Kravis Center Brings Broadway’s Mean Girls and Beetlejuice, 54 Below at the Rinker, Palm Beach Improv and More Entertainment This December
A Miami Transplant Takes On Maine In A Delicious “Sweet Goats”
If you’re up for taking a risk on a new script, you’re likely to find yourself pleasantly surprised by Sweet Goats And Blueberry Señoritas, the product of a collaboration between South Florida playwright extraordinaire Vanessa Garcia and nationally renowned poet Richard Blanco. Initially commissioned by Maine’s Portland Stage Company, where it premiered earlier this year, the work can now be seen in its only second major production at Miami’s Actor’s Playhouse until only this Dec 3rd.
Alicia Keys’s Musical, ‘Hell’s Kitchen,’ Is Ambitious but Unfinished
A promising Off Broadway jukebox musical features hits by the R&B star (including “Fallin’,” “If I Ain’t Got You” and “No One”) and a story much like her own.
New City Players To Present Original Radio Play Adaptation Of ‘A Christmas Carol’
New City Players is proud to announce their upcoming production of our original radio play adaptation of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. Inspired by the success of our 2022 production of It’s A Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play, this new take on the beloved tale was written by NCP ensemble member Tyler Johnson Grimes, who received a Carbonell nomination for creating the prior production’s foley sound effects.
MIAMI NATIVE STUNNING IN NEW RENDITION OF ‘FUNNY GIRL’
Miami native Katarina McCrimmon dazzled the opening night audience attending “Funny Girl” at the Broward Center of the Performing Arts in Ft. Lauderdale with her singing, dancing and comic skills in her portrayal of early 20th century vaudeville star Fanny Brice.
KNIGHT FOUNDATION NAMES MIAMI NATIVE MARIBEL PEREZ WADSWORTH ITS NEW PRESIDENT, CEO
Written By Michelle F. Solomon.
Originally pubilished on artburstmaimi.com.
She’s the first female to lead the 73-year-old Knight Foundation, she has deep roots in journalism, and she’s coming back to Miami.
The daughter of Cuban immigrants, a Miami native, graduate of Coral Gables High School and the University of Miami’s School of Communication, Maribel Perez Wadsworth will become the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation’s president and CEO effective January 2024.
West Boca Theatre Company Presents Five Plays as Part of Levis JCC Sandler Center’s Arts, Culture and Learning Season
West Boca Theatre Company will open its 2023-2024 season of five professional and topical musical, comedic and dramatic productions at the Levis JCC in West Boca Raton with a performance of Alfred Uhry’s The Last Night of Ballyhoo starting Nov. 29.
A Touching Tribute To Teaching In ‘Detentions, Demerits, And Dismissals’
Whatever other differences may divide us, one thing remains almost universally true; we’ve pretty much all had our fair share of teachers, many of whom would prove to be formative as we approached the rest of our lives. Thus, though it may strike a particular cord for those teachers who happen to be in the audience, pretty much everyone is likely to find something to connect to in ‘Detentions, Demerits, and Dismissals.’
Welcome to the Carbonell’s: South Florida’s Biggest Theater Night is a Hit!
I must admit when South Florida Theater Magazine (who I’m proud to say is a sponsor of this prestigious event) first invited me to cover THE 46th ANNUAL CARBONELL AWARDS on November 13, I was somewhat intimidated. The journalist in me immediately googled former Carbonell Award nights (these can be defined as a regional version of Broadway’s Tonys – but far more inclusive of smaller theaters and experimental work). I landed on a short video of my editor, Jessie Dez, as gorgeous and glammed up as any Access Hollywood reporter, conducting pre-show interviews with similarly gowned and evening-wear attired nominees.
Carbonell Awards Announce Winners for 2022-2023 Theater Season
