Thursday, January 26, 2017
Most courtroom dramas metaphorically use the audience as a jury. But Terror, a German play receiving its U.S. premiere from Miami New Drama this week, literally requires the audience to vot…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:18PM[SHARE]By Pam Harbaugh The plates may be empty, but you leave having feasted on Riverside Theatre's satisfying production of An Empty Plate in the Cafe du Grand Boeuf. Written in 1994 by Michael Ho…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:36AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 25, 2017
The enduring genius of Titanic the Musical beautifully limned by Slow Burn Theatre Company is that while it arely nods at what's to come, it relies on the audience viewing the initial paeans…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:33AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 24, 2017
Turn of the century newsboys cavorting in Jupiter, Tarzan swinging across a Fort Lauderdale stage and Tony Manero swiveling his hips in Margate -- the 2017-2018 season for South Florida thea…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:24AM[SHARE]Sunday, January 22, 2017
Quirky denizens of Stephen Adly Guirgis' Between Riverside and Crazy strive to find second chances in GableStage's production.
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:18PM[SHARE]Saturday, January 21, 2017
A wave of sheer glory lifts the audience into a firmament of validation, redemption and pure beauty in the last ten minutes of Zoetic Stage's production of the Stephen Sondheim-James Lapine …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 02:06PM[SHARE]Friday, January 20, 2017
Danny Kaye and Sylvia: A Musical Love Story at Willow Theatre, featuring Larry Buzzeo in a role he was born for, is filled to the brim with memories for audiences who will find familiarity i…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:04AM[SHARE]Stephanie Ansin, who championed stylized and intellectually challenging theater for children, is stepping down from the leadership of Miami Theater Center, the groundbreaking company she co-…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 02:04AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 18, 2017
Familiar theaters, artists and titles dominated the 2017 Carbonell Award nominations list released Wednesday, but the roster included some previously unheralded performers and lesser-known t…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:42PM[SHARE]The complete list of 2016 Carbonell nominations/finalists including a breakdown by county, theater and production.
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:42PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 17, 2017
Evening Star Productions' regional premiere of the episodic musical See Rock City and Other Destinations, which has enthusiasm and heart to spare, suffers from inconsistencies across its se…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:42AM[SHARE]Monday, January 16, 2017
The First Step (Diary of a Sex Addict), which makes the rounds of video porn parlors, urinals, gay baths and sessions of a self-help group, sounds like the premise for a Saturday Night Live …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:42PM[SHARE]Sunday, January 15, 2017
There is nothing especially wrong with The Wick Theatre's riff on West Side Story, But if you've seen other productions, by comparison, the modestly entertaining result is competent but rar…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:24PM[SHARE]Friday, January 13, 2017
The Maltz Jupiter Theatre's production of The Producers is one of most joyously over-the-top energetic rendition ever mounted, spotlighting more physical comedy than you've seen in some time
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:33PM[SHARE]Thursday, January 12, 2017
The 21st Century paradigm for developing new plays in on display this month at Palm Beach Dramaworks' Dramaworkshop "developmental" production of Jennifer Faletto's Domestic Animals.
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 03:48PM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 11, 2017
Some directors say if you cast a show well, you're more than halfway home to a successful production. So while the acting is just barely adequate in Broward Stage Door's The Most Happy Fella…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:04PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 10, 2017
This 2016 tour of Cabaret does not break a shred of new ground artistically; it intentionally recreates with photo-copying accuracy the 1998 revival in which British director Sam Mendes reim…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 05:48PM[SHARE]The challenge of mounting such an iconic musical as The Producers with its legendary Broadway production haunting any subsequent edition oddly isn't chilling the principal talents at the Mal…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:12AM[SHARE]Sunday, January 8, 2017
Riverside Theatre dishes it all out, from explosive talent to dazzling visuals in an immensely satisfying, professional production of Chicago.
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:04PM[SHARE]Friday, January 6, 2017
Music, sometimes tenderly introspective, sometimes upliftingly powerful, is deftly woven throughout the surging triumph of both the rise of the all-black 1939 New York Renaissance basketball…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:48PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 3, 2017
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 regional the…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:06AM[SHARE]Thursday, December 29, 2016
Critics and award judges have been talking about it for weeks: The sheer amount of high quality work has made evaluating the last 12 months unusually challenging, but also an opportunity to …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 04:36PM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 28, 2016
Even if you don't think of yourself as a fan of the dance musical genre, this national tour of An American In Paris from Broadway Across America is the kind of don't miss experience playing …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:48AM[SHARE]Monday, December 26, 2016
Actor Etai Benson heaps praise on his South Florida roots in helping him to navigate his "role of a lifetime." The Coral Springs native plays Adam Hochberg in An American In Paris, now on a …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 02:42PM[SHARE]Saturday, December 24, 2016
So, a loved one has given you a nice check (is there any other kind?) to celebrate the holidays, but you have no idea what to do with it. Well, for theater lovers, there are scores of option…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:33PM[SHARE]Thursday, December 22, 2016
Reviews of three recent Broadway shows likely to be be seen in South Florida at some point in national tours or regional productions: Holiday Inn, Heisenberg and Love,Love, Love..
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:06PM[SHARE]Thursday, December 15, 2016
It won't be hard for patrons to locate Broward Stage Door's newest revue, Vegas: A Night on the Strip. All they have to do is look for the flames from the three-alarm fire as the production …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 02:12PM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 14, 2016
We were planning just to freshen up the review from when the national tour of Rodgers + Hammerstein's Cinderella played the Arsht and the Kravis two years ago, and note that this was a new n…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:33AM[SHARE]Monday, December 12, 2016
The multi-disciplinary Arts Garage has cancelled the rest of its theater season as it rethinks the logistics and finances that have lost money, said its new CEO Marjorie Waldo on Monday afte…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 05:33PM[SHARE]Friday, December 9, 2016
Like the requisite ballet's presentation of The Nutcracker, theater troupes have been turning over their Decembers as of late to holiday-themed plays: David Sedaris's Santaland Diaries comes…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:54AM[SHARE]Thursday, December 8, 2016
Outré Theatre Company's edition of Tommy demonstrates how skill, imagination and pure guts can triumph over the most modest of means. Its greatest virtue in bringing the classic rock opera…
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