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Openings and Closings This Week Opening this week: Sept. 28-Oct. 14 Sylvia The Boca Raton Theatre Guild Willow Theatre in Sugar Sand Park 300 South Military Trail, Boca Raton (561) 347-3948 …
Dampened by storms earlier this fall, Ground Up & Rising, is fulfilling its commitment to a series of free outdoor performances at 10 a.m. this Sunday, Sept. 30, with a bare bones readi…
By Bill Hirschman Zoetic Stage, the loose collective of actors, directors and playwrights, has extended its commitment to new work by joining the National New Play Network  as an associat…
The deteriorating orbit into insanity is tracked with impressive skill and infinite variety in Ken Clement's bravura tour de force as the government drone Poprishchin under Richard Jay Simo…
Part One More than a few people were disappointed when the Caldwell Theatre closed its doors last spring before producing the final play of the season, Our Lady of Allapattah by Miami playwr…
The 2012-2013 season of South Florida theater promises a continued arc toward more new works and thought-provoking titles ripped fresh off the New York stages, sprinkled with enough perennia…
For nearly two decades, Amy London has been a fixture of South Florida theater: behind the director's table, wearing a stage manager's headset, acting, leading the Fort Lauderdale Players, h…
What continues to enchant critics who have to see more productions of Steel Magnolias than most civilians is what a truly funny, finely observed and genuinely touching script that Robert Har…
Last Minute News: Two Shows M Ensemble Company is launching a new play series this weekend only with Hate! An American Love Story, a one-woman piece written and performed by local actress Ch…
Two Florida men who by chance sat next to each other at the Holocaust play at Broward Stage Door, A Shayna Maidel, discovered they had been in the same forced labor camp during World War II.
The script of Dutchman, Amiri Bakara's classic 1964 play of racial and sexual politics, crackles with the explosive rage that Langston Hughes' predicted in "A Dream Deferred." The fact that …
Stage Combat Violence, the ultimate expression of dramatic conflict, has long been a staple of theater, going back to the days of Og the Caveman retelling his war exploits around the fire. T…
GableStage's powerful Ruined examines our species' simultaneous capacity for a bottomless cruelty absent in animals and an inextinguishable humanity that borders on divinity. This engrossing…
[box_full] Who are we? Where do we want to go? What's standing in our way? How do we prevail? The dwindling days before the season gears up are a prime time for us all, audiences to artists,…
A group of loopy scenarios fuel eight daffy short plays by local playwrights thumbing their nose at Death in an often funny if markedly uneven collection commissioned by the Alliance Theatre…
Who are we? Where do we want to go? What's standing in our way? How do we prevail? The dwindling days before the season gears up are a prime time for us all, audiences to artists, to invest …
For immigrants wrestling with cultural assimilation, salvation lies not in burying the past life, but coming to terms with its baggage and its ghosts. Playwright Barbara Lebow illustrated he…
Who are we? Where do we want to go? What's standing in our way? How do we prevail? The dwindling days before the season gears up are a prime time for us all, audiences to artists, to invest …
Who are we? Where do we want to go? What's standing in our way? How do we prevail? The dwindling days before the season gears up are a prime time for us all, audiences to artists, to invest …
These lists are almost certainly incomplete. Please email us information at bill@floridatheateronstage.com and we'll update it. Professional Producing Companies includes Monroe County Actors…
The ever-morphing statuses and a lack of historical records guarantee that the following lists will be incomplete or even inaccurate. If you have additional or more accurate information, ple…
The success of theater often depends on the audience plugging in their own experiences to enhance what's happening on stage. So perhaps part of this reviewer's hot-and-cold reception of Kee…
Florida Theater On Stage is taking a step back in the brief lull in the season to analyze the present and future of South Florida theater in some depth. We're celebrating our first anniversa…
Regular South Florida theatergoers will recognize many local stalwarts headlining productions this fall as well as some folks new to these parts " and their parts. Palm Beach Dramaworks reve…
By Bill Hirschman The dog days of South Florida theater have resembled greyhounds rather than bassets. But the advent of Labor Day weekend ratchets up the pace once again. * Quick note: …
