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.…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:01PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 19, 2016
Monday, January 18, 2016
Miami New Drama's musical The Golem of Havana melds warm comedy and profound tragedy in an intriguing, sometimes moving, often thought-provoking evening. It encompasses the Holocaust, the Ca…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:27PM[SHARE]Sunday, January 17, 2016
Area Stage Company delivers an unsettling, thought-provoking evening with its musings on the implication of an unbridled Internet of the future in The Nether.
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:31PM[SHARE]Saturday, January 16, 2016
Gina Gionfriddo's Rapture, Blister, Burn is rooted in an wry examination of post-feminism. But Zoetic Stage's finely wrought comedy-drama goes much farther and deeper in examining the comple…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:34PM[SHARE]The Maltz Jupiter Theatre's pull-out-the-stops revival is about as lush and entertaining a rendition as anyone could hope for and benefits immeasurably from Matt Loehr in the title role.
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:45AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 14, 2016
The Jazz Singer: The Musical never really takes its audience back in time, but has a false feeling that we're watching actors put on a play. But there are reasons this production at the Will…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 07:55AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 13, 2016
Three epic productions stretching the resources of their companies are among the musicals vying to collect the most gold in the 40th anniversary edition of the Carbonell Awards recognizing e…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:22PM[SHARE]Complete list of nominations for the 2015 Carbonell Awards and county, theater and show breakdown analysis
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:22PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 12, 2016
Because they write what they know, the five playwrights of Punchline Theatre Company's #Unhappy Hour provide another peek into the evolving saga of Millennials in America in the 21st Century…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 04:14PM[SHARE]Monday, January 11, 2016
In the end, the success of the Wick Theater's South Pacific is something so obvious and simple: It's the music, the glorious Rodgers and Hammerstein score and lyrics delivered by a talented …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:32AM[SHARE]Sunday, January 10, 2016
The latest edition of Diva Diaries about three aging drag performers lands inconsistently " sometimes entertaining or moving, other times feeling thin, perfunctory and artificial. But it;s h…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:42PM[SHARE]Saturday, January 9, 2016
There's more than one singular sensation in Riverside Theatre's thrilling production of A Chorus Line. It takes that heady combination of Michael Bennett's choreography and Marvin Hamlisch'…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 07:54AM[SHARE]Friday, January 8, 2016
Both Sides of a Famous Love Affair - The Jackie Mason Musical, the semi-autobiographical comedy about a young South Florida woman whose affair with the famed comedian results in a love child…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:57PM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 6, 2016
From the sequin-bright sparkle to the propulsive power of the 20th Century Limited, the new national tour of 42nd Street at the Kravis on Broadway series is a polished, energizing and thorou…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 04:01PM[SHARE]By Bill Hirschman Pompadour, the new musical subtitled Hits, Harmony and Hairspray bowing at Broward Stage Door, is what it is and is what it wants to be. So the question that only you can a…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:22AM[SHARE]Monday, January 4, 2016
This is the power of the play King Charles III: Six weeks after seeing it, I found myself at intermission of a local show last weekend still raving about it to other audience members. So muc…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 02:19PM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 30, 2015
How do you solve a problem of taking a 56-year old American musical classic and making it fresh for a modern audience? If you're director Jack O'Brien, you lovingly dust the tarnish off of T…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:01PM[SHARE]Sunday, December 27, 2015
2015 produced a wild variety of snapshots to paste in the theatrical scrapbooks: a male Dolly Levi, a possibly homicidal dimwit slicing carrots, the heartbreaking consequence of passing on g…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:22PM[SHARE]Thursday, December 17, 2015
The tour of Dr. Seuss' How The Grinch Stole Christmas is a reliable litmus test of just how deep into or disaffected you are with the holiday spirit.
This definitively children's musical …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 02:51AM[SHARE]Monday, December 14, 2015
Allegiance, the story of a Japanese-American family rent apart by their internment in World War II, has the potential to be a great play. Unfortunately, it's a musical.
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:47PM[SHARE]Sunday, December 13, 2015
Marquee Theater Company's production of Jason Robert Brown's Songs For A New World slices open the studied flat affect of the "Whatever" generation to expose inner lives as vibrant, complex …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:42AM[SHARE]Thursday, December 10, 2015
Lots of news items about Arts Radio Network, FAU’s Theatre Lab, Island City Stage, New Theatre, South Florida Theatre League, Lost Girls Theatre, and Cultural Council of Palm Beach Cou…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 05:04PM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 9, 2015
If you thought you felt the pillars of the regional theatrical world shake violently this week, you weren't wrong. Christine Dolen, the nationally-respected theater critic and arts journalis…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:38PM[SHARE]The national tour of Kinky Boots was a well-polished evening of musical comedy with soulful ballads and glitzy production numbers, but this construction felt so manipulative, so by-the-numbe…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:56AM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 8, 2015
Actors Playhouse's production of The Trial of Ebenezer Scrooge has a talented cast working hard under the direction of David Arisco, but good grief, what a waste of the resources of Mark Bro…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:27AM[SHARE]Saturday, December 5, 2015
Nearly everyone in the Palm Beach Dramaworks' superb production of The History Boys is in love with unleashing flash floods of verbiage in an orgy of ideas illustrated by their addiction to …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 02:46PM[SHARE]Friday, December 4, 2015
The Maltz Jupiter Theatre has successfully re-imagined Billy Eliot the Musical into winning edition that is more effective than the national company that toured South Florida a few seasons b…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 07:28PM[SHARE]Thursday, December 3, 2015
Probably the last place you'd want to be after rehearsing with the same cast and crew for weeks, then knowing you're heading into a month-long run would be gathering at a table for Thanksgiv…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:37AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 2, 2015
From the defiant, fierce and joyful opening phrases about a bastard immigrant destined to become "a hero and a scholar," Hamilton proves itself an electrifying game changer in the world of m…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:38PM[SHARE]Monday, November 30, 2015
It is long past time for theaters and theater patrons to come down hard on audience members who text, talk incessantly, photograph set designs, video production numbers, check messages from …
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