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Thursday, May 13, 2021

Island City To Deliver Williams’ Summer, Ludlam, Premiere by Bill Hirschman

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 11:48AM
Tuesday, May 11, 2021

News: Dramaworks Talks With Stars, Silver Palms Returns, Theatre Lab Writing Program by Bill Hirschman

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 08:12PM
Monday, May 3, 2021

Theater Up Close Lists Season With Night Music & Frankenstein by Bill Hirschman

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 12:12AM
Thursday, April 29, 2021

JCAT’s A Class Act Is Pretty Black & White Day In Court by Bill Hirschman

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 08:18PM
Monday, April 26, 2021

Full Report On Proposed Changes To Carbonell Award by Bill Hirschman

The complete text of the proposed changes to the Carbonell Awards. The post Full Report On Proposed Changes To Carbonell Award first appeared on Florida Theater On Stage.

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:24PM

Carbonells Propose Major Overhaul With Audience Voters & Attention To Diversity by Bill Hirschman

A 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 11:24PM
Friday, April 23, 2021

COVID Pushes Shorts A Year Out, Delays Arsht Bway Season by Bill Hirschman

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 07:36PM
Friday, April 16, 2021

Wick To Open Chorus Line, But Don’t Try to Buy New Tickets by Bill Hirschman

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 03:32PM
Wednesday, April 14, 2021

McKeever, Nottage Headline Dramaworks’ Next Season by Bill Hirschman

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 05:24PM
Monday, April 12, 2021

Island City Stage Dives Deep Into Current Racial Divide by Bill Hirschman

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. The post Island Ci…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:24PM
Sunday, April 11, 2021

South Florida Theater Sprouting Back Up Live, Outdoors, Online by Bill Hirschman

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 07:24PM
Thursday, April 8, 2021

“It’s a Marathon, Not a Sprint,” Assures New Leader At GableStage, Bari Newport by Bill Hirschman

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 11:18PM
Monday, April 5, 2021

Ich Bin Ein Berliner Links Fall of Berlin Wall, Oppression in Cuba by Bill Hirschman

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 09:36PM
Saturday, April 3, 2021

GableStage Begins New Chapter With Bari Newport at the Helm by Bill Hirschman

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 03:54PM
Thursday, April 1, 2021

Theatre Lab Offers ‘Berliner’ 3 Ways Including Live – Sort Of by Bill Hirschman

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 04:42PM
Monday, March 29, 2021

A Vibrant Emily Dickinson Soars in Video of Live Performance by Bill Hirschman

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 11:03PM
Friday, March 26, 2021

Open a New Window: The Future of Florida Theater – Part Three by Bill Hirschman

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
Thursday, March 25, 2021

Open a New Window: The Future of Florida Theater – Part Two by Bill Hirschman

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 06:06PM
Wednesday, March 24, 2021

Open a New Window: The Future of Florida Theater – Part One by Bill Hirschman

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 04:42PM
Wednesday, March 17, 2021

Art Heist Mixes Crime Mystery With Interactive Theater by Bill Hirschman

The Art Heist Experience is an interactive true-crime theater event inspired by the theft of 13 works of art worth $500 million from Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in 1990. Durin…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:48PM
Monday, March 1, 2021

Faced With Pandemic, Zoetic’s Improv Troupe Soldiers On by Bill Hirschman

As live arts and entertainment return in fits and starts, and our culture continues its tortoise crawl toward normal, one thing has become apparent: Face masks may be vital in impeding the s…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 01:18PM
Friday, February 26, 2021

Jan and Don McArt Recall Their Past In Radio Interview by Bill Hirschman

Radio producer-host Caroline Breder-Watts recorded interviews with theater professionals over the years. Among them was this conversation likely recorded in around 2011 between the actress-i…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 03:06PM
Saturday, February 20, 2021

Today’s Isolation Echoes In Local Co-Pro Of The Belle Of Amherst by Bill Hirschman

In this time of quarantine, subtle resonances echo the underlying thread of Emily Dickinson’s isolation in Palm Beach Dramaworks and Actors Playhouse’s co-produced filming of the live pl…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:42PM
Friday, February 19, 2021

Book Review: Stoppard Bio Is As Complex As The Man Himself by Bill Hirschman

Most biographies factually mirror the life and times of their subject in a chronological narrative. But few mirror the complexity and structure of the subject’s own work with the stunning …

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:48AM
Wednesday, February 17, 2021

Kravis Sets 2021-22 Broadway Tours With “Summer” & Hansen by Bill Hirschman

The Kravis Center’s Broadway tour series, resuming in November, will have the much-anticipated Come From Away and Dear Evan Hansen, but also titles that won’t be seen at the other two pr…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:42PM
Monday, February 15, 2021

‘Long Distance Affair’ Is Back For A Fresh Virtual Journey by Bill Hirschman

With most venues shut down for nearly a year, pandemic-era theater has taken many forms: But few digital productions have achieved what Miami’s Juggerknot Theatre Co. and New York’s Pop…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:18PM
Friday, February 12, 2021

Island City’s “Compensation” Pregnant With Potential by Bill Hirschman

Every emotion associated with pregnancy and pending parenthood is present in the 95 minutes of Hannah Manikowski’s smart and promising play Compensation. In fact, most of them appear on th…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 04:48PM
Thursday, February 4, 2021

Arsht Center Plans Return With Broadway Tours In September by Bill Hirschman

Yet another stirring that theater will return to… well, maybe normal isn’t the word… was reaffirmed this week as the Arsht Center announced that the Miami presenting house will resume …

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:33AM
Sunday, January 31, 2021

Show Biz Legend Jan McArt Dies, Leaving Lasting Legacy by Bill Hirschman

Larger-than-life, effusive, generous and driven Jan McArt, a show business legend who helped push South Florida theater out of its infancy and through its adolescence with flair and verve, d…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:54PM
Friday, January 29, 2021

Broadway Tours Set ’21-’22 Schedules For Broward & Nation by Bill Hirschman

In a carefully calculated but hopeful sign of the recovering world of theater, Broadway Across America has scheduled the resumption this fall of its tours in 47 cities with full auditoriums …

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:36AM
Wednesday, January 27, 2021

Collegial Beloved Stage Actor Peter Librach Dies of Cancer by Bill Hirschman

Peter Librach, the actor-director-producer-theatrical agent who worked at almost every South Florida theater and remembered by many as the epitome of a nurturing colleague, died Wednesday af…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:18PM

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