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The South Florida theater season continues with New City Players' production of Confederates: The complex confluence of ...
07/14/2025

The South Florida theater season continues with New City Players' production of Confederates: The complex confluence of resonating past and present in Dominque Morisseau’s dense brilliant script interweaves with strong performances. With Rita Cole, Denzel McCausland, ToddraBrunson, Nai Fairweather, Gemma Berg and Maha McCain. Read our review at floridatheateronstage.com

07/07/2025

We have UPDATED our memorial-obituary posted on floridatheateronstage.com. The theater community, the journalism community, our community as a whole has lost a force who helped forge all of them for decades. Our friend, our colleague Hap Erstein died Saturday at 10 p.m.

Our memorial-obituary is posted on floridatheateronstage.com. The theater community, the journalism community, our commu...
07/06/2025

Our memorial-obituary is posted on floridatheateronstage.com. The theater community, the journalism community, our community as a whole has lost a force who helped forge all of them for decades. Our friend, our colleague Hap Erstein died Saturday at 10 p.m. at an Aventura hospital where he had been since Monday when he collapsed in a movie theater where he had gone to do a review. He was 74 years old.

The theater community, the journalism community, our community as a whole has lost a force who helped forge all of them ...
07/06/2025

The theater community, the journalism community, our community as a whole has lost a force who helped forge all of them for decades. My friend, my colleague Hap Erstein died Saturday at 10 p.m. at an Aventura hospital where he had been since Monday when he collapsed in a movie theater where he had gone to do a review. He has been fighting COPD for years as well as a lung infection. His passionate love of theater and film was rooted in an unshakeable belief that honesty and integrity in criticism was a keystone to maintaining and improving an art form as it was practiced here. He had a wicked wit when quality flagged, but his raves proudly revealed as great a love for the arts as you can find in any corner of the creative world. But personally, he was an irreplaceable person in my life and those of so many others. We will write an obituary on our website floridatheateronstage.com later today. But we all must acknowledge and appreciate what he has done for all of us. We are once again poorer. We can only send comfort to Elaine Oksner and his family for sharing him with us. Cheryl has written a lovely tribute on her page. A memorial service will be scheduled for August.

Florida Theater On Stage feature story: Kim Ehly, Artistic Director and Founder of Kutumba Theatre Project, has brought ...
07/01/2025

Florida Theater On Stage feature story: Kim Ehly, Artistic Director and Founder of Kutumba Theatre Project, has brought a new production back to the region: Spy for Spy with Abbie Fricke and Taylor Lyn Dawson. Ehly discovered this “playful, sophisticated, funny and heartfelt” play in London and knew it was time to head back to the floorboards to share its ingenuity with South Florida audiences. Read about it at floridatheateronstage.com/ --- The season may have slowed a bit, but we continue to review most shows and will be regularly adding features and continuing series this summer. Don't miss out.

Florida Theater On Stage celebrates the season continuing with a review of Slow Burn Theatre Company's production of bod...
06/12/2025

Florida Theater On Stage celebrates the season continuing with a review of Slow Burn Theatre Company's production of bodyguard the Musical. It’s not necessary to be a fan of Whitney Houston’s music, or her iconic 1992 film to enjoy it. Proving that just about anything can be made into a musical, this romantic thriller is the perfect combination of funny and scary, and a real audience pleaser from the get-go.With Ta-Tanisa Wilson, Lillie Eliza Thomas, Gabriell Salgado and Timothy Mark Daviss, directed by Patrick Fitzwater Read at floridatheateronstage.com

News from Florida Theater On Stage: Throughout South Florida, throughout the country, arts organizations are struggling ...
06/04/2025

News from Florida Theater On Stage: Throughout South Florida, throughout the country, arts organizations are struggling to survive slashes in government funding and grants. They imaginatively reconfigure ways to fulfill their vision, hoping their cutting does not affect the quality or scope of what their public has come to expect. A prime example is how City Theatre in Miami is scaling back with a good-natured thumb-your-nose attitude that acknowledges, even embraces the sparing steps that have been taken in their 29th annual Summer Shorts festival to deal with the withheld state and local funds. Interview with Gladys Ramirez. Read all about it at floridatheateronstage.com

Florida Theater On Stage review: Welcome the first production of a new company Latiné Theater Lab. For its inaugural pre...
06/03/2025

Florida Theater On Stage review: Welcome the first production of a new company Latiné Theater Lab. For its inaugural presentation, it has chosen to mount María Irene Fornés’ Mud, a raw and unsettling drama that explores the limits of human aspiration in the face of poverty, ignorance, and control. With direction by Artsitic Director Alex Gonzalez and actors Caila Katz, Eric Gospondinoff and Juan Gamero. Read the review at floridatheateronstagecom

Florida Theater On Stage shows the season's not at all over: Like the ancient Roman statue upon which it is named, the e...
05/31/2025

Florida Theater On Stage shows the season's not at all over: 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. Island City Stage’s Artistic Director Andy Rogow describes this play by Craig Lucas as “powerful, edgy, shocking, and tragic.” It’s all those things, and more, and will have you pondering it long after you leave the theater. With Jorge Amador, Autumn Kioti and Amir Darvish. Read the review at floridatheateronstage.com

Florida Theater On Stage (third post on the our website today) with a review of Pompano Players production of the classi...
05/28/2025

Florida Theater On Stage (third post on the our website today) with a review of Pompano Players production of the classic two-character musical I Do! I Do!, that tracks fifty years of the highs and lows of a typical marriage. With Lindsey Corey and Alex Jorth, directed by Andy Rogow with music from Eric Alsford. Read the review at floridatheateronstage.com

Over the past quarter-century, Palm Beach Dramaworks has set artistic, social and financial benchmark after benchmark fr...
05/28/2025

Over the past quarter-century, Palm Beach Dramaworks has set artistic, social and financial benchmark after benchmark from its modest start in a tiny space on a college campus to a full-scale remodeled venue featuring some of the most acclaimed classic, contemporary and world premiere works in South Florida’s theater community. The Carbonell Awards, Inc. recognizing excellence will bestow its highest honor, the George Abbott Outstanding Achievement in the Arts, to two of the theater’s founders, married couple William Hayes and Sue Ellen Beryl. Slated to be given at the 48th Carbonell gala Nov.7, the prize “honors an individual (or team) who has contributed significantly to the artistic and cultural development of the region. The award may be given for accomplishments within the year, or for a lifetime.” Read at floridatheateronstage.com

Florida Theater On Stage: Hundreds upon hundreds of students from Broward and Palm Beach counties cheered loudly enough ...
05/28/2025

Florida Theater On Stage: 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 and journalism by their classmates from 28 public and private schools in the South Florida Cappies program. The entire list of winners posted at floridatheateronstage.com.

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