FORT LAUDERDALE – Comedy, music and the best of Broadway opens the new arts season at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts in October.

With her win of the Critics Choice Award for Best Comedy Special for Welcome to Buteaupia on Netflix,  Michelle Buteau brings her “Full Heart, Tight Jeans” tour to the Amaturo Theater on Friday, October 6 at 8 p.m. She returns to Netflix as the creator/writer/star of the upcoming series Survival of the Thickest, inspired by her autobiographical book of essays of the same name. Buteau is also the host of two popular reality competition shows: The Circle and Barbecue Showdown also on Netflix. Other film and TV credits include Marry Me, First Wives Club, Always Be My Maybe, Awkwafina is Nora from Queens, Russian Doll, and Someone Great. She is also known for writing the Modern Manners column for Real Simple and hosting the popular podcast Adulting. 

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (September 8, 2023) – Love! Valour! Compassion! – Terrence McNally‘s most honored and celebrated play about eight gay friends who spend the holidays over one summer at one’s beautiful hundred-year-old house in upstate New York, kicks off Island City Stage’s 12^th thrilling season. The show runs from October 12 – November 5.

(South Florida – September 5, 2023) Gary Schweikhart, board president of the Carbonell Awards, South Florida’s most highly coveted recognition of theatrical and performance excellence, today announced that Elizabeth Dashiell has joined the nonprofit organization as Carbonell Coordinator for the 2023-2024 season.

BOCA RATON, Fla.  – Florida Atlantic University’s Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, in collaboration with the Palm Beach Book Festival,  presents “An Evening with Chita Rivera” on Tuesday, Nov,. 14 at 5 p.m. in the University Theatre on FAU’s Boca Raton campus at 777 Glades Road. Tickets include a copy of Rivera’s book “Chita: A Memoir.” There will also be a VIP opportunity at 4 p.m. These tickets include a signed copy of the book and a photo with Rivera. Rivera will not be signing books at the event. Tickets are available at fauevents.com or by calling 561-297-6124.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – Island City Stage’s Thrill Me: The Leopold & Loeb Story with book, music and lyrics by Stephen Dolginoff, premiered to a sold-out weekend audience. The captivating musical true crime tale that recounts the chilling story of the legendary duo who committed one of the most infamous and heinous crimes of the 20^th century closes out Island City Stage’s 11^th South Florida Season.

RONNIE LARSEN PRESENTS IN ASSOCIATION WITH PLAYS OF WILTON (POW) ANNOUNCES ITS NEXT PRODUCTION TO BE A KILLER NEW COMEDY “CLARK GABLE SLEPT HERE”. CREATED BY TWO OF SOUTH FLORIDA’S BIGGEST THEATRICAL SUPERSTARS, WRITTEN BY AND STARRING MICHAEL MCKEEVER, AND DIRECTED BY STUART MELTZER. 

Fort Lauderdale, FL – The Bank of America Broadway in Fort Lauderdale series and presenting sponsor Nicklaus Children’s Hospital, announced that an all-new tour of the iconic Tony Award^®-winning musical ANNIE will play at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts Tuesday, October 10 through Sunday, October 22, 2023.  Tickets starting at $40.00* are available at BrowardCenter.org and Ticketmaster.com, by phone at 954.468.0222 or at the Broward Center’s AutoNation Box Office located at 201 SW Fifth Avenue, Fort Lauderdale, FL. 33312. Orders for groups of ten (10) or more can be purchased by calling 954.660.6307.

You can always find live theater in South Florida … well, almost always. Major companies tend to follow Broadway’s show calendar, ending their season, at best, in late spring and starting up again in October. Florida summers often showcased smaller venues with obscure or newly hatched productions except for, it would seem, the month of September. When the kids are back at school and parents and grandparents have returned from vacations as well. Where do we go for our live theater fix then?

(West Palm Beach, Fl. – August 21, 2023) – Fortune Feimster: Live Laugh Love! is coming to the Raymond F. Kravis Center for the Performing Arts on Sunday, December 31, 2023. Tickets for the West Palm Beach performance start at $29.50* and go on sale to the public on Friday, August 25 at 10 a.m. online at kravis.org.