Friday, February 19, 2021
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 …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:48AMWednesday, February 17, 2021
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 pr…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:42PMMonday, February 15, 2021
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 Pop…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:18PMFriday, February 12, 2021
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 th…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 04:48PMThursday, February 4, 2021
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 …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:33AMSunday, January 31, 2021
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…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:54PMFriday, January 29, 2021
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 …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:36AMWednesday, January 27, 2021
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…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:18PMMonday, January 25, 2021
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…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:12PMThursday, January 21, 2021
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 …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 02:06PMMonday, January 18, 2021
Theatre Lab kicks off new reading series every 21 days through May; Juggerknot Theatre Company produces second world tour monologues in Long Distance Affair.
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:24PMTuesday, January 12, 2021
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…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 01:54PMMonday, January 4, 2021
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. …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:32PMFriday, January 1, 2021
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.
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 03:24PMThursday, December 17, 2020
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 fu…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 07:12PMTuesday, December 8, 2020
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…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:18PMMonday, December 7, 2020
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 exist…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:06PMThursday, December 3, 2020
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.
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:06PMSaturday, November 28, 2020
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…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 05:03PMFriday, November 27, 2020
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…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:18AMThursday, November 26, 2020
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,…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:12AMTuesday, November 24, 2020
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…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 05:48PMThursday, November 19, 2020
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 im…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:03AMSaturday, November 14, 2020
Palm Beach Dramaworks postponed its live on stage season, but it continues an aggressive online parade theatrical presentations for free in November and December with a three-play Home for …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:32AMFriday, November 13, 2020
Samuel French, one of the major playscript publishers in the nation, is releasing a new acting edition of the Thornton Wilder classic Our Town featuring some scenes translated into Spanish a…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:48PMWednesday, November 11, 2020
The Wick Theatre and Actors' Playhouse have scheduled their first productions inside their main auditoriums. The Wick opens this weekend with a John Denver tribute concert and the Playhouse …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:06PMSunday, November 1, 2020
Palm Beach County may be famous for the number and generosity of arts donors, but recent losses paint a deeply unsettling portrait. Survey responses from 33 non-profit arts groups produced a…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 04:18PMFriday, October 30, 2020
For arts fans looking for a bit of good news, the Kravis Center and the Broward Center are on track to be the first of the region’s large presenting houses to host a live event with an in-…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:32AMThursday, October 29, 2020
Usually fundraising galas are black tie events with hors d’oeuvres and dancing. Well, you can wear a black tie if you like, eat popcorn and dance if you like but in the privacy of your hom…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:33AMWednesday, October 28, 2020
Thinking Cap Theatre, “a steadfast champion of gender, racial, and sexual equality on- and off-stage,” is using their current, strong world premiere production of Laced as a “Get Out T…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 03:03PMMonday, October 26, 2020
Alvin Entin was an unique human being who invested his lifeforce in at least five passions simultaneously: proud family man, supportive friend who gifted a hundred silent mitzvahs, a far-tra…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 02:42PM 
