132 stories by "Christine Dolen"
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…
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…
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 …
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…
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 …
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 …
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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'…
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…
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, …
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
Coming up Sunday and Monday, hone your monologue skills and/or pick from readings of two plays. * Actress and teacher Amy Miller Brennan is offering a monologue "boot camp" at Arts Alive in …
So I went to the Naked Stage's fifth annual 24-Hour Theatre Project on Monday evening, and work has been kicking my behind ever since. But I didn't want to let the work week end without shar…
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Nilo Cruz has been spending the fall at home in Miami, directing his own Night Train to Bolina and teaching at the University of Miami (where he's currently…
Naked Stage's 24-Hour Theatre Project gets its one-time-only performance Monday night at 8 at the Caldwell Theatre Company -- and now we know what will be on the bill. Playwrights, directors…
