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…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 07:27AM[SHARE]Sunday, April 5, 2015
The Wick Theatre's Oklahoma! is an apple cheek fairy tale drawn in only two dimensions, a broad musical comedy sprightly painted with bright vibrant colors that will not fail to entertain if…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:11PM[SHARE]Friday, April 3, 2015
The central tenets of Baruch de Spinoza's rationalist ethos are explored exhaustively and exhaustingly in GableStage's intriguing production of David Ives' New Jerusalem which surely counts…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 01:36PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 2, 2015
Aerialists contort their muscles aloft on trapezes. Tumblers leap through hoops. Performers juggle knives and fiery torches. And somewhere under all that flash and glitter is the beloved Pip…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:43AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 1, 2015
Palm Beach Dramaworks' Buried Child is not a pleasant evening of entertainment; it's more of scathing abrasion therapy that purges the mental palate with fare that is as harrowing as a plow …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:45PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 31, 2015
Hundreds of theater professionals and fans gathered Monday night in tuxes and gowns at theater prom better known as The 39th Carbonell Awards on Monday night.
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:20AM[SHARE]Monday, March 30, 2015
Best New Work (Play or Musical) (4 nominees) ** Clark Gable Slept Here, Michael McKeever, Zoetic Stage Cuban Spring, Vanessa Garcia, New Theatre Have I Got a Girl for You, Josh Mesnick, Isla…
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