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]Monday, December 17, 2018
The Christmas season officially opened this weekend wrapped in pink. Elle Woods, leading a perky singing and dancing ensemble in Slow Burn Theatre Company's ebullient Legally Blonde, lit up …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 03:42PM[SHARE]Saturday, December 15, 2018
Much like the holiday season itself, there are things to endure and other instances that are jolly. That's the mixed bag of City Theatre's Winter Shorts now playing at the Carnival Studio Th…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:06PM[SHARE]Soul and spirit are characteristics we would expect from a production of the multi-Tony-winning musical The Wiz. And, to be fair, Stage Door Theatre's mounting is, at times, spirited, hip, s…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:04PM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 12, 2018
For some who view two-part events on Broadway and five-hour epic tragedies as the height of the theatrical form, the 10-minute play is condescendingly tolerated as the poor relation at the a…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:12PM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 11, 2018
The script and the production of Palm Beach Dramworks need some refining, but when it's most in the pocket, the world premiere of Lyle Kessler's House on Fire dances a delicate pas de deux b…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 01:04PM[SHARE]Sunday, December 9, 2018
It's not that it's impossible to mess up the musical Annie, but when you have a reliable troupe of talented hands like those connected to the current Wick Theatre production, you are guarant…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:36PM[SHARE]The ground-breaking record-breaking Tony-winning Pulitzer-winning musical Hamilton is expected to attract unprecedented numbers of fans and newcomers when the national tour arrives at the Br…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:42AM[SHARE]Saturday, December 8, 2018
How do you get a younger demographic to go see a play? Well, if it isn't Hamilton, it is difficult, sometimes impossible, to get those, let's say, under the age of 40-somethings to a live th…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 01:06PM[SHARE]Thursday, December 6, 2018
Angie Radosh's face, not to mention her body language, provides an unimpeded view deep into the soul of a writer battling an inevitable descent into the spiral of Alzheimer's disease in Prim…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:24AM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 4, 2018
The emotional cauterizing of an already withdrawn teenager by a family dynamic of furious fights and fierce sibling rivalry forms the core of Tammy Ryan's Tar Beach, receiving a sensitive ex…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:32PM[SHARE]Monday, December 3, 2018
When a theater produces Death of a Salesman , it's not unknown territory. The director can adopt, adapt or depart from what has been done before. But when it's a world premiere such as Palm …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:12AM[SHARE]Friday, November 30, 2018
It's unfair to the Maltz Jupiter Theatre's Beauty and the Beast -- which is as thoroughly charming on its own merits as you could ask -- but understandable that the focus is diverted to its …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 03:48PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 27, 2018
Usually in "fish out of water" comedies, the fish are surprised to find themselves out of the water and spend most of the evening trying to get back to familiar aquatic climes. But in the hi…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:12PM[SHARE]Monday, November 26, 2018
For those convinced that theater has no future among pre-Millenials, you should have been with us a few weeks ago when we made a belated visit to a Sunday matinee of the musical version of t…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:48PM[SHARE]Sunday, November 25, 2018
It can be argued whether Anna Ziegler's Actually is a perfect piece of art, but it's hard to argue that the dizzyingly thought-filled drama at GableStage has captured the angst and conflict …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:48AM[SHARE]Saturday, November 24, 2018
We're back from our trip to New York to scout out productions you might want to see (or not), shows that might tour South Florida and scripts that might be worth reviving in our region…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:32PM[SHARE]Friday, November 23, 2018
By Bill Hirschman When the musical Beauty and the Beast works, theater magic flows from the stage. But it's been done so often " a long run on Broadway, multiple national tours, the original…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:12AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 21, 2018
By Bill Hirschman There's not much in life that you can say this about, but the national tour of Hello, Dolly! is everything you hope it will be. For anyone under the age of 50 who wonders i…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:12PM[SHARE]Monday, November 19, 2018
If you hire strong voices as they did in MNM Theatre Company's production, the venerable musical Grease cannot help but be entertaining with its elbow-nudging pastiche of faux late '50s-earl…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 04:54PM[SHARE]Thursday, November 15, 2018
When a script is as strong as Michael McKeever's Carbonell-winning Daniel's Husband and begins to develop legs beyond its local premiere, one pleasure seeing it produced elsewhere is noticin…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 07:24PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 13, 2018
If you are or have been the caregiver to a senior suffering with dementia, delusions and/or Alzheimer's disease, the revival of The Waverly Gallery is a pain-riven reminder of the mutual ago…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:54PM[SHARE]Monday, November 12, 2018
Jonathan Tolins' satirical Buyer & Cellar provides a steady supply of giggles and guffaws in this tale about an actor hired by Barbra Streisand to staff in shops that she built in the b…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:42AM[SHARE]Saturday, November 10, 2018
Slow Burn Theatre hembraces this glam/grunge rock musical headlined by a protagonist who suffered a botched sex-change operation. It's an in-your-face raunchy celebration of alternative se…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 04:18PM[SHARE]Friday, November 9, 2018
"Amazing" is a word you don't read in too many theater reviews. So keeping in mind that it's well-considered use here requires a lot of contextual "yets" and "buts," King Kong is amazing, bo…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 04:06PM[SHARE]Thursday, November 8, 2018
Peter Wayne Galman in Thinking Cap Theatre's production is a likeable Lear. He's also narcissistic, ego-centric, driven, demanding, confused, playful and timeless. It helps that Galman deli…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:18PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 6, 2018
Florida Grand Opera's presentation of La bohème is authentically true to Puccini's original right down to the pink bonnet. Besides an impressive visual production, this would still stand be…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 05:54PM[SHARE]The pre-opening publicity of Christopher Demos-Brown's racially-charged play on Broadway, American Son, has focused on its inescapable resonance with the tumultuous zeitgeist " a virtue cham…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:12AM[SHARE]The perennial tear-jerking Steel Magnolias, now at the Maltz Jupiter Theatre ought to work, but doesn't succeed this time.. But those objectivity. Those seeking theater that provokes or stim…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:18AM[SHARE]Monday, November 5, 2018
The insightful examination in the play One Night in Miami from Miami New Drama depicts four different approaches used by African-American icons -- Malcolm X, Jim Brown, Sam Cooke and the ch…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 03:24PM[SHARE]Friday, November 2, 2018
Thirty individuals and organizations will receive the South Florida Silver Palm Theatre Awards this December, founded eleven years ago to honor theatrical excellence, the organization announ…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:42AM[SHARE] 
