Thursday, July 22, 2021
Echoing the resurrection of local theater, the new artistic director Bari Newport will inaugurate GableStage’s 2021-2022 season in November directing the late Joseph Adler’s detailed pla…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:06AMTuesday, July 20, 2021
Not exactly svelte, and, yes, her taste in clothing leaves a bit to be desired, her grooming is decidedly askew and her gait will never be described as slinky. But the lovely Jess will likel…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:48PMTuesday, July 6, 2021
Local playwright Michael Aman, whose died of cancer in May and whose Poz won the Best New Work Carbonell for the 2015, will have yet one more world premiere this month with the bow of Off Ba…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:54PMTuesday, June 29, 2021
In the wake of contentions that leadership in the South Florida theater community is not sufficiently diverse or sensitive enough to racial concerns, the Carbonell Awards board of directors …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:24PMMonday, June 28, 2021
Many artists define themselves by a calling relying on faith that their art form will always be there. But in 2020, the foundation of their sense of who they were and what they believed made…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 03:36PMWednesday, June 23, 2021
Lots of News: Primal Forces reorganizes as Boca Stage, Dramaworks series on August Wilson and Wendy Wasserstein, Local production of In The Heights set for Arsht, Theatre Lab reads new audio…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:36PMThursday, June 17, 2021
Young, visionary director Giancarlo Rodaz’s winning approach in Area Stage Company’s current unorthodox, yet triumphant production of the classic musical Annie features eight adult act…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:32PMWednesday, June 16, 2021
It’s an obvious truism that most theater art – from dialogue to the lighting design – is partly a product of the artists’ past experience. But playwright-director Amy London’s Stor…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:32PMTuesday, June 15, 2021
M Ensemble's production of Layon Gray's Cowboy is everything audiences expect of a rousing western, but it’s also an inherent indictment. It is not of little significance that the play is …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:24PMSunday, June 6, 2021
Drew Droege’s Bright Colors and Bold Patterns deftly avoids common tropes of the solo show in its compulsively watchable regional premiere at Island City Stage, a fringe festival-style tou…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:36AMFriday, June 4, 2021
South Florida theater was rarely dormant during the pandemic; but a torrent of honors, projects and prizes are surfacing quickly including Juggerknot Theatre Company, Zoetic Stage, Palm Beac…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:24PMWednesday, June 2, 2021
For its next professional production, South Miami’s Area Stage Company promises the musical Annie “like you’ve never seen before” later this month. It's set in a speakeasy, has eig…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 03:33PMSaturday, May 29, 2021
In Cowboy, the new dramatic play opening in June at M Ensemble in Miami, the gun-totin’ U.S. Marshal Bass Reeves, traditionally garbed down to the required Stetson, strides through the dou…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:48PMSaturday, May 22, 2021
Miami New Drama’s innovative 7 Deadly Sins production, which has garnered attention around the country, has won a new category from the annual Drama League Awards.
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SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:54AMThursday, May 13, 2021
Island City Stage celebrates its tenth season with the anticipated Tennessee Williams’ Suddenly, Last Summer sidelined by the pandemic, plus a world premiere, a Charles Ludlam classic, a r…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:48AMTuesday, May 11, 2021
As the local theater scene ramps up, more and more news including the announcement every few days of a traditional season – which we will roll out one at a time over the next few weeks. Bu…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:12PMMonday, May 3, 2021
Yet another promising sign that local venues are optimistic about resuming indoor theater is the announcement of the 10th season of the Arsht Center’s Theater Up Close series featuring the…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:12AMThursday, April 29, 2021
The line in the legal play A Class Act, "“For the right money, I’d settle with Hitler,” stands out as much as it does because the virtuous play and JCAT’s heavy-handed production are…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:18PMMonday, April 26, 2021
The complete text of the proposed changes to the Carbonell Awards.
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SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:24PMA major overhaul of the Carbonell Awards for excellence in South Florida theater has been unveiled that expands the scope of the program to include a “people’s choice” award and concer…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:24PMFriday, April 23, 2021
The pandemic and other issues are causing some companies performing at the programs at the Arsht Center in Miami to once again rearrange schedules. They will delay the start of the Broadway …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 07:36PMFriday, April 16, 2021
The Wick Theatre is trying a singular paradigm: It will mount a full production of A Chorus Line beginning April 22 inside its auditorium. But its leaders decidedly do not want to sell any t…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 03:32PMWednesday, April 14, 2021
The world premiere of a Michael McKeever drama about the people who hid Anne Frank’s family and one of Lynn Nottage’s first mainstream successes about African Americans are among the fiv…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 05:24PMMonday, April 12, 2021
In an exceedingly timely appearance, Island City Stage mounts a scathing production mirroring current tumult about race in America -- a taut, intense, drama The Niceties.
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SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:24PMSunday, April 11, 2021
Forgive the sappy saccharine metaphor, but it’s inescapable: Spring has arrived for South Florida theater with buds and shoots peeping out of the what was not barren but rocky ground. All …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 07:24PMThursday, April 8, 2021
By Bill Hirschman It doesn’t take five minutes, maybe barely a minute talking to Bari Newport on the phone to realize why she was selected from a large field to be the producing artistic d…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:18PMMonday, April 5, 2021
Theatre Lab invests its growing expertise in multi-media theater performance in Vanessa Garcia’s premiere of Ich Bin Ein Berliner, a heartfelt memoir of a Cuban-American girl who grows up …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:36PMSaturday, April 3, 2021
Starting April 1, the new leader at the helm of GableStage will be Bari Newport, who has served for the past nine years as producing artistic director of the Penobscot Theatre Co. in Bangor,…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 03:54PMThursday, April 1, 2021
Imaginative theatricality has imbued Theatre Lab’s projects, but this month’s just-outside-the-box venture is breaking the traditional paradigm even further. The premiere of Vanessa Garc…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 04:42PMMonday, March 29, 2021
A superb evocation of the soul of Emily Dickinson from actress Margery Lowe and director William Hayes marks the video co-production from Palm Beach Dramaworks and Actors’ Playhouse of The…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:03PMFriday, March 26, 2021
One year into the global and personal tragedies, Florida theater has embraced the sole gift that the pandemic has given regional artists across the country: Unprecedented opportunity. Some c…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 04:54PM 
