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Saturday, December 3, 2016

Breaking News: Plans For Coconut Grove Playhouse Saves Some Of Existing Building by Bill Hirschman

A specific plan finally has been unveiled by county officials and consultants for a new 300-seat theater on the site of the legendary Coconut Grove Playhouse " a plan which preserves some of…

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Friday, December 2, 2016

Take The Lambeth Walk With Crowd Pleasing Me And My Girl by Bill Hirschman

Led by the talents of Matt Loehr, the Maltz Jupiter Theatre's Me and My Girl is the precisely the antidote for the seasonal angst " a couple of hours of escapist entertainment. The cast is c…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:54PM[SHARE]
Tuesday, November 29, 2016

Becoming Truman Capote At Dramaworks: Rob Donohoe Transforms Himself Inside & Out by Bill Hirschman

Sitting at a table in Palm Beach Dramawork's rehearsal hall, Rob Donohoe doesn't look or sound a thing like Truman Capote. He's taller, his hair is brown and full and his voice is a warm bar…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:42AM[SHARE]
Sunday, November 27, 2016

Wick Theatre Resurrects Revival Of Mediocre 'Sister Act' With Winning Charm And Verve by Bill Hirschman

Sister Act is not a great musical, not even a good one, but the Wick Theatre's resurrection is so engaging, so energetic, so much pure fun that it will convert you and make you glad you boug…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:06PM[SHARE]
Friday, November 25, 2016

Delray Beach Actor Having Time of His Life in Dirty Dancing Tour by Bill Hirschman

78-year-old Delray Beach actor Alan Scharf is loving the featured role in the national tour of Dirty Dancing.

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:31PM[SHARE]
Tuesday, November 22, 2016

Guaranteed To Split The Audience: Seriously Strange 'Cuddles' At Arts Garage by Bill Hirschman

"Here be monsters" repeatedly warns one of the two weird sisters at the center of the bizarre Gothic horror play Cuddles at Theatre at Arts Garage, but the creatures to beware are much diffe…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:36PM[SHARE]
Sunday, November 20, 2016

A Hilarious God Sits Down To Explain It All To You, Sort Of by Bill Hirschman

God is just like you and me " genial, well-meaning, chatty and, while omniscient and omnipotent, also flawed enough to make universe-shaking mistakes. At least that's the God that actor Tom …

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 01:02PM[SHARE]
Thursday, November 17, 2016

'Curious Incident' Brings You Inside The World of Autism by Bill Hirschman

Sometimes stage theatricality more effectively thrusts you inside the head of someone completely alien to your own experience than the hyper-reality of a film is able to convey. A prime exam…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:48AM[SHARE]
Tuesday, November 15, 2016

Current Events Amp Audience Angst In Perfect Arrangement by Bill Hirschman

When Topher Payne's Perfect Arrangement bowed in 2013, the satirical indictment of homophobia, hypocrisy and a half-dozen other themes was a witty and insightful commentary. In the context o…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:02AM[SHARE]
Sunday, November 13, 2016

FGO's Classic Carmen Features Director's Imaginative Touches by Bill Hirschman

Oddly, for all the technical artistry that the assembled talents are displaying in Florida Grand Opera's thoroughly satisfying 10th run at Georges Bizet's deathlessly popular masterwork, it …

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:42PM[SHARE]
Saturday, November 12, 2016

Slow Burn Takes A Welcome Return Trip Home To Avenue Q by Bill Hirschman

Thomas Wolfe warned that you can't go home again, but Slow Burn Theatre Company's revival of its 2012 production of Avenue Q is a welcome and joyful return to the neighborhood and the ol' ga…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 03:06PM[SHARE]
Friday, November 11, 2016

Sweet Charity's Optimistic Hope Is A Strange Fit For This Week by Bill Hirschman

Sweet Charity is a fundamentally flawed showcase that virtually no one has ever pulled off satisfyingly, but Broward Stage Door director Michael Leeds makes a solid enough stab at it that a …

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:31AM[SHARE]
Thursday, November 3, 2016

Charlie Cinnamon, Who Transformed The Region's Culture, Died Thursday Morning by Bill Hirschman

Charlie Cinnamon, the beloved dean of South Florida publicity agents whose work over a half-century helped transform the region's cultural landscape and national profile, died Thursday morni…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:18AM[SHARE]
Tuesday, November 1, 2016

Riverside's Johnny Cash Revue Ring Of Fire Walks The Line by Bill Hirschman

In Riverside Theatre's polished production of the musical revue Ring of Fire, four pitch perfect voices and a host of skilled musicians bring to life the legacy of America's greatest home-gr…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:12AM[SHARE]
Monday, October 31, 2016

Sublime Acting, Extravagant Design Grapple With Stolid Structure In The Audience by Bill Hirschman

The Audience, the West End sensation turned Tony winner , conjures 10 meetings, between Queen Elizabeth II and her prime ministers. The play's regional premiere at Maltz Jupiter Theatre, i…

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A Peek Behind The Throne: Making The Audience by Bill Hirschman

For 60 years, Queen Elizabeth has been beloved, despised, served as a role model for some and a target for others, but always been the somewhat removed iconic image of unflappable composure …

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:24AM[SHARE]
Sunday, October 30, 2016

Zoetic Stage Debuts Premiere of McKeever's Emotion-Filled After by Bill Hirschman

There's something thrilling about seeing a world premiere play unfold. And when the playwright is one of South Florida's great hopes to get an original play to the Great White Way, there's e…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:48AM[SHARE]
Wednesday, October 26, 2016

Chekhov's Sisters Waiting To Exhale In Beckett's New Jersey by Bill Hirschman

Deborah Zoe Laufer's world premiere The Three Sisters of Weekhawken is, indeed, funny in its daffy way, but this imaginative mashup of Chekhov's meditation on yearning refracted through Beck…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 05:54PM[SHARE]
Tuesday, October 25, 2016

Thinking Cap Theatre's Director And Cast Add Color To 'Mud' by Bill Hirschman

Tension is at the heart and soul of Thinking Cap Theatre's Mud, a three-hander by Maria Irene Fornes, now at The Vanguard in Fort Lauderdale. Director Nicole Stodard puts her stamp on the …

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 05:09PM[SHARE]
Monday, October 24, 2016

Maltz Kicks Off $30 Million Campaign To Expand Facility Including Second Stage by Bill Hirschman

The Maltz Jupiter Theatre on Monday publically kicked off a five-year campaign to raise $25 million to $30 million for a massive construction expansion to enable it to expand its offerings. …

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Sunday, October 23, 2016

Emotions & Sound Swell On Epic Scale In Slow Burn's Hunchback by Bill Hirschman

A near epic vision unfolds in Slow Burn Theatre Company's brave, ambitious and dark The Hunchback of Notre Dame resulting in the one of the most powerful musicals seen in South Florida in re…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 02:33PM[SHARE]
Saturday, October 22, 2016

Playhouse's Million Dollar Quartet Kicks Out The Jams by Bill Hirschman

It almost should go without saying that the rock 'n' roll blisters the paint off the walls of Actors' Playhouse's balcony theater in its thoroughly satisfying edition of Million Dollar Quart…

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Thursday, October 20, 2016

Silver Palm Theatre Awards Announces 28 Honorees by Bill Hirschman

The South Florida Silver Palm Theatre Awards committee honoring theatrical excellence in South Florida will present the award to 28 individuals and organizations in its ninth season. Recipie…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:12PM[SHARE]

Slow Burn's Hunchback Sets Another Benchmark Of Growth by Bill Hirschman

Slow Burn Theatre Company's The Hunchback of Notre Dame staged on a relatively epic scale underscores another benchmark of growth for the once modest company that has solidly arrived as a ma…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:39AM[SHARE]
Wednesday, October 19, 2016

Vibrant Swing! Swing! Swing! Revue Among Stage Door's Best by Bill Hirschman

The 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 10:22AM[SHARE]
Monday, October 17, 2016

They're Playing A Pleasant If Not Exciting Song At The Wick by Bill Hirschman

Benefiting from a Neil Simon script and a winning turn by Andrea McArdle, The Wick Theatre is betting its older doggedly mainstream audience will be won over by this effectively sweet but …

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:51AM[SHARE]
Sunday, October 16, 2016

The Storm-Tossed Seek Hope And Salvation In Dramawork's The Night Of The Iguana by Bill Hirschman

The emotional histrionics and pyrotechnic acting in the first act notwithstanding, it's the quiet poignant moments of compassion and connection in the second act that are the most deeply aff…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:32AM[SHARE]
Friday, October 14, 2016

Relationships Are At Risk In The Mystery of Love And Sex by Bill Hirschman

The intersection, overlap and conflict of love and sex " but above all how they affect relationships -- form the basis of Theatre at Arts Garage's uneven but intriguing entry appropriately e…

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Thursday, October 13, 2016

Andrea McArdle At The Wick: Still The Working Actress Four Decades After Playing Annie by Bill Hirschman

Back in 1977 when 13-year-old Andrea McArdle's name exploded across the country, the moniker Broadway Baby recognized the talent powering her performance as Annie singing the iconic anthem …

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Dramaworks To Take On The "Other" Tennessee William Play, The Night Of The Iguana by Bill Hirschman

The Night of the Iguana is the "other" Tennessee Williams play, the one most theatergoers have heard of, maybe even seen the Richard Burton-John Huston film, but likely have never gotten aro…

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Wednesday, October 12, 2016

The Illusionists: Hi-Tech Dazzle Boosts Classic Stage Magic by Bill Hirschman

Effectively cloaked in high-tech flourishes from pounding music to a rock concert-worthy light show plus classic theatrical accoutrements like dancers, The Illusionists gathers seven inventi…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 01:07PM[SHARE]

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