Sunday, September 2, 2012
The success of theater often depends on the audience plugging in their own experiences to enhance what's happening on stage. So perhaps part of this reviewer's hot-and-cold reception of Kee…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:27AM[SHARE]Friday, August 31, 2012
Florida Theater On Stage is taking a step back in the brief lull in the season to analyze the present and future of South Florida theater in some depth. We're celebrating our first anniversa…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:22PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 29, 2012
Regular South Florida theatergoers will recognize many local stalwarts headlining productions this fall as well as some folks new to these parts " and their parts. Palm Beach Dramaworks reve…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:09PM[SHARE]Friday, August 24, 2012
By Bill Hirschman The dog days of South Florida theater have resembled greyhounds rather than bassets. But the advent of Labor Day weekend ratchets up the pace once again. * Quick note: …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:47PM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 21, 2012
Nancy Barnett, the former managing director of Florida Stage, has taken a job as executive director of Actors' Express Theatre in Atlanta effective immediately.
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 05:34PM[SHARE]Sunday, August 19, 2012
In Irving Berlin Salutes America at The Plaza Theatre, four capable performers plus the pianist/ arranger delivered the musical equivalent of a familiar old down comforter and a hot toddy fo…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:43AM[SHARE]Saturday, August 18, 2012
You're invited to a birthday party today. Ours. One year. Florida Theater On Stage is celebrating and you're invited. You don't have to bring any gifts because you already have. Our very ex…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:04AM[SHARE]Sunday, August 12, 2012
Island City Stage's The Twentieth Century Way is an intellectual theater game worthy of Pirandello or Stoppard in which facets swirl at such a dizzying speed that individual ideas become too…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:28AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 9, 2012
After many months wandering in the wilderness, the critically-acclaimed but homeless Ground Up & Rising troupe has resurfaced with an upcoming season featuring one black box play, two f…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:09PM[SHARE]The Company Company, a group of current and former New World School of the Arts students, is holding its fourth annual New Play Project comprised of short works written, acted and directed b…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:07PM[SHARE]After many months wandering in the wilderness, the critically-acclaimed but homeless Ground Up & Rising troupe has resurfaced with an upcoming season featuring one black box play, two f…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 05:02PM[SHARE]After many months wandering in the wilderness, the critically-acclaimed but homeless Ground Up & Rising troupe has resurfaced with an upcoming season featuring one black box play, two f…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 01:32PM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 7, 2012
About 200 arts organization in Miami-Dade County will split an unexpected $1.5 million this fall because of a rebound in tourism, Mayor Carlos Gimenez told an elated crowd of arts administra…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:14PM[SHARE]Monday, August 6, 2012
Empire Stage, the vest pocket theater next to the railroad tracks at 1140 N. Flagler in Fort Lauderdale, is becoming a popular center for staged readings as well as temporary digs for small,…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:06PM[SHARE]Friday, August 3, 2012
A colleague recently referred to Gregg Weiner as South Florida's Gene Hackman " always working, highly-respected, focused, intense, funny, an actor who brings a character actor's technique t…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:22AM[SHARE]The Donkey Show, the cross between Studio 54 and Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, has been extended one week, and special deals have been added.
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 01:14AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 2, 2012
Built around a superb performance by Paulette Dozier, Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill mounted at Broward Stage Door intersperses more than a dozen Holiday classics with the jazz chant…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:22AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 31, 2012
Sometimes it seems George Gershwin isn't gone at all. Even now, Broadway is blessed with the revival of Porgy and Bess and the new Nice Work If You Can Get It. In regional theater, hardly a …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 07:54PM[SHARE]Sunday, July 29, 2012
The Turn of the Screw, Henry James' psychological thriller gets a superbly accomplished production as The Naked Stage's first outing in almost two years featuring flawless performances by Ka…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:08AM[SHARE]Saturday, July 28, 2012
Playwrights Paul Tei and Jessica Farr's Hamlet Dog and Pony Show at ad Cat Theatreis a stylized mashup of Shakespeare, Brecht and 21st Century performance art that examines existentialism v…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 04:23PM[SHARE]Friday, July 27, 2012
City Theatre will begin accepting ten-minute play scripts next month for consideration for production in its annual Summer Shorts festival, highlighted by its National Award for Short Playwr…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 05:41PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 25, 2012
Audience members have few joys as pungent as discovery. Which brings us to the fledgling Outré Theatre Company and Tuesday night's staged reading of the ink-black comic drama Dog Sees God: …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:17AM[SHARE]Monday, July 23, 2012
South Florida playwrights Jessica Farr and Paul Tei hope that for all the philosophical profundity and political comment, their world premiere of The Hamlet Dog and Pony Show on July 26 deli…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, July 22, 2012
—Illness delayed the opening of Naked Stage's production of The Turn of the Screw at the Pelican Theatre at Barry University. But it’s ready to go with a run now scheduled for Ju…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 04:43PM[SHARE]Friday, July 20, 2012
By Bill Hirschman Reviewing The Donkey Show is irrelevant. The immersive multi-media experience at the Arsht Center joyfully cross-dressing as spectacle-drenched theater is about surrender, …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:36AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 18, 2012
The Arsht Center is laying a six-figure bet on The Donkey Show, a very loose version of A Midsummer Night's Dream transmuted into the glitz and glitter of Studio 54. A hybrid of theater and …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 05:08AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 17, 2012
Kim Ehly's touching and rollicking play Baby GirL, the inaugural effort of her newly-minted Katumba Theatre Project in association with Empire Stage in Fort Lauderdale,is a wryly comic look …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:40AM[SHARE]Monday, July 16, 2012
The world premiere musical comedy Real Men Sing Show Tunes…and play with puppets lazing through the summer at Actors' Playhouse reveals men's deepest darkest secrets, namely life-long conf…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:53AM[SHARE]Saturday, July 14, 2012
By Bill Hirschman A gentle, compassionate smile at human folly suffuses The Fantasticks when it's produced as well as Palm Beach Dramaworks has. Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt's classic chambe…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 02:35PM[SHARE]If you wonder just how small the theater world is, consider how Paul Paul Ben-Victor's play This Little Jew Girl has found its way to a free reading at GableStage at 7:30 p.m. Monday with Be…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 05:40AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 12, 2012
Unlikely but perhaps, secretly, Antonio Amadeo is actually a nasty misanthrope, but no one will ever believe it. Amadeo is widely-regarded as one of the nicest guys and quietly talented memb…
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