Wednesday, July 26, 2017
One of the joys of seeing local theater over the years is charting a new theater’s growth and promise. But it’s rare to see a fledgling theater develop so quickly as Main Street Players,…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:33AMTuesday, July 25, 2017
Not every theatrical event has to be an outsized venting of passion filled with intellectual pyrotechnics. Sometimes a work can be satisfying to the brain and the heart as a gentle celebrat…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:36AMSunday, July 23, 2017
MNM’s production of Stephen Sondheim’s groundbreaking musical Company is intermittently lit with incandescent performances worth the price of admission by themselves, but the overall pie…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:36PMFriday, July 21, 2017
Pigs Do Fly Productions -- which has done mostly short plays by, for and about people 0ver 50 -- has jumped even deeper into the play-ing field by presenting the world premiere of Michael L…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:06AMThursday, July 20, 2017
A production of Dreamgirls was already planned for the Miramar Cultural Center's summer season, but became the perfect "launching pad" for the City of Miramar's First Annual Broadway Festiva…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 07:24AMWednesday, July 19, 2017
For the third time in nine years, a blizzard is raging inside the Arsht Center in the middle of a blazing summer as Slava’s Snowshow returns and you once again will be picking white stuff …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:12AMTuesday, July 18, 2017
The prescient genius of George Orwell is the blinding virtue in Outré Theatre Company’s earnestly delivered but sluggish production of the painfully relevant 1984. It remains jaw-dropping…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 01:12PMMonday, July 17, 2017
The world premiere of Michael McKeever’s Finding Mona Lisa at Actors Playhouse initially might seem a light, fascinating beach read about Leonardo DaVinci’s masterpiece -- a sometimes dr…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 03:24PMSaturday, July 15, 2017
Homicidal rage against a corrupt world spews into the audience in Palm Beach Dramaworks’ Sweeney Todd. But its singular spin is that the serial throat-slitting barber does not start as a v…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 03:48PMTuesday, July 11, 2017
Those who love Stephen Sondheim and Sweeney Todd in particular should come with an open mind to this month’s edition at Palm Beach Dramaworks expecting a different spin on the material.
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:04AMFriday, July 7, 2017
Merriment is a word we don’t use much in the 21st Century, but that is the precise adjective to reflect the madcap abandon, tireless physical comedy and unflagging enthusiasm that makes a …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 03:04PMWednesday, July 5, 2017
Minnie’s Boys is a light comic highly homogenized version of how stage mother Minnie Marx utzed, kvetched and kibbitzed her five sons to transform from a doomed vaudeville singing group to…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:04PMMonday, July 3, 2017
With Fireman Are Rarely Necessary, this world premiere of a socially satirical comedy falls solidly in the anarchic absurdist vibe with grunge icing championed by Mad Cat Theatre Company.
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:42PMThursday, June 29, 2017
It’s difficult to say if the music and lyrics of Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812 are noteworthy, but they are overwhelmed by a production and performances arguably beyond nearl…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:12PMWednesday, June 28, 2017
Caldwell Theatre co-founder Michael Hall, among the pioneers who transformed a fledgling theater scene focused on molding warhorses and built it into a vibrant regional force embracing chall…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:36PMFor some reason, Six Degrees of Separation has fallen off the radar of regional theaters mounting semi-contemporary plays that depict and dissect the angsty zeitgeist of modern life. But the…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:36PMWednesday, June 21, 2017
The stage is a fungible place. Sets can transform, actors can fly, characters can break walls, especially the fourth. There is limitless potential in the blank canvas of floorboards and ligh…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:24PMThe skill, power and imagination that Kevin Black, Ben Bagby and their colleagues have invested make Swing! Swing! Swing! as good or better than any other revue that Broward Stage Door has p…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:24PMSplendidly gorgeous to watch, the creativity of the staging is reason enough to embrace Finding Neverland at the Broward Center On a deeper level, though, there's something profoundly moving…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:24PMWednesday, June 14, 2017
Leave it to M Ensemble to teach an audience a bit of Black history in Pearl Cleage's Flyin' West , while entertaining the masses.
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:06PMTuesday, June 13, 2017
If you wonder what the term “coup de theatre” means, it’s easier to illustrated it with a moment from the new Paula Vogel-Rebecca Taichman play Indecent.
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:24PMMonday, June 12, 2017
The final tear-inducing five minutes of Beauty and the Beast, if executed effectively as it is at The Wick Theatre production, is a good barometer of whether you’re dead inside.
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:06AMFriday, June 9, 2017
In this dispiriting time of eroding international relations, the incisive play Oslo is both hearteningly optimistic and existentially pessimistic about human beings’ ability to negotiate a…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:42PMAcknowledging that WWII vets also came home to challenges from their nightmarish service, the rousing new mainstream musical Bandstand has serious issues under the original score and heartfe…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:42PMGranted, a farce documenting the doomed efforts of a hapless British theater troupe already has been brilliantly explored in Noises Off. But there is hilarity yet to mine as evidenced by The…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:42PMThe wobbly foundations of fledgling New City Players' production of David Auburn's reliable Proof are unlikely to impress seasoned theatergoers, especially those who have seen the play befo…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:42PMCity Theatre's Summer Shorts, which only recently began showcasing musicals, includes three this year including one by Lin-Manuel Miranda.
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:42PMTuesday, May 30, 2017
Lots of news: South Florida Theatre League's free Summer Theatre Fest, Curtain Call Playhouse is honored, City Theatre's Margaret Ledford is promoted, Bruce Linser takes on a new job,and Pet…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 01:18PMMonday, May 29, 2017
One pleasure watching a drag show regardless of your sexual orientation is the vicarious joy of seeing people uncorset their secreted urges and find the liberating self-worth to parade it pu…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:12AMFriday, May 26, 2017
Infinite Abyss, which has produced some solid work like last season’s Extremities, just falls flat this time out with Quills which reeks of amateurism.
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:48PMThursday, May 25, 2017
The surprisingly delight-filled musical Groundhog Day is well worth seeing on Broadway but the script, music, lyrics and replicable staging (all Tony-nominated) are so strong, so inventive, …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:54AM 
