Thursday, April 4, 2013
Playing a 5,000-year-old poet decrying humanity's addiction to rage and violence, clothing his warning in a modern retelling of Homer's epic tale of the Trojan War, this is not your grandma'…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 05:41AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 3, 2013
Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, is just an extravagant, downright silly and infectiously entertaining hoot, a gay fantasia " as in Disney's Fantasia " playing for only one week at the Arsht …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:29PM[SHARE]Monday, April 1, 2013
By Bill Hirschman The vast variety of theater so characteristic of South Florida's diverse arts scene was underscored Monday night as excellence was honored in at the 37th annual Carbonell A…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:23PM[SHARE]The complete list of the winners and nominees of the 2012-2013 Carbonell Awards honoring excellence in South Florida theater.
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:24PM[SHARE]We will get a list of winners posted as soon as possible, probably about 11 p.m., followed by a full account of Theater Prom shortly after that. Thank you for your patience.
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 04:05PM[SHARE]Saturday, March 30, 2013
The word "hilarious" rarely applies to a bleak unblinking play about mortality, but Palm Beach Dramawork's superb production of Eugene Ionesco's Exit The King earns it, along with…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 04:27PM[SHARE]Friday, March 29, 2013
Broward-based Costume World plans to open a producing theater company along with its museum at the former Caldwell Theatre building in Boca Raton around September, CEO and President Marilynn…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 01:20PM[SHARE]By Bill Hirschman There's a moment in New Theatre's quirky and surprisingly pleasant production of Bird In The Hand that captures the offbeat vibe in this bittersweet comedic memoir about gr…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:11AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 27, 2013
Road show producers have reconceived Frank Wildhorn's legitimate musical Jekyll & Hyde into an all out American Idol rock 'n'roll extravaganza complete with supposedly Edwardian charac…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 04:00PM[SHARE]South Florida theater lovers will have a rare chance to hear the wit and wisdom of one of America's greatest playwrights, Edward Albee, as part of Nova Southeastern University's free Disting…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 03:47PM[SHARE]Palm Beach Dramaworks' current Master Playwrights Series ends in April with an examination of playwright Wendy Wasserstein and a reading of her masterwork,The Heidi Chronicles. Since 2007, t…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 03:05PM[SHARE]Sunday, March 24, 2013
The star did become ill at Actors' Playhouse's production of In The Heights and a substitute did go on Saturday night with only a few hours rehearsal, but the classic backstage story had sev…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 01:34AM[SHARE]Saturday, March 23, 2013
The Carbonell Awards ceremony falls on April Fools' Day (restrain your quips), But that also means it's time for the annual grousing column about nominations.That said, I wish the judges ha…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:30AM[SHARE]Friday, March 22, 2013
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 06:45AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 20, 2013
Fela! is stunning in both senses of the adjective: exhilarating to the point of paralyzing the observer with elation and overwhelming to the point of numbing the observer. Powered " and we d…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:41PM[SHARE]Sunday, March 17, 2013
GableStage's production of Amy Herzog's play 4000 Miles is a puzzle. We can tell you the intriguing premise, we can sketch out the plot, we can describe the engaging characters, we can prais…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:24PM[SHARE]Saturday, March 16, 2013
Lungs at Arts Garage seems to be about a young couple debating whether to bring a baby into this perilous, even doomed world. But in the wake of plot twists, Duncan Macmillan's breathtaking …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:19PM[SHARE]Friday, March 15, 2013
New Theatre has announced its second entry in its Boomfrog Series of theater works with a bit of an edge and aimed at a younger, diverse audience: Bird in the Hand by Jorge Ignacio Cortiñ…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 05:48AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 13, 2013
By Bill Hirschman Another option has emerged for the future of the Coconut Grove Playhouse — a partnership among Miami-Dade County, Florida International University and GableStage to o…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:46PM[SHARE]The initial production two years ago of Brothers Beckett, an insider's reportage on Millennial angst, was not an artist's sketch at the Alliance Theatre Lab. But its current revival feels fa…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:24AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 12, 2013
But legendary Broadway composer/lyricist Jerry Herman has spent his life as an unapologetic champion of leaving audiences after two hours feeling diverted. So diverting is the right word for…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:01AM[SHARE]Monday, March 11, 2013
This observer had trouble sussing out the cerebral depths that playwright Annie Baker intended in her quite funny meditation Body Awareness at the Island City Stage/Empire Stage production. …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:47AM[SHARE]Saturday, March 9, 2013
It's been a long, long time since a locally-produced musical has thrust inside an audience's collective chest to touch its heart like Actors' Playhouse's triumphant production of In The Heig…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 04:21PM[SHARE]Actors' Playhouse at the Miracle theatre has announced four of the six shows for the 2013-2014 coming season in Coral Gables.
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 04:18PM[SHARE]Friday, March 8, 2013
By Bill Hirschman Often, a review starts with a recapitulation of the momentous issues raised by the opus and perhaps giving a nod to its social and artistic context. Not this time. Tragedy …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 01:29PM[SHARE]Quick Hits Two one-actor shows have been added to this month's calendar in the last few days, one about noted Floridian Zora Neale Hurston and the other about Nazi hunter Simon Weisenthal. K…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 7, 2013
With hardbodies gyrating in knife-sharp choreography to infectious music, Flashdance The Musical is a happy surprise in which undeniable skill, energy and talent trump material about as subt…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:40AM[SHARE]Monday, March 4, 2013
Nancy Barnett, former managing director of Florida Stage which focused on mounting new plays, has been named executive director of the National New Play Network, a leading champion in develo…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 04:19PM[SHARE]Saturday, March 2, 2013
A muted clarinet makes beautiful music, but sometimes what's called for is the blare of a clarion trumpet and the insolent snap of a snare drum. That's the problem facing the almost but neve…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:12PM[SHARE]Friday, March 1, 2013
If you ever wanted to see local theater actors up close, out of stage makeup and dressed to the nines, tens and several other figures, tickets are now on sale to the 37th annual Carbonell Aw…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 05:14PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 28, 2013
The proof that Stefanie Powers' reincarnation of Tallulah Bankhead had thoroughly seduced the audience at the revival of Looped was not the waves of laughter at how adroitly she tossed off p…
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