132 stories by "Christine Dolen"
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…
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…
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…
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. …
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…
 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 p…
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…
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…
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…
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…
One 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…
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 …
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…
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, …
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…
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 …
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 …
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 alwa…
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…
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…
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…
