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…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:44AM[SHARE]Sunday, May 22, 2016
A double sense of "life after death" pervades the touching and beautifully rendered The Tin Woman drama suffused with wit now playing at Actors Playhouse as spring slides into summer.
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:54PM[SHARE]Saturday, May 21, 2016
The characters and themes of The Flick -- the newest production opening at Mad Cat Theatre next week -- were so fresh and crucial that it kept director Paul Tei from abandoning straight thea…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:21PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 19, 2016
It's been a season of Stephen Sondheim the past 10 months or so in Florida, and Putting It Together, the musical at Broward Stage Door, puts a satisfying capstone on it as strong earnest voi…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:39PM[SHARE]Sunday, May 15, 2016
Evening Star Productions and Infinite Abyss Productions deliver the 249th South Florida edition of the inarguably hilarious aggressively irreverent hoot. The cast successfully seduces a will…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 01:48PM[SHARE]Saturday, May 14, 2016
Terry Teachout's play Satchmo at the Waldorf on view at Palm Beach Dramaworks -- and directed by Teachout in his first at-bat, comes close to allowing that communion with the unvarnished, un…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 02:39PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 12, 2016
If his resume wasn't already unusually diverse for a theater critic, it might seem strange that Terry Teachout is adding "director" to his hyphenated professional description when his play S…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 05:44PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 11, 2016
Validation " the affirmation that what you valued a " is one of the most powerfully effective facets of entertainment and art.
That may be the overwhelming virtue of Beautiful " The Carole …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 04:51PM[SHARE]Sunday, May 8, 2016
The opening scene of Will Eno's The Realistic Jones, as staged by Thinking Cap Theatre, is one of the funniest things I've seen in years.
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:57AM[SHARE]Friday, May 6, 2016
The score of Beautiful " The Carole King Musical encompasses a dozen hits from the '60s and half of the iconic Tapestry album. But bookwriter Douglas McGrath assures theatergoers that this i…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:51AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 4, 2016
Some of the most prominent names in playwriting today " plus a local actor and writer " headline an intensive series of readings May 11"14 at Theatre Lab, the professional resident company o…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:31AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 3, 2016
With its short run production of "A Special Day" this week, Michel Hausmann and the fledgling Miami New Drama company begin an ambitious slate of projects that began earlier this year with T…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 03:18PM[SHARE]Saturday, April 30, 2016
The Critics' Awards Program, or Cappies for short, will celebrate outstanding achievement in high school theater at 26 public and private schools throughout Broward and Palm Beach counties i…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:58PM[SHARE]Saturday, April 23, 2016
On April 28, Marilynn Wick will sign a $5 million mortgage and take formal possession of the former Caldwell Theatre building, heralding the beginning of a new phase of The Wick Theatre.
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:55AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 20, 2016
Charm, that most underrated of quiet virtues in a theater of brassy belters and in-your-face spectacle, suffuses the vagaries of a 24-year love affair in Broward Stage Door's appealing reviv…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:56PM[SHARE]Monday, April 18, 2016
When a theatrical production's scenery, lighting and costumes get as much attention as the characters, chances are the story is a bit slim. You see that clearly with Riverside Theatre's eye-…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:20AM[SHARE]Sunday, April 17, 2016
Not everyone is a fan of musical revues, but if you're going to mount I Love A Piano, that justifiably popular evergreen staple of regional theaters over the past decade or so, this is the w…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 01:04PM[SHARE]Saturday, April 16, 2016
In Evening Star's Murdered To Death, this comic murder mystery satire becomes so supremely silly with slapstick, overheated melodrama and an endless supply of verbal blunders that the actors…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:00PM[SHARE]Friday, April 15, 2016
There's a rhythm to Ricky J. Martinez's writing in his new play Roof!, which is having its world premiere at New Theatre. If there was a tin roof in Roof! (there isn't), the words would soun…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:03AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 14, 2016
Broadway Across America's Dirty Dancing: The Classic Story On Stage on tour at the Broward Center is a flawed and misconceived project with a noticeable lack of fire, but much can be forgive…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 02:35PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 13, 2016
The new tour of Cabaret does not break a shred of new ground artistically; it intentionally recreates the 1998 revival in which Sam Mendes reimagined the initial vision by amping up the deba…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:38AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 12, 2016
The question that patrons and colleagues have kept asking critics with trepidation during the past week or so is whether they should invest more than 9 3/4 hours and $150 for each ticket to …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 04:07PM[SHARE]Monday, April 11, 2016
Arts Garage has appointed a new management team to replace its founding administrator who resigned abruptly. Keith Garsson, who has led the theater operation will become the director of op…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 07:34AM[SHARE]Sunday, April 10, 2016
Jeff Talbott's The Submission, enjoying its regional premiere from Island City Stage, is predicated on the realization that "Everyone's a little bit racist." It charts the ignition of a raci…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:31PM[SHARE]Saturday, April 9, 2016
There's a daringness to Stephanie Ansin's vision " a fearlessness in her direction at Miami Theater Center that makes you find things to love about a piece, even one that ends up having more…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:38AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 5, 2016
The tent-pole theater companies in South Florida took home a majority of the Carbonell Awards for excellence Monday night with one major exception " although several up-and-coming troupes ha…
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