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  • Prepare to be Moved by Other Desert Cities At New Theater

    There is good theater, and then there is good theater. In short, Other Desert Cities, produced by a relatively new local production company and now playing at Empire Stage, is so much so in the latter category we would be hard-pressed to find anything wrong with it.

  • Margaret Ledford Receives Carbonell’s Ruth Foreman Award

    Margaret M. Ledford, who has directed at nearly every regional theater in South Florida and helped found several, has received the Carbonell’s Ruth Foreman Award, recognizing “outstanding contribution to development of South Florida theatre.”

  • Michelle Solomon Receives Charlie Cinnamon Award

    Michelle F. Solomon, who has kept coverage of Miami’s art scene vibrant despite cutbacks at many venues, has been named the recipient of the Carbonell Awards’ Charlie Cinnamon Award for “outstanding support of South Florida theater and the Carbonell Awards.”

  • Bit By Bit, Putting It Together: How Scenic Designers & Colleagues Create Worlds

    In depth: Scenic designer Anne Mundell’s environments communicate an array of foreign and familiar times, places and character of their denizens from the moment the curtain rises.
    Understanding her collegial process is an education into how you see what you see on stage opening night.

  • Our Fund To Receive Carbonell’s Vinnette Carroll Award

    The Our Fund Foundation, an LGBTQ-based group, has been named the recipient of the Carbonell Awards’ Vinnette Carroll Award for “outstanding achievement in advancing diversity, equality and inclusion in South Florida theater.”

  • Brévo Theater To Receive Carbonell’s Jan McArt Award

    Brévo Theatre, the black-centric company which scored a major success this season with the musical The Color Purple, has been named the second recipient of the Carbonell Awards’ Jan McArt Award honoring” Outstanding Achievement by a Small Theater.”  

  • ‘The Shark Is Broken’ Is Part Comedy, Part Musing Set During The Making Of Jaws

    The title of Actors Playhouse’s The Shark Is Broken comes from a recreation of the making of Jaws in a sometimes broadly comic, sometimes dryly witty, sometimes rue-tinged exploration of fame, fathers and film seen from the three lead actors waiting for filming to continue.

  • Ali Tallman Receives Inaugural Christine Dolen Carbonell Award

    Ali Tallman, resident dramaturg at GableStage, has been named the first recipient of the Carbonell Awards’ Christine Dolen Award honoring the outstanding debut of a Carbonell-eligible performer, playwright, producer, director or designer.

  • My Book Report: Bill Reviews 7 Theater-Related Tomes Including New Sondheim Bio

    Florida Theater On Stage’s summer reading list worth for a few evenings encompasses three looks at Sondheim including a fresh off the press biography. Plus we dissect a detailed look at Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf’s evolution from play to film, plus a newly prefaced edition of Raisin in the Sun with post-script analysis,.

  • ‘Burst’ Explodes As Integrity And Ambition Collide at New City Players Season Closer

    Fury, frustration, deception, integrity, ambition and amorality combine and collide in a super-charged spiral downward that cements a cuttingly wry satire liberally seasoned with chuckles and giggles in New City Players’ all-too-well-titled Burst.