175 stories from Miami Herald
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…
Haul out the evil mother-in-law jokes; Mrs. Phelps is a real doozy.
A mother's selfishness can take many forms, but dramatist Sidney Howard (screenwriter for "Gone With the Wind") created…
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…
Boca Raton's Outré Theatre Company, which launched in November with Andrew Lippa's musical The Wild Party, is turning to an autobiographical musical by Rent creator Jonathan Larson for its …
Ricky J. Martinez, the artistic director at New Theatre, has been working on a trilogy of plays for a long time -- over 10 years, actually, starting before his graduation from Miami's New Wo…
City Theatre's popular Summer Shorts festival goes into rehearsals in a little over two weeks, and now we know what plays the company -- Renata Eastlick, Irene Adjan, Ken Clement, Todd Allen…
Fresh off its South Beach Comedy Festival debut of Jessica Farr's Charming Acts of Misery, Miami's 13-year-old Mad Cat Theatre Company is on the move. No, not to Los Angeles, which Farr and …
That Colin McPhillamy is an uncommonly fine actor comes as no news to anyone who has seen him in Palm Beach Dramaworks' current show, Eugene Ionesco's Exit the King. Or to those who saw him …
Two college students and six high school students at the New World School of the Arts have written short plays that will debut at this weekend's 2013 New Playwrights Festival. Directed by fa…
With summer not so far away, Miami's City Theatre is gearing up for its annual Summer Shorts festival June 6-30 at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts -- and for a rich week of…
