Thursday, April 8, 2021
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 dir…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:18PM[SHARE]Monday, April 5, 2021
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 pe…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:36PM[SHARE]Saturday, April 3, 2021
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[SHARE]Thursday, April 1, 2021
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 Garcia's…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 04:42PM[SHARE]Monday, March 29, 2021
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 B…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:03PM[SHARE]Friday, March 26, 2021
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[SHARE]Thursday, March 25, 2021
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[SHARE]Wednesday, March 24, 2021
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[SHARE]Wednesday, March 17, 2021
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. During …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:48PM[SHARE]Monday, March 1, 2021
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[SHARE]Friday, February 26, 2021
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[SHARE]Saturday, February 20, 2021
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 play, …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:42PM[SHARE]Friday, February 19, 2021
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 fa…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:48AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 17, 2021
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 presen…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:42PM[SHARE]Monday, February 15, 2021
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 PopUP T…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:18PM[SHARE]Friday, February 12, 2021
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 the …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 04:48PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 4, 2021
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 it…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:33AM[SHARE]Sunday, January 31, 2021
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[SHARE]Friday, January 29, 2021
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[SHARE]Wednesday, January 27, 2021
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[SHARE]Monday, January 25, 2021
Area Stage revives its imaginative 2018 production of Shrek the Musical as conceived, directed and designed by Giancarlo Rodaz, but with mostly new cast members, on an outdoor stage near its…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:12PM[SHARE]Thursday, January 21, 2021
When the pandemic curtain came crashing down, Marilynn Wick's largest wardrobe supplier in the nation saw its business evaporate and A Chorus Line shut down after one performance. But the co…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 02:06PM[SHARE]Monday, January 18, 2021
Theatre Lab kicks off new reading series every 21 days through May; Juggerknot Theatre Company produces second world tour monologues in Long Distance Affair.
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:24PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 12, 2021
A celebration not a competition. The prevailing message from arts professionals and supporters Monday sought a seismic change in the prevailing philosophy of the Carbonell Awards that recogn…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 01:54PM[SHARE]Monday, January 4, 2021
It is time for everyone on all sides to put up or shut up. For the past few years, concerns about the Carbonell Awards have grown among many members of the South Florida theater community. …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:32PM[SHARE]Friday, January 1, 2021
The county plan for the Coconut Grove Playhouse is still alive in court, Kravis hires new CEO Terrence Dwyer and Broward County awards $2.5 million in grants.
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 03:24PM[SHARE]Thursday, December 17, 2020
The Finstrom Festival of New Work, a new national playwriting contest, has just opened for entries " a competition whose finalists will undergo workshops, staged readings and possibly a full…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 07:12PM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 8, 2020
A look back at 2020: Yes, South Florida theater was crippled by the pandemic. But its acolytes remained driven to express their artistry, and patrons remained ravenous for their work. They c…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:18PM[SHARE]Monday, December 7, 2020
It was only a matter of time until one of South Florida's most experimental companies would find a way to produce theater outside of a theater. Nine months into a pandemic, the sheer existen…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:06PM[SHARE]Thursday, December 3, 2020
Giancarlo Rodaz of Area Stage company and Rachel Dean have turned their still-evolving musical The Ballad of Janis Matthews & The Dodo Scouts into podcast.
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:06PM[SHARE]Saturday, November 28, 2020
MNM Theatre Company's filmed cyber-distributed pandemic production of Closer Than Ever needs no excuses, no politely lowered expectations. Just as it would if produced live in an intimate v…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 05:03PM[SHARE] 
