Thursday, February 27, 2014
South Florida's Zoetic Stage just enjoyed a long, successful run of Stephen Sondheim's Assassins, and now the New World School of the Arts college music theater program is getting into its o…
SOURCE: Miami Herald at 05:14PMTuesday, February 4, 2014
She didn't appear as the bookish, beautiful Belle in Disney's Oscar-winning 1991 smash Beauty and the Beast -- but that's only because the movie was animated. Take a look at Paige O'Hara's p…
SOURCE: Miami Herald at 03:21PMMonday, February 3, 2014
Miami's Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Nilo Cruz, recently announced as the 2014 winner of the Greenfield Prize, is in New York at the moment, working hard on the world premiere of his ne…
SOURCE: Miami Herald at 01:40PMWednesday, January 8, 2014
Two South Florida companies, the Miami Theater Center and City Theatre, are putting out the call for new projects (MTC) and plays (City). The Miami Shores-based MTC is asking artists from va…
SOURCE: Miami Herald at 02:22PMThursday, December 5, 2013
The Thanksgiving arts lull is over, and though it may seem as though there's nothing going on this week in South Florida except Art Basel, that's just not true. Not at all. From Coral Gables…
SOURCE: Miami Herald at 06:19PMTuesday, November 26, 2013
It may be that Thanksgiving stuffing (yours, not the turkey's), an early Hannukah, college football overload and Black Friday shopping will have you looking for something else to do this com…
SOURCE: Miami Herald at 03:31PMFriday, November 22, 2013
The world of ballet has The Nutcracker, and theater has, well, lots of other shows to get arts lovers in a holiday frame of mind. This year, South Florida has shows for grownups and kids, sp…
SOURCE: Miami Herald at 12:49PMSaturday, November 16, 2013
Anyone planning to go to the opening weekend of Megan Breen's My First, My Fist, My Bleeding Seeded Spirit needs to know that the company's home base -- the Roxy Performing Arts Center at 16…
SOURCE: Miami Herald at 03:23PMMonday, October 28, 2013
If you’re a South Florida actor-singer-dancer who just might be interested in appearing in one of the hottest shows on Broadway or on tour, the casting folks for The Book of Mormon want to…
SOURCE: Miami Herald at 02:15PMSunday, October 27, 2013
The hour glass -- well, the 24-Hour glass -- is off and running for the 2013 edition of The Naked Stage's popular 24 Hour Theatre Project. Artistic director Katherine Amadeo and this year's …
SOURCE: Miami Herald at 08:32PMFriday, October 25, 2013
The six-year-old Silver Palm Awards for theatrical excellence aren't like the much older, more formal Carbonell Awards. The Silver Palms vary in number from year to year, avoid categories an…
SOURCE: Miami Herald at 12:01AMFriday, October 18, 2013
District Stage Company's high-profile kickoff event "Viva Broadway" comes to fruition at 8 PM Saturday. With direction by Heidi Miami Marshall and musical direction by Alex Lacamoire, the sh…
SOURCE: Miami Herald at 02:32PMArtistic director and actor Katherine Amadeo is a talented, glamorous presence both on and offstage. But come the evening of Oct. 28, the Naked Stage cofounder (she launched the company with…
SOURCE: Miami Herald at 11:35AMThursday, September 26, 2013
One of the milestones in the developmental life of a new play -- a high-profile staged reading -- happens Sunday for the four playwrights in Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs'…
SOURCE: Miami Herald at 01:03PMFriday, September 6, 2013
Tarell Alvin McCraney's set-in-Haiti version of William Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra, a collaborative effort by South Florida's GableStage, Great Britain's Royal Shakespeare Company an…
SOURCE: Miami Herald at 11:26AMMonday, June 17, 2013
The Women's Theatre Project, based for its main stage productions at the Willow Theatre at Boca Raton's Sugar Sand Park, has long included plays with lesbian themes and points of view in the…
SOURCE: Miami Herald at 10:00AMSaturday, June 15, 2013
Slow Burn Theatre, the company that boldly goes where not many others in South Florida do when it comes to musicals, has done its share of complex, artsy shows -- think this season's Sweeney…
SOURCE: Miami Herald at 09:00AMFriday, June 14, 2013
A little earlier than is his custom, GableStage's Carbonell Award-winning artistic director Joseph Adler has put all the pieces of his new season puzzle together -- and the lineup for 2013-2…
SOURCE: Miami Herald at 10:24AMTuesday, June 11, 2013
If you're a voracious theater fan, you may be feeling that your summer calendar looks kind of light -- and you'd be right, mostly. There aren't dozens of full-fledged productions, though we …
SOURCE: Miami Herald at 03:33PMTuesday, May 28, 2013
Actors' Playhouse at the Miracle Theatre in Coral Gables has finalized its six-show lineup for 2013-2014, and it's an eclectic one split 50-50 between musicals and plays. The season begins O…
SOURCE: Miami Herald at 01:05PMWednesday, May 22, 2013
Boca Raton's Outré Theatre Company, which launched in November with Andrew Lippa's musical The Wild Party, is turning to an autobiographical musical by Rent creator Jonathan Larson for its …
SOURCE: Miami Herald at 02:52PMThursday, May 16, 2013
Ricky J. Martinez, the artistic director at New Theatre, has been working on a trilogy of plays for a long time -- over 10 years, actually, starting before his graduation from Miami's New Wo…
SOURCE: Miami Herald at 04:10PMFriday, May 3, 2013
City Theatre's popular Summer Shorts festival goes into rehearsals in a little over two weeks, and now we know what plays the company -- Renata Eastlick, Irene Adjan, Ken Clement, Todd Allen…
SOURCE: Miami Herald at 03:34PMTuesday, April 30, 2013
Fresh off its South Beach Comedy Festival debut of Jessica Farr's Charming Acts of Misery, Miami's 13-year-old Mad Cat Theatre Company is on the move. No, not to Los Angeles, which Farr and …
SOURCE: Miami Herald at 03:07PMWednesday, April 17, 2013
That Colin McPhillamy is an uncommonly fine actor comes as no news to anyone who has seen him in Palm Beach Dramaworks' current show, Eugene Ionesco's Exit the King. Or to those who saw him …
SOURCE: Miami Herald at 06:15PMFriday, April 12, 2013
Two college students and six high school students at the New World School of the Arts have written short plays that will debut at this weekend's 2013 New Playwrights Festival. Directed by fa…
SOURCE: Miami Herald at 11:57AMThursday, April 4, 2013
With summer not so far away, Miami's City Theatre is gearing up for its annual Summer Shorts festival June 6-30 at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts -- and for a rich week of…
SOURCE: Miami Herald at 12:08PMWednesday, April 3, 2013
Patrick Fitzwater and Matthew Korinko, the founders and co-artistic directors of Slow Burn Theatre, have taken a slow and steady approach to growing their company since launching it in early…
SOURCE: Miami Herald at 03:32PMSaturday, March 30, 2013
If you love the songs of Broadway delivered by actors who were meant to sing them, you'll want to catch tonight's final performance of Broadway Unplugged. The show is a project of The Distri…
SOURCE: Miami Herald at 12:58PMFriday, March 29, 2013
Each year at the Carbonell Awards, someone is honored for his or her long-term, significant contributions to the arts in South Florida. At the 37th annual Carbonell ceremony on Monday, the e…
SOURCE: Miami Herald at 10:31AMTuesday, March 26, 2013
Actors' Playhouse in Coral Gables has scored a major hit with its production of the Tony Award-winning In the Heights. There has been offstage drama too, with an ailing Sarah Amengual replac…
SOURCE: Miami Herald at 05:21PM 
