Monday, November 23, 2015
Susan J. Westfall's Two Weekends and a Day at New Theatre is a classic example of a world premiere that has admirable virtues worth exploring further, but a serious need for more re-tooling.
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 01:28PM[SHARE]Sunday, November 22, 2015
"A blank page or canvas. So many… possibilities." .            –Stephen Sondheim's Sunday in the Park With George By Bill Hirschman Like a spinni…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:33AM[SHARE]Saturday, November 21, 2015
Thinking Cap Theatre sets The Importance of Being Earnest in a madcap lampoon of New York City's disco era. The urbane and farcical elements are irreconcilably at war, but each facet " one o…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 03:08PM[SHARE]Friday, November 20, 2015
Start the clock, Florida. The moment tickets go on sale for the national tour of On Your Feet!, get on line. In fact, if you're planning to be anywhere near the Big Apple, shell out the duca…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 05:38PM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 18, 2015
Even the Bugs Bunny The Barber of Seville (which gets a subtle nod in Florida Grand Opera's new outing) never featured the tenor and baritone-bass dueling with a plumber's plunger and a toil…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:20PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 17, 2015
By Hap Erstein In the same way that Slow Burn Theatre Company's artistic director Patrick Fitzwater has a good eye for spotting performance talent, he also is savvy at identifying worthy new…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:45PM[SHARE]Sunday, November 15, 2015
Immersive technology goes a long way in elevating Topher Payne's Angry Fags at Island City Stage, but the play still suffers from elephantine pacing and a sense of crippling logorrhea. Yet t…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:42PM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 11, 2015
By Keren Moros Special to Florida Theater On Stage Just because something isn't a success at first, it doesn't mean it can't be a success later. Take Disney's Newsies, a success story more t…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:52AM[SHARE]Sunday, November 8, 2015
The first question that everyone wants answered is: Is it possible to buy Lee Roy Reams as Dolly Levi in The Wick Theatre's Hello, Dolly! The answer is "sometimes." The answer also depends o…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:51PM[SHARE]Saturday, November 7, 2015
In Christopher Demos-Brown's shattering world premiere Stripped at Zoetic Stage, the audience is faced with a complex child custody case is forced to judge past the surface facets of a case …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 01:31PM[SHARE]Thursday, November 5, 2015
The classic 1952 crime play Dial M For Murder is a brilliantly-designed timepiece of plotting and dramatic construction. Unfortunately, Broward Stage Door's barely serviceable production of …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:33AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 3, 2015
What does a man profiteth if he gains technology and loses his artistic soul? And can romance survive ambition when the two collide? Those issues, along with scores of corollaries, swirl thr…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 04:40PM[SHARE]Monday, November 2, 2015
It's not a drag show. Broadway veteran Lee Roy Reams may become only the second man to play Dolly Levi in a sanctioned production of Hello, Dolly! when it bows this week at The Wick Theatre …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:57AM[SHARE]Friday, October 30, 2015
The Mousetrap at the Maltz is indeed a hoary old chestnut chock full of clichéswhich weren't even new when it bowed in 1952. But director Peter Amster and his cast wisely don't try to figh…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:08PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 29, 2015
VERO BEACH -- Good songs tell compelling stories. And after seeing Riverside Theatre's stylish, smart and vivacious production of Swinging on a Star, you'll think no one did it better than J…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:09AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 27, 2015
Publishing student reviews of high school theater is the cornerstone of a service from Florida Theater On Stage and the South Florida Critics and Awards Program, better known as The Cappies.
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:55PM[SHARE]Sunday, October 25, 2015
With this production of Big Fish, Slow Burn Theatre Company has proven itself with no asterisks to be the equal of any company producing musicals in the region, some with far more resources,…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 02:38PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 21, 2015
After five years of staging its shows in a high school auditorium in West Boca, Slow Burn Theatre Company moves to the Broward Center for the Performing Arts with its season opener, the larg…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:20AM[SHARE]Monday, October 19, 2015
Twenty-seven theater artists and organizations will receive the eighth annual South Florida Silver Palm Theatre Awards honoring an outstanding or unique contribution," the group announced Mo…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:50PM[SHARE]Somewhere under the green slime encrusted set of The Toxic Avenger at Actors Playhouse, a nuclear plant must be melting down all China Syndrome like. That might explain the raw power emanati…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:01AM[SHARE]Friday, October 16, 2015
35MM and this production require some effort from the audience to meet it more than halfway. It is, as they say, not for everyone's taste. But it does represent an intriguing example of the …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:51PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 14, 2015
By Bill Hirschman South Florida theaters still mount familiar warhorses, but the 2015-2016 season is proof that companies realize the future of theater is to attract pre-retirement audiences…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:30AM[SHARE]These are not at all necessarily what we predict will be the best shows this season (although they may be) or the best attended or the most popular or the most award-winning. We don't care. …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:30AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 13, 2015
The writing seems a little sharper, the direction more incisive and the acting a bit more credible at Pigs Do Fly Productions' new Flying High. Some of the playlets still are a bit lamer tha…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:51AM[SHARE]Saturday, October 10, 2015
With its novelistic heft, lumbering pace and large cast, the 1953 Picnic is a product of its time. But rather than reproduce a propulsive Picnic for impatient 21st century audiences, Palm Be…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 05:10PM[SHARE]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 …
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