It’s an obvious truism that most theater art – from dialogue to the lighting design – is partly a product of the artists’ past experience. But playwright-director Amy London’s Stor…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:32PMM Ensemble's production of Layon Gray's Cowboy is everything audiences expect of a rousing western, but it’s also an inherent indictment. It is not of little significance that the play is …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:24PMDrew Droege’s Bright Colors and Bold Patterns deftly avoids common tropes of the solo show in its compulsively watchable regional premiere at Island City Stage, a fringe festival-style tou…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:36AMSouth Florida theater was rarely dormant during the pandemic; but a torrent of honors, projects and prizes are surfacing quickly including Juggerknot Theatre Company, Zoetic Stage, Palm Beac…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:24PMFor its next professional production, South Miami’s Area Stage Company promises the musical Annie “like you’ve never seen before” later this month. It's set in a speakeasy, has eig…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 03:33PMIn Cowboy, the new dramatic play opening in June at M Ensemble in Miami, the gun-totin’ U.S. Marshal Bass Reeves, traditionally garbed down to the required Stetson, strides through the dou…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:48PMMiami New Drama’s innovative 7 Deadly Sins production, which has garnered attention around the country, has won a new category from the annual Drama League Awards. The post Miami New Drama…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:54AMIsland City Stage celebrates its tenth season with the anticipated Tennessee Williams’ Suddenly, Last Summer sidelined by the pandemic, plus a world premiere, a Charles Ludlam classic, a r…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:48AMAs the local theater scene ramps up, more and more news including the announcement every few days of a traditional season – which we will roll out one at a time over the next few weeks. Bu…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:12PMYet another promising sign that local venues are optimistic about resuming indoor theater is the announcement of the 10th season of the Arsht Center’s Theater Up Close series featuring the…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:12AMThe line in the legal play A Class Act, "“For the right money, I’d settle with Hitler,” stands out as much as it does because the virtuous play and JCAT’s heavy-handed production are…
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SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:24PMA major overhaul of the Carbonell Awards for excellence in South Florida theater has been unveiled that expands the scope of the program to include a “people’s choice” award and concer…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:24PMThe pandemic and other issues are causing some companies performing at the programs at the Arsht Center in Miami to once again rearrange schedules. They will delay the start of the Broadway …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 07:36PMThe Wick Theatre is trying a singular paradigm: It will mount a full production of A Chorus Line beginning April 22 inside its auditorium. But its leaders decidedly do not want to sell any t…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 03:32PMThe world premiere of a Michael McKeever drama about the people who hid Anne Frank’s family and one of Lynn Nottage’s first mainstream successes about African Americans are among the fiv…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 05:24PMIn an exceedingly timely appearance, Island City Stage mounts a scathing production mirroring current tumult about race in America -- a taut, intense, drama The Niceties. The post Island Ci…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:24PMForgive the sappy saccharine metaphor, but it’s inescapable: Spring has arrived for South Florida theater with buds and shoots peeping out of the what was not barren but rocky ground. All …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 07:24PMBy Bill Hirschman It doesn’t take five minutes, maybe barely a minute talking to Bari Newport on the phone to realize why she was selected from a large field to be the producing artistic d…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:18PMTheatre Lab invests its growing expertise in multi-media theater performance in Vanessa Garcia’s premiere of Ich Bin Ein Berliner, a heartfelt memoir of a Cuban-American girl who grows up …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:36PMStarting April 1, the new leader at the helm of GableStage will be Bari Newport, who has served for the past nine years as producing artistic director of the Penobscot Theatre Co. in Bangor,…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 03:54PMImaginative theatricality has imbued Theatre Lab’s projects, but this month’s just-outside-the-box venture is breaking the traditional paradigm even further. The premiere of Vanessa Garc…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 04:42PMA superb evocation of the soul of Emily Dickinson from actress Margery Lowe and director William Hayes marks the video co-production from Palm Beach Dramaworks and Actors’ Playhouse of The…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:03PMOne year into the global and personal tragedies, Florida theater has embraced the sole gift that the pandemic has given regional artists across the country: Unprecedented opportunity. Some c…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 04:54PMOne year into the global and personal tragedies, Florida theater has embraced the sole gift that the pandemic has given regional artists across the country: Unprecedented opportunity. Some c…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:06PMOne year into the global and personal tragedies, Florida theater has embraced the sole gift that the pandemic has given regional artists across the country: Unprecedented opportunity. Some c…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 04:42PMThe Art Heist Experience is an interactive true-crime theater event inspired by the theft of 13 works of art worth $500 million from Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in 1990. Durin…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:48PMAs live arts and entertainment return in fits and starts, and our culture continues its tortoise crawl toward normal, one thing has become apparent: Face masks may be vital in impeding the s…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 01:18PMRadio producer-host Caroline Breder-Watts recorded interviews with theater professionals over the years. Among them was this conversation likely recorded in around 2011 between the actress-i…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 03:06PMIn this time of quarantine, subtle resonances echo the underlying thread of Emily Dickinson’s isolation in Palm Beach Dramaworks and Actors Playhouse’s co-produced filming of the live pl…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:42PMMost biographies factually mirror the life and times of their subject in a chronological narrative. But few mirror the complexity and structure of the subject’s own work with the stunning …
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