How Broadway Is Celebrating National Hispanic Heritage Month
THE CURTAIN RISES ON A NEW ARTS SEASON THIS OCTOBER AT THE BROWARD CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS
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.
ISLAND CITY STAGE OPENS 12TH SEASON WITH BROADWAY’S TONY AWARD WINNER LOVE! VALOUR! COMPASSION! ON OCTOBER 12
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 12th thrilling season. The show runs from October 12 – November 5.
Get Ready For Your Big Show-Stopper Number With Playbill’s 2023 September Horoscope
Well, someone tell me when is it my turn?! With three major shifts this month, September has a lot in store from work to family. As the Fall creeps in, find out which Broadway show-stopper you’ll relate to this Virgo season.
The Carbonell Awards Names Elizabeth Dashiell as Carbonell Coordinator & Welcomes Five New Judges for 2023-2024 Theater Season
(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.
FAU Presents Chita Rivera
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.
‘Pay the Writer’ Is Just One Point in This Relationship Play
Despite its thunderbolt of a title, the focus of this memory play is on the relationship between a self-involved author and his long-suffering agent.
Amid an ongoing strike by Hollywood screenwriters and actors, a play with the nifty title “Pay the Writer” courts applause before anyone has uttered a word. Never mind that its turf is mainly the literary world, not the cinematic one; the author at the center of Tawni O’Dell’s play, Cyrus Holt (Ron Canada), seems to speak for all underpaid writers when he inscribes that feisty injunction in a copy of his book that is being adapted as a movie.
ISLAND CITY STAGE’S THRILL ME: THE MUSICAL TRUE CRIME TALE, PREMIERED TO A SOLD-OUT WEEKEND CROWD
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 20th century closes out Island City Stage’s 11th South Florida Season.
A KILLER NEW COMEDY ‘CLARK GABLE SLEPT HERE’ SEPTEMBER 15 – OCTOBER 15 AT THE FOUNDRY
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.
Playwright and Screenwriter Nathan Louis Jackson Dies at 44
