132 stories by "Christine Dolen"
South Florida theater is anything but dead in the summer. This weekend, you have the ongoing productions of Samuel D. Hunter's The Whale at GableStage in Coral Gables, Mid-Life 2! (The Crisi…
Dana Castellano has been a familiar figure in South Florida's theater community for a number of years, from the time she was in a long relationship with an actress until the present day, whe…
The University of Miami's Jerry Herman Ring Theatre has put together an intriguing, musical-dominated season for 2014-2015, including a pair of productions likely to draw South Florida's mos…
City Theatre's popular Summer Shorts festival will unfold June 12-July 6 in the Carnival Studio Theater at Miami's Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts. But already, producing artis…
Just as it's getting ready to open this season's big musical -- Monty Python's Spamalot -- Actors' Playhouse in Coral Gables has settled on the six shows for its 2014-2015 season. First up (…
South Florida's Zoetic Stage just enjoyed a long, successful run of Stephen Sondheim's Assassins, and now the New World School of the Arts college music theater program is getting into its o…
She didn't appear as the bookish, beautiful Belle in Disney's Oscar-winning 1991 smash Beauty and the Beast -- but that's only because the movie was animated. Take a look at Paige O'Hara's p…
Miami's Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Nilo Cruz, recently announced as the 2014 winner of the Greenfield Prize, is in New York at the moment, working hard on the world premiere of his ne…
Two South Florida companies, the Miami Theater Center and City Theatre, are putting out the call for new projects (MTC) and plays (City). The Miami Shores-based MTC is asking artists from va…
The Thanksgiving arts lull is over, and though it may seem as though there's nothing going on this week in South Florida except Art Basel, that's just not true. Not at all. From Coral Gables…
It may be that Thanksgiving stuffing (yours, not the turkey's), an early Hannukah, college football overload and Black Friday shopping will have you looking for something else to do this com…
The world of ballet has The Nutcracker, and theater has, well, lots of other shows to get arts lovers in a holiday frame of mind. This year, South Florida has shows for grownups and kids, sp…
Anyone planning to go to the opening weekend of Megan Breen's My First, My Fist, My Bleeding Seeded Spirit needs to know that the company's home base -- the Roxy Performing Arts Center at 16…
If you're a South Florida actor-singer-dancer who just might be interested in appearing in one of the hottest shows on Broadway or on tour, the casting folks for The Book of Mormon want to h…
The hour glass -- well, the 24-Hour glass -- is off and running for the 2013 edition of The Naked Stage's popular 24 Hour Theatre Project. Artistic director Katherine Amadeo and this year's …
The six-year-old Silver Palm Awards for theatrical excellence aren't like the much older, more formal Carbonell Awards. The Silver Palms vary in number from year to year, avoid categories an…
District Stage Company's high-profile kickoff event "Viva Broadway" comes to fruition at 8 PM Saturday. With direction by Heidi Miami Marshall and musical direction by Alex Lacamoire, the sh…
Artistic director and actor Katherine Amadeo is a talented, glamorous presence both on and offstage. But come the evening of Oct. 28, the Naked Stage cofounder (she launched the company with…
One of the milestones in the developmental life of a new play -- a high-profile staged reading -- happens Sunday for the four playwrights in Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs'…
Tarell Alvin McCraney's set-in-Haiti version of William Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra, a collaborative effort by South Florida's GableStage, Great Britain's Royal Shakespeare Company an…
The Women's Theatre Project, based for its main stage productions at the Willow Theatre at Boca Raton's Sugar Sand Park, has long included plays with lesbian themes and points of view in the…
Slow Burn Theatre, the company that boldly goes where not many others in South Florida do when it comes to musicals, has done its share of complex, artsy shows -- think this season's Sweeney…
A little earlier than is his custom, GableStage's Carbonell Award-winning artistic director Joseph Adler has put all the pieces of his new season puzzle together -- and the lineup for 2013-2…
If you're a voracious theater fan, you may be feeling that your summer calendar looks kind of light -- and you'd be right, mostly. There aren't dozens of full-fledged productions, though we …
Actors' Playhouse at the Miracle Theatre in Coral Gables has finalized its six-show lineup for 2013-2014, and it's an eclectic one split 50-50 between musicals and plays. The season begins O…
