Tag Archives: GableStage

Curtain Up On The 2017-2018 South Florida Theater Season

If you know where to look, certainly you can find reliable warhorse titles in the upcoming theater season in South Florida, but it’s easier to find vibrant, contemporary and challenging offerings.

Posted on August 17, 2017 by Bill Hirschman

Posted in News | Tagged Actors Playhouse, An Inspector Calls, Area Stage Company, Arsht Center, Arts Garage, Billy and Me, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, Broadway Across America, Broward Center, Building The Wall, City Theatre, Crest Theatre, Delray Beach Playhouse, Evita, Florida Children's Theatre, Florida Grand Opera. Palm Beach Opera, Fun Home, GableStage, Island City Stage, J’s Cultural Arts Theatre, Lake Worth Playhouse, M Ensemble, Mad Cat Theatre, Main Street Players, Maltz Jupiter Theatre, Miami New Drama, Million Dollar Quartet, MNM Productions, New City Players, On Your Feet!, outre theatre company, Palm Beach Dramaworks, Parker Playhouse, Pembroke Pines Theatre of the Performing Arts, Primal Forces, Robert Schenkkan, Slow Burn Theatre Company, Terry Teachout, The Humans, Theatre Lab, Thinking Cap Theatre, Wick Theatre, Zoetic Stage | Leave a comment

Music In The Air: A Few Sweet Notes From Radosh, Fantel, Keelor — And Even Ben Hecht

Local stages have some special programs running for only one or two days starting tonight including Palm Beach Dramaworks, GableStage and Arts Garage.

Posted on August 16, 2017 by Bill Hirschman

Posted in News | Tagged Angie Radosh, Arts Garage, Caryl Fantel, GableStage, Palm Beach Dramaworks, Shelly Keelor | Leave a comment

GableStage’s Informed Consent: Is The Search For Truth Paramount? And Whose Truth?

Is knowledge always good? Is its pursuit inherently defensible regardless of the consequences? Is there Absolute Truth?These and another half-dozen ideas careen and crisscross GableStage like electrons colliding in a chain reaction in Deborah Zoe Laufer’s Informed Consent.

Posted on July 31, 2017 by Bill Hirschman

Posted in Performances, Reviews | Tagged Betsy Graver, Carlos Orizondo, Deborah Zoe Laufer, Elizabeth Dimon, Francisa Munoz, GableStage, Informed Consent, Jovan Jacobs | Leave a comment

GableStage’s Georgia McBride Is No Drag, Well, It Is, But….

One pleasure watching a drag show regardless of your sexual orientation is the vicarious joy of seeing people uncorset their secreted urges and find the liberating self-worth to parade it publicly. That is the unspoken strength underlying the delightful hoot , The Legend of Georgia McBride at GableStage

Posted on May 29, 2017 by Bill Hirschman

Posted in Performances, Reviews | Tagged Clay Cartland, Dave Corey, GableStage, Jade Wheeler, Joseph Adler, Julie Kleiner, Matthew Lopez, Sean Patrick Doyle, The Legend of Georgia McBride, Tom Wahl | Leave a comment

GableStage, Zoetic, MNM & Conundrum Reveals Skeds

So much news: GableStage and Zoetic Stage announcing their new season with titles like The Humans and Fun Home, MNM announces partnership with the Kravis, Conundrum Stages returns to tour. Even more items coming soon.

Posted on May 9, 2017 by Bill Hirschman

Posted in News | Tagged Conundrum Stages, GableStage, MNM Productions, Zoetic Stage | Leave a comment

McKeever/Zoetic’s ‘After,’ GableStage’s ‘Royale’ Top Winners At 41st Carbonells

Michael McKeever, a beloved and prolific figure in local theater, set a record Monday when he won his eighth Best New Work at Monday’s Carbonell Awards for the scorching drama After, but he was unable to accept the honor personally because he was in New York City the night before the opening of his play Daniel’s Husband, which won the same prize last year.

Posted on April 3, 2017 by Bill Hirschman

Posted in News | Tagged After, Aygemang Clay, Carbonell Awards, Florida Children's Theatre, GableStage, Jeni Hacker, Jerry Cohen, Jodi Dellaventura, Joseph Adler, Judith Mitchell, Leah Sessa, Maltz Jupiter Theatre, Matt Loehr, Me and My Girl, Mia Matthews, Michael McKeever, Peter A. Lovello, Stuart Meltzer, Zoetic Stage | Leave a comment

Dry Powder Paints Merciless Portrait Of The Conscienceless

Dry Powder, GableStage’s excoriating tour that delves into the barren ethical landscape of big business is an unsparing drama whose copious humor comes from one character’s blithely limitless ability to do anything to maximize the bottom line with absolutely no concern for the human cost of her proposals.

Posted on March 28, 2017 by Bill Hirschman

Posted in Performances, Reviews | Tagged Alex Alvarez, Dry Powder, GableStage, Joseph Adler, Katherine C. McDonald, Robert Strain, Sarah Burgess, Stephen G. Anthony | Leave a comment

Intersection Of Black Comedy And Tragic Compassion Suffuses ‘Between Riverside And Crazy’

Quirky denizens of Stephen Adly Guirgis’ Between Riverside and Crazy strive to find second chances in GableStage’s production.

Posted on January 22, 2017 by Bill Hirschman

Posted in Performances, Reviews | Tagged Arturo Rossi, Between Riverside And Crazy, Beverly Blanchette, GableStage, Gladys Ramirez, Joseph Adler, Leo Finnie, Marckenson Charles, Michael Serratore, Sara Oliva, Stephen Adly Guirgis | Leave a comment

What Kind Of Year Was It? Our Critics’ “Best Of” 2016 Lists

Critics and award judges have been talking about it for weeks: The sheer amount of high quality work has made evaluating the last 12 months unusually challenging, but also an opportunity to remember one of the most rewarding calendar years in recent memory. So here’s a supremely subjective stab by all three critics here at Florida Theater On Stage at recognizing the shows and performances that stood out from a pack of productions.

Posted on December 29, 2016 by Bill Hirschman

Posted in Features | Tagged 1776, A Public Reading of an Unproduced Screenplay about the Death of Walt Disney, Actors Playhouse, After, Alex Alvarez, An Act of God, Andre' L Gainey, Anna Lise Jensen, Area Stage Co., Arts Garage, Arturo Rossi, Avery Sommers, Aygemang Clay, Barbara Bradshaw, Ben Bagby. The Normal Heart, Bert Rodriguez, Bessie Smith: The Devils’ Music, Betsy Graver, Broward Stage Door, Buyer & Cellar, Caryl Fantel, Charlie Cinnamon, Chris Crawford, Clay Cartland, Conor Walton, Dan Knechtges, David Arisco, David Nagy, Deana Butler-Rahming Ja’Nia Harden, Deborah Zoe Laufer, Elizabeth Dimon, Evening Star Productions, Feeding The Bear, Florida Grand Opera, GableStage, Genie Croft, Gregg Weiner, Gretchen Porro, Ground Up and Rising, Hand To God, Heathers, Helen Gregory, I Love A Piano, Island City Stage, James Brennan, Jeni Hacker, Jim Gibbons, Jodi Dellaventura, John Harden II, Joseph Adler, Julie Kleiner Davis, Karen Stephens, Keith Garsson, Kevin Black, Kristian Bikic, Larry Buzzeo, Laura Hodos, Lindsey Corey, Long Day's Journey Into Night, Louis Tyrrell, Lourelene Snedeker, Mad Cat Theatre Company, Maltz Jupiter Theatre, Marco Ramirez, Margery Lowe, Maria Elena Garcia, Mark Duncan, Matt Loehr, Matthew Korinko, Maureen Anderman, Me and My Girl, Mia Matthews, Michael Aman, Michael McKeever, Million Dollar Quartet, Mud, Murdered To Death, New Theatre, Nicholas Richberg, Nicole Stodard, Niki Fridh, Our Lady of 121st Street, outre theatre company, Palm Beach Dramaworks, Parallel Lives Chris Crawford, Passion, Patrick Fitzwater, Paul Tei, Perfect Arrangement, Peter Galman, Peter Lovello, Putting It Together, Rapture Blister Burn, Ricky J. Martinez, Ron Hutchins, Roof, Rudi Goblen, Sarah Gracel Anderson, Shein Mompremier, Simply Simone: The Music of Nina Simone, Skye Whitcomb, Slow Burn Theatre Company, Smoke, Sondheim On Sondheim, Spring Awakening, Stuart Meltzer, Teddy Harrell, The Flick, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Minister’s Wife, The Nether, The Passenger, The Realistic Joneses, The Royale, The Soul of Motor City, The Wick Theatre, The World Goes Round, Theatre At Arts Garage, Theatre Lab at Florida Atlantic University, Thinking Cap Theatre, This Random World, Three Sisters of Weekhauken, Toddra Brunson, Tom Wahl, Wesley Slade, West Side Story, William Hayes | Leave a comment

Coral Springs Native Starring In ‘An American In Paris’ Tour

Actor Etai Benson heaps praise on his South Florida roots in helping him to navigate his “role of a lifetime.” The Coral Springs native plays Adam Hochberg in An American In Paris, now on a national tour and coming to the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts this week.

Posted on December 26, 2016 by Bill Hirschman

Posted in Features | Tagged An American In Paris, Etai Benson, GableStage, My Name Is Asher Lev | Leave a comment