Sunday, June 21, 2020
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 …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 05:42PMThursday, June 18, 2020
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 …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 04:12PMTuesday, June 16, 2020
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 …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 03:03PMMonday, June 15, 2020
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 tumu…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:24AMWednesday, June 10, 2020
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…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:03PMMonday, June 8, 2020
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 count…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:06PMFriday, June 5, 2020
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 tim…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:42PMMonday, June 1, 2020
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…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 04:42PMSunday, May 24, 2020
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…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 01:36PMWednesday, May 20, 2020
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 livestre…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:54PMTuesday, May 19, 2020
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…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 07:24PMSunday, May 17, 2020
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…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:12PMSaturday, May 16, 2020
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…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 01:24PMThursday, May 14, 2020
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…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:54AMSunday, May 10, 2020
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…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 04:06PMTuesday, April 28, 2020
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…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:03PMSaturday, April 25, 2020
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 il…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 02:54PMMonday, April 20, 2020
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…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 05:36PMSunday, April 19, 2020
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…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:54AMSaturday, April 18, 2020
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…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:48AMFriday, April 17, 2020
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…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:03AMWednesday, April 15, 2020
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…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:32AMMonday, April 13, 2020
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…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 02:32PMFriday, April 10, 2020
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.
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 05:18PMThursday, April 9, 2020
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…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:36AMMonday, April 6, 2020
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…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:24PMSaturday, April 4, 2020
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…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 05:36PMFriday, April 3, 2020
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…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 05:24PMTuesday, March 31, 2020
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 …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 07:12PMTo 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 th…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 07:12PM 
