The premise: A white director leads a multi-ethnic cast in a production of Midsummer's Night as an answer to charges of institutional racism in society. But with wry humor and painfully inci…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:36AMTheater isn’t just coming back to life, it’s emerging in a score of ways. Here’s a sampling of opening nights, fundraisers, new venues, even a call for ushers. News about Miami New Dra…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 03:06PMBroad changes to the Carbonell Awards, designed to assuage a theatrical community whose love-hate relationship has exacerbated in recent years, were detailed Monday. Many changes reflect a r…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 03:03PMThe show will go on for South Florida theater, but 2021-2022 will be a season of asterisks, what ifs and when. In a three-part series, we talk to artistic and managing directors about why th…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:06PMThe show will go on for South Florida theater, but 2021-2022 will be a season of asterisks, what ifs and when. In a 3-part series, we talk to artistic and managing directors about awhy this …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:06PMThe show will go on for South Florida theater, but 2021-2022 will be a season of asterisks, what ifs and when. In a three-part series, we talk to artistic directors and managing directors ab…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 05:54PMThe 2021 Remy Awards honoring those who provide outstanding service behind the scenes to the region’s theater community were announced this week by the South Florida Theatre League. The li…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:32PMMajor changes for the Carbonell Awards honoring excellence in South Florida theater will be unveiled Monday at a town hall meeting live and online will reveal a new team of judges, a new jud…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:12AMThe Broward Center in Fort Lauderdale and the Arsht Center in Miami will require all audience members to provide proof of a negative COVID test or proof of full vaccination to be admitted to…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 07:42PMYes, there is broad humor, over-the-top characters, cartoonish sets, a fairy tale vibe and a 10-foot tall puppet, but Theatre Lab makes it clear that Rachel Teagle’s world premiere script …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:48PMFuácata! has been tweaked by star Elena Maria Garcia and director Stuart Meltzer with references to non-binary, Uber and “draining the swamp.” But the exuberantly hilarious and moving w…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 05:24PMIt’s almost impossible to accurately depict the guts of the creative process, let alone make its intricacies interesting. But director-librettist James Lapine has not only conquered that t…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:36PMThe ghosts of Eugene O’Neill and Sam Shepard creak the floorboards of Main Street Players’ Wolf & Badger, the latest exorcism of filial trauma from New Jersey playwright Michael John…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 02:12PMThe Maltz Jupiter Theatre has announced its 2021-22 season. The post Maltz Jupiter Theatre’s 2021-2022 Season first appeared on Florida Theater On Stage.
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:48AMThe show must go on, and it absolutely will, assures Maltz Jupiter Theatre chief Andrew Kato. But the first show of the season won’t be inside the theater under construction. The locally-p…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:48AMGableStage’s 23rd season under its new producing artistic director Bari Newport will have more productions and additional performances in what is currently planned to be offered in full ho…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:06AMEchoing 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 12:06AMNot 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 10:48PMLocal 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 08:54PMIn 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 10:24PMMany 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 03:36PMLots 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 10:36PMYoung, 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 08:32PMIt’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 10:32PMM 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 10:24PMDrew 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 11:36AMSouth 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 11:24PMFor 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 03:33PMIn 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 12:48PMMiami 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. The post Miami New Drama…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:54AMIsland 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…
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