Monday, July 15, 2013
If you've dreamed of sitting in the upstairs bar of Sardi's to hear journeymen trade war stories about Broadway's past, you can get a taste at Jim Brochu's new one-man show, Character Man. …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 07:27AM[SHARE]Saturday, July 13, 2013
Rated P For Parenthood at Actors Playhouse is a 90-minute hoot that bowed off-Broadway last year strings together almost 30 vignettes that chronologically trace the joys and absurdities of r…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 03:51PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 11, 2013
Beautifully sung, passionately acted and staged with as much movement and business as anyone can ask of a limited rehearsal period, Palm Beach Dramawortks' concert version mines much of the…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 04:24PM[SHARE]Monday, July 8, 2013
Veteran New York actor Jim Brochu -- best known for his play about Mostel Zero Hour -- wants to honor and memorialize people like his close friend David Burns, the original Horace Vandergeld…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 07:16PM[SHARE]Monday, July 1, 2013
While some people may be broiling in the sun this holiday weekend, New Theatre is offering a cooler alternative with its inexpensive fund-raising program: its summer edition of the Miami 1-…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:35PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 26, 2013
Bill Hirschman's interview with FAU Associate Professor Richard Gamble who talks at length about FAU's 27th Summer Festival Rep (A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum, Side By Side …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 03:18PM[SHARE]Sunday, June 23, 2013
fSlow Burn Theatre Company's daffy production of the summer trifle The Wedding Singer feels like a sweet, sloppy kiss from a scruffy dog that could really use a trip to the groomer, but who'…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 03:02PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 20, 2013
Conundrum Stages celebrates its fifth year as a low-key presenter of staged readings in South Florida this weekend with Five So Far: The Conundrum Stages Anthology, a retrospective showcase …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:47PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 18, 2013
There's not one but two elephants in the room, actually in the auditorium, as Slow Burn Theatre Company prepares to take on the 2006 stage musical version of The Wedding Singer , which opens…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:00PM[SHARE]Monday, June 17, 2013
Playwrights Tina Howe, Lauren Gunderson, Robert Caisley and Steve Yockey are the headliners among an experienced group of speakers this weekend in Miami at the annual CityWrights conference …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:37PM[SHARE]Saturday, June 15, 2013
GableStage's 2013-2014 slate includes the just- coronated Tony winner for best play, Christopher Durang's hilarious Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike. Equally notable is the debut of homet…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 05:13PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 13, 2013
Tamarac Theatre of the Performing Arts will shut down, at least temporarily, after the end of its current show June 30 because its landlord is evicting the company after 13 years, said Gener…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 04:51PM[SHARE]If, as La Cage aux Folles' Zaza suggests looking at life from a different angle, The Women's Theatre Project's annual Girl Play series of staged readings June 21-23 examines life from yet an…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:30AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 11, 2013
Members of the South Florida Theatre League are donating pairs of tickets in a revival of the Free Night of Theater lottery program this summer that encourages people to investigate theaters…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:12PM[SHARE]Sunday, June 9, 2013
By Bill Hirschman Sometimes for actors, especially playing comedy, the only option is to jump off the cliff and see if you can fly. The miracle is that sometimes, as in City Theatre's Summer…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 04:01PM[SHARE]Friday, June 7, 2013
Imagine you're Ken Clement in City Theatre's Summer Shorts opening this week. One minute he's a dolphin, a few minutes later he;s Dracula and still later he has to find his inner Mothra. Per…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:12AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 6, 2013
Acknowledge that Broward Stage Door's revival of Neil Simon's thirty-year-old warhorse Brighton Beach Memories is uneven and stumbles. Then acknowledge, at least this critic will, that Stage…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 01:58PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 5, 2013
If this seems to be a summer jammed with play readings across the region (at least 18 set so far and we have more to announce over the next few days), musical theater fans will be penciling …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:19AM[SHARE]Saturday, June 1, 2013
Get an early look-and-listen to works in progress by local playwrights every Monday night for 18 weeks beginning June 3 at theater across four counties through the South Florida Theatre Leag…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:55PM[SHARE]Forbidden Fruit Lynn University's fledgling theater program stays active during the sultry months thanks to the leadership of Jan McArt, its director of theatre arts program development. I's…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 05:52PM[SHARE]Friday, May 31, 2013
Actor, playwright, designer, dancer, choreographer, artistic director of New Theatre and probably a few other job descriptions we've left out, Ricky J. Martinez is one of the most hyphenate …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:27AM[SHARE]Monday, May 27, 2013
Outré Theatre Company has mounted a smooth and solid production of Jonathan Larson's other produced work, the semi-autobiographical rock musical tick, tick…BOOM! Built around an impassion…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 07:41AM[SHARE]Saturday, May 25, 2013
Amid blockbuster musicals and dysfunctional family dramas, one of the disappearing genres of theater and much of art is the slow, sweet sad song. And as Palm Beach Dramaworks' slow, sweet sa…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 01:23PM[SHARE]Friday, May 24, 2013
Thinking Cap Theatre's production of Nick Hadikwa Mwaluko's Waafrika is a deeply earnest and illuminating if imperfect examination of the tragic toxicity of tradition. But even Waafrika's fl…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:56AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 23, 2013
Theater students from 14 public and private high schools in Broward and Palm Beach counties received Cappies awards Tuesday, recognizing excellence in both productions and theater criticism …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:59AM[SHARE]Sunday, May 19, 2013
Sex, despite the title at GableStage, and despite the plot, is not what Cock is about. And guess what? It's sexy. It's very sexy. But this is a story about love, labels and the pressure …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:56AM[SHARE]Friday, May 17, 2013
White Rose Miami, the tiny ad hoc drama troupe known for its varied venues including someone's backyard, is taking another show on the road around Miami-Dade County May 17-June 2 with the h…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:07AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 15, 2013
The latest podcast entry is Bill Hirschman's interview with Alan Jacobson, founder and artistic director of the Plaza Theatre in Manalapan, about opening, and maintaining, a successful arts …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:20PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Theater students from 23 public, private and charter schools throughout Broward and Palm Beach counties will vie for top honors in the 11th Annual Cappies Awards Gala at 7 p.m. Tuesday, May …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:16AM[SHARE]2012-2013 CAPPIES NOMINEES BY SCHOOL Archbishop McCarthy High School (Nine nominations for Bus Stop) Best Play Lead Actor in a Play: Eric Maltz Lead Actress in a Play: Emilie Colon Supportin…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:14AM[SHARE]Sunday, May 12, 2013
The Fox on the Fairway, plays more like a 1970s sitcom. When any one of the comedy's exaggerated characters comes bursting through the door (and this happens more than a few times), you expe…
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