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Patrick Fitzwater and Matthew Korinko, the founders and co-artistic directors of Slow Burn Theatre, have taken a slow and steady approach to growing their company since launching it in early…
If you love the songs of Broadway delivered by actors who were meant to sing them, you'll want to catch tonight's final performance of Broadway Unplugged. The show is a project of The Distri…
Each year at the Carbonell Awards, someone is honored for his or her long-term, significant contributions to the arts in South Florida. At the 37th annual Carbonell ceremony on Monday, the e…
Actors' Playhouse in Coral Gables has scored a major hit with its production of the Tony Award-winning In the Heights. There has been offstage drama too, with an ailing Sarah Amengual replac…
The South Florida Theatre League wants you...to get in bed with the arts. The umbrella organization for theaters from Miami to Jupiter has come up with a novel campaign to ratchet up awarene…
The show must go on, and at Actors' Playhouse, the solution when leading lady Sarah Amengual got sick was a dramatic one: fly in Broadway actress Janet Dacal to play Nina in the theater's cu…
Miami Childrens Theater has found a swanky professional venue for its theater summer camp: the Colony Theater on Miami Beach's Lincoln Road. The ambitious, very active MCT will hold its camp…
Miami's New World School of the Arts has immeasurably enriched the theater, music, visual arts and dance communities in South Florida and around the country. On Friday, you can experience th…
Nan Barnett, the theater professional whose business savvy helped grow Florida Stage from a college-based professional company to the country's largest regional theater devoted to new plays,…
Blink and it will be summer, so it's no surprise that City Theatre has put most of the pieces of its 18th annual Summer Shorts festival together. Artistic director John Manzelli has just rev…
The University of Miami's ongoing celebration of the humanities and arts continues on Friday with a day-into-evening event titled A Walk in the CLOUDS: Celebrating the Classics at UM. All ev…
This weekend is one of those when a theater lover could be driving from Miami to West Palm Beach to catch the four (yes, four) new productions that are opening -- and that's not counting the…
Valerie Harper has forged a post-Rhodacareer playing powerful, larger-than-life women onstage -- including, in 2010, Tallulah Bankhead in Looped on Broadway. Harper was to have reprised that…
Putting on a play is never easy nor cheap, at least if you're aiming for high-quality professional work presented in a major performing arts center. Alliance Theatre Lab is in the midst of a…
Teatro Avante closed out the XXVII International Hispanic Theatre festival in July with its production of Cuban playwright Virgilio Piñera's El no. Adapted by Gilda Santana and directed b…
The talented (and very busy) Zach Braff, part of the soon-to-open movie Oz: The Great and Powerful, took a break from project-juggling in Los Angeles for a quick trip to Miami over the weeke…
Last night, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation made South Florida artists and arts groups happy to the tune of $2.28 million. The Knight Arts Challenge will fund 34 projects, bringin…
GableStage, which will join with the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) and New York's Public Theater in premieringTarell Alvin McCraney's set-in-Haiti Antony and Cleopatra next season, has jus…
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…
