Thinking Cap Theatre sets The Importance of Being Earnest in a madcap lampoon of New York City's disco era. The urbane and farcical elements are irreconcilably at war, but each facet " one o…
Start the clock, Florida. The moment tickets go on sale for the national tour of On Your Feet!, get on line. In fact, if you're planning to be anywhere near the Big Apple, shell out the duca…
Even the Bugs Bunny The Barber of Seville (which gets a subtle nod in Florida Grand Opera's new outing) never featured the tenor and baritone-bass dueling with a plumber's plunger and a toil…
By Hap Erstein In the same way that Slow Burn Theatre Company's artistic director Patrick Fitzwater has a good eye for spotting performance talent, he also is savvy at identifying worthy new…
Immersive technology goes a long way in elevating Topher Payne's Angry Fags at Island City Stage, but the play still suffers from elephantine pacing and a sense of crippling logorrhea. Yet t…
By Keren Moros Special to Florida Theater On Stage Just because something isn't a success at first, it doesn't mean it can't be a success later. Take Disney's Newsies, a success story more t…
The first question that everyone wants answered is: Is it possible to buy Lee Roy Reams as Dolly Levi in The Wick Theatre's Hello, Dolly! The answer is "sometimes." The answer also depends o…
In Christopher Demos-Brown's shattering world premiere Stripped at Zoetic Stage, the audience is faced with a complex child custody case is forced to judge past the surface facets of a case …
The classic 1952 crime play Dial M For Murder is a brilliantly-designed timepiece of plotting and dramatic construction. Unfortunately, Broward Stage Door's barely serviceable production of …
What does a man profiteth if he gains technology and loses his artistic soul? And can romance survive ambition when the two collide? Those issues, along with scores of corollaries, swirl thr…
It's not a drag show. Broadway veteran Lee Roy Reams may become only the second man to play Dolly Levi in a sanctioned production of Hello, Dolly! when it bows this week at The Wick Theatre …
The Mousetrap at the Maltz is indeed a hoary old chestnut chock full of clichéswhich weren't even new when it bowed in 1952. But director Peter Amster and his cast wisely don't try to figh…
VERO BEACH -- Good songs tell compelling stories. And after seeing Riverside Theatre's stylish, smart and vivacious production of Swinging on a Star, you'll think no one did it better than J…
Publishing student reviews of high school theater is the cornerstone of a service from Florida Theater On Stage and the South Florida Critics and Awards Program, better known as The Cappies.
With this production of Big Fish, Slow Burn Theatre Company has proven itself with no asterisks to be the equal of any company producing musicals in the region, some with far more resources,…
After five years of staging its shows in a high school auditorium in West Boca, Slow Burn Theatre Company moves to the Broward Center for the Performing Arts with its season opener, the larg…
Twenty-seven theater artists and organizations will receive the eighth annual South Florida Silver Palm Theatre Awards honoring an outstanding or unique contribution," the group announced Mo…
Somewhere under the green slime encrusted set of The Toxic Avenger at Actors Playhouse, a nuclear plant must be melting down all China Syndrome like. That might explain the raw power emanati…
35MM and this production require some effort from the audience to meet it more than halfway. It is, as they say, not for everyone's taste. But it does represent an intriguing example of the …
By Bill Hirschman South Florida theaters still mount familiar warhorses, but the 2015-2016 season is proof that companies realize the future of theater is to attract pre-retirement audiences…
These are not at all necessarily what we predict will be the best shows this season (although they may be) or the best attended or the most popular or the most award-winning. We don't care. …
The writing seems a little sharper, the direction more incisive and the acting a bit more credible at Pigs Do Fly Productions' new Flying High. Some of the playlets still are a bit lamer tha…
With its novelistic heft, lumbering pace and large cast, the 1953 Picnic is a product of its time. But rather than reproduce a propulsive Picnic for impatient 21st century audiences, Palm Be…
The Wick Theatre's production of A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum benefits from Stephen Sondheims's score and lyrics, but the cast and director need to inject more vaudevillian…
Awash in issues of Arab-American assimilation and Anglo antipathy, GableStage's Disgraced is the classic contemporary example of the topical, thought-provoking drama that forces you to reval…