Sunday, August 17, 2014
When Mad Cat Theatre Company finds the right groove with the right piece as it has here with Centralia, even hidebound traditionalists need to recalibrate their definitions and expectations …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:53AM[SHARE]Monday, August 11, 2014
Lithe and graceful, Ron Hutchins stands out in any theater lobby on opening night, often noticeable for a quiet laugh that sounds like it's coming up out of a coal chute in the basement. But…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:45PM[SHARE]Sunday, August 10, 2014
So the Cowardly Lion walks into a gay bar…. That premise pretty reliably lets you know that you must be watching the new edition of Shorts Gone Wild 2, the mildly risqué festival of short…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:26PM[SHARE]Saturday, August 9, 2014
Sitting under a tent, sweating through the swelter, watching a faithful facsimile of a revival might not seem appealing to your everyday theatergoer. But bring an open mind to Thinking Cap T…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:05PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 6, 2014
The script for 1969's Butterflies Are Free, holds up much better than you'd expect at its revival at Broward Stage Door. But while Stage Door's edition under director Michael Leeds is a plea…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:39PM[SHARE]Monday, August 4, 2014
An proposal resurrecting the Coconut Grove Playhouse as a $45 million theater complex likely run by the Adrienne Arsht Center is being solidified by Miami-Dade civic leaders headed by Mike E…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:11PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 31, 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 09:40PM[SHARE]Monday, July 28, 2014
Michael Leeds is a director, teacher, actor, dancer and songwriter, but this interview shows he is a raconteur with a storehouse of stories ranging from the woman who did an I Love Lucy bit …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:48AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 24, 2014
Jungle Fantasy is one of a dozen Cirque Dreams' productions that surround pretty impressive circus acts in otherworldly music, fluid lighting and spectacular costumes filled out by ultra-buf…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:33AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 23, 2014
Worldless, disconnected, as neutral and interpretable as a Rorschach ink blot, H2OMBRE is a Cirque du Soleil-like show designed by and aimed at people raised on comic books and fantasy flick…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:12AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 22, 2014
These fluffy summer fripperies at Actors' Playhouse must be successful because here's a sequel Mid-Life 2: the Crisis Continues, the off-spring of 2008's Mid-Life! The Crisis Musical. Once a…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:36AM[SHARE]Sunday, July 20, 2014
Samuel D. Hunter's The Whale at GableStage focuses on a morbidly obese man wanting to reconnect with his abandoned daughter before his imminent death. But the darkly funny and affecting play…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:11PM[SHARE]Saturday, July 19, 2014
Palm Beach Dramaworks' current staged concert of Frank Loesser's 1956 musical The Most Happy Fella overflows with a purity of emotions common to even the most ordinary of us, proclaiming the…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:52PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 17, 2014
A five-foot tall assembly of beige bags hangs in the corner of Gablestage's cramped communal dressing room, vaguely shaped like a tan version of the marshmallow monster from Ghostbusters. N…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:42PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 16, 2014
Friends, family and colleagues will share stories about the life and contributions of South Florida theater champion Jay Harris at a celebration at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at Gablestage.
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:28PM[SHARE]Despite the more headline-grabbing 6,000 gallons of water, the significance of the Arsht's H2HOMBRE is that the public-private venue is cementing its commitment to a brand of imagistic, sens…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 04:56PM[SHARE]Sunday, July 13, 2014
The Dana Plays, a program to raise funds for both the American Cancer Society and Dana Castellano, a member of the community battling the illness, is slated for 8 p.m. Monday at the Miami Th…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:08AM[SHARE]Ground Up & Rising's courageous production of 9 Circles is a dichotomy that is deeply felt and deeply flawed at the same time " bluntly and uninhibitedly slashing away at one dimension …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:19AM[SHARE]Saturday, July 12, 2014
The musical revue Bernstein on Broadway at The Plaza Theatre is a bouncy bauble that achieves exactly what it aims to: deliver a diverting and entertaining summer evening. It's like one of t…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:22PM[SHARE]Friday, July 11, 2014
Coming to a theater near you in South Florida within a year or two " if it takes even that long " is Heathers: The Musical. It is closing off-Broadway, but it is destined to be a ubiquitous …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:10PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 10, 2014
Pembroke Pines Theatre of the Performing Arts is laboring to make its masasive and expensive production of the epic Les Miserables a rebuke to silence those who dismiss community theater sig…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:23AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 8, 2014
Mad Cat Theatre Company has named its third annual Nine Lives Scholarship Awards recipients: Cheyenne Nicole Hardy cited as outstanding high school senior and Kayla Bussel as outstanding col…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:54AM[SHARE]Monday, July 7, 2014
Three-time Carbonell winner Nick Duckart has been a rapping Dominican-American bodega owner, a Palestinian terrorist, a Polish-American assassin, and the Egyptian Pharaoh in Joseph and the…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:39AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 2, 2014
Hot dogs, fireworks and… theater? New Theatre is hoping you'll join them this holiday weekend for its bi-annual Miami 1-Acts Festival of 16 fully-staged short plays which doubles as a fund…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 05:47PM[SHARE]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…
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