Thursday, October 23, 2014
Broward Stage Door Theatre has mounted a warmly delightful production of Joe Di Pietro's The Last Romance, a bittersweet play about love, loss and loneliness and how the twilight years hold …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 07:38AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 22, 2014
The magic of serendipity: It's difficult to imagine -- without being boxed into it as Miami Theater Company was -- how an artistic director would thematically put together a season encompass…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 04:08PM[SHARE]Sunday, October 19, 2014
The primary pleasure of Slow Burn Theatre Company's run at the legendarily miserable (but subsequently overhauled) musical Carrie is enjoying how glowing talent, unbridled earnestness and to…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:33PM[SHARE]Friday, October 17, 2014
Teo Castellanos' solo work Third Trinity, a commissioned work by Miami Light Project, is bold in its presentation, mostly because it's an autobiographical story of Castellanos' growing up " …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:47PM[SHARE]The Plaza Theatre in Manalapan declared bankruptcy and closed its doors Friday on the day that it was poised to begin its third season due to a precipitous drop in ticket sales and an inabil…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:30PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 16, 2014
They know. It seems beyond hubris for Slow Burn Theatre to mount a musical whose debut has become a catchphrase for famous flops, as in "Not since Carrie has there been such a theatrical dis…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:28PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 15, 2014
Peter and the Starcatcher, an alternative origin story for Peter Pan, is an ensemble piece featuring a dozen chameleonic storytellers, each with moments in the spotlight. But Theater Up Clos…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:47PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 14, 2014
For such a seemingly simple play, Our Town requires the audience to generously invest their attention and imagination. Thornton Wilder's classic set in a small town in New Hampshire only wor…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:47AM[SHARE]Sunday, October 12, 2014
The overall picture may seem a bit disjointed and fuzzy, but the world premiere of The Cuban Spring at New Theatre incisively depicts the complexities of Cuban-American families in modern Mi…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:52PM[SHARE]The Naked Stage's annual 24-Hour Theatre Project is scheduled for 8 p.m. Monday, Oct. 27, hosted this year by Palm Beach Dramaworks in West Palm Beach. All proceeds will go directly to Dana …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 01:51PM[SHARE]Saturday, October 11, 2014
Every couple of years, Actors' Playhouse " home of the mainstream musical "mounts an edgy modern work that nourishes the creative soul of the theater's more adventurous patrons like next to …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:35AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 9, 2014
Underneath all the imagination and playfulness inherent in the upcoming fantasy of Peter and the Starcatcher at the Arsht Center, a practical apprenticeship has been forged among students an…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 02:49PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 8, 2014
Why should you go to see Annie yet once again? First is that director Martin Charnin has banished a lot of the saccharine overkill and played the remaining cuteness and heart-tugging moments…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 07:08PM[SHARE]Sunday, October 5, 2014
Slow Burn Theatre Company, the acclaimed troupe specializing in musicals that many companies shy from, is moving its main operation from Boca Raton to the Amaturo Theatre at the Broward Cent…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:35PM[SHARE]Slow Burn Theatre Company's The Marvelous Wonderettes at the Broward Center is a sweet and tasty cotton candy confection of girl group standards from 1950s and 1960s delivered by four terrif…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:11PM[SHARE]Friday, October 3, 2014
Jamaica Farewell -- Debra Ehrhardt's semi-autobiographical comedy about her emigration to America " has passages of tension and tears, but it's not exactly the heart-warming tale of a life-t…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:56PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 2, 2014
Wednesday, October 1, 2014
I Love Lucy® Live On Stage is mildly amusing, mildly humorous, mildly pleasant and very mildly entertaining --- phrases never attached to Lucille Ball® or I Love Lucy®. There is lit…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:52AM[SHARE]Saturday, September 27, 2014
Some patrons might be a tad uncomfortable at Murder Ballad at Actors Playhouse. After all, a lovesick swain likely will pour his heart out while standing on a chair a few inches away from an…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:29PM[SHARE]Actors' Playhouse's crew spent weeks ripping up its second floor balcony theater and reconfiguring it for its upcoming production of the noirish musical Murder Ballad, set in a dark East Vi…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:28PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 23, 2014
The ultimate themes and intended resonances of Dying City dance just out of intellectual reach in Ground Up and Rising's brave but flawed production, but the audience gets some reward siftin…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:59PM[SHARE]Sunday, September 21, 2014
GableStage's production of Terrence McNally's script Mothers And Sons surpasses the Broadway premiere by depicting close-up the devastating pain when deep emotional wounds inflicted decades …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:31PM[SHARE]Saturday, September 20, 2014
Halloween has arrived early with a wildly uneven but strangely intriguing production of Ira Levin's 1973 exercise in creepiness, Veronica's Room at Andrews Living Arts. The evening never qui…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:15AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 17, 2014
News about Summer Shorts reading potential plays tonight, Lake Worth Playhouse fundraiser and Stage door extends run of What's New Pussycat
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:36AM[SHARE]Sunday, September 14, 2014
Evening Star Production's The Subject Was Roses underscores the insightful script, but the valiant effort leaves far too much crucial passion AWOL.
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:24PM[SHARE]Saturday, September 13, 2014
Conundrum Stages has been working quietly on the edges of the South Florida theater scene for so long that it's both surprising and not surprising to hear that their current project this mon…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 03:37PM[SHARE]Pigs Do Fly's second outing of short comedies Fifty Plus: A New Atttude is a mildly entertaining, pleasant diversion punctuated by several guffaws and chuckles. But the undemanding evening …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:21AM[SHARE]Monday, September 8, 2014
Spend five minutes around Deb Sherman and one adjective becomes inescapable: passionate. The award-winning actress, playwright, theater impressario and trained clown exudes an aura of intens…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:37AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 2, 2014
Usually there isn't anything sexy, dramatic or newsworthy about real estate in the world of theater unless it's Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross. But as the new season approaches, South Florida h…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 07:00PM[SHARE]In chronological order, here is a highly subjective, personal list of the shows whose titles or concepts we most want to see this season.
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:55PM[SHARE]Thursday, August 28, 2014
Issie Swickle. Remember that name. Not that you'd have trouble doing so. But remember when you first heard it, for bragging rights. Because you may be hearing it for a long time.
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