I support

Local

Community

Journalism

Support the independent voice of South Florida and help keep the future of New Times free.

John Thomason

email John Thomason

Find Stories by John Thomason

Browse by:

Category:

Year:

Latest Articles

The Ten Best Stages Shows in Broward and Palm Beach of 2015

By John Thomason
Dec 29, 2015

When assessing 2015's best productions in Broward and Palm Beach counties, it has to start with Maltz Jupiter Theatre's Les Miserables. After the debacle of Tom Hooper's 2012 film adaptation, director Mark Martino restored the epic musical to its glorious perch near the top of the international musical canon, from...
Songs for a New World at Next Level Feels as Disconnected as Many of Its Characters

By John Thomason
Dec 15, 2015

Before he achieved award-winning success with such works as Parade, The Last Five Years, and The Bridges of Madison County, composer/lyricist Jason Robert Brown was a scrappy striver, toiling at piano bars and nightclubs in New York City. His first show, Songs for a New World, which premiered off-Broadway in...
Local Color, Global Stars at FLIFF 2015

By John Thomason
Nov 3, 2015

For the past three decades, the Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival has been the unofficial kickoff of Broward County's cultural season, and this month's landmark 30th anniversary festival is no exception. More than 150 features, documentaries, and shorts from around the block (like Stories on the Skin, a doc about...
Bug Brilliantly Burrows Into a Heart of Conspiratorial Darkness

By John Thomason
Aug 19, 2015

The first example of intrusive sound in Bug opens when the play does: A telephone rings inside a squalid motel room in Oklahoma, but there’s nobody on the line. There’s never anybody on the line. Sometime later, a persistent cheep resounds across the room — a smoke alarm that seems...
Technical Issues Hamper The Last Five Years

By John Thomason
Jul 21, 2015

Jason Robert Brown's off-Broadway hit The Last Five Years is both an ecstatic celebration of love and a bone-scraping anatomy of a divorce. It all happens in about 90 minutes, ingeniously structured as a showcase for two actors and conveyed through expository songs with a minimum of dialogue. Running at...

More Articles by John Thomason »