Tuesday, March 26, 2013
Actors' Playhouse in Coral Gables has scored a major hit with its production of the Tony Award-winning In the Heights. There has been offstage drama too, with an ailing Sarah Amengual replac…
SOURCE: Miami Herald at 05:21PMThe South Florida Theatre League wants you...to get in bed with the arts. The umbrella organization for theaters from Miami to Jupiter has come up with a novel campaign to ratchet up awarene…
SOURCE: Miami Herald at 09:54AMSaturday, March 23, 2013
The show must go on, and at Actors' Playhouse, the solution when leading lady Sarah Amengual got sick was a dramatic one: fly in Broadway actress Janet Dacal to play Nina in the theater's cu…
SOURCE: Miami Herald at 10:02PMFriday, March 15, 2013
Miami Childrens Theater has found a swanky professional venue for its theater summer camp: the Colony Theater on Miami Beach's Lincoln Road. The ambitious, very active MCT will hold its camp…
SOURCE: Miami Herald at 04:10PMTuesday, March 12, 2013
Miami's New World School of the Arts has immeasurably enriched the theater, music, visual arts and dance communities in South Florida and around the country. On Friday, you can experience th…
SOURCE: Miami Herald at 04:47PMMonday, March 4, 2013
Nan Barnett, the theater professional whose business savvy helped grow Florida Stage from a college-based professional company to the country's largest regional theater devoted to new plays,…
SOURCE: Miami Herald at 03:58PMTuesday, February 19, 2013
Blink and it will be summer, so it's no surprise that City Theatre has put most of the pieces of its 18th annual Summer Shorts festival together. Artistic director John Manzelli has just rev…
SOURCE: Miami Herald at 12:56PMThursday, February 14, 2013
The University of Miami's ongoing celebration of the humanities and arts continues on Friday with a day-into-evening event titled A Walk in the CLOUDS: Celebrating the Classics at UM. All ev…
SOURCE: Miami Herald at 03:10PMWednesday, January 30, 2013
This weekend is one of those when a theater lover could be driving from Miami to West Palm Beach to catch the four (yes, four) new productions that are opening -- and that's not counting the…
SOURCE: Miami Herald at 12:26PMTuesday, January 29, 2013
Valerie Harper has forged a post-Rhodacareer playing powerful, larger-than-life women onstage -- including, in 2010, Tallulah Bankhead in Looped on Broadway. Harper was to have reprised that…
SOURCE: Miami Herald at 01:10PMWednesday, January 23, 2013
Putting on a play is never easy nor cheap, at least if you're aiming for high-quality professional work presented in a major performing arts center. Alliance Theatre Lab is in the midst of a…
SOURCE: Miami Herald at 04:03PMTuesday, January 22, 2013
Teatro Avante closed out the XXVII International Hispanic Theatre festival in July with its production of Cuban playwright Virgilio Piñera's El no. Adapted by Gilda Santana and directed by …
SOURCE: Miami Herald at 02:39PMMonday, January 21, 2013
The talented (and very busy) Zach Braff, part of the soon-to-open movie Oz: The Great and Powerful, took a break from project-juggling in Los Angeles for a quick trip to Miami over the weeke…
SOURCE: Miami Herald at 02:24PMTuesday, December 4, 2012
Last night, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation made South Florida artists and arts groups happy to the tune of $2.28 million. The Knight Arts Challenge will fund 34 projects, bringin…
SOURCE: Miami Herald at 01:07PMTuesday, November 27, 2012
GableStage, which will join with the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) and New York's Public Theater in premieringTarell Alvin McCraney's set-in-Haiti Antony and Cleopatra next season, has jus…
SOURCE: Miami Herald at 04:19PMTuesday, November 13, 2012
The one-night-only performance of the eight little plays created for Naked Stage's 24-Hour Theatre Project 2012 has come and gone. Hopefully, the sleep-deprived playwrights are starting to f…
SOURCE: Miami Herald at 12:56PMSunday, November 11, 2012
It's Sunday night -- do you know where your playwrights are? For eight South Florida writers, the answer is that they're somewhere in the regal elegance of the Biltmore Hotel in Coral Gables…
SOURCE: Miami Herald at 11:28PMMonday, October 29, 2012
The Silver Palm Awards are to South Florida's Carbonell Awards as Off-Broadway's Obie Awards are to Broadway's Tonys. The five-year-old Silver Palms have "...no nominees, no winners or loser…
SOURCE: Miami Herald at 03:43PMFriday, October 26, 2012
New Theatre is winding up its run of Willy Russell's Educating Rita at Miami's Roxy Performing Arts Center this weekend, with performances at 8 p.m. Friday-Saturday, 1 and 5:30 p.m. Sunday. …
SOURCE: Miami Herald at 11:52AMTuesday, October 23, 2012
As Halloween approaches, you can count on some theater or other doing The Rocky Horror Show, that dress-up audience participation horror flick spoof. This year, Entr'Acte Theatrix will do th…
SOURCE: Miami Herald at 05:02PMFriday, September 14, 2012
The National New Play Network (NNPN) has a new member company: Zoetic Stage, which will kick off its season Oct. 4-21 with Doug Wright's Pulitzer Prize-winning I Am My Own Wife. The play…
SOURCE: Miami Herald at 12:13PMWednesday, September 12, 2012
Miami's Tarell Alvin McCraney, whose sizzling 90-minute Royal Shakespeare Company adaptation of Hamlet (written with Bijan Shebani) will play GableStage Jan. 12-Feb. 10, is busy adding to hi…
SOURCE: Miami Herald at 12:22PMThursday, September 6, 2012
The Naked Stage recently wrapped up an impressive, much-lauded production of the spooky Turn of the Screw at Barry University's Pelican Theatre. Now comes word that artistic director Katheri…
SOURCE: Miami Herald at 11:40AMWednesday, August 29, 2012
South Florida's artistic directors do compete for the services of actors they like working with, and increasingly they find find some stage veterans unavailable due to shooting schedules for…
SOURCE: Miami Herald at 02:49PMFriday, August 24, 2012
The Donkey Show is racing toward its final performance on Sept. 2, but due to the uncertainty surrounding Tropical Storm Isaac's impact on South Florida, the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Pe…
SOURCE: Miami Herald at 02:24PMOne of theater's most enduring superstitions is that you don't utter the word "Macbeth" inside a theater unless you are actually performing the play. Not sure if anyone at Ground Up & Rising…
SOURCE: Miami Herald at 12:18PMTuesday, August 21, 2012
The theater season will begin in earnest next month, but if you're itching to see something sooner, two companies have a couple of options -- and both are free. Ground Up & Rising continues …
SOURCE: Miami Herald at 12:26PMMonday, August 20, 2012
Some theaters roll out their new season lineups early, the better to get the jump on subscription sales. Others take their time. But by now, most companies have pulled back the curtain on th…
SOURCE: Miami Herald at 04:17PMWednesday, August 15, 2012
There's another new company on the South Florida scene, this one dubbed What if Works Inc. Not the simplest company name, maybe, but the concept and mission are interesting. Phillip Church, …
SOURCE: Miami Herald at 02:00PMMonday, August 6, 2012
Some late-Monday random theater news you can use: * The Arsht Center's big summer deal, The Donkey Show, is extending through Aug. 18. But the center wants more booty-shakers at its disco re…
SOURCE: Miami Herald at 06:23PMMonday, July 23, 2012
In South Florida's theater world, hope and talent spring eternal, despite the financial hard times that have imperiled or sunk several key companies. New troupes spring up, hoping to become …
SOURCE: Miami Herald at 02:12PM 
