Friday, January 13, 2012
With its new edgy production of Cabaret, the Maltz Jupiter Theatre takes an often thrilling left turn into adult, thought-provoking theater that this home of mainstream crowd-pleasers rarely…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 03:53PM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 11, 2012
In another turn in a deal that has flipped repeatedly, the owners of the Broward Stage Door in Coral Springs announced Tuesday that its sale to Costume World of Broward County has fallen apa…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:03PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 10, 2012
It's a safe bet that hardly any theatergoer in South Florida will have seen a play like The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity when it opens this week at the Caldwell Theatre Company. After al…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:45AM[SHARE]Sunday, January 8, 2012
Editor's Note: We're in high theater season when we have three to five openings a week. If you don't find the review you're looking for in the center column, check out the list of recent rev…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 05:29PM[SHARE]Saturday, January 7, 2012
Editor's Note: We're in high theater season when we have three to five openings a week. If you don't find the review you're looking for in the center column, check out the list of recent rev…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:17AM[SHARE]Friday, January 6, 2012
The first 15 minutes of Infinite Abyss' Snow White Trash is a delightfully zany spoof that imaginatively reinterprets the fairy tale as a crass, royal blue hoot in which Disney's sweet but d…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:10AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 3, 2012
The truth is many times it is, indeed, a high honor, just to be nominated and this year's Carbonell Awards crop will prove this with a vengeance.
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:11AM[SHARE]Monday, January 2, 2012
Follies – New Broadway Cast Recording Oh, my! What am I to do now? The 2011 Broadway Revival Cast recording of Follies has just come out on PS Classics and now my “desert island&…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:42PM[SHARE]Saturday, December 31, 2011
One of the most frustrating evenings in theater is The Mess. One moment, you're moved by ineffable loveliness, the next you're groaning at ham-handed ineptitude. Such is the careening qualit…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:49AM[SHARE]Friday, December 30, 2011
The most satisfying spectacle amid all the glitter, spangles and amazing feats at the first matinee of Cirque Dreams Holidaze was the blaze of delight in the face of the little girl in Row K…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:53AM[SHARE]Thursday, December 29, 2011
Mad Cat Theatre Company is quite right to warn that their new production of Macbeth & the Monster is not children's theater, although children may enjoy the nonsensical anarchy of this …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:28AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 28, 2011
If Boomers wondered why their parents feared rock 'n' roll, Million Dollar Quartet provides a visceral object lesson of the exhilarating danger, galvanizing defiance and the electrifying se…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:17AM[SHARE]Sunday, December 25, 2011
In real life, we rarely have the clarity of identifiable watersheds as heroes discover in dramas. But five years from now, you'll likely look back on the past 12 months and recognize not a t…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:07PM[SHARE]Friday, December 23, 2011
Rising Action Theatre, one of South Florida's few theaters devoted primarily to gay-themed plays, is closing mid-season; but some staffers plan to replace it next fall with a new company, Is…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:17AM[SHARE]Thursday, December 22, 2011
A flood of emails this month are reminding us that as the calendar year comes end, so do the opportunities to get a tax deduction and do some good for the theater community at the same time.…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:27AM[SHARE]Monday, December 19, 2011
In this edition, we talk with Eric Alsford is one of the best-known music directors in South Florida, usually shuttling from one job to another here, in New York and at regional theaters acr…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:11AM[SHARE]Saturday, December 17, 2011
The very idea that Mad Cat Theatre"the embodiment of edgy, adult fare in South Florida " is doing what some might misclassify as children's theater simply doesn't compute. The explanation is…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:46AM[SHARE]Thursday, December 15, 2011
If you're on this site, the odds are you're at least a theater fan, and likely a proud theater geek. Our Theater Shelf critic Brad Hathaway has been compiling the cream of the current crop o…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 05:44AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 14, 2011
With such irresistible raw material as the Irving Berlin songbook, Broward Stage Door's production of I Love a Piano can't help but be mildly entertaining and this edition finally emits infe…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:49AM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 13, 2011
And in his current tour de force in the comical and touching Jacob Marley's Christmas Carol at Actors' Playhouse, Ken Clement reaffirms his ability to single-handedly mesmerize an audience. …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:30AM[SHARE]The Caldwell Theatre Company is offering a rare look behind the scenes Wednesday Dec. 14Â during a free open house from 1 to 8 p.m. that will feature backstage tours of the facility, perf…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:26AM[SHARE]Monday, December 12, 2011
In his current tour de force in the comical and touching Jacob Marley's Christmas Carol at Actors' Playhouse, Ken Clement reaffirms his ability to single-handedly mesmerize an audience.Both …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 05:53AM[SHARE]Saturday, December 10, 2011
The SantaLand Diaries is a holiday tale " not a warm inspiring morality fable for Christmas, but a harrowing if hilarious horror story for Halloween.
In Zoetic Stage's production, the sat…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:32AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 7, 2011
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.
Streaks of imaginatio…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 03:33PM[SHARE]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…
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