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.
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 03:48PM[SHARE]Thursday, December 20, 2012
We're entering another period of as many as six productions opening in one week. As a result, reviews may not remain in the center featured position more than one day. Please check out recen…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 07:05AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 19, 2012
This critic worships the gospel according to Stephen Sondheim and knows nearly every beat of the original cast recording of 1976's Side By Side By Sondheim. So there was cause for concern. T…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:29AM[SHARE]Monday, December 17, 2012
Warm, full-singing voices swiftly carry a happy audience down the Mississippi through a glorious score in Broward Stage Door's Show Boat, but the acting and directing are so pedestrian that …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 01:13PM[SHARE]Sunday, December 16, 2012
Indulge your inner contrarian with the new subversive Christmas tradition, the annual staging somewhere of the delightfully contrarian The Santaland Diaries. The satire about an unemployed a…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:48AM[SHARE]Saturday, December 15, 2012
Yards and yards of duct tape, a dead deer, a timely taser, emperor penguins, Shakespeare, a shotgun, Anderson Cooper, President Jimmy Carter and the titular ursine creature all are ingredie…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:13AM[SHARE]Friday, December 14, 2012
Back during the Cold War, a theatrical genre flourished called the American absurdist comedy. Perfected by Herb Gardner and Bruce Jay Friedman, it took hip unconventionality to an extreme de…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 02:21PM[SHARE]Thursday, December 13, 2012
Over the past 52 weeks, the Theater Shelf column has evaluated a host of CDs, DVDs and books you might consider as gifts for your theater friends this season " or for yourself, for that matt…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:40PM[SHARE]Slow Burn Looks Ahead Slow Burn Theater Company, the Boca Raton troupe attracted to edgy, challenging work, has chosen the titles for their 2013-2014 season, said co-artistic director Patric…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:30PM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 12, 2012
A yin and yang vibe imbues Jason Robert Brown's intriguing and imaginative two-character musical tracking the life cycle of a romance and marriage, The Last Five Years, receiving a warm, ent…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 05:56AM[SHARE]Monday, December 10, 2012
If personal reasons motivated Richard Jay Simon's resignation from the Mosaic Theatre that he founded, it was money that caused his board to close his "baby" Sunday, according to Simon and b…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:38PM[SHARE]Sunday, December 9, 2012
Mosaic Theatre, one of the most respected theater companies in the region, is closing immediately, a decision made Monday by its board of directors, according to an announcement Sunday night…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:41PM[SHARE]Saturday, December 8, 2012
A nameless terror has upended the fragile homeostasis in Agnes and Tobias' carefully-ordered uppercrust existence, all the more frightening because its anonymity makes it uncomfortably unive…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 02:59PM[SHARE]Thursday, December 6, 2012
Actors Playhouse director David Arisco teasingly asks the reporter doing a story on the upcoming musical The Last Five Years, "Don't you want to take a picture of our Broadway star?' His jok…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:48AM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 4, 2012
If you've ever kicked in the chorus line of a community theater production of Mame, you'll likely adore Showtime Performing Arts Theatre's [title of show]. But if you've ever secretly practi…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:55AM[SHARE]Sunday, December 2, 2012
New Theatre's production of Robert Caisley's sardonically titled Happy is not an evening you "like" watching an "emotional terrorist" spend 80 minutes mercilessly carving away a nebbish's il…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:22PM[SHARE]Saturday, December 1, 2012
Darkness has often been an element of classic Christmas stories: A Christmas Carol, It's A Wonderful Life, National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation. But leave it to the House Theatre of Chicago…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:04PM[SHARE]Friday, November 30, 2012
By Bill Hirschman Know this, the Maltz Jupiter Theater's production of The Music Man  is what the American musical theater used to be. Joyful as a teenager skipping home after a first kis…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 04:10PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 27, 2012
A con man has come to north Palm Beach County to steal your money. His name's not Bernie Madoff; it's Harold Hill. Well, actually, it's the effervescent triple-threat performer Matt Loehr we…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:56PM[SHARE]Details on Theater League Holiday Party The time, date and place have been set for the South Florida Theatre League’s annual holiday party and membership meeting: 7:30-10 p.m. Monday, …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 05:44PM[SHARE]Sunday, November 25, 2012
It shouldn't work. Not anymore. Not in the 21st Century. That time-worn plot, the one-dimensional characters, the unabashed sentiment. But Florida Grand Opera's production of La bohème unde…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:30PM[SHARE]Saturday, November 24, 2012
Tragedy suffused opening night at Outré Theatre Company's inaugural production of the dark musical The Wild Party, but it wasn't the story of Jazz Age hedonists plummeting through a doomed …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 05:45PM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 21, 2012
Some troupes ease into existence with a modest, surefire and frugal first full production. Not Outré Theater Company. South Florida's newest professional company bows Friday with Andrew Lip…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 05:21PM[SHARE]Sunday, November 18, 2012
Miami Theater Center's inaugural adult project, a fresh vision of Chekhov's Three Sisters, is not a smoothly gelling work of art, let alone entertainment. The flaws are considerable, persist…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:55PM[SHARE]Saturday, November 17, 2012
Cannily, there is not a feather in sight during the entire 85-minute The Birds at the Mosaic Theatre -- appropriate because the subject is not an eerie avian apocalypse, but how humanity rea…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:56AM[SHARE]Someone Must Have Said, "Macbeth" Backstage The opening of Broward Stage Door's return engagement of the bittersweet comedy Six Dance Lessons In Six Weeks was postponed last week when actres…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:39AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 14, 2012
Once upon the 1960s, there existed theatrical offerings on Broadway unapologetically called the tired businessman's musical. They were well-made, well-executed but unassuming diversions that…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 01:58PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 13, 2012
Comic actor Don McArt, visually memorable for his short stature and prominent ears, as well as his frequent appearances with his sister Jan McArt, died Tuesday in a hospice in Boca Raton.
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 05:32PM[SHARE]It's likely a goodly number of actors, directors and certainly some playwrights slept in late this morning. They earned it. Many spent 7 p.m. Sunday to 10 p.m. Monday being creative at gunpo…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 01:08PM[SHARE]The bonds of friendship and the power of art to transform lives are illustrated in The Drawer Boy by Michael Healey, now receiving a lovely production at Thinking Cap Theatre in Fort Lauderd…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:13AM[SHARE]Monday, November 12, 2012
Tarell Alvin McCraney, the Miami-raised playwright who has forged an international reputation, is bringing a new Haitian-flavored adaptation of Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra to GableSta…
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