All articles from South Florida Theater
The first musical I ever saw was The Book of Mormon. A little over a decade ago, my best friend Salman and I secured student-priced, nosebleed tickets to see this crass, new show from the cr…
New City Players Presents the Southeastern U.S. Premiere of Burst- Rachel Bublitz’s Sharp Dark Comedy Explores Corporate Ambition, Tech Leadership, and the Price of Saying You Can Save the…
Gary Schweikhart, president of the Carbonell Awards, today announced that “South Florida’s Theater & Arts Honors” is seeking nominations for up to eight additional Special Awards t…
A World Premiere Now Playing at The Foundry “Could of” … “Should of” …. Hollywood, CA, is littered with ghosts of missed opportunities and roads-not-traveled to stardom. If our o…
Actors’ Playhouse at the Miracle Theatre production of the well-known two act drama “Dial M For Murder” lives up to its billing as a thrilling whodunit drama involving a planned murd…
Palm Beach Symphony has announced the three esteemed recipients of the 2026 Randolph A. Frank Prize for the Performing Arts. Instrumental musician Mickey Smith Jr. was named Performing Arti…
Playwright Jonathan Spector’s one act play “Eureka Day” is contemporary, given that the main topic of the play centers on whether a parent’s child needs to be vaccinated. On the surf…
An oft-cited attribute of live theater is its ability to transport audiences into the hearts, minds, and lived experiences of the actors. More than just opening a window into another place a…
Florida Atlantic University’s Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters has announced its summer lineup for Festival Repertory Theatre 2026. The shows will take place in the Marleen F…
Catherine Ariel, Kristin Rose Kelleher and Ella Perez have been earning rave reviews for their performances as “Cher” in the musical “The Cher Show,” running now through Sunday, Ma…
GableStage, one of South Florida’s longest-running and most acclaimed theatre companies, is proud to announce the appointment of Juan José Escalante as its new Executive Director. Escalan…
New season features a signature camp revival, a nostalgic Broadway musical and an off-Broadway salacious satire plus a world premiere by a local artist. Island City Stage, an award-winning…
1947 was a very special year in theater history. It’s when Moss Hart & George S. Kaufman won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for their Broadway comedy hit YOU CAN’T TAKE IT WITH YOU (ad…
Actor David Rosenberg stars in playwright Michele Lowe’s dramatic one man, one act play “Moses”, running now through Sunday, May 17 at Zoetic Stage at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the…
Sadly, Stephen Sondheim is no longer with us, but his body of work lives on. If anything, the prolific, groundbreaking American lyricist and composer – often credited with reinventing the …
If you missed the spectacular THE CHER SHOW on Broadway a few years back, or even the popular two-year national tour that followed, fret not. Because now you can see it all, complete with le…
The title of Sarah Treem’s The How and the Why comes from the idea, eventually articulated by one of its characters, that every scientific phenomenon is explainable from both perspectives.…
Four provocative productions that place Miami audiences at the center of stories about power, identity and truth! The Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County is p…
Even if you don’t know the love story that Noah reads Allie from his trusty, timeworn notebook by heart, you’ve surely heard of it before. After all, The Notebook has reached audiences f…
The Carbonell Awards, South Florida’s Theatre & Arts Honors, today announced three new members to the nonprofit organization’s Board of Directors: Debbie Calabria, Dale Edwards, and …
What happens when one decides to make a parody of a long-established and beloved mockumentary by turning it even further on its head into a full-blown musical comedy? If you’re the famousl…
When a Jewish family of parents and grown up children gather for a vacation together in the Caribbean resort in Turks and Caicos, the beautiful sunny skies soon change into a dark, wet and w…
As a new play making its East Coast premiere in Island City Stage’s current can’t-miss production, Everything Beautiful Happens At Night isn’t a piece that I went into with any real kn…
I was blown away by Conversa (part 1 of Joanna Castle Miller’s autobiographical trilogy) and couldn’t wait to see part 2, INFERNA, another Theatre Lab world premiere that’s now also th…
Does a bull belong in a China shop? Well, when that "China shop" is actually "the patriarchy" and that "bull" is actually a woman ahead of her time, the takeaway from the standard cliche…
Miami City Ballet's Your Perfect Golden Hour, presented at The Parker in Fort Lauderdale on April 11 and 12, brought together four works from the company's existing repertoire. The program p…
Four women who reside in a small Miami Beach apartment (translated in Hebrew as 'Shtetl') in 1968 ,come together to fight a wealthy developer who wishes to seize their property in the premie…
Many of us recall watching John Waters' groundbreaking 1988 hit film Hairspray at movie theaters, on TV, or in some other fashion. And everyone recognizes "Good Morning Baltimore," the openi…
Our local production and the takeaway message of five Tony Award-winning KIMBERLY AKIMBO (including Best Musical, Best Book of a Musical, and Best Original Score) " whose National Touring Co…
Executive Director Bari Newport of "GableStage" presented a more than three hour, two intermission production of playwright Joshua Harmon's "Prayer For The French Republic" that, even wi…
Who could predict when playwright Ted Malawer's (co-writer of Emmy-nominated "Red, White & Royal Blue") latest play was selected two years ago for Palm Beach Dramaworks' new play reading…
For better or for worse, 2026 is a hell of a time to find myself tasked with reviewing The Crucible. To start with, I can easily say that I was thoroughly impressed by the precision,…
For over a decade, actor/director Alex Martinez has set forth a successful career in both acting and directing primarily in Florida due to his talent, combined with his dedication, persisten…
From perfect weather to ideals of peace and justice, the mythical era of "Camelot" represents many of humanity's highest and deepest aspirations. No wonder the perennially popular Lerner &am…
As a short disclaimer, I must say I am very familiar with PPTOPA as I was the drama teacher at a nearby high school. I have witnessed strong family ties, business professionals, government e…
After seeing a production of Lucy Prebble's The Effect in Orlando earlier this year, I found myself unable to resist conducting my own little theatrical experiment when it popped up in South…
Miami Music Project takes active steps to leverage social impact by addressing traditional participation gaps at the highest tier of decision-making, its Board of Trustees, by inviting two n…
Registration is officially open for the Goldner Conservatory's Summer 2026 Season. While the Conservatory's headlining Production Camps are set to bring the house down with the music of Hade…
Moulin Rouge! has arrived at the Adrienne Arsht Center for a limited Miami run, playing the Ziff Ballet Opera House through Sunday, March 22, 2026, as part of the Broadway in Miami season. T…
This past Saturday, Zoetic Stage's masterful production of Merrily We Roll Along brought me one step closer to realizing my personal dream of seeing every Stephen Sondheim musical. Famously,…
The Pompano Beach Cultural Affairs Department (PBCAD) is now accepting applications for the Artists in Residence (AiR) Program at the Bailey Contemporary Arts Center (BaCA)…
The "City That Never Sleeps" (aka "The Big Apple" aka New York City) is often seen by outsiders as a cold and impersonal concrete jungle. And it might be " for some new arrivals. But to thos…
The Florida Intergenerational Orchestra " some 60 members strong " will proudly gather on stage Sunday afternoon to present "Encore," a special musical performance marking 20 years of the gr…
Some musicians make the music louder. Michael Kaeshammer makes it burn brighter. With Turn It Up, the acclaimed Canadian pianist and vocalist brings a surge of rhythm and vitality that reach…
Singing, dancing and the fight against cancer will be in the spotlight March 7 as The Pap Corps Champions for Cancer Research present "Pap's Got Talent" at 2 p.m. in the impressive …
In search of a little extra cheer this upcoming weekend? Look no further for the perfect remedy: Slow Burn Theatre Company's entertaining, heartfelt, and utterly joyful production of Beautif…
When Tim Davis, producing artistic director of New City Players (NCP) and director of Samuel D. Hunter's raw and unsettling play, A CASE FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD, welcomed us to Island City …
After seeing understandably immense success on both Broadway and the West End, the Tony Award-winning play Good Night, Oscar is here in sunny South Florida, enjoying its run at the Maltz Jup…
From February 20 to 22, 2026, Palm Beach Opera brought Georges Bizet's The Pearl Fishers to the Kravis Center in West Palm Beach, offering South Florida audiences the sweeping tale of friend…
One would not think that an actress currently starring as the lead characters in the musicals "Camelot" and "My Fair Lady" at the Wick Theatre in Boca Raton for a lengthy three month run…
