Monday, January 28, 2013
With the upfront caveat that we saw an early preview, Broward Stage Door's Damn Yankees is a base hit but no triple. The cast needs to pitch with a little more spin on the ball, even with ta…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:13AM[SHARE]Saturday, January 26, 2013
Israel Horovitz's Gloucester Blue, getting a gleefully mischievous world premiere at the Arts Garage, is a black comedy with all three Aristotelian verities " beer, blackmail and blood. The …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 04:11PM[SHARE]The fledgling Plaza Theatre began its existence relying on musical revues and cabaret shows, although it has recently added plays like Driving Miss Daisy, Luv and Chapter Two. Now, the compa…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 04:09PM[SHARE]Friday, January 25, 2013
The 2013 Carbonell Award nominations announced today mirror the changing face of South Florida theater. There are farewells for three companies that closed in 2012 and recognition of five tr…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:11AM[SHARE]Best New Work (play or musical) Baby GirL, Kim Ehly, Kutumba Theatre Project A Measure of Cruelty, Joe Calarco, Mosaic Theatre Moscow, Michael McKeever, Zoetic Stage Off Center of Nowhere, D…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:10AM[SHARE]Law schools are not the usual sponsors for theater, but the University of Miami School of Law is presenting Jan. 27 Â a staged-reading of "8," a play chronicling the historic trial of the …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 07:20AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 23, 2013
As part of our On The Boards podcasts in cooperation with Arts Radio Network, Florida Theater On Stage's Bill Hirschman sits down for a conversation with Arts Garage Artistic Director and fo…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 02:19PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 22, 2013
Director Michael Leeds and a solid cast at the Plaza Theatre in Manalapan have mastered Neil Simon's challenging meld of witty comedy and throat-choking heartache, and make both perfectly pl…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:42PM[SHARE]Monday, January 21, 2013
Jon Robin Baitz's finely-crafted play asks whether there is such a thing as unconditional love in Actors Playhouse's rock solid production of last season's Broadway triumph which surgically …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 05:52AM[SHARE]Sunday, January 20, 2013
Outré Theatre Company has scheduled a staged reading of Nicky Silver's Fat Men In Skirts at 8 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 22 at Empire Stage, 1140 N Flagler Drive in Fort Lauderdale. The plot is des…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:52PM[SHARE]Thursday, January 17, 2013
There's the canny germ of an idea in producer Zev Buffman's pet project to fuse radio, theater and modern technology into a hybrid exemplified in his latest production, Agatha Christie's The…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:27AM[SHARE]The Alliance Theatre Lab is about to graduate to another level when its successful Gen-X comedy Brothers Beckett is revived in a co-production with the Arsht Center's Theater Up Close series…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 05:31AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 15, 2013
South Florida impresario and veteran Broadway producer Zev Buffman foresees a future for stage theater -- in radio. Not just for any theater, but orphans like the Parker Playhouse that are t…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:39AM[SHARE]Florida Theater On Stage Editor and Chief Critic Bill Hirschman will speak about the past, present and future of South Florida theater at noon Tuesday and Friday as a guest on Jason Fisher a…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:38AM[SHARE]Monday, January 14, 2013
Assuredly, the Maltz Jupiter Theatre's Singin' In the Rain is a pleasant, skillfully executed, beautifully produced evening of cotton candy entertainment. The asterisk is that this Singin' I…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:22PM[SHARE]Sunday, January 13, 2013
The miracle of Tarell Alvin McCraney's streamlined Hamlet at GableStage is that even after surgically slicing two-thirds of the script, the result remains not only effective theater but pure…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 02:07PM[SHARE]Jan McArt's Theatre Arts Guild Florida New Play Workshop will give a platform through this spring to four playwrights: Tony Finstrom, Michael McKeever, Dan Clancy and Jay Stuart. The product…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 01:49PM[SHARE]Saturday, January 12, 2013
South Florida theater critics have to kiss a lot of comedy frogs before they find a prince, so we're exhilarated when we discover one as magical as Zoetic Stage's hilarious and touching All …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 01:25PM[SHARE]Friday, January 11, 2013
South Florida Theater has a full slate of special events this weekend in addition to the openings of Zoetic Theatre's All New People, Maltz Jupiter Theatre's Singin' In The Rain, Cirque du S…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:04AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 10, 2013
A tribute show of sorts to two of Broadway's most prolific composers, John Kander and Fred Ebb, is the foundation for The World Goes 'Round
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:52PM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 9, 2013
Four years ago, The Women's Theatre Project mounted Faye Sholiton's The Interview about the persisting damage that the Holocaust wreaked across generations. As solid as the first production …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:30AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 8, 2013
For a comedy about the magical transformation of man into a pig and how that opens up his lover's ability to commit to true love, there's plenty of laughs but not a lot of magic in Pig Tale,…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:01AM[SHARE]Sunday, January 6, 2013
By Bill Hirschman "I'm doing all right as long as I don't pass out." It's November and Tarell Alvin McCraney has sandwiched in a trip back to his hometown to prep his January 12 production o…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 04:52PM[SHARE]Saturday, January 5, 2013
Kristina Wong's Cat Lady at Mad Cat Theatre Company is downright hilarious while shot through with pathos and insights into the search for human connection. It seems to be exactly the offbea…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 02:03PM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 2, 2013
Who besides Mad Cat Theatre Company would take a talking cat, who persistently pees on the rug, and a professional pickup artist instructing wannabees how to pretend to be genuine " and meld…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 04:58PM[SHARE]After taking barely a breather, the South Florida theater season resumes with a tsunami of shows, at least 26 professional productions alone through the first weekend in February. Here's the…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 04:47PM[SHARE]Sunday, December 30, 2012
In theater, that most mutable and evolving art form, the passage of time is the forgotten factor in what the audiences see. So while having critics review a show opening night is unavoidable…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 01:00PM[SHARE]Friday, December 28, 2012
In this edition of Talkin' In The Green Room With, Angie Radosh explains why she panics upon seeing reruns of a particular I Love Lucy episode and she reveals the job you'll never guess that…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 02:54PM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 26, 2012
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 09:03PM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 25, 2012
A couple of off-beat repostings for the holidays: Playbill.com posted 50 Iphone photographs taken of or by Janet Dacal of her homecoming to Miami as she rehearsed for Actors Playhouse's The …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 05:16PM[SHARE]Friday, December 21, 2012
Theater in South Florida ebbed and flowed like the beach surf in 2012 with triumphs and tragedies encompassing the death of three theater companies and the birth of four others.
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