Tuesday, July 1, 2014
Ground Up & Rising, the itinerant Miami company that has been rising and falling and rising since 2006, is rising once again with a play to bow during the holiday weekend, plans for a s…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 07:58PM[SHARE]Sunday, June 29, 2014
Theater Shelf, a recurring feature, reviews recently-released books, CDs and DVDs of interest to theater lovers. Some are popular titles like a new Original Cast Recording, others are works …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:23AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 26, 2014
The fifth annual celebration of theater that investigates what it means to be a lesbian in the 21st Century kicks off this Friday with Girl Play, staged readings of short plays sponsored by …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:56PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 24, 2014
Satchmo at the Waldorf triumphs with very little music and none of it created live by the brilliant John Douglas Thompson's resurrection of the jazz great. Instead, Thompson summons up Louis…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:49PM[SHARE]Monday, June 23, 2014
From the first tinkling of the bouzouki, Palm Beach Dramaworks' mounting of the rarely-seen Kander and ebb musical Zorba! fairly throbs with life-affirming spirit in direct spite of the vaga…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:49AM[SHARE]Sunday, June 22, 2014
Ring of Fire, the Johnny Cash Musical, is not a biographical play about The Man in Black. It's smarter than that. This music-heavy tableau, at the Theatre at Arts Garage i offers more depth …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 02:57PM[SHARE]Saturday, June 21, 2014
Businessman Jay H. Harris was not famous outside of theatrical circles in South Florida. But within that community, Harris was revered for his incalculable investment of time, advice and mon…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:56AM[SHARE]Friday, June 20, 2014
The Spirit of America Festival is presenting a salute to the work of Leonard Bernstein Saturday through Monday including a staged concert version of his Broadway musical On The Town at Flori…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:31PM[SHARE]Theater tickets too expensive? How about no cost at all? The South Florida Theatre League is holding their annual summer Free Night of Theater program next month, but the deadline to apply f…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:45AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 18, 2014
As he relates the philosophy of his title character in the musical Zorba, William Parry's acting chops are so second-nature that he probably doesn't realize that a slight Greek accent is sli…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:18PM[SHARE]Sunday, June 15, 2014
Efforts by City Theatre staffers to improve the consistency of its offerings has paid off: This edition of Summer Shorts is not only lushly and imaginatively produced with a noticeable extra…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 04:05PM[SHARE]Saturday, June 14, 2014
Like a scruffy stray found on the streets with little promise of being housebroken, Slow Burn Theatre Company's musical High Fidelity shouldn't be so appealing and downright winning. But it …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 03:24PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 12, 2014
Okay, the Tony Awards are over but there' still some afterglow for those who cannot get enough. Just how much of a Tony-holic are you? There are a few in here just for South Floridians inclu…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 01:30PM[SHARE]Monday, June 9, 2014
As I sat watching a cat food commercial Sunday night, knowing that someone who has worked their whole life for recognition was being honored off camera, it became clear that something needs …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:54PM[SHARE]Saturday, June 7, 2014
Copious laughter embraces Alliance Theatre Lab's production of James McLure's related one-act plays, Laundry & Bourbon and Lone Star. But snaking through the jovial landscape is a quiet…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:48PM[SHARE]The curtain is not expected to rise on the first production at the "new" Coconut Grove Playhouse for five years, county documents indicate. But work on the project began in earnest this mont…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:10PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 5, 2014
Despite its almost two hours of one-liners, caricatures and Borscht Belt humor, Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah, the show based on Allan Sherman's parody songs at Broward Stage Door, in all its c…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:15PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 4, 2014
Something is missing that makes the revival of Violet a fully-satisfying production. It seems inconceivable that it might be "heart," which would seem to be the strongest suit of a show like…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 03:19PM[SHARE]Monday, June 2, 2014
The 2013-14 Broadway season has produced a wide variety of scores from musicals that we are fortunate to have had recorded commercially. Indeed, the season has been marked by a notable raft …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:41PM[SHARE]Friday, May 30, 2014
If you know who Alice Ripley is, if you recognize the name of the musical Brooklyn, then [title of show] at Area Stage Co. was written for you. While its scruffy charm should amuse a general…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:27AM[SHARE]There's fun to be had at Cougar The Musical at The Plaza Theatre because of the cast, but don't expect a lion's roar " this Cougar hungers for better material.
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:15AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 29, 2014
Island City Stage's production of the thought-provoking The Pride understands the beauty and depth of this remarkable play "and, done right here, makes us question our history, both individu…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:37AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 28, 2014
Thrill Me, a stunning musical about the child murderers Leopold and Loeb, closes out Outre Theatre Company's season with a two-man, one-act piece noteable for offbeat immediacy and barebones…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:49AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 27, 2014
This national tour of the 2012 Broadway revival of Evita is a strong fresh edition that gives the raw material a thorough makeover but does not deconstruct the piece. The experience is helpe…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:45PM[SHARE]Monday, May 26, 2014
For a century, August Strindberg's tragedy Miss Julie has been interpreted as a seesaw of power exercised through class and sexual politics. But in Naked Stage's operatic production, as live…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 03:37PM[SHARE]Sunday, May 25, 2014
This is why we go to theater. New Theatre's Gidion's Knot " wrenching, thought-provoking, shocking, visceral in ways no film can be" exemplifies why we spend time in dark rooms watching live…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:20PM[SHARE]Saturday, May 24, 2014
The unreliability of memory -- and the resulting doubt and guilt -- swirl through Zoetic Stage's finely crafted production of The Great God Pan.
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:55AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 22, 2014
High school theater students from 18 public and private schools throughout Broward and Palm Beach counties took home awards from the 12th annual Cappies Awards Gala held Monday, hosted by th…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:15PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 21, 2014
Under the vanities and inanities, the witty literary allusions and the silly sight gags, "Vanya and Sonia and Marsha and Spike" gently pokes fun at people who have wasted their lives. But do…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:37AM[SHARE]Monday, May 19, 2014
Scott and Hem, an imagined reunion of Fitzgerald and Hemingway, is half comprised of deadly accurate insights into the angst of creative souls; the other half is just deadly dumps of name-dr…
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