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Beverly Blanchette Receives Carbonell’s Bill Hindman Award
Beverly Blanchette, a theater artist and educator who has helped shape the cultural fabric of south Florida for over four decades, will receive the Carbonell’s Bill Hindman Award honoring significant, long-term contributions to the region’s cultural life and onstage career achievement by performing artists based in South Florida.
Alexa Kuve of Arca Images Receives Carbonell’s Ruth Foreman Award
Alexa Kuve, the actress, executive producer and artistic director of Arca Images will be the recipient of the Carbonell’s Ruth Foreman Award “recognizing contributions to South Florida theater development by an individual or group, for singular achievement and/or career contributions.”
Kravis Begins Pay To Park
Patrons of the Kravis Center for the Performing Arts accustomed to free parking will have to pay to park in its adjacent garage next month in tandem with an end to the free shuttle which many people used to avoid paying to park in downtown West Palm Beach.
Mary Damiano To Receive Charlie Cinnamon Carbonell
Mary Damiano, a long-time arts journalist and critic, will receive the Carbonnell Awards’ Charlie Cinnamon Award honoring an individual who contributes significantly to the support of the arts in South Florida and to the Carbonell Awards program.
Michel Hausmann to be Honored With Vinnette Carroll Award
Michel Hausmann, the co-founder and Artistic Director of Miami New Drama, reputedly the largest bilingual theater company in the country, will be honored in November by the Carbonell Awards with the Vinnette Carroll Award.
McKeever Play To Travel Overseas Next Month
Michael McKeever and Christopher Renshaw are going to London. And they’re taking the code with them. Well, they’re taking The Code with them, The Code being the acclaimed play that McKeever wrote and Crenshaw directed back in April 2022 at Ronnie Larsen Presents’ production at the Foundry.
New City Players to Receive Carbonells’ Jan McArt Award
New City Players, the vest-pocket theater company that has consistently produced memorable work since 2014 in Broward County, has been named the recipient of the first Jan McArt Award from the Carbonells Awards program. The award recognizes significant achievement by a small theater.
City Theatre Fights Government Funding Cuts With Imaginatively Rethought Summer Shorts
South Florida arts organizations are struggling with government funding cuts. A prime example is how City Theatre iis scaling back with a good-natured thumb-your-nose attitude that acknowledges, even embraces the sparing steps that have been taken in their 29th annual Summer Shorts festival.
Dramaworks’ Hayes & Beryl To Receive Carbonell’s Highest George Abbott Award
The Carbonell Awards recognizing excellence will bestow its highest honor, the George Abbott Outstanding Achievement in the Arts, to two of the founders of Palm Beach Dramaworks, married couple William Hayes and Sue Ellen Beryl.
Scores of Theater and Journalism Students Reap Cappies Awards
Hundreds upon hundreds of students from Broward and Palm Beach counties cheered loudly enough to rattle the auditorium May 20 at the 23rd awards gala recognizing achievements in theater and journalism by their classmates from 28 public and private schools in the South Florida Cappies program.

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