South Florida theater was rarely dormant during the pandemic; but a torrent of honors, projects and prizes are surfacing quickly including Juggerknot Theatre Company, Zoetic Stage, Palm Beac…
For its next professional production, South Miami's Area Stage Company promises the musical Annie "like you've never seen before" later this month. It's set in a speakeasy, has eight a…
In Cowboy, the new dramatic play opening in June at M Ensemble in Miami, the gun-totin' U.S. Marshal Bass Reeves, traditionally garbed down to the required Stetson, strides through the doubl…
Miami New Drama's innovative 7 Deadly Sins production, which has garnered attention around the country, has won a new category from the annual Drama League Awards. The post Miami New Drama's…
Island City Stage celebrates its tenth season with the anticipated Tennessee Williams' Suddenly, Last Summer sidelined by the pandemic, plus a world premiere, a Charles Ludlam classic, a ret…
As the local theater scene ramps up, more and more news including the announcement every few days of a traditional season " which we will roll out one at a time over the next few weeks. But …
Yet another promising sign that local venues are optimistic about resuming indoor theater is the announcement of the 10th season of the Arsht Center's Theater Up Close series featuring the w…
The line in the legal play A Class Act, ""For the right money, I'd settle with Hitler," stands out as much as it does because the virtuous play and JCAT's heavy-handed production are otherwi…
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A major overhaul of the Carbonell Awards for excellence in South Florida theater has been unveiled that expands the scope of the program to include a "people's choice" award and concerted ef…
The pandemic and other issues are causing some companies performing at the programs at the Arsht Center in Miami to once again rearrange schedules. They will delay the start of the Broadway …
The Wick Theatre is trying a singular paradigm: It will mount a full production of A Chorus Line beginning April 22 inside its auditorium. But its leaders decidedly do not want to sell any t…
The world premiere of a Michael McKeever drama about the people who hid Anne Frank's family and one of Lynn Nottage's first mainstream successes about African Americans are among the five ti…
In an exceedingly timely appearance, Island City Stage mounts a scathing production mirroring current tumult about race in America -- a taut, intense, drama The Niceties. The post Island Ci…
Forgive the sappy saccharine metaphor, but it's inescapable: Spring has arrived for South Florida theater with buds and shoots peeping out of the what was not barren but rocky ground. All yo…
By Bill Hirschman It doesn't take five minutes, maybe barely a minute talking to Bari Newport on the phone to realize why she was selected from a large field to be the producing artistic dir…
Theatre Lab invests its growing expertise in multi-media theater performance in Vanessa Garcia's premiere of Ich Bin Ein Berliner, a heartfelt memoir of a Cuban-American girl who grows up pe…
Starting April 1, the new leader at the helm of GableStage will be Bari Newport, who has served for the past nine years as producing artistic director of the Penobscot Theatre Co. in Bangor,…
Imaginative theatricality has imbued Theatre Lab's projects, but this month's just-outside-the-box venture is breaking the traditional paradigm even further. The premiere of Vanessa Garcia's…
A superb evocation of the soul of Emily Dickinson from actress Margery Lowe and director William Hayes marks the video co-production from Palm Beach Dramaworks and Actors' Playhouse of The B…
One year into the global and personal tragedies, Florida theater has embraced the sole gift that the pandemic has given regional artists across the country: Unprecedented opportunity. Some c…
One year into the global and personal tragedies, Florida theater has embraced the sole gift that the pandemic has given regional artists across the country: Unprecedented opportunity. Some c…
One year into the global and personal tragedies, Florida theater has embraced the sole gift that the pandemic has given regional artists across the country: Unprecedented opportunity. Some c…
The Art Heist Experience is an interactive true-crime theater event inspired by the theft of 13 works of art worth $500 million from Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in 1990. During …
As live arts and entertainment return in fits and starts, and our culture continues its tortoise crawl toward normal, one thing has become apparent: Face masks may be vital in impeding the s…