Thursday, July 14, 2016
Cique Eloize's Cirkopolis cast has in common with their itinerant ancestors is the determination to thrill audiences with death-defying feats of agility, daredevil tricks and silly clown ant…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:29AM[SHARE]Sunday, July 10, 2016
By John Thomason Since its return to regular summer programming in 2014, Miami's Ground Up & Rising has been specializing in a particular strain of western theater: the austere, bone-scr…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:16AM[SHARE]Friday, July 8, 2016
Silly, stupoid and surprisingly successful, the Broadway musical spin on School of Rock works fine without Jack Black -- a good sign for the national tour.
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:01AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 6, 2016
Sometimes the confluence of talent that occurs in a New York City production creates something that won't be duplicated elsewhere. South Florida has proven that a regional production actuall…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 07:21PM[SHARE]Sunday, July 3, 2016
The Wick Theatre has nearly mastered the musical revue genre by hiring solid talent and adding in a few extra production values " all of it evident in this summer's frothy paean to middle-cl…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 04:52PM[SHARE]Saturday, July 2, 2016
in these terrible times of violence, deprivation and polarization, the resonances in Palm Beach Dramaworks' imaginatively reinvented production of 1776 are deafening. Amid the laugh lines, t…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 01:42PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 29, 2016
A deeply polarized citizenry, partisans with irreconcilable ideas about the role of government, a stalled deliberative body, confusion, anxiety. Sound familiar? The current political climate…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:53PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 28, 2016
While the production of Waitress faithfully follows the schematics of Adrienne Shelly's charming 2007 film, it does exactly what a musical should do: use the added tools of melody, lyrics an…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:32AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 23, 2016
Breaking news: New Theatre, Inc. (Coral Gables, Florida) New Theatre at South Miami-Dade Cultural Arts Center announces it is closing. This press release just in: Details to follow:
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 01:20PM[SHARE]The new musical Bright Star is a 21st Century celebration of the folk tradition complete with plucky heroines, gentle humor, unbending fundamentalists, facile fiddling, profound personal tra…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:16AM[SHARE]Sunday, June 19, 2016
The running time for The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) (Revised) is advertised at 90 minutes On opening night at Evening Star Productions, it ran two hours. This is a tes…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 01:46PM[SHARE]Saturday, June 18, 2016
The Vanguard meant no self-aggrandizement posting photos of Lucy and Ethel, Carol and Vicki, across their set for the hilarious sketch comedy, Parallel Lives. But it's apt. Because Elena Mar…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 03:50PM[SHARE]Friday, June 17, 2016
Greying Boomers may instinctively resist that the music of their lives is being repackaged into stage revues with little or no story the way Irving Berlin and Johnny Mercer's songbooks have …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:45AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 16, 2016
There's a virtue, I suppose, in reliability. When you go to see something with Disney's name in the title whether it's the Pirates of Caribbean Ride in Orlando, Anaheim, Toyko or Paris, you …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:24AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 14, 2016
For about three seconds Sunday night, the Tony Awards broadcast a pre-recorded glimpse of Miles C. Wilkin and slipped in a sentence saying that he was receiving a "Special Tony Award. But W…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:38AM[SHARE]Monday, June 13, 2016
You know you wanted to murder some abusive soul-crushing bullies and snobs when you were in high school. Heathers knows it and wants to liberate your daydream. So do the cool kids and not-so…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:07AM[SHARE]Saturday, June 11, 2016
Rage and defiance " against racism, against betrayal, against cruelty, fate and death itself " washes out into the audience with a ferocity rarely seen in Florida theater in The M Ensemble C…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 01:46PM[SHARE]Friday, June 10, 2016
Acknowledge that the premiere of The Wish Maker, written and directed by local playwright Cynthia Joyce Clay and produced by her Storycrafters Studio, is well-intentioned and earnest. But th…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 01:24PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 8, 2016
When Danny Burgos steps on the Broward Center stage on June 15 in the national tour of Beauty and the Beast, the moment will resonate for him as few have before. It was on those same floorbo…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:37AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 7, 2016
Some show business legends say they were born in a trunk offstage in between the matinee and evening performances. Daisy O. Tanner can't quite say that. But the two-month-old daughter of acc…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:09AM[SHARE]Monday, June 6, 2016
Feeding The Bear, a serio-comedy focused on caring for a father succumbing to Alzheimer's (featuring a drag queen with a cooking TV show), has all the necessary ingredients for a tasty confe…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:09AM[SHARE]Sunday, June 5, 2016
Hardly unusual in musical theater, Meredith Bartmon strolls around the Carnival Studio stage singing passionately about her dreams and, later, her refusal to compromise those dreams. But th…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:41AM[SHARE]Friday, June 3, 2016
Eileen Suarez, who rose at New Theatre from working the box office in 1996 to shepherding the company through rocky shoals and significant growth, has resigned as managing director, she conf…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:25AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 2, 2016
Audiences from Key West to Boca Raton for the fourth year may see new plays in development by area playwrights for free through the South Florida Theatre League's Summer Theatre Fest.
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:28AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 1, 2016
The ever-developing Summer Shorts Festival, now entering its 21st year in Miami, will sound a bit different this year: two of the ten-minute works will be musicals.
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:34AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 31, 2016
Sometimes critics use the words "ambitious" and "intriguing" as backhanded compliments or cowardly faint praise, but Mad Cat Theatre Company's production of the Pulitzer-winning The Flick ea…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:13AM[SHARE]Sunday, May 29, 2016
Audiences will relish the superb GableStage production of The Royale -- Miami native Marco Ramirez's insightful pile-driving play about boxing, celebrity, racism, race relations and personal…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:57AM[SHARE]Saturday, May 28, 2016
As Boomers become more of the theater-going public, we see more stories about how we are becoming a nation of caretakers of parents and grandparents. But the play The Father depicts increasi…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:51AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 26, 2016
Looking at faded and listening to primitive , you wonder what productions were really like live when vaudeville was surrendering to legit Broadway. The proud, answer is fired back in specta…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:57AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 25, 2016
The Critics' Awards Program, or Cappies, recognizing outstanding achievement in high school theater at the 14th Annual Cappies Awards Gala were held Tuesday at the Broward Center for the Per…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:07PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 24, 2016
Hair never was and isn't now accurate reportage on the 1968 counter-culture,any more than Oklahoma was a faithful account of homesteading on the eve of statehood. But what the raw material g…
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