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Trivia contests, master classes, solo performances, new play development online, lectures, podcast-like schmoozing interviews, requests for video audition, 24-hour theater projects, even sol…
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So you think you know nearly everything about theater except when Broadway will reopen? (We will hold a betting pool next week). On an unreliably intermittent random basis over the years, we…
The paradigm of theater as a co-creative art is repeatedly depicted in Bob Avian's autobiography Dancing Man, an engrossing account of the creation of theater seen from the inside in an illu…
Already, the COVID-19 pandemic has cost the Miami-Dade arts and culture world an estimated $22.9 million and affected 1,700 jobs just through the end of March, according to the first figures…
One month into the nation-wide shutdown of live communal theater due to COVID-19, South Florida companies, like those in so many other regions, are trying to write Act Two with little clue h…
One month into the nation-wide shutdown of live communal theater due to COVID-19, South Florida companies, like those in so many other regions, are trying to write Act Two with little clue h…
Joseph Adler, a titan who helped transform South Florida's cultural landscape by mounting unblinking, dynamic work and aggressively championing local artists, died Thursday. Passionate and o…
Measure For Measure Theatre will deliver the entire Angels In America epic in a free online reading over the next two weeks in one of the most unusual arrangements the region has yet seen. T…
Theatre Lab is creating a second Online Monologue Festival culminating with an April 27 performance to benefit behind the scenes workers in South Florida theater such as stage managers, des…
Main Street Players, the Miami Lakes company that transformed from a community theater to professional status, has announced the winners of its 2020 New Play Competition Winners.
Many South Florida theater companies are reaching out online to stay connected with their communities with free opportunities for interaction and learning, among them New City Players in For…
The Carbonell Awards 44th annual gala was slated for Monday " and a future date has not been announced " but the organization announced the winners of its 2020 Jack Zink Memorial Student Sch…
The South Florida Cappies program honoring student achievement in high school theater and criticism managed to finish its season and vote on the awards despite the challenge of COVID-19 that…
Nationally-known impresario Zev Buffman, a key figure in the evolution of South Florida theater, died Wednesday. Charismatic with an elfin visage and a slight accent from his origins in Isra…
Across South Florida, 37 artists accustomed to performing in front of 50 to 1,000 people sat alone in their bedrooms, their kitchens, their patios, their backyards emoting just as earnestly …
To help with donations " and viewing your favorite performer " this is a list of every piece. The first figure is when the piece appears on the programs; the second item in italics is the ti…
The South Florida Theatre League has started the South Florida Theatre League Relief Fund, in light of how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected live theater workers. The purpose is to help the…
South Florida stages are dormant, but the theaters themselves are not. Already, the community is trying to adapt to the exigencies of the current brave new world by offering imaginative init…
In-depth report: Sets still standing on stages are silent pledges that these productions and theater itself in South Florida will resume " albeit in what many believe will be a different wo…
Nothing can match the experience of live theater. But when such gatherings can be irresponsible, if not deadly, we need the healing, uplifting and just plain diverting gifts that theater pro…
A patron attending the March 12 performance of Hamilton at the Arsht Center has subsequently tested positive for COVID-19.
The venue stressed that there have been no other reports connected…
This list of openings and closings is based on information provided primarily by the theaters and venues. It is accurate as of the time of posting, but patrons planning to attend shows that …
The Coronavirus is causing the postponement of some individual South Florida theater performances, including the eagerly awaited world premiere musical A Wonderful World at Miami New Drama. …
Titles announced by more South Florida theaters in their 2020-21 seasons including Broadway in Fort Lauderdale: To Kill A Mockingbird starring Richard Thomas, and Hamilton returns; Actors' …