Wednesday, December 11, 2013
Sometime after more than 400 performances, Wayne LeGette lost track of how often he had appeared in the enduring musical about relationships I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change. Whatever …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:13PM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 10, 2013
Nicky Silver's wickedly hilarious satire The Lyons about self-centered souls in the most dysfunctional family ever seen, on display at The Women's Theatre Project, hides a deeper portrait of…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:33AM[SHARE]Sunday, December 8, 2013
To summarize The Lion in Winter as a drama about a dysfunctional family is to facilely devalue this examination of just how base the human animal can be in the grip of power and ambition. D…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:58AM[SHARE]Put Actors' Playhouse production of Making God Laugh pretty much in the insightful column. Playwright Sean Grennan uses our recognition of the laughter and pain common to most familial relat…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:34AM[SHARE]Saturday, December 7, 2013
While David Sedaris' The SantaLand Diaries has its share of funny, when his script stoops low for laughs, he dashes all the other precious gifts he doles out in this very inventive one-perso…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:31AM[SHARE]Friday, December 6, 2013
The Maltz Jupiter Theatre's sumptuous and skillful production of Annie resembles that strange holiday gift that you're not quite sure how to react to. It's beautifully wrapped and artfully m…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:42AM[SHARE]Sunday, December 1, 2013
There may be 12 days of Christmas, eight days of Hannukah and seven days of Kwanzaa, but there are 31 days of theater in South Florida underscored by the coming week in which at least 10 sho…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 02:59PM[SHARE]Saturday, November 30, 2013
The Radio City Christmas Spectacular at the Kravis Center is, unlike much in life, precisely what its reputation promises. Start with spectacular, derived from the word spectacle. Nearly 40 …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:36PM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 27, 2013
Hallelujah, children! We are delivered from the bondage of political correctness, the oppression of reactionary repression and the tyranny of the status quo. Raise up your voice and praise t…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 02:21PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 26, 2013
GableStage is raising money for its January production of Antony and Cleopatra with online crowdsourcing. It seeks $55,000 in pledges through Dec. 21 through Kickstarter.com.
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 04:29PM[SHARE]These photos were taken of the world premiere of Tarell Alvin McCraney's new take on Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra which premiered this week at the Royal Shakespeare Company's Swan Thea…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 04:25PM[SHARE]Monday, November 25, 2013
Aggressively, gleefully and literally irreverent, with the most profane lyric about the Almighty ever heard in a Broadway musical, The Book of Mormon is the most improbable smash since a pre…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:57AM[SHARE]Sunday, November 24, 2013
Like walking toward a great work of art at the end of a hallway, the magnificence of GableStage's production of My Name Is Asher Lev grows slowly as you approach it, as you spend time with i…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 01:26PM[SHARE]Thursday, November 21, 2013
A solid cast molded by director Hugh M. Murphy adds Alfred Uhry's The Lasy Night of Ballyhoo to the quietly growing list of solid productions that Broward Stage Door has been accumulating i…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:46PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 19, 2013
To showcase outstanding work related to local theater, the South Florida Theatre League is honoring five individuals and an organization with the Remy Award.
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:07AM[SHARE]Sunday, November 17, 2013
New Theatre's world premiere of Megan Breen's examination of sexual repression and liberation, My First, My Fist, My Bleeding Seeded Spirit is a well-intentioned but overheated, self-indulg…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 01:49PM[SHARE]Saturday, November 16, 2013
There's a warm and comforting triple promise in The Wick Theatre's pre-Thanksgiving production of the musical White Christmas. One is that the promise of the coming holiday season, a second …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 01:06PM[SHARE]Thursday, November 14, 2013
Margot Moreland and Oscar Cheda's presence in Boca Raton Theatre Guild's production of They're Playing Our Song is, indeed, more than enough reason to see this tuneful but far from iconic 19…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:34PM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 13, 2013
Inarticulate people hold forth in a bar in a torrent of existential philosophy and metaphorical verbiage in John Patrick Shanley's Savage In Limbo at the Alliance Theatre Lab. But if Shanley…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:38AM[SHARE]Monday, November 11, 2013
There are bits and pieces to love in what Plaza Theatre is billing as a tap comedy musical, Fingers and Toes. But the musical suffers from a lack of identity. Is it a send-up of classic "le…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:35PM[SHARE]Saturday, November 9, 2013
Christopher Demos-Brown's compelling word premiere Fear Up Harsh from Zoetic Stage is a mercilessly penetrating interrogation of how our need for heroes can trump the very values of truth, h…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 03:46PM[SHARE]Friday, November 8, 2013
It's impossible to say whether Marvin David Levy's Mourning Becomes Electra is The Great American Opera that it has been touted to be, but it unquestionably is a glorious spectacle of raging…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 01:22PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 5, 2013
Considering that some aficionados say Mourning Becomes Electra is one of the most thrilling operas ever written, Fort Lauderdale composer Marvin David Levy can be forgiven a bit of curmudgeo…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:39PM[SHARE]Sunday, November 3, 2013
In keeping with Outré's commitment to go-big-or-go-home, its Much Ado About Nothing is a valiant effort that only works some of the time. There are low comedy laughs, but the intricate word…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 01:01PM[SHARE]Saturday, November 2, 2013
Daniel Maté holds up a mirror so we can examine ourselves in his new musical The Longing and The Short Of It at the Theatre at Arts Garage. But his vision has such incisive clarity that he …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 04:04PM[SHARE]Friday, November 1, 2013
If you wonder what theater was like back when it was as popular as film and far more influential than the upstart television, you can see a prime example in the Maltz Jupiter Theatre's time …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 01:06PM[SHARE]Photos of Thursday's ribbon cutting for the Maltz Jupiter Theatre's $2.5 million renovation plus photos of the new interior.
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 01:01PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 31, 2013
Broward Stage Door's Sophisticated Ladies resurrects a vibrant echo of that class and panache in their entertaining revue of Duke Ellington's music. If the show doesn't quite sizzle and snap…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:57AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 30, 2013
It's easy to be snarky about The D*Word this mélange of a Lifetime movie, Harlequin romance, Mamma Mia sing-along and the racy banter of Sex in the City. But if you can ignore feeling manip…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 07:10AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 29, 2013
New Theatre is postponing opening night one week for its world premiere of Megan Breen's My First, My Fist, My Bleeding Seeded Spirit, moving from Nov. 8 to Nov. 15.
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 01:38PM[SHARE]Time is not always kind to continuing enterprises like The Naked Stage's annual fundraiser The 24-Hour Theatre Project. But the seventh edition on Monday proved once again to be stronger and…
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