Tuesday, September 6, 2011
By Bill Hirschman Supporters of Rising Action Theatre are hoping that its sly moniker will add a triple-entendre of meaning, that of a phoenix rising from, if not ashes, then a troubled past…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 07:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, September 4, 2011
By Bill Hirschman The initial temptation is to rave about playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney's alchemy of poetic, profane and prosaic language. Or how the inventive production of his The Broth…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 05:15PM[SHARE]New Theatre is being evicted in mid-December from its Coral Gables home and is hunting for a new home in Miami-Dade County to continue operating indefinitely. The theater was notified "about…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 05:07PM[SHARE]The initial temptation is to rave about playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney's alchemy of poetic, profane and prosaic language. Or how the inventive production of his The Brothers Size at…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 01:56PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 1, 2011
Welcome to a regular, if intermittent feature: Irreverent, lighthearted question & answer sessions with some of South Florida’s best known professionals . In this edition, we find …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 02:45PM[SHARE]We've just received this letter from  Adolfo Henriques, chair of the Miami-Dade County Cultural Affairs Council, trying to drum up opposition to proposed budget cuts in Miami-Dade's arts …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 02:42PM[SHARE]Welcome to a regular, if intermittent feature: Irreverent, lighthearted question & answer sessions with some of South Florida's best known professionals who may or may not be telling us…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 07:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 30, 2011
Tarell Alvin McCraney escaped a nightmarish childhood in Liberty City to become one of the most acclaimed young playwrights in the world. He's returned home to direct The Brothers Size, the …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:02PM[SHARE]The Andrews Living Arts Studio deserves credit for attempting the epic masterpiece Angels In America, Part 1: Millenium Approaches. Unfortunately, the laudable desire to conquer mountains do…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:36AM[SHARE]Sunday, August 28, 2011
Sipiwe Moyo is a skilled enough actress that being an African American woman became nearly irrelevant to her playing the title role in New Theatre's production of Henry V. Despite a long lis…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 01:53PM[SHARE]Saturday, August 27, 2011
Six Years at the Caldwell Theatre works quite well moment-to-moment, but overall it feels amorphous and, ultimately, not satisfying. It lives in that purgatory where a show has much to recom…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 03:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 25, 2011
By Bill Hirschman When the callow king rouses the troops before the Battle of Agincourt with the St. Crispin's Day speech in New Theatre's Henry V on opening night Saturday, audiences will n…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:46AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 24, 2011
Audience members who aren't put off by foul language, frequent blood spatters, gross-out moments such as eating dead bodies, extreme irreverence in the religious sense, sophomoric humor, che…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 03:16AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 23, 2011
so my grandmother is a return to Mad Cat's idiosyncratic fantasias such as Shepherd's Pie and Helluva Halloween. Like them, it's messy, undisciplined, even self-indulgent in its determinatio…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 03:15AM[SHARE]Monday, August 15, 2011
By Bill Hirschman We believe in the future of theater, especially South Florida theater. This website is an expression of that faith. Certainly, the demise of Florida Stage infected all of u…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 02:58PM[SHARE]Pessimists' jaws dropped this month when the Caldwell Theatre Company, struggling to whittle away at a hefty mortgage, announced that it was opening Caldwell 2@Mizner.Beginning next month, t…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 01:30PM[SHARE]Monday, June 6, 2011
Florida Stage, an iconic presence in South Florida's theatre scene since 1987, has closed its doors after its board of directors voted June 5 to seek court-ordered bankruptcy protection.…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:41PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 21, 2011
The Caldwell Theatre will host TV and film star Ed Asner when he brings the national tour of his one-man show’FDR to Florida for seven performances June 1-5. The production depicts Fra…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:56PM[SHARE]Monday, April 18, 2011
A key line in Equus, Peter Shaffer's play about a troubled teenager who blinds horses, is 'The extremity is the point.' But that seems lost on the Andrews Living Arts Studio production that …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:19PM[SHARE]Sunday, April 17, 2011
A huge horse grown from a tiny jade statue carries the heroine aloft over the vast plains of western China. We have already seen her gingerly traverse a rope bridge and clamber up the side o…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:35PM[SHARE]Saturday, April 16, 2011
Bravo TV’s parade of The Real Housewives of Orange County — and Atlanta, Miami and Wichita — relies on the conviction that few things are as satisfying as watching adults b…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:30PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 13, 2011
The landmark original cast albums of American cultural history: My Fair Lady, Company and now”’Motherhood the Musical. Broward-based GFour Productions is mixing and issuing a CD …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 01:30PM[SHARE]When regional theaters vie to be the first to mount a recent Broadway hit, the local actors often have seen the world premiere production. Their challenge is shaking off the inhibiting ghost…
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