For a program one year short of the half-century mark, the Carbonell Awards’ 2025-26 competitive nominations and special honors dependably reflect veterans’ triumphs. But talso reaffirm …
The true life origin of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes is the springboard for Baker Street Beginnings receiving its world premiere at Theatre Lab commissioned for their Heckscher Thea…
Island City Stage, the 15-year-old company that become a been a national leader in LGBTQ+ programming, is receiving the Carbonell’s Bill Von Maurer Award cited “for a theater company tha…
Fierce competition is a facet of even the funniest comedies about beauty pageants – and School Girls or The African Mean Girls Play certainly is an entertaining hoot. But Brévo Theatre’…
A renowned celebration of theater world-wide returns this month to South Florida with the 40th edition of the International Hispanic Theatre Festival of Miami. The event features 12 pieces r…
Here There Are Blueberries, the Holocaust-related play created and workshopped by Miami New Drama, i is planned to play on Broadway in November, The post Here There Are Blueberries Originat…
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 …
ArtBuzz Theatrics' interpretation on Cabaret strips away any lingering sentimentality while dragging us into the alley and smearing our lipstick. The post Come Hear the Music Play at ArtBuzz…
Slow Burn Theatre Co. earned its reputation long ago for producing outstanding middle-of-the-road accessible musicals like Frozen. But its current triumph in the powerful Jagged Little Pill …
The world premiere of Mae West in Sunset Boulevard from Ronnie Larsen Presents and the Plays of Wilton, is a bona fide hit with Jennifer McClain embodying the wry and raucous icon. . The po…
Amid show-stopping numbers from over 130 students across 18 Palm Beach schools, theater students were honored last month at the Kravis Center Dream Awards, with two students headed to nation…
City Theatre successfully marks its 30th anniversary as a game-forging force but its champions are determinedly adapting to surmount fiscal uncertainty with changes such as a one-night Summe…
A sixth edition of our new feature “My Take On::” Short reviews from New York shows by Nunzio Michael Lupo, veteran journalist and an insightful appraiser of the arts. Some of these are …
More than 130 students from 17 Miami-Dade high schools took center stage at the Adrienne Arsht for the inaugural Arshties Showcase. Top honors were awarded across 12 categories recognizing e…
The spotlight was shining brightly on the exceptional achievements of students in high school theater from 28 public and private schools in Broward and Palm Beach counties during the 24th An…
Light Switch's classic romantic tale plot is so traditional that there is no surprise it turns out happily ever after for these gay protagonists. Except one is autistic in this insightful d…
Sometimes theater is just meant to entertain, to seduce, to lure. The world premiere of Vineland Place at Palm Beach Dramaworks has no profound message, but it offers an intriguing psycholog…
Few if any productions have elicited as much laughter, rendered occasional pathos and drowned you in mind-spinning ideas as GableStage’s stunning Eureka Day depicting of how difficult it m…
Gulfshore Playhouse's Beautiful isn't only a celebration of Carole King's music but of much of the pop music of that era. It's also the story of finding your own voice and having the courage…
Actors’ Playhouse’s flawless Dial M For Murder, readapted from the orginal play, is stylish and enjoyable from curtain to curtain call. The post Dial M For Murder Enjoyable From Curtain …
The title character in Brandon Urrutia’s intriguing play, Kevin and the River Flan from Main Street Players question his worth and whether to carry on. Thankfully, This isn’t a play that…
Shamelessly borrowing from the title of one of Cher’s biggest songs, The Cher Show, at The Wick Theatre, closes their 12th season not with a whimper, but with a “Bang Bang.” Fans of th…
Acting through a song is precisely the supreme virtue in Pompano Players’ Side by Side by Sondheim. Savor a superbly delivered gift from full-throated yet textured voices who provide sligh…
Stuart Meltzer, who changed the face of Miami theater leading City Theatre and Zoetic Stage, has been named the recipient of the Carbonell’s 2026 George Abbott Award for Outstanding Achiev…
The Arshties, celebrating its first year, and the Cappies, celebrating its 24th, will hold galas this month recognizing their training and encouraging high school artists and critics. The po…
OUR REVIEWS OF SCHMIGDOON, THE LOST BOYS, SEAGULL: TRUE STORY, TWO STRANGERS (CARRY A CAKE ACROSS NEW YORK), FALLEN WOMEN, MONTE CRISTO, THE RECEPTIONIST The post My Take On: More Reviews of…
