Wednesday, December 7, 2011
Brad Hathaway, our critic of CDs, DVDS and books related to theater, has been busy this fall looking at a large number of potential additions to your library. We're going to start running se…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 03:28PM[SHARE]By Bill Hirschman Don't go looking for the sassy charming movie Shrek in its musical incarnation now appearing in the Broadway Across Miami tour at the Arsht Center for one week only. Streak…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:51AM[SHARE]Monday, December 5, 2011
GableStage has been given seed money to start an annual Winter Shakespeare Festival that would team with the Royal Shakespeare Company and Miami native Tarrell Alvin McCraney, and involve bu…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:31AM[SHARE]Sunday, December 4, 2011
Bill Schwartz as Twain listens to Stephen Neal as Shaw holding forth / Photo by Eileen Suarez By Bill Hirschman An intriguing premise and the words of two witty literary giants are not enoug…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:16PM[SHARE]The Promethean Theatre, best known for its thought-provoking and irreverent fare, is continuing its children's programming this season with Jingles, Jokes & Jollies: A Tropical Holiday o…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:13PM[SHARE]President of the Palm Beach Theater Guild Patrick Henry Flynn, who has been heading the effort to preserve and reopen the Royal Poinciana Playhouse in Palm Beach, is in New York to hear a fr…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:13PM[SHARE]Playwriting Group Meets The Playwrights Drama Group, affiliate with the Writers' Network of South Florida, will hold readings of its members' short plays on Monday, Dec. 12, in Fort Lauderda…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:12PM[SHARE]An intriguing premise and the words of two witty literary giants are not enough to build an engrossing evening in New Theatre's world premiere of Chambers Stevens' comedy, Twain and Shaw Do …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:03PM[SHARE]Friday, December 2, 2011
By Bill Hirschman The Maltz Jupiter Theatre's almost profligately lush, unflaggingly energetic and totally  winning edition of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat will thankfully…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 01:26PM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 30, 2011
In what may be the first massive melding of junior thespians and advanced technology, the Maltz Jupiter Theatre's staff has employed cyberspace and digital information to manage the logisti…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:04AM[SHARE]Monday, November 28, 2011
By Bill Hirschman In a play comprised primarily of complex insights articulated at the audience for nearly 90 minutes, what many people remember most about GableStage's production of Red is …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 05:56AM[SHARE]Friday, November 25, 2011
Knock on wood, halfway through the run of Lombardi, Ray Abruzzo hasn't lost his voice. Portraying the legendary coach whose booming pitbull voice reflected his full-out approach to everythi…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 03:37PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 22, 2011
The fiery politics of 1868 Spain on the eve of a rebellion are nothing compared to the politics of the heart raging in the Florida Grand Opera's season opener, the zarzuela Luisa Fernanda.
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 01:35PM[SHARE]Monday, November 21, 2011
New Theater, the Coral Gables troupe losing its current home to a wrecking ball, has moved for the rest of the season to the Roxy Theatre Group near Florida International University's south …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 04:38PM[SHARE]M Ensemble moved into the performance space last June, and makes good use of the comfortable black-box theater for the first presentation of its 40th anniversary season, August Wilson's Radi…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 05:30AM[SHARE]Saturday, November 19, 2011
Following the consecutive successes of Brothers Beckett, Fool For Love and 'night mother, this production of Lobby Hero cements Alliance's reputation as a company to go out of your way to t…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 05:47AM[SHARE]Friday, November 18, 2011
The ambitious Thinking Cap Theatre, now in its second season, breathes life into Leah Nanako Winkler's absurdist play about the dog-eat-dog world of high school hierarchy in Death for Sydney…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:15AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Mosaic Theatre's Lombardi starring Ray Abruzzo brings an intimacy to the game of football as well humanity to a legend. Don't miss it.
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 05:44AM[SHARE]The facile and sophisticated pose would be to sneer at the sentiment and, yes, manipulative facets of the new tour of Disney's Beauty and the Beast gracing the Broward Center for the Perform…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:32AM[SHARE]Monday, November 14, 2011
Palm Beach Dramaworks opens its new home with a production with the scope and magnitude of All My Sons, Arthur Miller's first Broadway hit. Directed here by J. Barry Lewis, All My Sons is a…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, November 12, 2011
The Tale of the Allergist's Wife at Boca Raton Theatre Guild might drag a little at first, but the show soars when Patti Gardner, Michael Beecher, Barbara Sloan and Iris Acker are on stage t…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:45AM[SHARE]Fund-raising Staged Readings for GableStage and Mosaic Here's an approach you've never seen before: two separate staged readings of the same play to benefit two local theaters. Television an…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 05:48AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 10, 2011
While Broward Stage Door's edition of Guys and Dolls has some talented artists named in the playbill, this is no one's best work, to be kind about it. The most glaring problem is that only o…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 05:40AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 9, 2011
After a half-century in show business, dancer-director-choreographer Tommy Tune knows the gamut of pre-Broadway tryouts. But the process for 54 Forever that opens tonight is new for him. He …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:03AM[SHARE]The Silver Palm Awards, founded four years ago to spotlight theatrical excellence in South Florida, will be presented to 17 individuals on Dec. 5.
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 05:58AM[SHARE]Monday, November 7, 2011
Broward-based Costume World, billed as the largest theatrical costumer distributor in the country, will buy the 16-year-old Broward Stage Door theater in Coral Springs on Nov. 21, according …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 05:57PM[SHARE]Editor's Note: The local season is ramping up so quickly, more than 40 shows this month, that we can't keep reviews posted in the center spot more than a day. Please look for recent reviews …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:22AM[SHARE]Saturday, November 5, 2011
Captiva is a brilliantly observed, finely etched portrait of the familial ties that bind in every sense of the word. It's also one of the finest works of theater we've seen in the strongest …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 05:03PM[SHARE]Friday, November 4, 2011
The Maltz Jupiter Theatre's The 39 Steps is blessed with a steady procession of sight gags, puns, pratfalls and vaudevillian humor all delivered with enough energy and skill to keep a satisf…
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