Friday, February 27, 2015
An Opinion Piece By Spencer Stewart Mr. Stewart has objected to many aspects of our specific review of Miami Theater Center's recent production of The Seven Year Itch (To read it, click here…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:40AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 26, 2015
Scott Shiller, who transformed the Arsht Center into a catalyst developing local artists as well as widening the array of visiting attractions, is leaving at the end of April to head the Den…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 07:44PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 25, 2015
They had me from hello, or at least from the wailing wall of distinctive sound given unprecedented power in the opening bars of Motown the Musical. It erupted like molten lava from the pit a…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 03:37PM[SHARE]Monday, February 23, 2015
The wide range of theater available in South Florida " from Matilda to Medea -- was underscored Monday with the announcements of 2015-2016 seasons for two very different but ambitious groups…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:38PM[SHARE]We want theaters to take chances and Miami Theater Center has bravely invested its artistic vision into classics like Three Sisters. But MTC has missed the target so badly in its misbegotte…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 07:26PM[SHARE]Sunday, February 22, 2015
As the conductor of the pit orchestra at the national tour of Motown the Musical, Darryl Archibald is the person most accessible to the revved-up audience in the white hot afterglow of fans …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:59AM[SHARE]Saturday, February 21, 2015
Palm Beach Dramaworks unveiled its 2015-2016 slate as well as its upcoming summer concert series, a meld of classic theater that few other companies undertake as well as acclaimed works from…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:32AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 19, 2015
For years, George Schiavone has been documenting life back stage. Since the beginning of rehearsals of Actors' Playhouse's Ragtime, he has been shooting photos of the rehearsal and productio…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:11PM[SHARE]For years, George Schiavone has been documenting life back stage. Since the beginning of rehearsals of Actors' Playhouse's Ragtime, he has been shooting photos of the rehearsal and productio…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:43AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 17, 2015
The Florida Grand Opera will continue to perform in Broward County next season. The financially-challenged FGO did not quite raise the $600,000 that officials said they needed. Vut an anonym…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:41PM[SHARE]Monday, February 16, 2015
Familiar titles and lesser known shows punctuate the 2015-2016 schedules released this week for The Wick Theatre in Boca Raton and Actors Playhouse on the Miracle Mile, ranging from West Sid…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:12PM[SHARE]Sunday, February 15, 2015
Four of the six shows slated for the 2015-2016 Broadway Across Fort Lauderdale season earned Tony Awards in just the past few years, and two of them will be seen for the first time in South …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:05AM[SHARE]Friday, February 13, 2015
The Maltz Jupiter Theatre delivers a courageous and skilled revival of Glengarry Glen Ross that depicts a group of foul-mouthed cutthroat Chicago real estate for whom nothing is out of bound…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 05:23PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 11, 2015
If you've never seen I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change (highly unlikely that) or if it's been quite a while since you last saw it, the Broward Stage Door delivers a warm assured product…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:26PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 10, 2015
What follows are a series of letters reflecting the controversy between Samuel French, the play licensing company, and Delray Square Performing Arts about the theater's production of the mus…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:31AM[SHARE]Monday, February 9, 2015
The snow up North notwithstanding, one early sign of winter's ebb is that theaters in South Florida try to entice the current crop of snowbirds to sign up for their next season by releasing …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:08PM[SHARE]The Women's Theatre Project, the Carbonell-nominated company focused on works by and about women, is closing after 33 productions over 14 years. TWTP won strong support among theatergoers of…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:49AM[SHARE]Sunday, February 8, 2015
This 61-year-old Twelve Angry Men gets an effective production in New Theatre's edition of what it rightfully deems an American classic. A dozen actors give some of the better performances o…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 01:59PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 4, 2015
It's fortunate that Newsies is a dance-centric musical because much of the lyrics and dialogue were nearly impossible to understand in the national tour visiting the Arsht Center from Broadw…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:53PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 3, 2015
Sartre's existentialism tips the iceberg of what Steve Yockey's play Octopus takes on in its oddly dark comic and tumultuous story. . While it may leave some scratching their heads, there's …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 04:21PM[SHARE]Monday, February 2, 2015
Florida Grand Opera has extended its deadline two weeks to raise enough money to continue performing next season at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts.
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:28PM[SHARE]Sunday, February 1, 2015
But as far as large-scale Broadway musicals, Ragtime stands as Actors' finest mainstream work ever, as accessible and satisfying as it is passionate and thoughtful. Anyone who cares about mu…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:45PM[SHARE]Saturday, January 31, 2015
When done well, the astringent Les Liaisons Dangereuses is an increasingly horrifying descent into s morally bankrupt aristocratic society. Palm Beach Dramaworks' solidly executed and lushly…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 04:40PM[SHARE]Friday, January 30, 2015
Undo's premise " a Jewish divorce ceremony that rewinds a couple's wedding day -- sounds so much like a sitcom episode that you keep expecting it to slide into shallow farce. But it doesn't…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 01:55PM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 28, 2015
Broward Stage Door's courageously adult and resplendently lewd production of Cabaret ain't your condo grandmother's musical comedy. The only thing missing from this vision echoing the Sam Me…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:47PM[SHARE]This Into The Woods by DreamCatcher Theatre and Theater Up Close is so heartbreakingly uneven that it may bring Sondheim lovers close to tears. Long stretches are so skillfully and lovingly …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:50AM[SHARE]Monday, January 26, 2015
A gay teenager leading a religious-based choir at a regimented prep school for African-American boys is a perfect theatrical metaphor for an individualist struggling to square his uncompromi…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:25PM[SHARE]Sunday, January 25, 2015
At the end of Florida Grand Opera's beautifully performed and comical edition of the Mozart farce Cosi Fan Tutte, you'll want to take the heroes into a dark alley and beat them with a two-b…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:55PM[SHARE]Saturday, January 24, 2015
With Bonnie & Clyde, Slow Burn Theatre Company has found the strengths in a "troubled" work and forged an entertaining even intermittently thrilling work. It keeps nudging upward the le…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:30PM[SHARE]Friday, January 23, 2015
M Ensemble's production of The Gift Horse has praiseworthy virtues and crippling problems that make it a mixed experience. But it does give the audience a long-delayed gift in Carey Hart's s…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 04:26PM[SHARE]Thursday, January 22, 2015
Miamians J.J. and Natalie Caruncho built their careers as thespians in New York City, but now in their mid-20s, the siblings have returned home with the new company DreamCatcher Theatre to …
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