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Students Get South Florida Cappies Awards In Online Gala
The COVID-19 virus did not rob this high school generation of the chance to honor each other’s work in the South Florida Cappies organization’s slickly-produced online celebration livestreamed Tuesday night in the 18th annual presentation of the awards.
COVID’s Effect On Miami-Dade Arts Persists And Worsens
New figures show that the COVID-19 pandemic continued to gut punch the arts community in Miami-Dade County through last month with a total loss estimated at nearly $43 million and costing more than 5,300 jobs across the non-profit and cultural organizations, the county reported Tuesday.
You Can’t Stop The Beat: Well, At Least Online In So. Florida
Trivia contests, master classes, solo performances, new play development online, lectures, podcast-like schmoozing interviews, requests for video audition, 24-hour theater projects, even soliciting subscriptions for specific dates. The ghost light may be lit across the South Florida theater scene, but nearly every troupe is aggressively keeping the genre’s profile inescapable.
Miami-Dade Arts Lost $22.8 Million Through March
Already, the COVID-19 pandemic has cost the Miami-Dade arts and culture world an estimated $22.9 million and affected 1,700 jobs just through the end of March, according to the first figures from an ongoing survey by the county Department of Cultural Affairs.
Joseph Adler, Transformative Titan And Champion Of South Florida Theater, Dies At 79
Joseph Adler, a titan who helped transform South Florida’s cultural landscape by mounting unblinking, dynamic work and aggressively championing local artists, died Thursday. Passionate and outspoken, curmudgeonly and supportive, gruff and loving, but unassailably a skilled artist, Adler had been a force of nature as producing artistic director of GableStage since 1998.
CANCELLED: Measure For Measure’S Angels In America
Measure For Measure Theatre will deliver the entire Angels In America epic in a free online reading over the next two weeks in one of the most unusual arrangements the region has yet seen. The live-only reading on Facebook separates Tony Kushner’s legendary work into one-hour segments, each segment cybercast by itself spread over six days beginning this Friday.
Theatre Lab Sets 2nd Benefit — For Behind The Scenes Workers
Theatre Lab is creating a second Online Monologue Festival culminating with an April 27 performance to benefit behind the scenes workers in South Florida theater such as stage managers, designers, technicians, administrators, box office employees and similar people.
Main Street Players Taps Winners In New Play Competition
Main Street Players, the Miami Lakes company that transformed from a community theater to professional status, has announced the winners of its 2020 New Play Competition Winners.
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