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Local playwright Michael Aman, whose died of cancer in May and whose Poz won the Best New Work Carbonell for the 2015, will have yet one more world premiere this month with the bow of Off Ba…
In the wake of contentions that leadership in the South Florida theater community is not sufficiently diverse or sensitive enough to racial concerns, the Carbonell Awards board of directors …
Many artists define themselves by a calling relying on faith that their art form will always be there. But in 2020, the foundation of their sense of who they were and what they believed made…
Lots of News: Primal Forces reorganizes as Boca Stage, Dramaworks series on August Wilson and Wendy Wasserstein, Local production of In The Heights set for Arsht, Theatre Lab reads new audio…
Young, visionary director Giancarlo Rodaz's winning approach in Area Stage Company's current unorthodox, yet triumphant production of the classic musical Annie features eight adult act…
It's an obvious truism that most theater art " from dialogue to the lighting design " is partly a product of the artists' past experience. But playwright-director Amy London's Story of a Lif…
M Ensemble's production of Layon Gray's Cowboy is everything audiences expect of a rousing western, but it's also an inherent indictment. It is not of little significance that the play is pr…
Drew Droege's Bright Colors and Bold Patterns deftly avoids common tropes of the solo show in its compulsively watchable regional premiere at Island City Stage, a fringe festival-style tour …
South Florida theater was rarely dormant during the pandemic; but a torrent of honors, projects and prizes are surfacing quickly including Juggerknot Theatre Company, Zoetic Stage, Palm Beac…
For its next professional production, South Miami's Area Stage Company promises the musical Annie "like you've never seen before" later this month. It's set in a speakeasy, has eight a…
In Cowboy, the new dramatic play opening in June at M Ensemble in Miami, the gun-totin' U.S. Marshal Bass Reeves, traditionally garbed down to the required Stetson, strides through the doubl…
Miami New Drama's innovative 7 Deadly Sins production, which has garnered attention around the country, has won a new category from the annual Drama League Awards.
The post Miami New Drama's…
Island City Stage celebrates its tenth season with the anticipated Tennessee Williams' Suddenly, Last Summer sidelined by the pandemic, plus a world premiere, a Charles Ludlam classic, a ret…
As the local theater scene ramps up, more and more news including the announcement every few days of a traditional season " which we will roll out one at a time over the next few weeks. But …
Yet another promising sign that local venues are optimistic about resuming indoor theater is the announcement of the 10th season of the Arsht Center's Theater Up Close series featuring the w…
The line in the legal play A Class Act, ""For the right money, I'd settle with Hitler," stands out as much as it does because the virtuous play and JCAT's heavy-handed production are otherwi…
The complete text of the proposed changes to the Carbonell Awards.
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A major overhaul of the Carbonell Awards for excellence in South Florida theater has been unveiled that expands the scope of the program to include a "people's choice" award and concerted ef…
The pandemic and other issues are causing some companies performing at the programs at the Arsht Center in Miami to once again rearrange schedules. They will delay the start of the Broadway …
The Wick Theatre is trying a singular paradigm: It will mount a full production of A Chorus Line beginning April 22 inside its auditorium. But its leaders decidedly do not want to sell any t…
The world premiere of a Michael McKeever drama about the people who hid Anne Frank's family and one of Lynn Nottage's first mainstream successes about African Americans are among the five ti…
In an exceedingly timely appearance, Island City Stage mounts a scathing production mirroring current tumult about race in America -- a taut, intense, drama The Niceties.
The post Island Ci…
Forgive the sappy saccharine metaphor, but it's inescapable: Spring has arrived for South Florida theater with buds and shoots peeping out of the what was not barren but rocky ground. All yo…
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…
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…
