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.
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 04:46PM[SHARE]Kinky Boots, the droll story of a drag queen rescuing a failing shoe factory by switching its focus to thigh-high boots favored by cross-dressers was, , a well-polished evening of musical co…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 01:24PM[SHARE]Sunday, February 28, 2016
Curtains is a show designed for anyone who loves musical comedy, or anyone who has ever played Toto in a community theater production of The Wizard of Oz. Envisioned as a no-calories hoot of…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:16PM[SHARE]Saturday, February 27, 2016
There's something interesting about seeing at the Arsht Center a national tour of the 30-year-old Phantom of the Opera for the who-knows-which time. It's amazing that people who have perform…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 04:44PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 25, 2016
Broward Stage Door revives its 2014 hit jukebox musical of hit tunes from the late 1950s through the early 1970s, What's New Pussycat, with a new cast.
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:43PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 23, 2016
Punchline Theatre Company's adorably scruffy puppy of a msuical comedy about modern relationships, I Love You Because succeeds because every aspect -- from the performances to the direction…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:32AM[SHARE]Monday, February 22, 2016
The fate of Arts Garage in Delray Beach has taken a more encouraging turn because a major funder received enough financial information to make its leaders comfortable in disbursing some if n…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 05:01PM[SHARE]"Or," is a delightful daffy farce underpinned with social commentary that fits Thinking Cap's eclectic bent for thought-provoking comedies and dramas that are aggressively off-beat, have a l…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, February 20, 2016
To say that Sondheim's Passion is not to every intelligent patron's taste is an understatement. But if you can open yourself up to it, Zoetic Stage's production is a transcendent work of pe…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:06PM[SHARE]Friday, February 19, 2016
You'll laugh wildly at the pumped up, absurd comic antics in Riverside Theatre's brilliant production of Christopher Durang's award-winning Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike. But then, it'…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:46AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 17, 2016
Arts Garage received a temporary reprieve from eviction and extinction late Tuesday night from the Delray Beach City Commission, but its long-term existence depends on significant changes to…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:13PM[SHARE]Sunday, February 14, 2016
Despite the title , the musical Romance, Romance is not so much saccharine as bittersweet. In two playlets set in separate times, locales and social strata, we see true love blossom but ulti…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 01:52PM[SHARE]Saturday, February 13, 2016
If it's snowing up north, then it's time for Florida theaters to announce their 2016-2017 seasons. Among those that have: Slow Burn Theatre Company, Actors' Playhouse, Thinking Cap Theatre,…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:06PM[SHARE]Friday, February 12, 2016
The strength of the acclaimed 2006 play Froist/Nixon is that no one is depicted in pure white hats or black hats. That facet is brought out in the Maltz's production better than in any earl…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 01:15PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 11, 2016
If you're going to stage a dorm debate about the meaning of life, the role of religion and science, suffering, love, guilt, the predilection of populaces to totalitarian governments, and the…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 04:31PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 9, 2016
By Bill Hirschman The future of the Arts Garage in Delray Beach is in serious jeopardy, its executive director said, because of a nearly depleted cash flow, crucial operating funds being wit…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 01:19PM[SHARE]Monday, February 8, 2016
At the marrow of Eugene O'Neill's masterpiece Long Day's Journey Into Night at Palm Beach Dramaworks is its compassionate sorrow that the ultimate human tragedy is the death of hope. The fi…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 02:50PM[SHARE]Saturday, February 6, 2016
It might drip with sentimentality, but Riverside Theatre's Over the River and Through the Woods will nudge out a few tears and win you over, due in no small part to the handsome and well-act…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:45AM[SHARE]Friday, February 5, 2016
We are still in one of the busiest periods in one of the busiest seasons in South Florida theater " at least 30 openings, and likely more. If you don't see a review of a show that has opened…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:54AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 3, 2016
Actors' Playhouse pulls out all the stops to mount its annual winter centerpiece production. Director David Arisco molded a troupe of actor-singer-dancers who deliver a vibrant evening remar…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 03:42PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 2, 2016
Sometimes, as in the case of Marquee Theater Company's Jekyll & Hyde, the performances are so powerful that you forget the material isn't worthy of the artistry. Frank Wildhorn's pop-in…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:31PM[SHARE]If Arthur Miller were also a doctor on the side, he might have written a play like Unlikely Heroes. A family drama full of long-harbored resentments and new ones stemming from intimate secre…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 07:22AM[SHARE]Sunday, January 31, 2016
Arts Garage's Reborning is a thought-provoking work hints at many weighty topics"the anxieties of pending motherhood, the conflicting desires to both nurture and destroy, the futility of try…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:33PM[SHARE]Thursday, January 28, 2016
Broward Stage Door's edition of Carnival, featuring one of the loveliest scores in the canon, under Dan Kelley's experienced hand features a hard-working cast, some of whom have fine voices …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 01:48PM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 27, 2016
But our recent visit to Broadway took in shows running nearly a full season or even longer " and they seem as vibrant as the reviews said they were on the day they opened: The King and I, An…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:37AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 26, 2016
Fine talent, stirring music and Slow Burn Theatre's enthusiasm elevate the musical Violet, but the material has consistent void somewhere deep down in this musical's emotional investment.
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:02PM[SHARE]Monday, January 25, 2016
GableStage has produced a version Terrrence McNally's satire about theater, It's Only A Play, that is funnier and has far more heart than the Broadway edition.
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:04AM[SHARE]Sunday, January 24, 2016
Florida Grand Opera's infrequently mounted Norma, a marathon challenge for sopranos, is a superbly executed triumph that melds technical mastery and gut-wrenching emotion.
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 01:10PM[SHARE]Saturday, January 23, 2016
The scruffy damaged denizens of New Orleans' underclass depicted in the musical The Journey: The Story of Your Life really only have one dimension and the subtlety of a freight train, but, g…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 02:26PM[SHARE]Friday, January 22, 2016
Ronald Harwood's script and Chicken Coop Theatre's production of Taking Sides supposedly even-handed look at art and politics isn't very subtle for most of the play, but it does have two sol…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:15AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 21, 2016
Island City Stage gives the first full performance of Michael Leeds' Who Killed Joan Crawford, a comedy mystery about male friends invited to a birthday party dressed as Crawford characters.…
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