Monday, 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 02:12PMFriday, July 20, 2012
I was on vacation last week, mainly for a reunion with my husband's extended family at Rehoboth Beach. But we also passed through Washington D.C. on our way to and from Delaware. And though …
SOURCE: Miami Herald at 04:47PMWednesday, June 27, 2012
Happy times for South Florida's prolific and widely produced Michael McKeever. His play Stuff, which won the 2011 Carbonell Award as best new work after its world premiere at Boca Raton's Ca…
SOURCE: Miami Herald at 12:12PMTuesday, June 12, 2012
Christopher Durang and Leslie Ayvazian are celebrated playwrights, actors and teachers. This Friday and Saturday, they'll draw on all that expertise as they play various roles during CityWri…
SOURCE: Miami Herald at 01:20PMThursday, May 31, 2012
Conquest of the South Pole, a play by Berliner Ensemble member Manfred Karge, opens at 8 tonight for a short run through June 8 at The SandBox, the PlayGround Theatre's smaller space where a…
SOURCE: Miami Herald at 02:55PMTuesday, May 22, 2012
Fort Lauderdale's 10-year-old Women's Theatre Project (WTP) has been in limbo since the company lost its home at Sixth Star Studios in February. But the troupe's leaders have been busy check…
SOURCE: Miami Herald at 08:53AMMonday, May 21, 2012
The 27th annual International Hispanic Theatre Festival doesn't kick off until mid July, but producing artistic director Mario Ernesto Sánchez already has nearly all the pieces of an always…
SOURCE: Miami Herald at 04:10PMFriday, May 11, 2012
How successful is the run of the House Theater of Chicago's Death and Harry Houdini at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts? So successful that every performance in the Carnival…
SOURCE: Miami Herald at 04:15PMThursday, May 10, 2012
Actors' Playhouse in Coral Gables opens Steven Dietz's comedy Becky's New Car on Friday evening (it'll run through June 3), but executive director Barbara Stein and artistic director David A…
SOURCE: Miami Herald at 05:15PMTuesday, May 8, 2012
Even a Tony Award nomination as best musical didn't provide salvation for Leap of Faith. The Broadway version of a 1992 Steve Martin movie will close Sunday, after 24 previews and 20 regular…
SOURCE: Miami Herald at 05:15PMThursday, March 22, 2012
Actors' Playhouse in Coral Gables is celebrating its 25th anniversary next season, and the theater has just filled one of two blanks in its 2012-2013 schedule with a hot show: Jon Robin Bait…
SOURCE: Miami Herald at 05:23PMWednesday, March 21, 2012
Catching up with some varied news from South Florida's always-busy theater scene. Producer Jay H. Harris has been named the 2012 recipient of the George Abbott Award for Outstanding Achievem…
SOURCE: Miami Herald at 01:50PMTuesday, March 6, 2012
Between its first home in a Kendall strip mall movie house and its current one at the Miracle Theatre in Coral Gables, Actors' Playhouse has chalked up 24 seasons of producing award-winning …
SOURCE: Miami Herald at 11:46AMWednesday, February 29, 2012
New play work was Louis Tyrrell's passion during the 24 years he served as artistic director of the late, lamented Florida Stage. So it's no surprise that Tyrrell is launching his new ventur…
SOURCE: Miami Herald at 03:27PMThursday, February 16, 2012
Kim Wayans, once one of the very funny cast members on In Living Color with brothers Keenen Ivory Wayans, Damon Wayans, Shawn Wayans and Msarlon Wayans, had a not-so-amusing problem in real …
SOURCE: Miami Herald at 10:51AMMonday, January 30, 2012
Stephen Adly Guirgis, award-winning playwright and one of the three artistic directors of New York's hot LAByrinth Theater Company, is coming to Coral Gables to check out GableStage's smash …
SOURCE: Miami Herald at 05:24PMThursday, January 26, 2012
Sarah Ruhl's In the Next Room (or the vibrator play) got its professional South Florida debut in May at GableStage. Now the play about Victorian women, their sexual repression and expression…
SOURCE: Miami Herald at 03:25PMThursday, January 19, 2012
Pulitzer Prize-winning Miami Herald columnist Dave Barry, the prolific author and occasional Rock Bottom Remainders rocker, has more than promoting his new comic novel Lunatics (co-written w…
SOURCE: Miami Herald at 04:12PMTuesday, January 10, 2012
In November, Broward Stage Door Theatre founders David Torres and Derelle Bunn revealed that they were in negotiations with Costume World founder and CEO Marilynn Wick to sell the two-theate…
SOURCE: Miami Herald at 06:14PMSaturday, December 10, 2011
The college theater program at Miami's New World School of the Arts expects plenty of its students as they prepare to jump into their careers. The rigorous training culminates in an event th…
SOURCE: Miami Herald at 03:51PMFriday, December 9, 2011
The directors of wo scorching-hot shows opening next month -- Stephen Adley Guirgis The Motherf**ker with the Hat and the Pulitzer Prize-winning musical Next to Normal -- have chosen their c…
SOURCE: Miami Herald at 01:10PMTuesday, December 6, 2011
Actor-director John Manzelli, a Barry University theater faculty member, has been with City Theatre and its popular Summer Shorts program for four years, last season serving as the festival'…
SOURCE: Miami Herald at 12:42PMThursday, December 1, 2011
Teo Castellanos is a creative chameleon. Playwright, director, actor, dancer and artistic director of D-Projects, the multifaceted artist is also a compelling teacher, one who mentored and h…
SOURCE: Miami Herald at 11:24AMWednesday, November 30, 2011
Area Stage's conservatory students regularly wow audiences of all ages with their ability to tackle -- and handle -- challenging musical theater. They'll try it again, with puppets no less, …
SOURCE: Miami Herald at 03:34PMFriday, November 25, 2011
In the middle of Black Friday madness, two theaters are feeling confident enough in their current productions (and their patrons' devotion to culture) to extend the shows' runs. At GableStag…
SOURCE: Miami Herald at 03:38PMMonday, November 21, 2011
When New Theatre's Coral Gables home on Laguna Street was sold, the troupe was left scrambling. Having to vacate its home for the past 10 years by Dec. 15, the company couldn't open its worl…
SOURCE: Miami Herald at 04:20PMThursday, November 17, 2011
Plantation's Mosaic Theatre and GableStage in Coral Gables both have hit shows at the moment: Eric Simonson's Lombardi, about legendary Green Bay Packers coach Vince Lombardi, at Mosaic, and…
SOURCE: Miami Herald at 03:15PMSaturday, November 12, 2011
Manuel Carbonell, last of the Cuban master sculptors and the man for whom South Florida theater's Carbonell Awards are named, died Thursday in Miami. He had celebrated his 93rd birthday Oct.…
SOURCE: Miami Herald at 11:03AMThursday, November 10, 2011
Tommy Tune, Broadway superstar, has been working away quietly at the University of Miami, applying the talent and vision that helped win him nine Tony Awards to a new show about the heyday o…
SOURCE: Miami Herald at 01:36PMTuesday, November 8, 2011
The Silver Palm Awards, South Florida's "other" theater awards, will be given next month to 17 theater professionals and the ensemble cast of Mosaic Theatre's The Irish Curse. Founded four y…
SOURCE: Miami Herald at 05:04PMFriday, November 4, 2011
In one of those what-the-heck moments (I have those sometimes when I check my email), I note that Monday is the first Off-Broadway preview of Standing on Ceremony: The Gay Marriage Plays. Ei…
SOURCE: Miami Herald at 04:56PM 
