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Radio producer-host Caroline Breder-Watts recorded interviews with theater professionals over the years. Among them was this conversation likely recorded in around 2011 between the actress-i…
In this time of quarantine, subtle resonances echo the underlying thread of Emily Dickinson's isolation in Palm Beach Dramaworks and Actors Playhouse's co-produced filming of the live play, …
Most biographies factually mirror the life and times of their subject in a chronological narrative. But few mirror the complexity and structure of the subject's own work with the stunning fa…
The Kravis Center's Broadway tour series, resuming in November, will have the much-anticipated Come From Away and Dear Evan Hansen, but also titles that won't be seen at the other two presen…
With most venues shut down for nearly a year, pandemic-era theater has taken many forms:
But few digital productions have achieved what Miami's Juggerknot Theatre Co. and New York's PopUP T…
Every emotion associated with pregnancy and pending parenthood is present in the 95 minutes of Hannah Manikowski's smart and promising play Compensation. In fact, most of them appear on the …
Yet another stirring that theater will return to… well, maybe normal isn't the word… was reaffirmed this week as the Arsht Center announced that the Miami presenting house will resume it…
Larger-than-life, effusive, generous and driven Jan McArt, a show business legend who helped push South Florida theater out of its infancy and through its adolescence with flair and verve, d…
In a carefully calculated but hopeful sign of the recovering world of theater, Broadway Across America has scheduled the resumption this fall of its tours in 47 cities with full auditoriums …
Peter Librach, the actor-director-producer-theatrical agent who worked at almost every South Florida theater and remembered by many as the epitome of a nurturing colleague, died Wednesday af…
Area Stage revives its imaginative 2018 production of Shrek the Musical as conceived, directed and designed by Giancarlo Rodaz, but with mostly new cast members, on an outdoor stage near its…
When the pandemic curtain came crashing down, Marilynn Wick's largest wardrobe supplier in the nation saw its business evaporate and A Chorus Line shut down after one performance. But the co…
Theatre Lab kicks off new reading series every 21 days through May; Juggerknot Theatre Company produces second world tour monologues in Long Distance Affair.
A celebration not a competition. The prevailing message from arts professionals and supporters Monday sought a seismic change in the prevailing philosophy of the Carbonell Awards that recogn…
It is time for everyone on all sides to put up or shut up. For the past few years, concerns about the Carbonell Awards have grown among many members of the South Florida theater community. …
The county plan for the Coconut Grove Playhouse is still alive in court, Kravis hires new CEO Terrence Dwyer and Broward County awards $2.5 million in grants.
The Finstrom Festival of New Work, a new national playwriting contest, has just opened for entries " a competition whose finalists will undergo workshops, staged readings and possibly a full…
A look back at 2020: Yes, South Florida theater was crippled by the pandemic. But its acolytes remained driven to express their artistry, and patrons remained ravenous for their work. They c…
It was only a matter of time until one of South Florida's most experimental companies would find a way to produce theater outside of a theater. Nine months into a pandemic, the sheer existen…
Giancarlo Rodaz of Area Stage company and Rachel Dean have turned their still-evolving musical The Ballad of Janis Matthews & The Dodo Scouts into podcast.
MNM Theatre Company's filmed cyber-distributed pandemic production of Closer Than Ever needs no excuses, no politely lowered expectations. Just as it would if produced live in an intimate v…
The Carbonell Awards is taking an intermission on judging shows until fall 2021, using the time to reinvent itself, actively soliciting suggestions from the community and committing to incr…
Nine months into the country's battle against COVID-19, Miami New Drama and its boundlessly imaginative artistic director, Michel Hausmann, have figured out a way to turn vice into virtue, e…
The much-loved playwright and patron Tony Finstrom died in December 2018, but the curtain has not come down on his effect on the South Florida theater he championed. The Silver Palm Awards t…
It's not lost on anyone as these Florida actors sing ardent songs to each other -- separated by six feet of stage -- that the musical they are filming is titled Closer Than Ever. It's imposs…
