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…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 03:05PM[SHARE]Sunday, May 18, 2014
Thinking Cap's U.S. premiere of Sarah Kosar's Hot Dog comes across as a mean-spirited hate letter to a dying parent whose time can't come soon enough. It's a play about caring, yet we hardly…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:40AM[SHARE]Saturday, May 17, 2014
A swirling spiral of emotional DNA echoes the emotional dance in The Tryst at Palm Beach Dramaworks. It's a psychologically-rooted tale of romance, albeit an unconventional definition of rom…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 02:45PM[SHARE]Friday, May 16, 2014
The snowbirds have gone home, but South Florida theater never seems to go dark these days. This year-round trend has never been clearer than right now with a calendar is jammed with an overw…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:42AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 14, 2014
Terrence McNally's drama Mothers and Sons examines the chasm that AIDS opened when troubled families were forced to face the sexuality of a loved one. But the play also shines a spotlight on…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:58AM[SHARE]Monday, May 12, 2014
Robert Schenkkan's Tony-nominated play All The Way is blessed with a fascinating portrait by Tony-nominated Bryan Cranston as LBJ, but it's his script's premise that makes the evening stay w…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:25PM[SHARE]Sunday, May 11, 2014
Something remarkable happened opening night when the band played the entr'acte to the second half of the Wick Theatre's Ain't Misbehavin'. What had been a merely competent if unremarkable ev…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:50PM[SHARE]Saturday, May 10, 2014
Even though Miami Theater Center wants "children's shows" to be enjoyed by all generations, Everyone Drinks The Same Water is likely to be most appreciated by middle schoolers. As always, th…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 07:37AM[SHARE]Friday, May 9, 2014
Awash in sex, war, adversity, sex, divorce, achievement, motherhood, determination, sex, the Holocaust and sex, it's difficult to understand how the biographical play Becoming Dr. Ruth can b…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 07:58AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 7, 2014
Although Eglise Gutiérrez's performance in the title role of Thais is indeed glorious, equally fascinating in the current edition at Florida Grand Opera is what happens when no one is singi…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:45PM[SHARE]Tone is the secret behind the tragically soon-to-close Broadway production of Jason Robert Brown's lovely, heartfelt and thought-filled musical, The Bridges of Madison County. The theatrical…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:11AM[SHARE]Monday, May 5, 2014
While it does give actors and audiences of the 50-plus demographic a forum to create, Pigs Do Fly's Fifty Plus " A Celebration of Life As We Know It isn't just for those fifty or older; the …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:25AM[SHARE]Sunday, May 4, 2014
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SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:16AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 1, 2014
But perhaps the biggest illusion of Ghost: The Musical at the Broward Center is that, at its face value, it's an ordinary Broadway musical. Because of this notion, it doesn't seem to get its…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:40AM[SHARE]Monday, April 28, 2014
Meeting people, networking, building relationships " these are necessary skills in any business, but critically important for writers hoping to bring their words to the stage. Giving playwri…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 04:45PM[SHARE]Sunday, April 27, 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 11:33PM[SHARE]Saturday, April 26, 2014
"Learning to work through inbred intolerance" is not the kids' stuff of an ABC Afterschool Special, but Miami Theater Center's vision has always differed radically from what is often dismiss…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:23PM[SHARE]Friday, April 25, 2014
In three visits to Miami, the House Theatre of Chicago has always exuded an underlying love of the gloriously imaginative storytelling only theater can deliver. But its current entry at the …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:58AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 24, 2014
Sometimes theater works even when you can't quite explain how or why or even quite what you saw. Such is the quirky, thematically fuzzy but thoroughly entertaining new musical at Arts Garage…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 05:57PM[SHARE]New news briefs in brief about about the very stuff dreams are made of to quote the guy born 450 years ago this week.
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:29AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 22, 2014
Boca-based Slow Burn Theatre Company plans to expand during its sixth season this fall by producing a second series of shows in connection with the Broward Center for the Performing Arts.
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:13AM[SHARE]Sunday, April 20, 2014
Miami-born siblings Natalie and JJ Caruncho, pursuing careers in New York, have created a company whose first production will be Stephen Sondheim's musical Into The Woods as part of the Arsh…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 05:52AM[SHARE]Saturday, April 19, 2014
If you missed Island City Stage's Timekeepers last October, the company plans to team up with the West Boca Theatre Company to remount the show around the end of this calendar year and run t…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:04AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 16, 2014
Tuesday, April 15, 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 02:47PM[SHARE]Sunday, April 13, 2014
If you're seeking safe, predictable mainstream theater, avoid the annual Humana Festival of New Plays at the Actors Theatre of Louisville. If you seeking "thought-provoking, edgy new work," …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 02:43PM[SHARE]Friday, April 11, 2014
After nearly two decades of South Florida productions, the hilarious and poignant Over The River And Through The Woods has lost a bit of its power in this perfectly workmanlike and mildly …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 07:26PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 10, 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 06:38AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 9, 2014
See Magnolias for all of the lovely elements the Wick's production contains and its insightful direction by Mr. Joerder. Some of the thornier aspects should eventually get worked out and by…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 05:32PM[SHARE]Monday, April 7, 2014
The small, yet "can do" Island City Stage swept the Carbonell Awards for the drama The Timekeepers. Its latest comedy, Have I Got A Girl For You, has an originality that shows what this comp…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:40PM[SHARE]Saturday, April 5, 2014
Miami playwright Christopher Demos-Brown received a prestigious citation this weekend from one of the most esteemed playwriting programs in the country, the Harold and Mimi Steinberg/America…
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