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Theater isn't just coming back to life, it's emerging in a score of ways. Here's a sampling of opening nights, fundraisers, new venues, even a call for ushers. News about Miami New Drama, Ma…
Broad changes to the Carbonell Awards, designed to assuage a theatrical community whose love-hate relationship has exacerbated in recent years, were detailed Monday. Many changes reflect a r…
The show will go on for South Florida theater, but 2021-2022 will be a season of asterisks, what ifs and when. In a three-part series, we talk to artistic and managing directors about why th…
The show will go on for South Florida theater, but 2021-2022 will be a season of asterisks, what ifs and when. In a 3-part series, we talk to artistic and managing directors about awhy this …
The show will go on for South Florida theater, but 2021-2022 will be a season of asterisks, what ifs and when. In a three-part series, we talk to artistic directors and managing directors ab…
The 2021 Remy Awards honoring those who provide outstanding service behind the scenes to the region's theater community were announced this week by the South Florida Theatre League. The live…
Major changes for the Carbonell Awards honoring excellence in South Florida theater will be unveiled Monday at a town hall meeting live and online will reveal a new team of judges, a new jud…
The Broward Center in Fort Lauderdale and the Arsht Center in Miami will require all audience members to provide proof of a negative COVID test or proof of full vaccination to be admitted to…
Yes, there is broad humor, over-the-top characters, cartoonish sets, a fairy tale vibe and a 10-foot tall puppet, but Theatre Lab makes it clear that Rachel Teagle's world premiere script of…
Fuácata! has been tweaked by star Elena Maria Garcia and director Stuart Meltzer with references to non-binary, Uber and "draining the swamp." But the exuberantly hilarious and moving wor…
It's almost impossible to accurately depict the guts of the creative process, let alone make its intricacies interesting. But director-librettist James Lapine has not only conquered that tas…
The ghosts of Eugene O'Neill and Sam Shepard creak the floorboards of Main Street Players' Wolf & Badger, the latest exorcism of filial trauma from New Jersey playwright Michael John McG…
The Maltz Jupiter Theatre has announced its 2021-22 season.
The post Maltz Jupiter Theatre's 2021-2022 Season first appeared on Florida Theater On Stage.
The show must go on, and it absolutely will, assures Maltz Jupiter Theatre chief Andrew Kato. But the first show of the season won't be inside the theater under construction. The locally-pro…
GableStage's 23rd season under its new producing artistic director Bari Newport will have more productions and additional performances in what is currently planned to be offered in full hous…
Echoing the resurrection of local theater, the new artistic director Bari Newport will inaugurate GableStage's 2021-2022 season in November directing the late Joseph Adler's detailed plan fo…
Not exactly svelte, and, yes, her taste in clothing leaves a bit to be desired, her grooming is decidedly askew and her gait will never be described as slinky. But the lovely Jess will likel…
Local playwright Michael Aman, whose died of cancer in May and whose Poz won the Best New Work Carbonell for the 2015, will have yet one more world premiere this month with the bow of Off Ba…
In the wake of contentions that leadership in the South Florida theater community is not sufficiently diverse or sensitive enough to racial concerns, the Carbonell Awards board of directors …
Many artists define themselves by a calling relying on faith that their art form will always be there. But in 2020, the foundation of their sense of who they were and what they believed made…
Lots of News: Primal Forces reorganizes as Boca Stage, Dramaworks series on August Wilson and Wendy Wasserstein, Local production of In The Heights set for Arsht, Theatre Lab reads new audio…
Young, visionary director Giancarlo Rodaz's winning approach in Area Stage Company's current unorthodox, yet triumphant production of the classic musical Annie features eight adult act…
It's an obvious truism that most theater art " from dialogue to the lighting design " is partly a product of the artists' past experience. But playwright-director Amy London's Story of a Lif…
M Ensemble's production of Layon Gray's Cowboy is everything audiences expect of a rousing western, but it's also an inherent indictment. It is not of little significance that the play is pr…
Drew Droege's Bright Colors and Bold Patterns deftly avoids common tropes of the solo show in its compulsively watchable regional premiere at Island City Stage, a fringe festival-style tour …