Guvnors.
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:04PM[SHARE]Saturday, January 26, 2019
Usually, Zoetic Stage's director Stuart Meltzer's deft work is almost invisible to audience members other than bringing a fresh vision to familiar titles. But his masterful work in The Curi…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 05:18PM[SHARE]Friday, January 25, 2019
The Maltz Jupiter Theatre's Mamma Mia! gets its mojo from a strong, consistent cast to carry out the sitcom-esque plot that is held together as if by taffy " twenty 1970s radio hits that are…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:12AM[SHARE]Monday, January 21, 2019
If there is one disappointment about the South Florida Symphony's ambitious staging of Porgy and Bess it is that there aren't more opportunities to see the production. The Wilton Manors-base…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:18PM[SHARE]Sunday, January 20, 2019
Few theatrical challenges are as a daunting as actor taking on an iconic role made unforgettable by an inimitable talent in a career-making performance engraved in the popular consciousness.…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:04PM[SHARE]Friday, January 18, 2019
Bette & Barry: From Bathhouse to Broadway at Island City Stage is an imagining of if Midler and Manilow decided to do a concert together. In real pop history, they never have. This revu…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:54PM[SHARE]Thursday, January 17, 2019
The reliable consistency of quality of some South Florida companies' work was underscored Thursday with the release of the nominations for the 43rd Carbonell Awards honoring excellence durin…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:54AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 16, 2019
The musical may have been around for decades, but Riverside's triumphant production of Evita proves that the show has a strong universality that rings as loudly today as it did 40 years ago.…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:24PM[SHARE]Whether you have seen A Shayna Maidel before, Chicken Coop Theater at Levis JCC Sandler Center does a fine job keeping intact Lebow's touching drama and its very definite Holocaust theme. Bu…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:18AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 15, 2019
Having Our Say is likely the first play in which both of its characters are centenarian women of color. At Primal Forces' regional premiere, this means two roles of uncommon heft and history…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:42PM[SHARE]Monday, January 7, 2019
A celebration of the life of Tony Finstrom, playwright patron and theater lover, is scheduled for Monday, Jan 21 from 7 to 10 p.m. at the Wold Performing Arts Center at Lynn University where…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 01:48PM[SHARE]It took Main Street Players' lethargic production of Superior Donuts about 20 minutes to show much signs of life, and even then the primary electricity came from one actor as a young man abl…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:42PM[SHARE]Thursday, January 3, 2019
The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation has awarded $2 million to Miami-Dade County to complete the project for GableStage-FAU's theatre department to rebuild and reopen the Coconut Grove…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:32AM[SHARE]Sunday, December 30, 2018
By Bill Hirschman If you're a theater aficionado and received a nice check from your mother for the holidays or maybe from a busy relative gave you a gift card to Barnes & Noble, what sh…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:04PM[SHARE]Friday, December 28, 2018
South Florida will reinforce its commitment to new play development in January with two simultaneous new play reading festivals at Palm Beach Dramaworks and FAU Theatre Lab during the first …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:12AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 26, 2018
Breathtaking tour de forces, heartbreaking tragedies on stage and in real life, shows you've never heard of and shows you've seen three times too often, troupes taking chances - some resulti…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:36AM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 25, 2018
For theater artist Ronnie Larsen, "the roots are setting very deep" in Wilton Manors. "It just feels right to stay here." Larsen is a playwright, actor, director and producer "whose work has…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:32PM[SHARE]Thursday, December 20, 2018
Hamilton, which explodes with power, vitality and imagination in the Broward Center for a five-week run, is not the Second Coming as many overheated observers would have you believe. But thi…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 02:48PM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 19, 2018
Tony Finstrom, who died Tuesday at the age of 71, was a prolific playwright, an arts journalist and a generous patron, but above all Tony Finstrom was a man who loved theater down through th…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 01:42PM[SHARE] 
