Gary Cadwallader of Palm Beach Dramaworks, Jairo Ontiveros of the Arsht Center and Lori Slade Sessions of the South Florida Cappies will receive the Carbonells' Howard Kleinberg Award “Fo…
What do you do when who you are threatens to make you an outcast and shatter your family? That’s the question bedeviling a young man facing his homosexuality in Forbidden!, a 104-year-old …
Playwright Nilo Cruz and Arca Images founder Alexa Kuve bring Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman, to a Hispanic audience with a Spanish language translation through Sunday The post Arca I…
Promotional material for True Mirage Theater’s riveting, realistic production of Carrie: The Musical tells audiences to “start Halloween season off right.” But audiences are also doin…
Elena Maria Garcia, the actress-educator-playwright-director whose unique exuberance has enhanced scores of comedies and dramas across the region, has received the Carbonell’s Bill Hindman…
Everything is political—especially now. Nothing, it seems, is beyond political scrutiny as shown in the equally funny, serious and timely Eureka Day at Island City Stage. The post Comedy P…
The Lake Worth Playhouse has received the largest single gift in its history, but won’t use the $1 million on immediate operations. Rather, the money is going into a permanent endowment in…
There is good theater, and then there is good theater. In short, Other Desert Cities, produced by a relatively new local production company and now playing at Empire Stage, is so much so in …
Margaret M. Ledford, who has directed at nearly every regional theater in South Florida and helped found several, has received the Carbonell’s Ruth Foreman Award, recognizing “outstandin…
Michelle F. Solomon, who has kept coverage of Miami’s art scene vibrant despite cutbacks at many venues, has been named the recipient of the Carbonell Awards’ Charlie Cinnamon Award for …
In depth: Scenic designer Anne Mundell's environments communicate an array of foreign and familiar times, places and character of their denizens from the moment the curtain rises. Understan…
The summer students at Interlochen Arts Camp have something important to say about immigration with their West Side Story. The point is all the more poignant because it's performed by real h…
The Our Fund Foundation, an LGBTQ-based group, has been named the recipient of the Carbonell Awards’ Vinnette Carroll Award for “outstanding achievement in advancing diversity, equality …
Brévo Theatre, the black-centric company which scored a major success this season with the musical The Color Purple, has been named the second recipient of the Carbonell Awards’ Jan McArt…
The title of Actors Playhouse’s The Shark Is Broken comes from a recreation of the making of Jaws in a sometimes broadly comic, sometimes dryly witty, sometimes rue-tinged exploration of f…
Ali Tallman, resident dramaturg at GableStage, has been named the first recipient of the Carbonell Awards’ Christine Dolen Award honoring the outstanding debut of a Carbonell-eligible perf…
Florida Theater On Stage’s summer reading list worth for a few evenings encompasses three looks at Sondheim including a fresh off the press biography. Plus we dissect a detailed look at W…
Fury, frustration, deception, integrity, ambition and amorality combine and collide in a super-charged spiral downward that cements a cuttingly wry satire liberally seasoned with chuckles an…
By Bill Hirschman and Britin Haller Once again, the coming season of South Florida theater proves that in terms of artistic ambition – not to mention potential entertainment – the qu…
Rachel Bublitz likes to describe her play, Burst, as a “bullet train… a powerhouse barreling ahead at tremendous speed not noticing if it's going to crash.” Yet the dark comedy’s cen…
Jerry Falwell Jr. and his wife, Becki, take a tumble in Ronnie Larsen’s new play Fall Well at The Foundry in Wilton Manors. But before their downfall they revel in frolicking with their to…
Todo Lo Que No Dije, having its world premiere from Miami New Drama, is a triumph. Harley Elias’ Spanish language play with live English translation is whimsical, poignant, and magical. …
A new feature “My Take On: Short reviews from New York shows by Nunzio Michael Lupo, veteran journalist and an insightful appraiser of the arts. These pieces were first posted on his page …
In these difficult times, Brévo Theatre’s glory-filled production of “The Color Purple” digs inside your spirit and releases elation at the prospect of hope. Voices propelled by passi…
Brévo Theatre -- faced with the tragic death of a lead actress but pressing ahead with its most logistically challenging effort – the African-American company is committed to opening the …