Saturday, February 15, 2014
Careful, he's got a gun. Nicholas Richberg is waving around a Civil War pistol and sporting an equally dangerous moustache while he sings as Booth in Zoetic Stage's Assassins. But there are …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:05PM[SHARE]Careful, he's got a gun. Nicholas Richberg is waving around a Civil War pistol and sporting an equally dangerous moustache while he sings as Booth in Zoetic Stage's Assassins. But there are …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 05:54PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 12, 2014
War Horse is cherished by many of us who saw it at Lincoln Center as one of the most brilliantly executed pieces of theater we have seen. But it's hard to shake the heretical truth that the…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:42PM[SHARE]Monday, February 10, 2014
The Maltz Jupiter Theatre has been nudging its mainstream audience for years toward relatively riskier fare, but the slate announced today for its 2014-2015 season includes one entry that wi…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:43PM[SHARE]Sunday, February 9, 2014
Until the final scene, it's not terribly clear what New Theatre's intriguing Visiting Hours is about or what it's trying to say " and then the ideas come at you so fast that it takes a while…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 02:39PM[SHARE]Saturday, February 8, 2014
Some vibrant performances " one of them pure electricity " rescue M Ensemble's uneven production of Charles Smith's intriguing but flawed script about boldface names from the Harlem Renaissa…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:56AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 5, 2014
A yearning so palpable it almost becomes corporeal and a heartache without a shred of self-pity pour unapologetically from the stage in the legitimately affecting musical Once touring throug…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:09PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 4, 2014
Deborah Zoe Laufer's The Last Schwartz poses a difficult mélange of tones, and Parade Productions' production doesn't smoothly meld Laufer's various parts. That said, the stand-alone strand…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:41AM[SHARE]Monday, February 3, 2014
Anyone who tells you they understood every beat of Old Times at Palm Beach Dramaworks is probably lying. But investing close attention to Harold Pinter's play will be rewarded with a theatri…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:32AM[SHARE]Sunday, February 2, 2014
"Something old (sort of), something new" characterizes the 2014-2015 season for Broadway Across America-Fort Lauderdale. Two current Broadway hits, Pippin and Motown the Musical, will be joi…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:20AM[SHARE]Saturday, February 1, 2014
Zoetic Stage director Stuart Meltzer and a superb collection of actors and designers have scored, forgive me, a bull's eye with this production of Assassins. . Any Stephen Sondheim fan under…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 02:18PM[SHARE]Friday, January 31, 2014
The beauty of the one man play Wiesenthal at Broward Stage Door Theatre is it's more of an immersive theater experience than history lesson, actor/playwright Tom Dugan has the audience. eati…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 03:44PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 28, 2014
After months of almost invisible activity, M Ensemble will resurface early next month far from its previous homes: South Miami-Dade Cultural Arts Center in Cutler Bay.
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:06PM[SHARE]Those big budget companies make productions with much smaller budgets such as Boca Raton Theatre Guild seem to be missing something " when, in fact, their Pippin this season has outstanding …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:35AM[SHARE]Monday, January 27, 2014
On opening night at Florida Grand Opera's production of the infrequently-mounted Nabucco, the audience joined the chorus in singing "Va, pensiero, sull'ali dorate." The sing along was the hi…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:23AM[SHARE]Saturday, January 25, 2014
Even if Slow Burn's moving production of the dark and dangerous musical Parade wasn't the success that it indeed is, the troupe would deserve honor for the fearlessness in choosing a pre-ord…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 04:46PM[SHARE]Renee Taylor's one-woman autobiographical show, My Life on a Diet, now at The Plaza Theatre is filled with humorous and self-deprecating stories of her life in image-conscious Hollywood. The…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:25AM[SHARE]Friday, January 24, 2014
The past is too much with us, to misquote Wordsworth. Beth Henley's Crimes of the Heart urges us to get past our pasts if we are to have some hope for the future. That homespun homily is del…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 03:14PM[SHARE]Thursday, January 23, 2014
It's not exactly a wandering band of players, but New Theatre will move next month into its fifth "permanent" home in 27 years, a small flexible space at the South Miami-Dade Cultural Arts C…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:55PM[SHARE]Tour-de-force is frequently overused to describe any one-actor show in which the performer dons a few personas and feigns a few emotional pyrotechnics. To see an example of a true tour de fo…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:48AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 21, 2014
It's been 100 years since Leo Frank's trial in 1913 for the death of Mary Phagan. And on Thursday, the Boca Raton-based Slow Burn Theatre Company " which prides itself on presenting challeng…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 02:30PM[SHARE]Monday, January 20, 2014
End Of The Rainbow is not a Judy Garland tribute concert " it's a dramatic play with music about her death spiral entering its final turn. Actors Playhouse's production is shot through with…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:05AM[SHARE]Sunday, January 19, 2014
Taking a play that could easily be average and creating an inspired work is a thing of theater beauty. It comes from a director's ability to envision what they want and go full in and, then …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:19AM[SHARE]Friday, January 17, 2014
The surprising strength of the Maltz Jupiter Theatre's production of A Chorus Line is how it delivers everything that your memory recalls fondly of past productions but infuses it with a wel…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 02:29PM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 15, 2014
A new regional theater and educational complex was cleared this afternoon to arise on the site of the Coconut Grove Playhouse. A signed, executed lease with the state, which owns the propert…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 03:42PM[SHARE]The nominations for Carbonell Awards honoring theatrical excellence in South Florida released today provide some interesting material for observers to chew over. The nominations seem to dep…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 01:02PM[SHARE]The complete list of the nominations for the 38th annual Carbonell Awards honoring excellence in South Florida theater.
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:39PM[SHARE]As the season heats up, we enter a period with many openings in the same week. That means reviews will only be in the top four positions for four or five days. To see earlier reviews, check …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:26AM[SHARE]Monday, January 13, 2014
The world premiere of Carter W. Lewis' jet black satire The Hummingbird Wars at Theatre at Arts Garage is hysterically funny but unnervingly upsetting because the depiction of a society disi…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 07:07AM[SHARE]Sunday, January 12, 2014
That percussive sound rolling through Boca Raton this weekend was the deafening echo of 32 tap shoes pounding the stage of The Wick Theatre's glorious production of 42nd Street.
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 02:02PM[SHARE]Friday, January 10, 2014
When Fort Lauderdale playwright Tony Finstrom met Florida's First Lady of Theater Jan McArt three years ago, he felt like he had already "known her forever." She felt the same camaraderie. I…
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