Sunday, May 24, 2020
More than 60 local theater professionals contracted to work in productions in March and April have shared some of the $12,000 that South Florida Theatre League Relief Fund has raised through…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 01:36PMWednesday, May 20, 2020
The COVID-19 virus did not rob this high school generation of the chance to honor each other’s work in the South Florida Cappies organization's slickly-produced online celebration livestre…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:54PMTuesday, May 19, 2020
New figures show that the COVID-19 pandemic continued to gut punch the arts community in Miami-Dade County through last month with a total loss estimated at nearly $43 million and costing mo…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 07:24PMSunday, May 17, 2020
For lovers of live theater, this “intermission” in communal gathering creates a hunger for more than online bare bones performances from the camera in someone’s cellphone. But there is…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:12PMSaturday, May 16, 2020
All the world’s a stage, in the case of Long Distance Affair, literally. Sitting in your living room in South Florida late this month, theater fans will be able to watch short plays beamed…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 01:24PMThursday, May 14, 2020
Playwright E.M. Lewis is the 2020 recipient of the Harold and Mimi Steinberg / American Theatre Critics Association New Play Award. The Steinberg/ATCA Award, which comes with a $25,000 prize…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:54AMSunday, May 10, 2020
Trivia contests, master classes, solo performances, new play development online, lectures, podcast-like schmoozing interviews, requests for video audition, 24-hour theater projects, even sol…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 04:06PMTuesday, April 28, 2020
So you think you know nearly everything about theater except when Broadway will reopen? (We will hold a betting pool next week). On an unreliably intermittent random basis over the years, we…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:03PMSaturday, April 25, 2020
The paradigm of theater as a co-creative art is repeatedly depicted in Bob Avian’s autobiography Dancing Man, an engrossing account of the creation of theater seen from the inside in an il…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 02:54PMMonday, April 20, 2020
Already, the COVID-19 pandemic has cost the Miami-Dade arts and culture world an estimated $22.9 million and affected 1,700 jobs just through the end of March, according to the first figures…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 05:36PMSunday, April 19, 2020
One month into the nation-wide shutdown of live communal theater due to COVID-19, South Florida companies, like those in so many other regions, are trying to write Act Two with little clue h…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:54AMSaturday, April 18, 2020
One month into the nation-wide shutdown of live communal theater due to COVID-19, South Florida companies, like those in so many other regions, are trying to write Act Two with little clue h…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:48AMFriday, April 17, 2020
Joseph Adler, a titan who helped transform South Florida’s cultural landscape by mounting unblinking, dynamic work and aggressively championing local artists, died Thursday. Passionate and…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:03AMWednesday, April 15, 2020
Measure For Measure Theatre will deliver the entire Angels In America epic in a free online reading over the next two weeks in one of the most unusual arrangements the region has yet seen. T…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:32AMMonday, April 13, 2020
Theatre Lab is creating a second Online Monologue Festival culminating with an April 27 performance to benefit behind the scenes workers in South Florida theater such as stage managers, des…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 02:32PMFriday, April 10, 2020
Main Street Players, the Miami Lakes company that transformed from a community theater to professional status, has announced the winners of its 2020 New Play Competition Winners.
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 05:18PMThursday, April 9, 2020
Many South Florida theater companies are reaching out online to stay connected with their communities with free opportunities for interaction and learning, among them New City Players in For…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:36AMMonday, April 6, 2020
The Carbonell Awards 44th annual gala was slated for Monday – and a future date has not been announced – but the organization announced the winners of its 2020 Jack Zink Memorial Student…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:24PMSaturday, April 4, 2020
The South Florida Cappies program honoring student achievement in high school theater and criticism managed to finish its season and vote on the awards despite the challenge of COVID-19 that…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 05:36PMFriday, April 3, 2020
Nationally-known impresario Zev Buffman, a key figure in the evolution of South Florida theater, died Wednesday. Charismatic with an elfin visage and a slight accent from his origins in Isra…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 05:24PMTuesday, March 31, 2020
Across South Florida, 37 artists accustomed to performing in front of 50 to 1,000 people sat alone in their bedrooms, their kitchens, their patios, their backyards emoting just as earnestly …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 07:12PMTo help with donations – and viewing your favorite performer – this is a list of every piece. The first figure is when the piece appears on the programs; the second item in italics is th…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 07:12PMSaturday, March 28, 2020
The South Florida Theatre League has started the South Florida Theatre League Relief Fund, in light of how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected live theater workers. The purpose is to help the…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 01:03PMWednesday, March 25, 2020
South Florida stages are dormant, but the theaters themselves are not. Already, the community is trying to adapt to the exigencies of the current brave new world by offering imaginative init…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:12AMMonday, March 23, 2020
In-depth report: Sets still standing on stages are silent pledges that these productions and theater itself in South Florida will resume – albeit in what many believe will be a different …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:24PMSaturday, March 21, 2020
Nothing can match the experience of live theater. But when such gatherings can be irresponsible, if not deadly, we need the healing, uplifting and just plain diverting gifts that theater pro…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:32PMFriday, March 20, 2020
A patron attending the March 12 performance of Hamilton at the Arsht Center has subsequently tested positive for COVID-19.
The venue stressed that there have been no other reports connected…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:42PMFriday, March 13, 2020
This list of openings and closings is based on information provided primarily by the theaters and venues. It is accurate as of the time of posting, but patrons planning to attend shows that …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:42PMThursday, March 12, 2020
The Coronavirus is causing the postponement of some individual South Florida theater performances, including the eagerly awaited world premiere musical A Wonderful World at Miami New Drama. …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:18PMTitles announced by more South Florida theaters in their 2020-21 seasons including Broadway in Fort Lauderdale: To Kill A Mockingbird starring Richard Thomas, and Hamilton returns; Actors�…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:24AM 
