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]Friday, November 27, 2020
The Carbonell Awards is taking an intermission on judging shows until fall 2021, using the time to reinvent itself, actively soliciting suggestions from the community and committing to incr…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:18AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 26, 2020
Nine months into the country's battle against COVID-19, Miami New Drama and its boundlessly imaginative artistic director, Michel Hausmann, have figured out a way to turn vice into virtue, e…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:12AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 24, 2020
The much-loved playwright and patron Tony Finstrom died in December 2018, but the curtain has not come down on his effect on the South Florida theater he championed. The Silver Palm Awards t…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 05:48PM[SHARE]Thursday, November 19, 2020
It's not lost on anyone as these Florida actors sing ardent songs to each other -- separated by six feet of stage -- that the musical they are filming is titled Closer Than Ever. It's imposs…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:03AM[SHARE]Saturday, November 14, 2020
Palm Beach Dramaworks postponed its live on stage season, but it continues an aggressive online parade theatrical presentations for free in November and December with a three-play Home for …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:32AM[SHARE]Friday, November 13, 2020
Samuel French, one of the major playscript publishers in the nation, is releasing a new acting edition of the Thornton Wilder classic Our Town featuring some scenes translated into Spanish a…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:48PM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 11, 2020
The Wick Theatre and Actors' Playhouse have scheduled their first productions inside their main auditoriums. The Wick opens this weekend with a John Denver tribute concert and the Playhouse …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:06PM[SHARE]Sunday, November 1, 2020
Palm Beach County may be famous for the number and generosity of arts donors, but recent losses paint a deeply unsettling portrait. Survey responses from 33 non-profit arts groups produced a…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 04:18PM[SHARE]Friday, October 30, 2020
For arts fans looking for a bit of good news, the Kravis Center and the Broward Center are on track to be the first of the region's large presenting houses to host a live event with an in-pe…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:32AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 29, 2020
Usually fundraising galas are black tie events with hors d'oeuvres and dancing. Well, you can wear a black tie if you like, eat popcorn and dance if you like but in the privacy of your home …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:33AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 28, 2020
Thinking Cap Theatre, "a steadfast champion of gender, racial, and sexual equality on- and off-stage," is using their current, strong world premiere production of Laced as a "Get Out The Vot…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 03:03PM[SHARE]Monday, October 26, 2020
Alvin Entin was an unique human being who invested his lifeforce in at least five passions simultaneously: proud family man, supportive friend who gifted a hundred silent mitzvahs, a far-tra…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 02:42PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 21, 2020
Florida actor Rene Lavan is trying theater of a different sort. He's starring alongside Tim Creavin in a recorded Zoom reading of Borrowed, the playwriting debut of Broadway producer Jim Ki…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:33AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 20, 2020
With exploratory baby steps, South Florida theater companies are staging events: A cut-down Hamlet by the Shakespeare Troupe, a filmed full production of Closer Than Ever by MNM, and Patti L…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 01:36PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 14, 2020
By Christine Dolen ArtburstMiami.com Pre-pandemic, Thaddeus Phillips was a man most often in motion, traveling from his Colombian home base near Bogota for directing work in Europe, or…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:36PM[SHARE]Sunday, October 11, 2020
Drive-in theater, theater behind storefront glass, podcasts: In spurts over 7 months, South Florida theater artists have been preparing experiments online and live, for free, for pay or don…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 02:18PM[SHARE]Friday, October 9, 2020
Far from succumbing to fiscal and virus nightmares, Thinking Cap Theatre has been spurred by the intersection of politics and art to resurface this month with three online productions whose …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:48PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 7, 2020
The work of two-time Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Lynn Nottage will be the focus of a series of free live online readings and subsequent discussions this month produced by the Palm Beac…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:42PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 6, 2020
Actors' Playhouse at the Miracle Theatre announced the winners of its 10th annual Young Talent Big Dreams youth talent contest, this year held with virtual entries and performances.
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:06AM[SHARE]Saturday, October 3, 2020
Paul Reekie, a musical director and arranger for a wealth of South Florida theater productions, cabaret performances and the supportive accompanist at countless auditions, died unexpectedly …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 07:54PM[SHARE]Friday, October 2, 2020
Theatre Lab kicks off special projects, Miami New Drama has special reading of work in progress, Dramaworks gets new director of development
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 01:54PM[SHARE]Monday, September 21, 2020
Six months into the pandemic, theater artists are struggling with a profoundly damaging dimension particular to their purgatory-like limbo: The calling that gives their lives meaning require…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 05:03PM[SHARE]Monday, September 7, 2020
Friday, August 28, 2020
Strong wide-ranging criticism has prompted the Carbonell Awards to begin systemic changes connected to diversity. It also will not consider upcoming productions through early 2021 due to the…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 03:12PM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 18, 2020
Taking advantage of the uncertain months ahead for full productions, the Maltz Jupiter Theater is delaying its entire next season a full year so that it can speed up its long-planned $30-pl…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:03AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 4, 2020
The 44th annual Carbonell Awards celebration Monday was unique, not simply because it was online, but because of its noticeable acknowledgement of the diversity of the South Florida theater …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 03:36AM[SHARE]Monday, August 3, 2020
Complete listing of nominees and winners of the competitive categories for the 44th annual Carbonell Awards, plus box score statistics
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:06PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 30, 2020
The continuing damage that the COVID-19 pandemic has inflicted on the area's cultural world " and the region's economic health -- continues to mount, according to ongoing figures gathered by…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 01:18AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 22, 2020
The campaign to reopen the Coconut Grove Playhouse with a smaller auditorium built behind a restored façade suffered another setback Wednesday in the 14-year saga, according to court reco…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:18PM[SHARE]The actual stage at GableStage may be dark, but the company has replaced the rest of its virus-interrupted 2019-2020 season with a glimpse of what may be one of the evolving facets of the fu…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 07:12PM[SHARE] 
