When I first heard of Nickelodeon’s “SpongeBob SquarePants” animated TV series, I didn’t get the appeal. “Really?” I thought? “A talking sea sponge in shirt-and-tie, shorts or underpants?” But haven’t we all embraced talking mice and daffy ducks et al for generations? Who am I to cast doubt?
Playwright Alexis Scheer, born and raised in Miami from a Columbian household, captured the humor and spirit of Latina culture in her one act play “Laughs in Spanish”, running now through June 23 at Gabletage in Coral Gables.
In advance of Juneteenth, The Parker will host Hued Songs: The Juneteenth Experience, a groundbreaking, immersive celebration of film, music, dance, poetry, multimedia elements and more, at 6:30 p.m. on Friday, June 14.
Gary Schweikhart, president of the Carbonell Awards, South Florida’s Theater & Arts Honors, today announced the recipient of this year’s prestigious George Abbott Award which will be presented at the 47thannual Carbonell Awards Ceremony on Monday, November 11, at 7:30 p.m. at the Lauderhill Performing Arts Center at 3800 NW 11th Place, Lauderhill, FL 33311.
Tickets for Cameron Mackintosh’s acclaimed production of Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg’s Tony Award-winning musical phenomenon, LES MISÉRABLES (@lesmizus), are currently on sale for its upcoming Miami engagement at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County (@arshtcenter), June 18-23, 2024. LES MISÉRABLES closes the 2023-2024 Broadway in Miami season presented by the Adrienne Arsht Center and Broadway Across America (@bwayamerica).
I was initially intrigued by Palm Beach Dramaworks’ (PBD) first-ever revival play TRYING by Joanna McClelland Glass because of its premise. It shows how people of extremely disparate backgrounds and generational experience can spar yet keep working together to where they eventually respect and even deeply care for one another. If an ailing, patrician 81-year-old former US attorney general and judge from a prestigious American family and a vigorous, determined non-Ivy-League educated young woman of 25 from a small Canadian prairie town (who’s hired as his secretary) can learn to get along, perhaps there’s still hope for the rest of us. Particularly in our contentious times.
Students from 29 local high schools in Broward and Palm Beach Counties were honored with commendations, performances and awards at the 22nd Annual Cappies Awards celebrating outstanding achievement in high school theater recently presented by the Broward Center for the Performing Arts and South Florida Cappies Inc.
Cynthia Erivo, BD Wong, Patina Miller, Ruthie Ann Miles Are Part of PBS Memorial Day Concert May 26. Joe Mantegna and Gary Sinise host the 35th anniversary broadcast. Several Tony winners are part of PBS’ annual National Memorial Day Concert, which is broadcast live from the West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol May 26 beginning at 8 PM ET on PBS; check local listings. The concert is also available for streaming at PBS.org and YouTube and on demand May 26–June 9.
Plays of Wilton (POW!) and Ronnie Larsen Presents will present the revival of Michael McKeever’s award winning play, “Daniel’s Husband,” at The Foundry from May 23 through June 16, 2024. Daniel and Mitchell are the perfect couple. Perfect house, perfect friends – even a mother who wants them married. A turn of events puts their perfect life in jeopardy, and Mitchell is thrust into a future where even his love may not prove to be enough. “Daniel’s Husband” is a bold reflection of love, commitment, and family in our perilous new world.
This past weekend was the closing performance of “Don Juan: Pride and Paradise” presented by Maroon Isle Productions at Main Street Players. Adapted from the translated Molière play “Don Juan”, playwright/director/actor Sefanja R. Galon has taken the original 1665 comedy about a misogynist navigating his way through the ups and downs of multiple romantic situations and sets it in the Caribbean in the 1950’s. In doing so, Galon gives way for a diverse cast to tell a classic story in their own unique voice.
