Written By Sergy Odiduro | Originally published on Artburstmiami.com

It was just after the 2010 Haitian earthquake and Ketsia Theodore-Pharel was feeling helpless. “I was devastated,” says the Miami-based author. “I wanted to go help Haiti.”

Building on the success of sold out shows worldwide, a new 50+ city U.S. tour will kick off the next chapter of the Oscar®-winning Spider-Verse saga. The highly anticipated sequel Spider-Man™: Across the Spider-Verse Live in Concert will land in West Palm Beach at the Kravis Center for the Performing Arts on Thursday, September 5 at 7 p.m.  For the complete tour schedule visit spiderverseinconcert.com. View the tour announcement video here.

Pompano Beach Arts Celebrates Haitian Heritage Month. Festive Events Celebrate the Vibrant Culture and Distinct Art of Haiti The month of May is nationally recognized as Haitian Heritage Month, and Pompano Beach Arts proudly honors the artistic influence of the beautiful Caribbean nation with some very special events, held at various venues throughout the city. Spanning everything from visual art through dance and music, there is something for everyone to enjoy. Learn more at www.pompanobeacharts.org.

Miami, FL – Zoetic Stage (@ZoeticStageMIA) and the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County (@arshtcenter) are proud to present the world premiere of Elena Garcia and Stuart Meltzer’s CUBAN CHICKEN SOUP: WHEN THERE’S NO MORE CAFÉ from May 2-19. From the creative team that brought behind the hugely successful ¡Fuacata! A Latina’s Guide to Surviving the Universe comes a new one-woman, comedic tour de force starring the incomparable Elena Maria Garcia. 

(West Palm Beach, Fl.) – The Kravis Center for the Performing Arts is thrilled to announce Nurse Blake is bringing his NEW COMEDY TOUR SHOCK ADVISED! to West Palm Beach on Wednesday, December 4, 2024. Tickets for the West Palm Beach performance start at $39.50* and go on sale to the public on Friday, April 26 at 10 a.m. online at kravis.org.

FORT LAUDERDALE – The Broward Center for the Performing Arts and South Florida Cappies Inc. present the 22nd Annual Cappies Awards celebrating outstanding achievement in high school theater on Tuesday, May 21 at 7 p.m. in the Au-Rene Theater.

(South Florida) – Gary Schweikhart, board president of the Carbonell Awards, South Florida’s Theatre & Arts Honors, today announced that the 47^th annual awards ceremony will be held on Monday, November 11 at 7:30 pm at the Lauderhill Performing Arts Center at 3800 NW 11^th Place, Lauderhill, FL 33311.

West Palm Beach, Fla. – Palm Beach Dramaworks is delighted to announce that 19 students from five middle schools are the winners of the second annual Young Playwrights 1-Minute Play Contest. Inspired by PBD’s hugely popular Young Playwrights 10-Minute Play Contest for high school students, the 1-Minute Play Contest is open to all Palm Beach County students in grades six through eight and challenges them to tell a complete story in just 60 seconds. The plays will receive a staged reading by professional actors in front of an audience at the Don & Anne Brown Theatre on Wednesday, April 17 at 7pm. Tickets are free, but reservations are required.