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…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:18AM[SHARE]Monday, April 4, 2016
Alyona Ushe, the founding administrator of the embattled Arts Garage in Delray Beach, is resigning to lead a similar Pompano Beach operation in what an Arts Garage spokesman characterized as…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:42PM[SHARE]Florida Grand Opera's shattering production of Mieczyystaw Weinberg's The Passenger. explains why opera exists and what it can be.
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:46AM[SHARE]Saturday, April 2, 2016
Even though it's April, we remain in one of the busiest seasons in South Florida theater. If you don't see a review of a show that has opened while looking at the top of the front page, plea…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:07PM[SHARE]Friday, April 1, 2016
Diego & Drew Say I Do, the new interactive theater wedding show in Broward Center's Abdo New River Room, is so authentic that a group of Chinese performers from the Cirque Dreams troupe…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 03:46PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 31, 2016
There are two crucial and easily misunderstood aspects to comprehend about The Hammer Trinity, a piece of epic storytelling playing eight weekends at the Arsht Center beginning this Saturday…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:44AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 30, 2016
Opening Thursday in the Abdo New River Room is Diego & Drew Say I Do, a twist on the popular Tony 'n' Tina's Wedding in which audience members join in the show and become "guests" at t…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:44PM[SHARE]When a company like GableStage takes risks so many others will not, there's bound to be some triumphs, some failures, and mixed results as in A Minister's Wife. The local artists give everyt…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:09AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 29, 2016
Regardless of your politics, Punchline Theatre Company's 50 Shades of Hillary is a treat to relish for the machine-gun comedy and the high octane performances of these four remarkable actors.
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:28PM[SHARE]The gem of Palm Beach Dramaworks' continuing expansion is the new play development program The Dramaworks featuring Jennifer Fawcett's Buried Cities bowing next month.
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:33AM[SHARE]Monday, March 28, 2016
The Passenger, composer Mieczyslaw Weinberg's operatic treatment of the Holocaust and its aftermath, will be a heavy enterprise, in a number of ways, when it makes its area debut April 2-9. …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:50AM[SHARE]Sunday, March 27, 2016
Riverside Theatre chose an intriguing time to mount its handsome and exquisitely well-performed production of Mark St. Germain's play, Freud's Last Session. Indeed, opening it between Palm S…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:33AM[SHARE]Saturday, March 26, 2016
Watching Outside Mullingar at Palm Beach Dramaworks, audiences might catch themselves straining for the hero and heroine to burst through their wounded psyches and join souls. John Patrick S…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 05:21PM[SHARE]But with one significant caveat, An Adult Evening of Shel Silverstein at the Vanguard lands most of the ten quirky gems of satirical and somewhat blue comedy with a skill, energy and polish …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:58AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 24, 2016
A supremely confident and corrupt demagogue whips up the sheep in a populist uprising targeting a change in the government status quo. While that sounds like the latest CNN report, it's act…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:08AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 23, 2016
Bullets Over Broadway, a musical based on the Woody Allen film, fits an undemanding appetite for light entertainment at the Kravis Center. But it's what some theater fans call a "Why Musical…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:38AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 22, 2016
Ricky J. Martinez, artistic director for the New Theatre in Miami, has been named the recipient of the 2016 Margo Jones Award presented by The Ohio State University Libraries and OSU Arts an…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:44AM[SHARE]Monday, March 21, 2016
Since you can understand the lyrics here better than in any previous production, Slow Burn Theatre Co.'s Spring Awakening, the powerful punch and pungent poetry come through with a clarity t…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:03AM[SHARE]Saturday, March 19, 2016
The Actors' Playhouse production of Sondheim On Sondheim transcends the Broadway edition in nearly every detail. The work by eight inspired performers and the band, molded by director David …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 03:00PM[SHARE]Friday, March 18, 2016
The Mad Cat Theatre Company, which prides itself on experimenting with non-mainstream offerings, has collected three short Samuel Beckett plays under the umbrella title, Tones On Tales. Some…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:04AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 17, 2016
With humor, but pride as well, tenor Anthony Laciura refers to many of his roles in a half-century as a professional opera singer as the "second banana." More formally known as "the comprima…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:43PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 15, 2016
Getting old, or older, is not for sissies, the saying goes… but it's easier if you can laugh at it and if you know you're not going crazy all alone. The second half of that is the unspoken…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:07PM[SHARE]By Bill Hirschman Michael McKeever, one of South Florida's most popular and acclaimed playwrights, will see what some feel is his finest play, Daniel's Husband, produced in New York City nex…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:07AM[SHARE]Monday, March 14, 2016
Sometimes the daring efforts of Outré Theatre Company work beautifully such as Back of the Throat, An Illiad and Thrill Me, sometimes not so well such as Bed and Sofa, and Othello. Often, …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:11AM[SHARE]Saturday, March 12, 2016
Imagine white water rapids raging past you; now imagine the liquid is molten lava " a heedless force of nature threatening to destroy everything. Such images are the by-product of watching t…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 01:16PM[SHARE]You don't get any better, any more professional, any more resplendent than Riverside Theatre's production of Hello, Dolly! This production is a dazzling bouquet of theater delights.
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 01:16PM[SHARE]Friday, March 11, 2016
The Maltz's 2016 production of a 1948 classic Kiss Me Kate is a skilled homage to that post-war period of theater when everyone knew which war you were talking about. A mixture of classic th…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:03PM[SHARE]Monday, March 7, 2016
Infinite Abyss' courageous production of Extremities opens with one of the most harrowing 15 minutes in theater and ends with a troubling finale. But the challenge is the play in between, an…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 07:23PM[SHARE]Saturday, March 5, 2016
A bravura tour de force by Avery Sommers is central to the success of Arts Garage's production of The Devil's Music: The Life and Blues of Bessie Smith
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:20AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 3, 2016
The national tour of the dark musical Matilda at the Kravis is enthralling for its energy and imagination -- when you can understand what people are saying which is less than half the time.
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