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Love Never Dies: This Phantom Sequel Is More Of A Soap Opera, But Webber's Music Still Soars by Bill Hirschman

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, whil…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:54am on November 8, 2017

'Evita' Plays To The Masses With Thoughtful Complexity by Bill Hirschman

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 10:36am on November 7, 2017

Maltz's Born Yesterday Is A Progressive Take On A Classic Didactic 1940s Comedy by Bill Hirschman

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. Director Pet…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:04pm on November 6, 2017

Hank Williams' Bio Musical Lonesome Highway Is Engaging by Bill Hirschman

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 11:12pm on November 3, 2017

Multi-Cultural Our Town Underscores Its Universality by Bill Hirschman

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 pr…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 9:04am on October 30, 2017

Stage Door's Ticking The Ivories Turns Revue On Tuneful Ear by Bill Hirschman

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 12:18pm on October 29, 2017

28 Honored With 2016-2017 Silver Palm Theatre Awards by Bill Hirschman

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 2:48pm on October 27, 2017

Miami New Drama Experiments With A Quite Different Our Town by Bill Hirschman

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 Town w…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:24pm on October 26, 2017

Slow Burn's Immersive Tarzan Is High-Flying Welcome To Jungle by Bill Hirschman

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 10:24pm on October 25, 2017

Wick's Drowsy Chaperone Is A Sterling Send-up of Classic Bway by Bill Hirschman

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 over …

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:48pm on October 24, 2017

Lizzie: The Musical A Sharp Production At Thinking Cap by Bill Hirschman

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 f…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:18pm on October 23, 2017

The Little Foxes Explores The Cost Of Greed At Dramaworks by Bill Hirschman

Greed"that timeless vice that steamrolls over everything in its path"is as relevant today as it was in Lillian Hellman's 1939 drama The Little Foxes, now receiving a sumptuous revival at Pal…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:33pm on October 21, 2017

Lost And Adrift In The 'Hood: The Mighty Gents At AHCAC by Bill Hirschman

The Mighty Gents is a poignant moving tale worthy of a Greek tragedy except that the protagonists are members of a street gang from the mid-1960s, emotionally, economically and sociologicall…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 2:36pm on October 20, 2017

Dramaworks' Honors The Family Verities: Greed, Sex and Murder In Revival Of The Little Foxes by Bill Hirschman

Greed. Sexism. Conscienceless businessmen. Blackmail. Rebellious youth. Women fighting to break the glass ceiling. Women using sex to manipulate men. Bank embezzlement. Even murder. No, not …

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 8:36am on October 18, 2017

Sex In Primal Forces' 'The Good Girl:' Is It Real Or Replicant? by Bill Hirschman

In a bit of serendipitous synchronicity with the sequel of Blade Runner and the reboot of Westworld, Primal Forces' production of The Good Girl explores the complexities of humans creating c…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:48am on October 15, 2017

The Sound of Music Sings Once More With Feeling In Broward by Bill Hirschman

Perhaps you've seen The Sound of Music once too often. But if you have fond memories that seek reawakening or if you have never seen it on stage as opposed to the film, this is an enthusiast…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 9:18am on October 12, 2017

MNM 's Less Zesty But More Heartfelt La Cage aux Folles by Bill Hirschman

For a show that shattered a ceiling in 1983, La Cage aux Folles has become a warhorse in 2017. MNM Productions' edition embraces the spangles, glitz and sheer Jerry Herman of it all. So if y…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:48am on October 11, 2017

A Fraying Promise Exposed In GableStage's The Humans by Bill Hirschman

GableStage's production of The Humans is like watching a Kmart photo department family portrait that has been left too near a wall heater. Almost imperceptibly, the edges start to brown, the…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:33pm on October 9, 2017

Estefans' Bio-Musical On Your Feet Gets Miamians' On Theirs by Bill Hirschman

Joy suffused the house on the "opening night" of the national tour of On Your Feet! the bio-musical about Emilio and Gloria Estefan. Part of the palpable elation pouring both ways across the…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 4:36pm on October 7, 2017

Estefans' Inspiring Life Story Comes Back Home In A Musical by Bill Hirschman

Gloria and Emilio Estefan once again are bringing it back home. The national tour of On Your Feet!, an autobiographical Broadway musical powered by their iconic songbook, will open this week…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:54pm on October 3, 2017

City Theatre's Crackling, Provocative 'Building the Wall' Plays a Dystopian Trump Card by Bill Hirschman

City Theatre's production of Building the Wall opens with audio of then-candidate Donald Trump spewing some of his more incendiary anti-immigration rhetoric. The first line has yet to be spo…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:04am on October 3, 2017

A Puerile Underpants Is Challenging Sell for Main Street Players' Likable Cast by Bill Hirschman

Conjuring the lowbrow folderol of an early 20th century burlesque, Steve Martin's adaptation of this 1910 German sex comedy Underpants performed by Main Street Players is all too quaint for …

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 9:24pm on October 1, 2017

Area Stage's An Octoroon' Is Stunning Controversial Play That Will Divide Audiences by Bill Hirschman

An Octoroon is the kind of art that defies a Siskel & Ebert thumbs up / thumbs down assessment. You can praise or fault elements of the script or a production, but Area Stage Company's …

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:18pm on September 28, 2017

GableStage & Dramaworks Team Up To Co-Produce Indecent by Bill Hirschman

In what is believed to be a groundbreaking move, Palm Beach Dramaworks and GableStage plan a co-production of the acclaimed Broadway play Indecent to be next fall.

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 9:18am on September 28, 2017

Mamet's Oleanna Remains An Unsettling, Provocative Night by Bill Hirschman

A quarter-century on, the temptation is to r reinterpret Oleanna, David Mamet's incendiary screed about toxic relations between men and women. But Evening Star Productions' rendition in 2017…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 8:24pm on September 24, 2017
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