Monday, March 20, 2023
It’s expected the Maltz Jupiter Theatre's Oliver! would be a tuneful, well-executed evening. But those mild adjectives would not begin to do this justice to a benchmark for this company. T…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:00AMSaturday, March 18, 2023
Florida Grand Opera brings back Tosca for nearly the 12th time with veteran villain Todd Thomas. Conductor Gregory Buchalter says this is the opera for people who haven’t been to an opera.…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:56PMThursday, March 16, 2023
In the early spring, flowers bloom and South Florida theaters announce 2023-24 seasons. Broadway In Fort Lauderdale will have Funny Girl and Moulin Rouge; Lake Worth Playhouse's season incl…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:00AMMonday, March 13, 2023
Michael Jackson never appears in the incisive Defacing Michael Jackson, although his influence is infused into the journey at Miami New Drama stage. But Aurin Squire’s insightful tale re…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:08PMSaturday, March 11, 2023
If you’re younger than Boomers and wonder what it felt like seeing a musical in the 1950s, or if you’re older and you yearn for what you saw in the 1950s, then take full advantage of the…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:34AMWednesday, March 8, 2023
You’ll probably love Pretty Woman: The Musical if you adored the 1990 hit movie that launched Julia Roberts’ career. The story about a hooker who lands a fabulously rich guy and lives ha…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:40PMDesigning Broadway, by Derek McLain and Eila Mell, Running Press (Hatchette Book Group), 272 pages; list price $45, $33.20 Amazon, used copies $30. By Bill Hirschman As a rule, responsibl…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:00AMMonday, March 6, 2023
The strength and vulnerability of non-sexual but emotionally intimate friendships are not focuses in 20th Century theater. But in works written by a new generation of playwrights, these rela…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:46AMSaturday, March 4, 2023
Cemetery Pub, a play in its second production by playwright-actor Tom Dugan at Pigs Do Fly Productions, is a mash-up of multiple genres as three relatives hash out troubled pasts and an unce…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 04:30PMMonday, February 27, 2023
The intense and dense cyclonic swirl of ideas expertly delivered in GableStage’s production of Lucas Hnath’s A Doll’s House Part 2 is the theatrical embodiment of “thought-provoking…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:00AMSunday, February 26, 2023
Those needing a good hearty laugh will find the right medicine in Riverside Theatre’s achingly hilarious production of A Comedy of Tenors. The show is awash with impeccable split-second t…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:24AMWednesday, February 22, 2023
The path we take in life and the place we end up – how much of that is a matter of luck, socio-economic circumstance, and how much is a matter of choices ? The insight-laden Good People at…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:00AMMonday, February 20, 2023
If you’ve got a competent, committed team as the Broadway at series does for 42nd Street, you’re nearly guaranteed a rousing gift of pure hallelujah as the love of musical theater grows …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:07PMSunday, February 19, 2023
Part 4 of a 4-part in-depth series tracking South Florida theater’s arc of paralysis and pivot through the pandemic and into the future, certainties becoming uncertain, and an unquenched d…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:00AMPart 3 of a 4-part in-depth series tracking South Florida theater’s arc of paralysis and pivot through the pandemic and into the future, certainties becoming uncertain, and an unquenched d…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:40AMPart 2 of a 4-part in-depth series tracking South Florida theater’s arc of paralysis and pivot through the pandemic and into the future, certainties becoming uncertain, and an unquenched d…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:38AMPart 1 of a 4-part in-depth series tracking South Florida theater’s arc of paralysis and pivot through the pandemic and into the future, certainties becoming uncertain, and an unquenched d…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:35AMFriday, February 17, 2023
So much has been written about Wicked—now 20 years on Broadway and making its umpteenth stop in South Florida—it seems like defying gravity to find something fresh to say about this popu…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:50PMWednesday, February 15, 2023
Part 3 of a 4-part in-depth series tracking South Florida theater’s arc of paralysis and pivot through the pandemic and into the future, certainties becoming uncertain, and an unquenched d…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:00AMTuesday, February 14, 2023
Area Stage's Giancarlo Rodaz’s visionary, deeply moving new production of Beauty and the Beast, a near identical production as it mounted last summer, but with two new leads, is as radica…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 04:52PMMonday, February 13, 2023
Boca Stage's Grand Horizons has A-list cast for an unusual mélange of considerable domestic comedy intersecting with serious themes about aging, dreams deferred and unrequited yearning.
The…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:59PMSunday, February 12, 2023
M Ensemble Company revives the 1972 award-winning The River Niger capturing a crossroads in Black life in America with a depiction of passionate, intelligent people debating diametrically op…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:24PMPart 2 of a 4-part in-depth series tracking South Florida theater’s arc of paralysis and pivot through the pandemic and into the future, certainties becoming uncertain, and an unquenched d…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:00AMFriday, February 10, 2023
A newly revised version of the classic musical Peter Pan, plus a bio-musical about Cher, plus a couple shows you’ve might have heard about Hamilton and Les Misérables are among the offeri…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:01AMThursday, February 9, 2023
The tour of the musical Tootsie, which makes large changes from the film, isn’t a deep show and falls short of scoring points in the battle between the sexes. But it sure is fun.
The post …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 02:33PMWednesday, February 8, 2023
Part 1 of a 4-part in-depth series tracking South Florida theater’s arc of paralysis and pivot through the pandemic and into the future, certainties becoming uncertain, and an unquenched d…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:00AMTuesday, February 7, 2023
From Slow Burn Theatre Company’s brass-unleashed overture with a live band, to an ebullient cast, to winning music and witty lyrics, this musical version of the film Honeymoon in Vegas is …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:25PMEscape to Margaritaville at Actors' Playhouse accomplishes what its title suggests. Specifically, the show conjures the kind of laid-back escape during which you might sport a hat and sungla…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:00AMSunday, February 5, 2023
If the 1920s gave birth to The Lost Generation, then the 2020s saw the taking root of The Trapped Generation. Palm Beach Dramaworks’ premiere of Carter W. Lewis' The Science of Leaving Oma…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 07:37PMSaturday, February 4, 2023
From F-bombs to high-brow discourse, Riverside Theatre’s absorbing Bakersfield Mist provokes and expands boundaries of what we know about the power of art and broader meanings of authentic…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 01:46PMWednesday, February 1, 2023
In movies, “ordinary people” facing a dystopian challenge miraculously find courage and composure. We would be more like the extended family slowly coming unglued in Theatre Lab’s prem…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:18PM 
