Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Initially, it's impossible to ignore that 15-year-old actor J.P. Viernes leaping and soaring through the musical Billy Elliot is not a typical youngster in a downtrodden unsophisticated mini…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:58AM[SHARE]Mad Cat Theatre Company's Paul Tei, Alliance Theatre Lab's Mark Della Ventura and The Project [theatre], all known for their edgy approach and Gen X/Y/Z-oriented material, are featured in fr…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:17AM[SHARE]Monday, February 27, 2012
This edition of My Fair Lady at Broward Stage Door is a disappointing muddle other than a few adequate performances under the direction of the usually reliable Michael Leeds. The first two t…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:48AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 23, 2012
It was surreal even by theater standards: Michael Lombardo's drama about addiction High had broken box office records in its world premiere at Hartford's TheaterWorks. And here they were, on…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:49AM[SHARE]This essay was written as a playwright's note for his play High, opening this week at the Parker Playhouse.
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:47AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Theater Shelf, a recurring feature, will review recently-released books, CDs and DVDs of interest to theater lovers. Some will be popular titles like a new Original Cast Recording, others wi…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:33AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Onesies, short plays by David Michael Sirois and Mark Della Ventura, will provide the centerpiece of a fund raiser for the Alliance Theatre Lab, hosted at GableStage at 7:30 p.m., Monday, Ma…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:24AM[SHARE]Sunday, February 19, 2012
Art as an ennobling sanctification for both the artist and the observer whose interpretation completes the symbiotic circle is just one of a dozen themes swirling around Palm Beach Dramawork…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 02:02PM[SHARE]Friday, February 17, 2012
Red, John Logan's illumination of art and artists now at the Maltz Jupiter Theatre, is so insanely popular (50 productions licensed this season across the country; six in Florida) that snobs…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:09AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 15, 2012
The bank holding the mortgages on the Caldwell Theatre Company's building has filed a foreclosure complaint and asked the Palm Beach County Circuit Court to appoint a receiver to manage the …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:41PM[SHARE]Monday, February 13, 2012
Broward Stage Door Theatre has a knack for Neil Simon. Just when you thought there wasn't much new to be done with yet another of Simon's old chestnuts, the Coral Springs theater company pre…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:39AM[SHARE]Saturday, February 11, 2012
This production of Top Gun! The Musical at Empire Stage suffers from Shoulda Woulda Coulda Syndrome: It shoulda been cast with performers who could actually sing and act. It woulda had a sh…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:57AM[SHARE]Friday, February 10, 2012
War Horse, one of the most stunningly theatrical plays to overwhelm mainstream New York audiences last year will close out the six-show season on Broadway Across America's slate for 2012-201…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:43AM[SHARE]You've heard of one-act play programs and ten-minute play, but now comes The First South Florida One-Minute Play Festival.
More than 40 playwrights with South Florida connections have wri…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:39AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 8, 2012
In this edition, we talk with Barbara Bradshaw, one of the most admired stage and voice-over actresses in South Florida whose 200-plus roles include four Carbonell-winning performances. In t…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:54AM[SHARE]Monday, February 6, 2012
The Maltz Jupiter Theatre's 10th anniversary season will feature the crowd-pleasing brand of musicals that have cemented its popularity, but it will continue its push toward serious fare wit…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:07PM[SHARE]Sunday, February 5, 2012
Robert Caisley's world premiere script for Winter at New Theatre could use some pruning and the two lead actors could use a bit more stage time to get comfortable with the punishing cascade …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:51PM[SHARE]Friday, February 3, 2012
The board of directors at the Caldwell Theatre Company are considering seeking federal bankruptcy protection as one solution to persisting financial problems at South Florida's longest runni…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:58PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 1, 2012
By Bill Hirschman Editor’s Note: This story is evolving and we will have more details as the day progresses) The Women's Theatre Project has postponed the rest of its 2012 season becau…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 03:49PM[SHARE]Monday, January 30, 2012
Hello, my name is Peter R. Hirschman, and as a StageBill extra treat to our readers I'm providing an "othersider's" view of the Actors Playhouse's production of Next to Normal now playing at…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:43PM[SHARE]Rigoletto is the third Florida Grand Opera production this season with much to admire, even a few moments of technical artistry that you can describe as thrilling. But it's admiration from a…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:30AM[SHARE]Saturday, January 28, 2012
Avi Hoffman's performance as a troubled writer, struggling to deal with success but escape his past, is one of the virtues in the promising but flawed inaugural offering from Parade Producti…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:53AM[SHARE]Friday, January 27, 2012
'Tis the Season Pembroke Pines Theater of the Performing Arts has roughed out its 2012-2013 season, although exact dates are still being finalized. The company will present the musical Annie…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:22AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 26, 2012
Say what you will about artifice and overheated emoting, few art forms other than Harlequin novels can touch opera for depicting idealized love. What fascinates about Florida Grand Opera's p…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:19PM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Slow Burn Theatre's production of Urinetown the Musical marks another milestone in the young troupe's evolution as a reliable purveyor of edgy, offbeat musical theater that few other mainstr…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:45AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Book-learning and collegiate productions provide theater students the basics of the craft they hope to follow, but The Promethean Theatre is providing Nova Southeastern University students w…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 05:38AM[SHARE]Monday, January 23, 2012
Yet, Snoopy! The Musical at Area Stage, the second of two musicals derived from the popular comic strip, Peanuts, just doesn't have the same pedigree. Its songs are repetitive, its character…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:22AM[SHARE]Saturday, January 21, 2012
Son Gabe (Eddy Rioseco) and husband Dan (Mark Sanders) vie for the sanity of Diana (Jodie Langel) in next to normal / Photo by Alberto Romeu Editor's Note: We're in high theater season when …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:32PM[SHARE]Thursday, January 19, 2012
Teo Castellanos' NE 2nd Avenue at the Arsht Center, funny and profound literally at the same time, is a sociological-anthropological field trip as if Castellanos was a hip-hop Margaret Mead…
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