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Thursday, June 12, 2025

Slow Burn’s Bodyguard Musical Is A Welcome Surprise by Bill Hirschman

It’s not necessary to be a fan of Whitney Houston’s music, or the film to enjoy The Bodyguard the Musical, wrapping up Slow Burn Theatre Co.’s fifteenth season, proving that just about…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 01:48PM
Wednesday, June 4, 2025

City Theatre Fights Government Funding Cuts With Imaginatively Rethought Summer Shorts by Bill Hirschman

South Florida arts organizations are struggling with government funding cuts. A prime example is how City Theatre iis scaling back with a good-natured thumb-your-nose attitude that acknowle…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:12AM
Tuesday, June 3, 2025

Latiné Theater Lab Debuts Unsettling Production of Mud by Bill Hirschman

For its inaugural presentation, Latiné Theater Lab has chosen to mount María Irene Fornés’ Mud, a raw and unsettling drama that explores the limits of human aspiration in the face of …

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:36PM
Saturday, May 31, 2025

 Dying Gaul Explores Cost of Doing Battle at Island City Stage by Bill Hirschman

Like the ancient Roman statue upon which it is named, the ending of The Dying Gaul recognizes a hard-earned victory while exploring the cost of doing battle. The production at Island City St…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 05:06PM
Wednesday, May 28, 2025

Pompano Players’ I Do! I Do! Returns To Follow Highs and Lows of a Half-Century Marriage by Bill Hirschman

 You are cordially invited to the wedding of Michael and Agnes at Pompano Players, just the beginning of the classic two-character musical I Do! I Do!, that tracks fifty years of the highs …

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:42PM

Dramaworks’ Hayes & Beryl To Receive Carbonell’s Highest George Abbott Award by Bill Hirschman

The Carbonell Awards recognizing excellence will bestow its highest honor, the George Abbott Outstanding Achievement in the Arts, to two of the founders of Palm Beach Dramaworks, married cou…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:54AM
Tuesday, May 27, 2025

Scores of Theater and Journalism Students Reap Cappies Awards by Bill Hirschman

Hundreds upon hundreds of students from Broward and Palm Beach counties cheered loudly enough to rattle the auditorium May 20 at the 23rd awards gala  recognizing achievements in theater an…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:02PM
Sunday, May 25, 2025

Society’s Failure To Help Impaired Children Is At Heart Of Dangerous Instruments by Bill Hirschman

Pain, despair and desperation deepen in a swirling descent into a dread-encrusted darkness in the premiere of Gina Montét’s Dangerous Instruments at Palm Beach Dramaworks. Clearly, not a …

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 05:54PM
Thursday, May 22, 2025

The New Latine Theater Lab To Bow In May With Fornes’ Mud by Bill Hirschman

Alex Gonzalez is “thrilled to be back where I belong – creating art and building something meaningful through theater, specifically, building Latiné Theater Lab, one of South Florida�…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:12AM
Monday, May 19, 2025

Fat Ham Redux Amped Up In GableStage’s Turn With BBQ Alongside Will Shakespeare by Bill Hirschman

Island City Stage's production of Fat Ham last month was funny, topical, engaging. But in its co-production at GableStage this weekend, four weekends of performances and two subsequent weeks…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 01:06PM
Saturday, May 17, 2025

Truth Does Not Stop In Actors’ Playhouse’s The Girl on the Train by Bill Hirschman

Actors' Playhouse's thrilling theater version of The Girl on the Train -- bringing voyeurism to a new level -- has a history, . The post Truth Does Not Stop In Actors’ Playhouse’s The Gi…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 03:54PM
Sunday, May 11, 2025

Varied ‘Truths’ Clash in Zoetic Stage’s The Comeuppance by Bill Hirschman

Time, carrying the inevitability of mortality and exposing complex truths about our past, is the central vendor of the title in Zoetic Stage’s overwhelming drama The Comeuppance about a hi…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:18PM
Friday, May 9, 2025

WWII’s Music & Words Performing at Soundscape Park by Bill Hirschman

The challenge and courage of World War II – delivered through music and imagery of the era – provide the center of a one-night special event in Miami Beach on Saturday – The Eyes of th…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 04:18PM
Tuesday, May 6, 2025

“The Soundtrack of Your Life” with My Way at the Wick Theatre by Bill Hirschman

During My Way at the Wick,, a singer says it’s the “soundtrack of your life.” She’s right, because this Frank Sinatra tribute is full of music enjoyed on romantic dates, at weddings,…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 02:24PM
Wednesday, April 30, 2025

You’ll Fall in Love With ‘Sweet Charity’ at Gulfshore Playhouse by Bill Hirschman

The men in Sweet Charity Hope Valentine's life may not be smart enough to fall in love with her, but any audience member wise enough to see Gulfshore Playhouse's production will fall instant…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 07:24PM

Pompano Players Sets The World Goes Round Revue In An Airport by Bill Hirschman

Flight is an apt metaphor for life. Indeed, our existence includes highs and lows, But thankfully, life also presents moments of love, levity, and “smooth sailing,” (or flying, in this c…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:24AM
Tuesday, April 29, 2025

The Flawed Four Battle Again In Maltz’s Flawless Virginia Woolf by Bill Hirschman

Anyone not already familiar with t Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? had better hold onto their seat because it’s a bumpy ride indeed. The intimate space in the Maltz Jupiter Theatre is i…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:42AM
Sunday, April 27, 2025

Boca Stage’s Dark Biz Comedy Dry Powder Asks Tough Question by Bill Hirschman

The tense, barbed, well-crafted dark comedy Dry Powder at Boca Stage deals with an age-old question: For what price would you sell your soul? If you don’t believe in souls, substitute the …

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:02AM
Saturday, April 26, 2025

POW To Bow Second Open Air Show: Sound of Music by Bill Hirschman

“You will sit in a swivel chair and the show will take place all around you, all over the park,” Director Ronnie Larsen said about its upcoming free outdoor theater production of The Sou…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:06PM
Tuesday, April 22, 2025

Fine Performances, Chilling & Resonating Script Return in Timekeepers by Bill Hirschman

Dan Clancy’s The Timekeepers underscores we share more in common with each other than the differences that separate us. Two concentration camp prisoners – a Jew and a non-Jewish gay find…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:48PM
Saturday, April 19, 2025

Glimpse of Billie Holiday: ‘Emerson’s Bar & Grill’ at Gulfshore Playhouse by Bill Hirschman

Life was not kind to Billie Holiday, but she persevered, channeling her pain into her singing. Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill at Gulfshore Playhouse puts her in her element: onstage a…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:24PM

South Pacific is Enchanting at the Lauderhill Performing Arts by Bill Hirschman

Looking for somewhere to spend an enchanting afternoon or evening? Then look no further than South Pacific, now playing at the Lauderhill Performing Arts Center. With an almost perfect produ…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:12AM
Thursday, April 17, 2025

Two Sides to Every Story in Pigs Do Fly’s Painting Churches by Bill Hirschman

The Church family does not put the fun in dysfunctional. This bothersome trio play out their convoluted story from the comfort of their living room in Pigs Do Fly Productions’ play, Painti…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:18PM
Wednesday, April 16, 2025

South Florida Cappies Lists All Nominees by Bill Hirschman

The Florida Cappies Inc. have announced the nominees from 28 Broward and Palm Beach schools recognition excellence Tuesday, May 20 at 7 p.m. in the Au-Rene Theater at the4 Broward Center for…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:03PM

M Ensemble’s Revival Knock Me A Kiss Is Present Day Look at People in Harlem Renaissance by Bill Hirschman

M Ensemble's current revival of Knock Me A Kiss that it mounted in 2014 has different echoes in 2025. The post M Ensemble’s Revival Knock Me A Kiss Is Present Day Look at People in Harlem …

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:24AM
Tuesday, April 15, 2025

A Century Later the Issues Remain in Dramaworks’ Camping With Henry and Tom by Bill Hirschman

Thirty 30 years ago, Mark St. Germain wrote a play Camping With Henry and Tom fictionalizing an actual meeting among Ford, Edison and President Harding. Given the politics, religion, racism,…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:18PM
Friday, April 11, 2025

Comic ‘Fat Ham’ Echoes Hamlet Thru African-American Prism by Bill Hirschman

Fat Ham, which tells of a young gay man at his Black family’s contentious backyard barbeque, is basically a huge grin. The fact that the ingenious plot intentionally echoes Hamlet does not…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:06AM
Thursday, April 10, 2025

‘Sylvia’ is a Bad Dog From Curtain Call Playhouse at the Willow by Bill Hirschman

If all of us liked the same things, it would be a truly dull world, but occasionally, like in Sylvia produced by Curtain Call Playhouse playing at the Willow Theatre, you have to wonder what…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:54PM
Tuesday, April 8, 2025

Beliefs and Responsibility Grapple In Miami New Drama’s World Premiere Birthright by Bill Hirschman

How do deeply held beliefs – religious, social, moral -- guide us, persist, deteriorate or see us mutate as time and events challenge their truth and erode the bond among those raised on …

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:24PM
Sunday, April 6, 2025

Dealing With Crippling Grief Is At Center of Theatre Lab’s The Impossible Task of Today by Bill Hirschman

For some, grief is a long haul, the raw pangs never subsiding, but thriving, almost dictating a person’s daily actions even years later. At least that’s the way it is for Jack Jordan, th…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 02:03PM
Friday, April 4, 2025

Summer, 1976 Investigates Levels In The Bonds of Friendship by Bill Hirschman

By Bill Hirschman One benefit of aging is the ability to see where we came from, where we have travelled, contemplate our past decisions, but most significantly to wisely re-evaluate the mea…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:06AM
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