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…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 03:14PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 26, 2015
"Dark comedy" usually refers to a blithely cynical or whistling-past-the-graveyard attitude, but in the hilarious and unnerving Hand To God the darkness is pure visceral evil.
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:14AM[SHARE]Monday, May 25, 2015
From Elizabethan actors lining up ala A Chorus Line with oil paintings for their headshots, to a preening rock star Shakespeare spouting his greatest hits to a sycophantic crowd, Something R…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 07:46AM[SHARE]Sunday, May 24, 2015
Ticket prices are not an obstacle to interested theatergoers once again this summer through the South Florida Theatre League's annual Summer Theatre Fest that provides free tickets to major …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:25AM[SHARE]Saturday, May 23, 2015
Professionalism is the only explanation why this much talent"the cream of South Florida theater from the director to the cast to the creative team -- invested itself so deeply into the flawe…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:10AM[SHARE]Friday, May 22, 2015
Broward Stage Door's quite serviceable but not bewitching production of this 1951 fantasy love story doesn't feel especially magical in the first act, but it locates the right bag of pixie d…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:31AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 21, 2015
The Critics' Awards Program, or Cappies, recognizing outstanding achievement in high school theater at the 13th Annual Cappies Awards Gala were held Tuesday at the Broward Center for the Per…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 07:25PM[SHARE]Monday, May 18, 2015
Veil after veil are slowly stripped away from the elegant sophisticated stage persona that is "Billie Holiday" until standing exposed is a blunted devastated victim of racism, sexism and abu…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:00PM[SHARE]Saturday, May 16, 2015
If God is omniscient, He must be inconsolably sad. Zoetic Stage's superb production of Harold Pinter's Betrayal puts its audience in that poignant and painful position in which Knowledge is,…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:07AM[SHARE]Friday, May 15, 2015
After love, compassion has to be the highest virtue of humanity. That tender melding of sympathy and forgiveness for human failings and their resulting tragedy suffuse the transcendent music…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 02:21PM[SHARE]Monday, May 11, 2015
We were tough last week on the national tour of Anything Goes. If those folks want to know what we were hoping to see, they should take the day off and drop in on what The Wick Theatre is do…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:05PM[SHARE]Sunday, May 10, 2015
Florida Grand Opera's production of Gian Carlo Menotti's The Consul is somehow far more emotionally potent than fairy tale stories of ancient star-crossed Egyptian beauties and 19th century …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:42PM[SHARE]Saturday, May 9, 2015
Ellen Wacher's Pigs Do Fly Productions opens its second season by, for and about people over 50 years old arguing that Fitzgerald was wrong with its newest anthology of playlets under the um…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 03:39PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 7, 2015
Arts Garage has partnered with veteran theater figures Keith Garsson and Genie Croft to resume presenting productions in the converted municipal garage in downtown Delray Beach. But the new…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 04:40PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 6, 2015
It would be inaccurate to compare the soggy national tour of the sea-borne Anything Goes to the Titanic. But if there ever was proof that Broward Center audiences will give a standing ovatio…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 01:17PM[SHARE]Sunday, May 3, 2015
With bracing anger, profuse profanity and biting satire that is more slashing than surgical, Outre Theatre Company's Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson will not to be everyone's taste but for thos…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:17PM[SHARE]Friday, May 1, 2015
For those who think young people don't care about theater, witness the hundreds of South Florida high school students involved in the nominations announced this week for the 13th annual Capp…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:06AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 29, 2015
All hell breaks loose in The Glory of the World by Charles Mee at the Humana Festival of New Plays at Actors Theatre of Louisville / All photos by Bill Brymer By Bill Hirschman As before, th…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 07:47AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 23, 2015
Most critics despise adding a letter grade to their review. But watching Broward Stage Door's admirable production of A Chorus Line kept bringing up over and over the idea of a "B" and what …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 03:30PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 22, 2015
Lanford Wilson's wistful and whimsical play Redwood Curtain postulates that the past we stock our psyche with becomes something integral to our being that has to be faced down if we are to m…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:39AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 21, 2015
More than a decade after efforts began to rescue the financially failing Coconut Grove Playhouse, the Miami-Dade County Commission voted to hire an architect to design a $20 million theater …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 03:23PM[SHARE]Monday, April 20, 2015
In theory, Vita and Virginia details the relationship between Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West. But the real romance is a profligate, glorious love affair with words, with language, w…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 03:36PM[SHARE]Sunday, April 19, 2015
Can a meaningful relationship blossom in a world where cynicism and self-interest seem to trump integrity and burgeoning affection? Island City Stage's production of Douglas Carter Beane's h…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:40PM[SHARE]Saturday, April 18, 2015
There's enough giggles and grins in Evening Star Productions' The Addams Family delivered by these game, committed thespians to keep this production mildly diverting, but they still are find…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:46PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 16, 2015
A citizens' group that pushed for 14 months for a larger, more ambitious complex for the Coconut Grove Playhouse resurrection project has shelved its plan indefinitely because the Miami-Dade…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:57PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 15, 2015
Slow Burn Theatre Company's Rent is ambitious, daring, electric and 2 1/2 hours of non-stop rock 'n' roll " a no-holds barred, take chances, go-out-on-a-limb spectacle. But when stripped of …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:10PM[SHARE]Sister Act is not a terrible musical; it even has amusing and mildly entertaining passages. But the national tour at the Arsht Center is also a head-shaking mediocrity that begs an answer to…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 01:14PM[SHARE]Saturday, April 11, 2015
The American Theatre Critics Association (ATCA) has selected Rebecca Gilman's Luna Gale as the recipient of the Harold and Mimi Steinberg/American Theatre Critics Association New Play Award,…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:00PM[SHARE]The Magnificents, The House Theatre of Chicago's production that's playing inside the intimate Carnival Studio Theater at the Adrienne Arsht Center, is pure and simple and classic entertainm…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 07:42PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 8, 2015
By Michelle F. Solomon If the House Theater of Chicago’s Death and Harry Houdini was about neglecting life in the pursuit of conquering death, The Magnificents is the other side of the…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 07:28AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 7, 2015
For such a very funny play, the world premiere of Women Playing Hamlet at New Theatre digs deeply into that alchemical process when an actor draws on their own life experience to create a cr…
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