Friday, October 9, 2015
The Wick Theatre's production of A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum benefits from Stephen Sondheims's score and lyrics, but the cast and director need to inject more vaudevillian…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 01:13PM[SHARE]Awash in issues of Arab-American assimilation and Anglo antipathy, GableStage's Disgraced is the classic contemporary example of the topical, thought-provoking drama that forces you to reval…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 01:13PM[SHARE]Folksy, intimate, and warmly fulfilling, the national tour of the musical Once is as intoxicating as a shot of Irish whiskey. The buzz remains long after the hummable Falling Slowly reprise …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 01:13PM[SHARE]Dan Kelley, the tall rubber-faced actor-director who has been a fixture in South Florida musicals for nearly 30 years, has been named artistic director of Broward Stage Door.
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 01:13PM[SHARE]Friday, October 2, 2015
If you like your theater schematic, clear-cut and requiring little cogitation, you will absolutely hate A Map of Virtue. But if you don't mind wrestling with a production while it's underway…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:39AM[SHARE]Broward Stage Door's earnest intriguing revival of Promises, Promises embraces its up-to-the-moment pop score for 1968, a witty and insightful script, frenetic choreography that caught the …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:22AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 29, 2015
By Bill Hirschman It's Stephen Sondheim redux for veteran Broadway actor Ken Jennings, although a bit backwards. It might seem a long, long stretch for the man who created the mentally chall…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:31AM[SHARE]Sunday, September 27, 2015
The surprisingly impressive bow of the new Marquee Theater Company with its production of the pop musical Aida is notable for, among other things, the professional debut of its star, Alexand…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:54PM[SHARE]Saturday, September 26, 2015
Killer Joe, playwright Tracy Letts' 1993 debut writ large in feral violence and bottomless venality, is such a powerful brew of toxicity that the script carries along an uneven production at…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 07:25PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 24, 2015
Not meaning disrespect to local producers, but the founders of the new Marquee Theater Company opening its second show this weekend in Boca Raton argue that there is no need to go to New Yor…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:52AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 22, 2015
Theatre Lab, a professional venture specializing in new, developing and thought-provoking work, has opened as the resident company based at Florida Atlantic University under the leadership o…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 02:46PM[SHARE]For those among us who enjoy going deeper than what's presented on the surface, Annie Baker's The Aliens from Alliance Theatre will be a treat. For others, the silences and pacing will be an…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:28AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 15, 2015
Jan McArt's New Play Reading Series at Lynn University, which mounts staged readings of new plays in progress by local authors opens another season this fall with four works.
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:46AM[SHARE]The charismatic Jan McArt may be one of crucial developers of South Florida's cultural past as creator of the mainstream Royal Palm Dinner Theatre, but her focus today is firmly on its futur…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:46AM[SHARE]Sunday, September 13, 2015
What is endlessly worth examining and celebrating is how human beings cope with tragedy and what that says about who we are, what we are capable of and some insightful guidance on how our so…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:13PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 9, 2015
The crucial test for whether a production of The Fantasticks truly succeeds, as Broward Stage Door's does, is the last few minutes. If it's been a little while since you saw the show live an…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:31PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 1, 2015
Situated in Riverside Park along the scenic Indian River, Riverside Theatre may reside in a sub-tropical paradise, but it is a professional regional theater known for its Broadway-quality sh…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:58PM[SHARE]Sunday, August 30, 2015
The collision of two never-subtle art forms in Bed and Sofa is certainly intriguing as befits Outré Theatre Company's mission of fearlessly pushing the boundaries of theater, thanks in part…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 04:40PM[SHARE]Saturday, August 29, 2015
In Thinking Cap Theatre's Waiting For Waiting For Godot, the absurdity of life is moved from the center stage spotlight of Samuel Beckett's play in progress to the dingy dark wings where two…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 02:38PM[SHARE]Thursday, August 27, 2015
Palm Beach Dramaworks' upcoming Dramalogue - Talking Theatre! series of talks about theater will feature conversations with three major names: veteran musical director Paul Gemignani, who ha…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:08PM[SHARE]Perhaps if Rent hadn't eclipsed everything that arrived in New York stage in 1996, maybe Bed and Sofa would have received the attention it deserved, in the eyes of Skye Whitcomb who is direc…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:28PM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 25, 2015
Jack Zink, the theater critic and arts writer who co-founded the Carbonell Awards nearly 40 years ago, was honored this month when the organization named its scholarship awards after him. Th…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:32PM[SHARE]Monday, August 24, 2015
Stop what you're doing. Really. Go online right now and reserve tickets to see Ground Up and Rising's harrowing and moving Vincent River, inarguably one of the best productions of the season
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 01:31PM[SHARE]Sunday, August 23, 2015
In Mad Cat Theatre Company's world premiere of Lazy Fair, Theo Reyna's drily funny treatise on greed, Money " or actually The Spirit of Money " droll deadpan humor suffuses this spoofy hoot.
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 07:57PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 19, 2015
After seeing seven shows in a week this summer, the overarching lesson that the venerable Shaw festival in Canada has to teach South Florida theaters is jazz.
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 07:14AM[SHARE]If someone was designing a heaven on earth for theater lovers, they might not have to go farther for a blueprint than the Shaw Festival in Niagara-on-the-Lake in early summer.
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 07:14AM[SHARE]Sunday, August 16, 2015
The modern musical has its glories, but none unabashedly embrace pure feeling in quite the way Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt did in the 1960s. So be thankful for Palm Beach Dramaworks' conce…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 01:00PM[SHARE]Friday, August 14, 2015
Evening Star and Infinite Abyss co-produce Tracy Letts' surreal depiction of spiraling paranoia complete with copious amount of blood in an edition that slogs too slowly too long but ratchet…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 02:15PM[SHARE]Thursday, August 13, 2015
If the context of the eight sketches in Shorts Gone Wild 3 is primarily gay-centric, the material and performances have markedly improved year after year until it has reached a high-water ma…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 03:52PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 12, 2015
The Naked Stage, the 8-year-old company that has won acclaim and awards despite a tiny budget and no permanent home, is planning to open a 145-seat theater in a former antiques shop on Clema…
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