Tuesday, January 13, 2015
Spangles sparkle in the spotlight as styling showgirls parade across the stage in a musical celebration of enduring love, joie de vivre and self-respect " which proudly encompasses adherents…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:47AM[SHARE]Monday, January 12, 2015
John Manzelli plays a harried scheduler at a trendy restaurant -- and about 40 coworkers and patrons -- in Fully Committed at the Broward Center
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 04:58PM[SHARE]Sunday, January 11, 2015
Mad Cat Theatre's daffy deconstruction of a 1966 Neil Simon The Star Spangled Girl elicited plenty of laughs, but the schizophrenic clashing of styles didn't land as strongly as anyone hoped
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:51PM[SHARE]Saturday, January 10, 2015
Disney, for all its theatrical sins, deserves credit for at least one benefit: You can see what your parents were talking about when they raved about the magic of some theatrical piece from …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 01:33PM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 7, 2015
Large-scale opera productions would disappear from Broward County during the 2015-2016 season if area patrons and corporations do not pledge at least $400,000 by the end of this month, the F…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:42PM[SHARE]Mad Cat Theatre Company's approaching 15th anniversary is cause to assess its place in the local arts scene. Mad Cat may not have been the first company in South Florida to produce the thesp…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:58AM[SHARE]Monday, January 5, 2015
Ayad Akhtar's Pulitzer-winning Disgraced is a scalding rebuke to anyone who thinks that any section of our society has come to an intellectual or emotional homeostasis about social, cultural…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:50AM[SHARE]Saturday, January 3, 2015
Welcome to a regular, if intermittent feature: Irreverent, lighthearted question & answer sessions with some of South Florida's best known professionals Producer, director, fight arrange…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:27AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 31, 2014
This sharply honed, finely tuned, precisely executed national tour of Beauty and the Beast piece of theater inexplicably does not seem stale. If there isn't an overflowing sense of soul pour…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:05AM[SHARE]Monday, December 29, 2014
Back in the day, whenever that was, a Broadway musical that had a raft of virtues but wasn't a perfectly satisfying piece had a good chance of running an entire season. But with astronomical…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:16AM[SHARE]Sunday, December 28, 2014
You Can't Take It With You features some inspired performances (and some surprisingly disappointing ones) in a production with a sagging first act completely redeemed by two acts of joculari…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:17AM[SHARE]Friday, December 26, 2014
Tom Stoppard's play about the war between head and heart in romance, The Real Thing, is reputedly his most accessible. Yet on my fourth connection with it through the revival at Roundabout T…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:03PM[SHARE]Thursday, December 25, 2014
Seeking "Who am I?" is the defining journey of most lives, and our religious heritage is part of the solution, even if we don't embrace that religion or its culture. Such is the soul of Sta…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 05:26PM[SHARE]Monday, December 22, 2014
Here's a look back at 2014 including a very subjective subjunctive reductive list of outstanding shows, performances and developments guaranteed to make someone unhappy they were not on the …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:21PM[SHARE]Saturday, December 20, 2014
This production of Five Guys Named Moe is an energetic romp with some of the most energized performers to burn up the floorboards at Broward Stage Door. The joint is most definitely jumpin'.
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 02:38PM[SHARE]Friday, December 19, 2014
If you can accept that film is a different storytelling medium from theater, this version of Into The Woods is not only faithful to Sondheim and Lapine's vision of darkness and light, it act…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:01AM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 16, 2014
News about a fundraiser for Slow Burn Theatre Company, the semi-annual 1-Acts at New Theatre and the resurrection of Infinite Abyss
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 02:17PM[SHARE]Friday, December 12, 2014
Actor's Playhouse at the Miracle Theatre's production of ,Miracle on South Division Street has all the makings to become a perennial holiday comedy favorite.
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 02:12PM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 10, 2014
Whenever Leslie Uggams lets loose that glorious voice, whenever the live band swings into one of Jerry Herman's standards, the Wick Theatre's production of Mame is an irresistible pleasure. …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 04:06PM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 9, 2014
Delray Beach Center for the Arts' first in-house theater production, A Chorus Line, delivers a faithful recreation with young local talent, although it's almost a carbon copy of the origina…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 01:34PM[SHARE]Monday, December 8, 2014
Israel Horovitz's My Old Lady at Palm Beach Dramaworks is a cornucopia of delightful wordplay and an insightful examination of human relationships, featuring superb performances by Estelle …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 01:26PM[SHARE]Sunday, December 7, 2014
More than a dozen shows are open and a lot of holiday/family demands are battling for space on your calendar. But shoehorn in Primal Force's stunning production of a scorching play few have …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:08PM[SHARE]Saturday, December 6, 2014
Audiences need to savor the undeniable virtues and achievements of local Shakespearean productions -- even when counter-balanced by well-intentioned even courageous but equally undeniable fl…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:33AM[SHARE]Friday, December 5, 2014
Director Marcia Milgrom Dodge triumphed reinventing Hello Dolly! in 2012; this time she hasn't been quite as unassailably successful, but the overall evening grows on you as it swells into a…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 01:14PM[SHARE]Puzzled what to give that theater fan for the holidays. Check out Brad Hathaway's suggestions. And of course, a season subscription is always welcome.
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:34AM[SHARE]Thursday, December 4, 2014
Hallelujah, children! We are delivered from the bondage of political correctness, the oppression of reactionary repression and the tyranny of the status quo. Raise up your voice and praise t…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:06AM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 2, 2014
When Brian Stokes Mitchell comes to the Broward Center with the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra and his deep, lush baritone on Dec. 8, he will be among numerous stage stars swinging through South …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:09AM[SHARE]Monday, December 1, 2014
Timekeepers bowed at Island City Stage in October 2013. In April, the production won Carbonells for best play, best director, best actor Michael McKeever, best sound, best lighting and best …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 07:11AM[SHARE]Saturday, November 29, 2014
Estelle Parsons, Angelica Page, Tim Altmeyer, about to open in Israel Horovitz's My Old Lady at Dramaworks, talk about the life of "a working actor."
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:15PM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 26, 2014
For someone who has been singing virtually the entire Jerry Herman songbook for decades, it's ironic that only now is Leslie Uggams getting to play the title role of Mame in the musical bowi…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:55PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 25, 2014
Sometimes when the company is engaging, it doesn't matter whether the journey itself is a little bumpy or overly-familiar. Such is the power of winning performances by Christina Alexander an…
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