The Silver Palm Awards will be returning to Union Kitchen & Bar in Wilton Manors on Monday, October 12, 2026 at 6:30 p.m., when the recipients of this year’s awards will be honored. The Silver Palms Awards were established in 2008, conceived to celebrate the work of theater artists who live in South Florida.
This year’s honorees, along with all those who participate in creating theater in South Florida, will enjoy a casual celebration with free champagne, passed hors d’oeuvres, and light food stations before and after the presentation of the awards. Tickets for the event are $35. Union Kitchen & Bar is located at 2309 Dixie Highway in Wilton Manors. The Silver Palm Awards Celebration is sponsored by the Tony Finstrom Fund at Our Fund and Mark Traverso and Conor Walton.
Tribute artist Sharon Owens will perform 25 plus songs as Barbra Streisand in her 90 minute two act show titled “An Enchanted Evening With Barbra” taking place on Saturday, Sept. 19 at 7 p.m. at Boca Black Box Center for the Arts in Boca Raton.
Unlike many other Streisand tribute artists, Owens transforms herself onstage as Streisand and introduces herself onstage calling herself “Barbra Streisand” in her show.
Shakespeare Troupe will present a full production of Hedda Gabler taking place at Sol Theatre, 3333 North Federal Highway, Boca Raton, Florida, October 2 – 18, 2026. Featured performers: Nicole Hulett as Hedda, with Ana Marie Calese, Christine Chavers, Geoff Freitag, Sara Grant, Seth Trucks and Jeremy Wershoven.
Nominations are now open for Palm Beach Symphony’s annual Instrumental Music Teacher of the Year Award for dedicated music educators and Lisa Bruna B-Major Award for high school seniors in Palm Beach County.
Gary Schweikhart, board president of the Carbonell Awards, South Florida’s Theater & Arts Honors, today announced the recipient of the seventh of nine Special Awards that will be presented at the 49th annual Carbonell Awards Ceremony on Monday, November 16, at 7:30 pm at FAU’s University Theatre in Boca Raton 33431.
Theatre Lab, the professional resident company of Florida Atlantic University’s Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, announced its 2026–27 season, beginning with its annual a Heckscher Theatre for Families production – the world premiere of “Baker Street Beginnings” commissioned for Theatre Lab and written by local playwright and educator Gina Montét. All performances take place at the Heckscher Stage in the Marleen Forkas Studio One Theatre in FAU’s Performing Arts Building, 777 Glades Road, Boca Raton campus.
ISLAND CITY STAGE MOUNTS NATIONWIDE LEAD ACTOR SEARCH FOR ITS 15th ANNIVERSARY SEASON PRODUCTION OF PAPER CUT BYAndrew Rosendorf, A DRAMATIC LOOK AT The EMOTIONAL TOLL Of WAR.
Authentic disability representation – Actors with lower limb amputation encouraged to audition
Island City Stage, an award-winning South Florida theater company, is mounting a nationwide lead actor search for its 15th anniversary season production of Paper Cut by Andrew Rosendorf, a dramatic look at the emotional toll of war. The award-winning theater company is seeking male applicants, aged 25 – 40, of any ethnicity, who embody true authentic disability representation. Performers with lower limb amputations (left, right, or bilateral) are encouraged to apply for the role of Kyle, a veteran dealing with the emotional cost of war long after the battlefield has been left behind. The show will run March 11 – April 4, 2027, with rehearsals from February 16 – March 10, 2027.
What does Arthur Miller’s iconic American play, Death of Salesman (La muerte de un viajante), have to say to today’s Miami audiences – especially in a newly created Spanish-language adaptation from one of South Florida’s leading theater companies, Arca Images? Quite a lot, as its searing insights remain sharply relevant and incisive.
The Lake Worth Playhouse has announced a transformational $1 million endowment gift, one of the most significant financial milestones in the Playhouse’s history.
The gift, generously provided by an anonymous donor, establishes a permanent endowment that will provide a reliable source of annual funding to support the Playhouse’s artistic programming, preserve its historic home, and expand educational opportunities for young people throughout the community.
Long before Hy Vong became one of Miami’s most beloved restaurants, it began with an unlikely friendship between two women whose lives were forever changed by war, then brought together through resilience, compassion, and hope.
This August, their remarkable story takes the stage in SOUP The Musical, based on the memoir Mango & Peppercorns, which tells the true story of Tung Nguyen and Kathy Manning.
