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Thursday, October 16, 2025

Deathtrap Is Old Reliable From New ‘Upstage Productions’ by Bill Hirschman

The brand new Upstage Productions mounts the old reliable comedy-thriller Deathtrap doing an admirable job entertaining although there are shortcomings. The post Deathtrap Is Old Reliable Fr…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:54PM
Wednesday, October 15, 2025

Lively ‘Catch Me If You Can’ Kicks Off Slow Burn’s Season by Bill Hirschman

Slow Burn Theatre Co. soars into its 16th season with a lively production of the musical Catch Me If You Can, a highly entertaining production that benefits from its young cast enhanced by …

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:02PM
Tuesday, October 14, 2025

Wonderettes Entertain With Blasts From The Past by Bill Hirschman

If you dream of reliving your high school prom, Pompano Players can help you approximate the experience. The new theater company invites audiences to attend the Springfield High School Class…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:24PM

GableStage’s Penetrating Harry Clarke Asks Us Who We Are by Bill Hirschman

The answer to the question posed by the title character of who is “Harry Clarke?” is to us, of course, who are we individuals in the audience.  With considerable humor, banked anger and…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:12AM
Monday, October 13, 2025

The Spitfire Grill Is Rewarding Evening Of Joy And Hope by Bill Hirschman

Profound joy, infectious joy, genuine joy emerging out of prosaic life, out of darkness, out of life-scraped people, that joy in musical theater is rare and precious. Arguably nowhere can au…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:31AM
Friday, October 10, 2025

No Place Like Home For 2 SoFla Natives In Nat’l Tour of ‘The Wiz’ by Bill Hirschman

Two cast members on the national tour of “The Wiz” at the Adrienne Arsht Cente are performing on a stage where, as youngsters, they watched from the seats. Amitria Fanae’, who plays A…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 02:54PM
Sunday, October 5, 2025

New City Players’ The 39 Steps Revels In Wicked Lampoon by Bill Hirschman

Comic theater is a challengingly adroit meld of wry humor, physical slapstick, verbal timing, invisible stagecraft and a devotion to maximizing the opportunities for unscripted bits of busin…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:48PM
Saturday, October 4, 2025

 From Miami to Manhattan: Florida’s Ryan Crout Stars as John Belushi Off-Broadway by Bill Hirschman

Saturday Night Live was a major part of South Florida performer Ryan Crout’s childhood. Understandably, then, he’s excited to perform in a play about the show’s beginnings – in New Y…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 02:12PM
Saturday, September 27, 2025

Wide Ranging Quality of Absurdist ‘Art Duty’ Requires Audience’s Commitment by Bill Hirschman

Art Duty, a work passionately delivered with brimming enthusiasm by the LakeHouseRanchDotPng troupe in Miami Lakes, appears to be – at least in this subjective assessment – intermittentl…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:12PM
Wednesday, September 24, 2025

Plenty of Scares For The Whole Family At Heebie Jeebies by Bill Hirschman

Halloween season is full of tricks and treats, and do we have a treat for you and the Theatre Lab at the Heckscher Theatre comes a spooky and witty anthology play that’s sure to give you t…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 03:12PM
Wednesday, September 17, 2025

Latiné Theater Lab’s Last of the Red Hot Robots Is Immersive Comedy by Bill Hirschman

The world premiere of Brian Harris’s comic Last of the Red Hot Robots, Latiné Theater Lab doubles down on their signature style. Billed once again as an immersive, multi-sensory experienc…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:18PM
Tuesday, September 16, 2025

An Unusually Diverse Array of Carbonell Nominations: Full List by Bill Hirschman

 Diversity in many forms – ethnicity, genres, performers, titles, geography, scope of performances values --  dominate the nominees in 20 competitive categories to bestowed in November a…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:06AM
Monday, September 15, 2025

2024-2025 Season’s Unique Silver Palm Awards Announced by Bill Hirschman

The Silver Palm Awards for the 2004-2005 South Florida season have been announced. Envisioned as less structured program than the competitive Carbonell Awards, they honor outstanding contrib…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:18PM
Tuesday, September 9, 2025

GableStage Receives Bill von Mauer Award by Bill Hirschman

GableStage has been named the recipient of the Bill von Maurer Award “honoring a theater company that exemplifies excellence for the totality of its programming: productions educational ou…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:06AM
Thursday, September 4, 2025

Dramaworks and GableStage Add New Executives by Bill Hirschman

GableStage and Palm Beach Dramaworks are entering the new season with new executives added to the existing management. The post Dramaworks and GableStage Add New Executives first appeared on…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:48PM
Tuesday, September 2, 2025

Harvey Burstein to Receive Howard Kleinberg Award by Bill Hirschman

Harvey J. Burstein  and miamiartzine.com will receive the Carbonell’s Howard Kleinberg Award honoring an individual or organization for contributions to the health and development of the …

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:02AM
Sunday, August 31, 2025

Theater’s Frank Wildhorn Moves Into Classical Music by Bill Hirschman

Brad Hathaway, whose column Theater Shelf which we published here at Florida Theater On Stage reviewed theater-related books, videos and recordings. Now, it returns for one more tip for our …

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:54PM
Wednesday, August 27, 2025

For Better (But Not) Worse ‘At The Wedding’ on Island City by Bill Hirschman

Anyone who has been invited to, and maybe even attended, the wedding of an ex-love knows how emotional and triggering the event might be. And therein is where the comedy lies in Island City …

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:06AM
Tuesday, August 26, 2025

Beverly Blanchette Receives Carbonell’s Bill Hindman Award by Bill Hirschman

Beverly Blanchette, a theater artist and educator who has helped shape the cultural fabric of south Florida for over four decades, will receive the Carbonell’s Bill Hindman Award honoring …

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:12AM
Tuesday, August 19, 2025

Alexa Kuve of Arca Images Receives Carbonell’s Ruth Foreman Award by Bill Hirschman

Alexa Kuve, the actress, executive producer and artistic director of Arca Images will be the recipient of the Carbonell’s Ruth Foreman Award “recognizing contributions to South Florida …

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:12AM
Wednesday, August 13, 2025

Kravis Begins Pay To Park by Bill Hirschman

Patrons of the Kravis Center for the Performing Arts accustomed to free parking will have to pay to park in its adjacent garage next month in tandem with an end to the free shuttle which man…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:36PM
Tuesday, August 12, 2025

Mary Damiano To Receive Charlie Cinnamon Carbonell by Bill Hirschman

 Mary Damiano, a long-time arts journalist and critic, will receive the Carbonnell Awards’ Charlie Cinnamon Award honoring an individual who contributes significantly to the support of th…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:54AM
Tuesday, August 5, 2025

Michel Hausmann to be Honored With Vinnette Carroll Award by Bill Hirschman

Michel Hausmann, the co-founder and Artistic Director of Miami New Drama, reputedly the largest bilingual theater company in the country, will be honored in November by the Carbonell Awards …

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:36AM
Saturday, August 2, 2025

McKeever Play To Travel Overseas Next Month by Bill Hirschman

Michael McKeever and Christopher Renshaw are going to London. And they’re taking the code with them. Well, they’re taking The Code with them, The Code being the acclaimed play that McKee…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 05:42PM
Wednesday, July 30, 2025

Torch Song Is Not What We Expected  At Plays of Wilton by Bill Hirschman

Fair warning to anyone going to The Foundry for Harvey Fierstein’s Torch Song because they want to see a play about a drag queen. Other than the lead works in drag for a living, but he cou…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:32PM
Tuesday, July 29, 2025

New City Players to Receive Carbonells’ Jan McArt Award by Bill Hirschman

New City Players, the vest-pocket theater company that has consistently produced memorable work since 2014 in Broward County,  has been named the recipient of the first Jan McArt Award from…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:54AM
Friday, July 25, 2025

ASC’s Immersive Tarzan Musical Surrounds You In The Jungle by Bill Hirschman

Area Stage Company’s (production is not your childhood Tarzan. Yet it is still the story and music you know and love. This gripping immersive staging surrounds you with the world of the s…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:24PM
Tuesday, July 22, 2025

Big Ideas Abound in Main Street Players’ Revolutionists by Bill Hirschman

When assassin Charlotte Corday declares, “We are all in a play that someone else is writing,” we know we’re stepping into a world steeped in existential tension. We brace ourselves for…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:06PM
Monday, July 21, 2025

Plaza Suite May Be 60 Years Old, But It Hasn’t Lost Its Charm by Bill Hirschman

Plaza Suite may be more than sixty years old, but it hasn’t lost its charm. Little about it feels stale or outdated. Pembroke Pines Theatre for the Performing Arts’ (PPTOPA) current prof…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:18PM
Sunday, July 20, 2025

USA Bow For Step By Step Deals With Friendship, Loss, And Middle-Age Fears. by Bill Hirschman

Step by Step, making its American premiere at Actors’ Playhouse at the Miracle Theatre, is a comedy with an all-female cast dealing with friendship, loss, and middle-age fears. The post US…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:18PM
Saturday, July 19, 2025

Distinctively Moving ‘Spy For Spy’ Engages With Unconventional Treatment by Bill Hirschman

You never know what you’ll see when at Kutumba Theatre Project’s Spy for Spy.  And that’s a good thing.  Predictability causes us to disengage and leave the theater less than inspi…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:36PM

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