Florida Theater On Stage

Name: Florida Theater On Stage
Address: South, Fort Lauderdale, FL, 33317, US
Telephone: (954) 478-1123
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08/05/2025

News at Florida Theater On Stage: Michel Hausmann, the co-founder and Artistic Director of Miami New Drama, reputedly the largest bilingual theater company in the country, will be honored in November by the Carbonell Awards, Inc.. with the Vinnette Carroll Award. As resident and operator of the historic Colony Theatre on Miami Beach, Hausmann’s company has revitalized theater on the Lincoln Road Mall with an array of theatrical productions reflecting the multi-cultural character of the region, some in English, some on Spanish, some in both. The award recognizes significant achievement in advancing the cause of diversity, equality, and inclusion in South Florida theater. Read at floridatheateronstage.com

08/02/2025

News from Florida Theater On Stage: Michael McKeever and Christopher Renshaw are going to London. And they’re taking the code with them. Well, they’re taking The Code with them, The Code being the acclaimed play that McKeever wrote and Crenshaw directed back in April 2022 at Ronnie Larsen Presents’ production at the Foundry. Read about it a floridatheateronstage.

07/28/2025

Protect the Arts. Protect Miami-Dade.
In her budget for the upcoming 2025-2026 fiscal year, Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava proposes a 50% cut to grants funding to artists and arts organizations, as part of a plan to merge the department of Cultural Affairs into the Library Department.

This proposal would strip cultural funding, eliminate expert leadership dedicated to the arts, and put hundreds of small and mid-sized arts organizations at risk. This isn’t just about budgets-it’s about lives, livelihoods, and the identity of our community.

It isn't just about budgets -- it's about our community. Miami-Dade’s cultural sector generates over $2.1 billion in economic impact, supports 32,000 local jobs, attracts 22 million people as cultural tourists, and supports over 1000 arts groups.

How to Help:

1. Email the Mayor at [email protected].

2. Find and contact your county commissioner.

3. Share your story on how the arts impact your life and how this funding loss will impact you -- as a working theatre artist or theatre patron or loved one of a child in a theatre program.

4. Sign up for updates from the Arts Action Alliance of Miami-Dade.

5. Show up to budget hearings: Sept 4 & Sept 18, 111 NW 1st St, Miami.

SIGN THE PETITION TODAY
Arts & Business Council of Miami | P.O. Box 012100 | Miami, FL 33101 US

07/26/2025

And again, yet another review from Florida Theater On Stage: Area Stage Company’s current professional production is not your childhood Tarzan. Yet it is still the story and music you know and love — only now, the titular character might literally swing past you, mid-scene. This gripping immersive staging doesn’t ask for audience participation; however, it surrounds you with the world of the show. The result is a visceral experience that reimagines the jungle not just as a set, but as a space you physically inhabit. Directed by Giancarlo Rodaz. This is our fifth review in six days. Thanks are due in addition to our founders Wm F. Hirschman and Oline Cogdill, but our fine staff Aaron Krause, Mariah Reed, Raquel V. Reyes, writer, Britin Haller, Jan Sjostrom and Linda Hengerer . Also several news items coming next week. Read at floridatheateronstage.com

07/23/2025

And another Florida Theater On Stage review (the third in a week and more coming) When assassin Charlotte Corday declares, “We are all in a play that someone else is writing,” we know we’re stepping into a world steeped in existential tension. We brace ourselves for big ideas—and Lauren Gunderson’s The Revolutionists delivers. But it also surprises, infusing sharp wit and heartfelt humility into its bold exploration of the human condition in crisis. Gunderson’s play running at Main Street Players through Aug. 3 unfolds in the heart of the French Revolution, just after King Louis XVI is brutally executed by the radical Jacobins and his family is thrown into captivity. Read at floridatheateronstage.

07/22/2025

From Florida Theater On Stage: The season is hardly taking a breath. Three reviews this past few days (from Kutumba Theatre Project, Actors' Playhouse) and three more coming later this week. (Plus the lengthy profile of Palm Beach Dramaworks Tonight, a review of The Pembroke Pines Theatre of the Performing Arts (PPTOPA)s Plaza Suite. But in live theater, age doesn’t mean irrelevance. In fact, we often return to older works for comfort, perspective, laughter, and even to unearth themes and ideas we may have missed during previous viewings. With its wry one-liners, relatable characters, and familiar situations, Plaza Suite still delivers all of that. The play may be more than sixty years old, but it hasn’t lost its charm. Little about it feels stale or outdated. Directed by Jerry K Jensen with Lory Reyes and Alan Goodman. Read at floridatheateronstage.com

07/21/2025

From Florida Theater On Stage: The first of several reviews this week. Step by Step, making its American premiere at Actors' Playhouse at the Miracle Theatre, is a comedy with an all-female cast dealing with friendship, loss, and middle-age fears. The work by internationally acclaimed playwright Peter Quilter running through August 10 had its USA premiere this month after having been produced in Bulgaria, Croatia, Finland, Norway, Sweden, and Madrid. With such a strong record, it is easy to see why director David Arisco chose it for Actors’ Playhouse. The opening night audience was bursting with laughter—a sure sign that the run will be a winning one. With Elizabeth Price, Anna Lise Jensen Arvelo and Kareema Miriam Khouri. Read at floridatheateronstage.com

07/19/2025

From Florida Theater On Stage -- the season keeps on rollijng on. You never know what you’ll see when at Kutumba Theatre Project’s Spy for Spy. And that’s a good thing. Predictability causes us to disengage and leave the theater less than inspired. This production is an arresting depiction of individual moments of import that alternately shatter the soul and elicit bursts of laughter. Read at floridatheateronstage.com

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07/17/2025

From Florida Theater On Stage - a full profile of one of the respected companies in the region. The best theater profoundly affects the audience and the artists simultaneously. During its challenging quarter-century journey, a Palm Beach Dramaworks production can elicit unexpected satisfaction for its founders hearing the audience’s overwhelming affirmation. But Dramaworks is widely acclaimed by audiences and donors for the unusual consistency of the quality of their work, their earned respect in the social-political fundraising corridors, and their accountant’s-level business stand. Tracking their growth provides lessons for both fledgling and experienced companies. Read at floridatheateronstage.com

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.

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.

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