Theatre
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Summer Theatre Reading
Including New Sondheim Bio
By: - Aug 21st, 2026Florida Theater On Stage’s summer reading list worth for a few evenings encompasses three looks at our venerated Stephen Sondheim including a fresh off the press biography. Plus we dissect a detailed look at Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf’s evolution from play to film, plus a look at the bloodiest plays of the early 20th Century, plus a newly prefaced edition of Raisin in the Sun with post-script analysis, and a collection of in-depth interviews with theater critics of the 20th and 21st Century.
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Hamlet at Shakespeare & Company
Best of the Bard
By: - Aug 20th, 2026The character of Hamlet, the tragic Prince of Denmark represents one of the great roles in the canon. Brooding, melancholy, unhinged and bent on revenge for the murder of his father he is both sympathetic and not. He’s an early prototype of the modern anti-hero.
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Other Desert Cities
Bridge Across the Pond Theatre in South Florida
By: - Aug 20th, 2026In its third mounting, Bridge Across the Pond Theatre presents a strong production of Jon Robin Baitz's family drama, Other Desert Cities. The production runs through Aug. 30 at Empire Stage's intimate black box theater in Ft. Lauderdale. The play takes place in 2004 in Palm Springs, Calif. and an epilogue is set in Seattle several years later.
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Come From Away at Ivortyton
Reminder of Bssic Humanity
By: - Aug 19th, 2026Twenty-five years ago next month, the unimaginable happened. Two passenger jets crashed into the World Trade Towers, another into the Pentagon and a fourth in a field in Ohio.The world stood still for days in shock and horror. We learned many people demonstrated enormous acts of courage and kindness. One of those acts of kindness occurred after 28 jumbo jets enroute to the US from Europe were told to land at the airport in Gander, Newfoundland. US air space was closed.
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Cannibals of McGower County at Theatreworks
Well Acted but Tough to Watch
By: - Aug 19th, 2026The acting is terrific; the production values are great and yet The Cannibals of McCower County is a play I probably will never see again. Why? I find it difficult to watch a character who relishes in manipulation of people as well as emotional and physical cruelty. A character with no redeeming qualities.
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Theater for the New City Dreams Up
Edgy Theater for New Yorkers
By: - Aug 17th, 2026With Theater for the New City's 14th Dream Up Festival fast approaching (August 23 through September 13), The annual event is an ultimate new works festival, dedicated to the joy of discovering new authors and edgy, innovative performances.
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Lili Elbe
Winning Opera of Early Transsexual Surgery
By: - Aug 16th, 2026Santa Fe Opera offers an imposing American premiere of Tobias Picker's powerful statement about an oppressed group through the biography of Lili Elbe, who underwent sex reassignment surgery a century ago.
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The Magic Flute
Santa Fe Opera's Visual and Vocal Kaleidoscope
By: - Aug 15th, 2026Mozart's popular fable-like singspiel is given a scintillating, near comic-like treatment. The hero wins the girl and passes the tests of the brotherhood
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Orpheus Descending
Flawed but Worthy Play with Strong Treatment
By: - Aug 11th, 2026Oakland Theater Project takes on Tennessee Williams' Southern Gothic tale and adds another dimension by making Val, the Orpheus figure, black. Drifting into a Southern town and becoming intimate with a white woman in the early 1950s is not likely to have a positive outcome.
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American Apollo
Another Hit for West Edge Opera
By: - Aug 09th, 2026In truth, a young black man, Thomas McKeller, modeled for famed portrait artist John Singer Sargent for several years. In truth, did they have an affair? An entertaining contemporary opera explores the fantasy.
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Carmen in Salzburg
Asmik Grigorian Shines in Her Role Debut
By: - Aug 09th, 2026Carmen arrived in a new production at Salzburg this summer, featuring Asmik Grigorian in her role debut as the title character. Everything we have come to expect from this glorious singer. is alive on stage at the Grosses Festspielhaus.. Her acting fully matches her vocal prowess. S
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Lovesong by Abi Morgan at Unicorn Theatre
Four Play Two
By: - Aug 06th, 2026Lovesong by Abi Morgan has a challenging premise. It presents a loving couple in two stages with both on stage portraying aspects of their lives separated by decades. Without acknowledgement they are often in each others’ presence which creates challenges for trying to follow progressions. To what extent does the audience buy into seeing a single couple at different stages of life or four actors following parallel but different trajectories?
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42nd Street
At Sharon Playhouse
By: - Aug 05th, 2026I thoroughly enjoyed Sharon Playhouse’s production of 42nd Street, but I am mindful of its flaws. But despite that, I mentally hummed along and tapped by feet to the old songs by Harry Warren and Al Dubin. Some you know and others will be pleasant surprises.
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Rinaldo
Holy Crusader as Modern Comic Superhero
By: - Aug 04th, 2026West Edge Opera has adapted the storyline of Handel's Baroque opera into a tale of a superhero who joins forces with the police to fight organized crime. It works.
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Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune
After Four Decades Terrence McNally Play Still Resonates
By: - Aug 03rd, 2026Seduced by moonlight Frankie and Johnny turn first night sex into the hope of a lasting relationship. The play reveals mid life lonesomeness and the need for commitment.
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The Turn of the Screw
Britten's Sinister Opera Based on Henry James's Novella
By: - Aug 03rd, 2026Without the presence of parents, an untried governess is hired to care for two children on an English country estate. She becomes ensnared by the ghosts of the deceased and the deceptions of the children in her charge.
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The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
Westport Country PLayhouse
By: - Aug 02nd, 2026Agatha Christie wrote convoluted murder mysteries that followed a pattern of too many suspects, too much hidden from the reader, and an implausible murderer. But add a touch of humor, which playwright Mark Shanahan does, and you can turn most Christie novels into delightful theatrical entertainments.
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Ariadne auf Naxos
Merola Opera's Spectacular Portrait
By: - Jul 31st, 2026When opera and burlesque companies must perform simultaneously for a wealthy patron, consternation commences and a delightful mashup follows.
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Burst, by Rachel Bublitz
New City Players in South Florida
By: - Jul 29th, 2026New City Players has concluded its current season with an engaging and believable production of Burst, by Rachel Bublitz. The production represented the drama's Southeastern premiere. Burst unfolds over one late disastrous night in modern-day CEO's California office.
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The Last Romance
Ends Season of Florida Studio Theatre
By: - Jul 28th, 2026In the play that closes Florida Studio Theatre’s summer mainstage season, the change agent is an 80-year-old widower named Ralph, who lives with his overly protective and bitter younger sister, Rose.
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The Prince Part 1 - The Life and Times of Niccolo Machiavelli
Machiavelli Learns His Craft from Others
By: - Jul 28th, 2026Separately, Machiavelli acts as the messenger and negotiator between the governing council of Florence and Savonarola as well as Cesare Borgia, each of whom face dilemmas. While humbled by his more experienced counterparties, Machiavelli will later become the authority on authoritative governance that they employed.
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La Rondine
Pocket Opera's Fine Take on Puccini's Less Produced Masterpiece
By: - Jul 21st, 2026Magda is a courtesan supported by a wealthy banker, but she falls in love with a younger man. Can a tiger change its stripes? Must a swallow always fly home?
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Hairspray The Broadway Musical
The Joint is Jumpin' at SF Playhouse
By: - Jul 19th, 2026This John Waters creation has legs. The hit Broadway musical has lost none of its pizzazz or its underlying social commentary. It's 1962, and the overweight Tracy tries out for the Corny Collins Show. Not a big enough hill to climb, she tries to integrate it too.
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Jazz at Deutsche Oper in Berlin
Syncopated Scheherazade
By: - Jul 14th, 2026Deutsche Oper presents a small series of narrated jazz concerts in their Tischlerei theater space in Berlin. Converted from former workshops, this intimate venue is the hub for the Junge Deutsche Oper and features world premieres, bold installations, participatory community projects, and chamber or jazz concerts.
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The Employee Dharma Handbook
TheatreWorks World Premiere Blockbuster
By: - Jul 14th, 2026Americans assume the preeminence of their own laws, culture, and practices in this country, but many immigrant groups carry baggage across borders. South Asians are the second largest ethnicity in Silicon Valley, and the Hindu caste system has caused headaches for companies trying to tow the legal line and maintain a constructive work environment. This entertaining dramedy highlights the conflicts that can arise.
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