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The actual stage at GableStage may be dark, but the company has replaced the rest of its virus-interrupted 2019-2020 season with a glimpse of what may be one of the evolving facets of the fu…
As a handful of local venues gingerly tried to reopen in recent weeks and others prepare detailed plans for the future, a regimen of detailed protocols ranging from parking to popcorn to Pla…
The prestigious 2020 Remy Awards honoring "unsung heroes who provide outstanding service behind the scenes" have been announced by the South Florida Theatre League: Matt Stabile, Tim Davis, …
A veteran actress, an acclaimed theater company, a venue executive and a ground-breaking production will be recognized with the Carbonell's "special awards" when the program is presented onl…
The Adrienne Arsht Center in Miami, one of the most high profile performing arts venues in the state, is cutting its coming fiscal year's $42 million budget in half and just laid off, furlou…
Cinderella's Fairy Godmother has arrived for many theater lovers. Surely, snagging a seat for a performance of Hamilton has often seemed impossible. Indeed, ticket prices and sold out perfor…
The South Florida Theatre League is adapting its seventh annual Summer Theatre Fest of play readings across the region in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, but it's also expanding the event's …
Jenna and the Whale, which will get a high-profile virtual reading on Broadway On Demand at 5:30 p.m. June 30, is that rare exception: It's a piece created by a pair of playwrights, Vanessa …
Many people are asking what steps can theaters, funders and patrons take to address these issues. In our interviews and in other articles published across the country, here are action items …
This is a list of most of the productions in professional theaters in the three counties in which the major or secondary theme dealt with race, acknowledged diversity, or intentionally featu…
Asked to spotlight specific problems and potential solutions, everybody had a story of racism infecting the South Florida theater community. Some cited unintentional micro-aggressions in pr…
With few theaters seeing relief anytime soon, new updated data show that the COVID-19 pandemic is continuing to hammer the arts communities in Miami-Dade and Broward counties with losses in …
The Arsht Center for the Performing Arts announced titles and dates for its Theater Up Close series, slated to begin in early December with locally-produced works from Zoetic Stage and City …
Fourteen years after the Coconut Grove Playhouse shuttered and almost exactly one year after another round of court proceedings began, opposing attorneys from Miami-Dade County and the City …
The virus-delayed 44th annual Carbonell Awards will be presented August 3, but the usually boisterous "Theater Prom" will be held online and include an acknowledgment of the current tumult a…
GableStage is coping with the death of Joseph Adler plus the shuttering of live performances, but it has started new initiative meant to originate new material and support artists financiall…
Theaters and performing arts venues in Broward County can apply for permission to reopen as early as June 15 " decided case by case based on meeting undisclosed guidelines. Also, the county …
Next month was to have marked a milestone anniversary for City Theatre and the company's much-admired Summer Shorts festival. This pandemic pause notwithstanding, it's an appropriate time to…
Two high school seniors, including the co-author of the anthem memorializing the Parkland High School shooting, won the Silver Knight Award in the drama category last week recognizing effort…
More than 60 local theater professionals contracted to work in productions in March and April have shared some of the $12,000 that South Florida Theatre League Relief Fund has raised through…
The COVID-19 virus did not rob this high school generation of the chance to honor each other's work in the South Florida Cappies organization's slickly-produced online celebration livestream…
New figures show that the COVID-19 pandemic continued to gut punch the arts community in Miami-Dade County through last month with a total loss estimated at nearly $43 million and costing mo…
For lovers of live theater, this "intermission" in communal gathering creates a hunger for more than online bare bones performances from the camera in someone's cellphone. But there is an ea…
All the world's a stage, in the case of Long Distance Affair, literally. Sitting in your living room in South Florida late this month, theater fans will be able to watch short plays beamed t…
Playwright E.M. Lewis is the 2020 recipient of the Harold and Mimi Steinberg / American Theatre Critics Association New Play Award. The Steinberg/ATCA Award, which comes with a $25,000 prize…
