Tuesday, March 31, 2020
To help with donations – and viewing your favorite performer – this is a list of every piece. The first figure is when the piece appears on the programs; the second item in italics is th…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 07:12PMSaturday, March 28, 2020
The South Florida Theatre League has started the South Florida Theatre League Relief Fund, in light of how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected live theater workers. The purpose is to help the…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 01:03PMWednesday, March 25, 2020
South Florida stages are dormant, but the theaters themselves are not. Already, the community is trying to adapt to the exigencies of the current brave new world by offering imaginative init…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:12AMMonday, March 23, 2020
In-depth report: Sets still standing on stages are silent pledges that these productions and theater itself in South Florida will resume – albeit in what many believe will be a different …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:24PMSaturday, March 21, 2020
Nothing can match the experience of live theater. But when such gatherings can be irresponsible, if not deadly, we need the healing, uplifting and just plain diverting gifts that theater pro…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:32PMFriday, March 20, 2020
A patron attending the March 12 performance of Hamilton at the Arsht Center has subsequently tested positive for COVID-19.
The venue stressed that there have been no other reports connected…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:42PMFriday, March 13, 2020
This list of openings and closings is based on information provided primarily by the theaters and venues. It is accurate as of the time of posting, but patrons planning to attend shows that …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:42PMThursday, March 12, 2020
The Coronavirus is causing the postponement of some individual South Florida theater performances, including the eagerly awaited world premiere musical A Wonderful World at Miami New Drama. …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:18PMTitles announced by more South Florida theaters in their 2020-21 seasons including Broadway in Fort Lauderdale: To Kill A Mockingbird starring Richard Thomas, and Hamilton returns; Actors�…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:24AMTuesday, March 10, 2020
Travelling in the national tour means moving to a different hotel in a different city nearly every week, not always sure what city that is, maintaining relationships with loved ones from afa…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:18PMSunday, March 8, 2020
The Helen in Helen on Wheels is Helen Wheeler, a spirited, allegedly 70-something widow who speaks her mind and challenges anyone who crosses her as she continues to mourn her husband. But H…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:12PMWednesday, March 4, 2020
Oh, those mean girls. If you were unlucky to encounter them, they made your high school days unbearable, humiliated you so you felt inferior and tried to dictate who your friends were. They …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:18PMMonday, March 2, 2020
Gay men, characterized as deviants in 1920s New York City, populate prolific playwright Ronnie Larsen’s new musical, Come Out! Come Out! at the Wilton Theatre Factory. Come Out! Come Out! …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:24PMSaturday, February 29, 2020
Energy suffuses rehearsals for Miami New Drama's world premiere musical about Louis Armstrong A Wonderful World – not a revue but a highly-theatrical biography in which Armstrong’s famou…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:54PMFriday, February 28, 2020
Home is the place where they have to take you in, to paraphrase Robert Frost. It’s also the place where every family dynamic plays out — love, resentment, growing pains, conflict, chaos,…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:42PMTuesday, February 25, 2020
With the Maltz Jupiter Theatre's upcoming Brighton Beach Memoirs, director J. Barry Lewis says people need to "come forward with a new perspective on what a Neil Simon play is, not just what…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 05:18PMSaturday, February 22, 2020
While the Broadway Palm production of Beauty and the Beast at Lauderhill Performing Arts Center will elicit giggles from the kids, this local edition is a surprisingly satisfying evening eve…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:24PMThursday, February 20, 2020
Does it ever get boring being in the room where it happens?
No, it does not, as illustrated from the moment Aaron Burr begins recounting the story of this lad from the Caribbean who becam…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:36PMTuesday, February 18, 2020
Something unexpected is on Riverside Theatre’s mainstage: A straight play. That’s right, no big box office-guaranteed lavish, toe-tapping musical Instead, patrons are getting well-devel…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:18AMSunday, February 16, 2020
Thinking Cap Theatre’s stunning production of Beckett’s Happy Days, offers an unmitigated triumph of a performance by Karen Stephens expertly molded by Nicole Stodard, but to say this ab…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:18AMFriday, February 14, 2020
Another round of 2020-2021 season announcements has arrived with some promising titles -- this time from Primal Forces and the Maltz Jupiter Theatre – plus a headline-making offering from …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:48AMWednesday, February 12, 2020
In 2016, the interactive gay wedding theatrical experience Diego & Drew Say I Do had a successful run at the Broward Center. Now it's back for a second go 'round. It has grown up just a …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 03:18PMTuesday, February 11, 2020
There’s something irresistibly intriguing when a whimsical fairy tale is invoked to teach life lessons to adults. Theatre Lab’s The Glass Piano may have a befuddled king, a savvy servant…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:06AMDon’t say we didn’t warn you: If you purchase a ticket to the fourth and latest iteration of Miami Motel Stories, you will be put to work. You may have to repair a costume, or apply an a…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:06AMMonday, February 10, 2020
Plenty of laughter, and quite a few tears, punctuate the dramatic comedy, or comic drama, if you prefer in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Gynecologic Oncology Unit at Memorial Sloa…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:32AMSunday, February 9, 2020
Church & State, about the collision of faith, politics and gun control after a school shooting, obviously could not be more timely or more resonant for South Florida audiences. Unfortuna…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:48AMSaturday, February 8, 2020
A war of words smoothly flows between two articulate, bright people with immensely opposing views on nearly every subject in British playwright David Hare’s drama Skylight, receiving a per…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 03:06PMFriday, February 7, 2020
Sometimes the joint is jumpin’ in M Ensemble Company’s Ain’t Misbehavin’, sometime things are sluggish; sometimes you can savor the brilliant lyrics coming from a talented quintet , …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 04:48PMThursday, February 6, 2020
Skylight might seem just an intriguing play focusing on an older widower trying to rekindle a relationship with a younger woman with whom he was having an affair with while he was married. B…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:48AMWednesday, February 5, 2020
Hamilton, which explodes with power, vitality and imagination in the Kravis Center through Feb. 16, is not the Second Coming as many overheated observers would have you believe. But this tou…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:54AMTuesday, February 4, 2020
The first things to know about Slow Burn Theater Company’s musical Groundhog Day is (a) do not go expecting to see the movie and (b) do not go expecting Bill Murray. The third thing is tha…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:18AM 
