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…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:57PM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 11, 2015
The Dana Plays, a popular fundraiser last year for a critically ill theater activist, is being revived this month by the South Florida Theatre League to support one of her favorite charities…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 07:15PM[SHARE]Sunday, August 9, 2015
The Wick Theatre's lush Peter Pan is thrilling whenever it breaks into song, spinning spell of gently whimsical fantasy. Otherwise, with a few notable exceptions, it settles for being a mod…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:18PM[SHARE]Sunday, August 2, 2015
I'll Eat You Last: A Chat With Sue Mengers at GableStage is an acerbically delicious cross between a gossip fest and a memoir of the legendary Hollywood super-agent of the 1970s, brought to …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 01:49PM[SHARE]Saturday, August 1, 2015
Simply, MNM Productions' effort may be the best production of Side by Side by Sondheim seen in South Florida or many other places. Four superb performers act the dramatic, psychological and …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 03:43PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 22, 2015
If the Ali MacGraw-Ryan O'Neal pairing was a marketing stunt to sell the new national tour of Love Letters that kicked off in Fort Lauderdale, the actors pulled a fast one and delivered unas…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:42AM[SHARE]Monday, July 20, 2015
Evening Star Production's fervent mounting of Jason Robert Brown's cult musical The Last Five Years invests infinite compassion for the eddying gain and loss in one of the most intriguing co…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:31PM[SHARE]Saturday, July 18, 2015
There's a six-foot-plus-tall hitman dressed in full Highland garb and speaking in an unintelligble Scottish brogue, ineffectual policewoman who isn't trusted with actual firearms, and an acc…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:57PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 16, 2015
"A glib" is a noun used in theater back in the day to signify when actors would race through their lines as quickly as possible just to cover the territory a half-hour before the curtain ros…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 05:16PM[SHARE]By Bill Hirschman Like Hamlet, Madama Butterfly and the Terminator franchise, the indestructible entertainment phenomenon that is WaistWatchers: The Musical has returned to South Florida in …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:58AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 15, 2015
Interviewing Ali MacGraw and Ryan O'Neal, or trying to, about their upcoming national tour of Love Letters that kicks off in Fort Lauderdale next week seems almost churlishly interfering wit…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:58AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 14, 2015
By Bill Hirschman The primary thing usually missing from a Cirque du Soliel show is a discernable plot. Lookingglass Alice, slipping into the Arsht Center's spectacle-driven summer extravaga…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 07:54AM[SHARE]Sunday, July 12, 2015
South Florida Theater patrons checking and responding to email during a performance has mushroomed in recent years, but it reached a high water mark last week indicating a worsening of the c…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 04:51PM[SHARE]Saturday, July 11, 2015
Life is bittersweet marked by rue and romance in which those foolish mortals submit and succumb to the whirling winds of love and lust in Palm Beach Dramaworks' concert staging of Stephen So…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 01:20PM[SHARE]Monday, July 6, 2015
George M is a razzamatazz, flag-waving, tuneful, toe-tapping, tap-dancing bio-revue tailor-made for the target audiences embracing its current revival at The Wick Theatre.
But written in 19…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:01PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 1, 2015
By Michelle F. Solomon Miami’s Ground Up & Rising production of Jonathan Caren’s The Recommendation is compelling on so many levels. Yet, what makes it so formidable doesn…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:12AM[SHARE]Monday, June 29, 2015
Terry Teachout, the drama critic for The Wall Street Journal who has championed regional theater as a major force on the national level, will make his directorial debut next spring helming P…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:06AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 23, 2015
No peeking! Here are the answers to the latest installment of our patented theater geek trivia contest. This one is tied to the recent Tony Awards and the arrival next month of Ali MacGraw a…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:48PM[SHARE]After a theater season in South Florida with four, five even six openings in a single weekend, the production metabolism slows down this summer to only a dozen openings in a month -- which g…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:48PM[SHARE]Saturday, June 20, 2015
At Entr'acte Theatrix's production of Into The Woods, the special pleasure was watching nascent talent taking unsteady but ever more sure steps in their evolution en route to fully-blossomed…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 04:56PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 18, 2015
By Bill Hirschman The initial reviews are promisingly positive for Wednesday's world premiere in Chicago of the new Broadway-bound musical On Your Feet! which retells the life story of Glori…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:44PM[SHARE]Sunday, June 14, 2015
A naïve young woman from an isolated religious cult called the Squeamish (think Amish) finds herself in an oversized Mr. Peanut outfit on a highway giving the finger to honking motorists.…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 01:37PM[SHARE]Saturday, June 13, 2015
Harmony. When it's sung well, a warm visceral sense of well-being and balance missing from much of human interaction just envelops the lucky listeners. The three actresses impersonating The …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 01:51PM[SHARE]Sunday, June 7, 2015
Okay, everybody dies and the world is taken over by human-eating aliens, but Slow Burn Theatre Company's Little Shop of Horrors delivers a happy ending to its five-year partnership with West…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 02:50PM[SHARE]Saturday, June 6, 2015
Intriguing premises are the jumping off points for the nine flights of theatrical whimsy in City Theatre's annual festival of short plays, Summer Shorts. While no discernable thread runs thr…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 03:46PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 3, 2015
Leveling Up getting an intriguing production by New Theatre is about far more than a 20-something gaming magus in Las Vegas hired to remotely operate drones that eliminate real targets in th…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:40AM[SHARE]Monday, June 1, 2015
Harvey Fierstein's thought-provoking Casa Valentina play at GableStage explores is that sexuality as an infinitely varied stew of preferences, prejudices and other ingredients in varied meas…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:53PM[SHARE]Sunday, May 31, 2015
Michael McKeever's stunning world premiere play Daniel's Husband at Island City Stage is an indelible and inarguable exhibit that love between human begins is unquantifiably precious and ina…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:33PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 28, 2015
Inside baseball describes the wry and witty It's Only A Play, if you're one of us who can name all six shows that earned Tony nominations for Kelli O'Hara. But if you're one of the tens of m…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:52PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 27, 2015
We're back from our trip to New York to scout out productions you might want to see (or not), shows that might tour South Florida and scripts that might be worth reviving in our region…
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