Tag Archives: City Theatre

She Shorts Is Female-Centric, But Message Is For Everyone

Alright ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, she’s and he’s, and those who would prefer not to self-identify, Thinking Cap Theatre and City Theatre’s summer short play fest, She Shorts is for you, so that means everybody.

Posted on July 18, 2019 by Bill Hirschman

Posted in Performances, Reviews | Tagged City Theatre, Courtney King, Daryl Patrice, Elena Maria Garcia, Gail Garrisan, Gladys Ramirez, JC Gutierrez, Jeanine Gangloff Levy, Jordan Patriarca, Margaret M. Ledford, Nicole Stodard, She Shorts, Stephon Duncan, Thinking Cap Theatre | 1 Comment

Summer Shorts 2019 Unusually Consistently Entertaining

This 24th annual Summer Shorts festival of short plays scores as the most consistent, polished and satisfying work beginning to end that City Theatre has produced in recent seasons.

Posted on June 2, 2019 by Bill Hirschman

Posted in Performances, Reviews | Tagged Andy Quiroga, City Theatre, Daryl Patrice, Gladys Ramirez, Greg A. Smith, Gregg Weiner, Hannah Richter, Hillary Rollins, Ian August, Jeff Locker, Jen Diamond, Jovon Jacobs, Lindsey Corey, Margaret Ledford, Michael Yawney, Preston Max Allen, Steve Yockey, Summer Shorts | Leave a comment

This Season’s Winter Shorts Is A Mixed Bag At City Theatre

Much like the holiday season itself, there are things to endure and other instances that are jolly. That’s the mixed bag of City Theatre’s Winter Shorts now playing at the Carnival Studio Theater at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts.

Posted on December 15, 2018 by Bill Hirschman

Posted in Performances, Reviews | Tagged Alex Alvarez, Andy Quiroga, Arsht Center, City Theatre, Daryl Patrice, Dave Corey, Diana Garle, Irene Adjan, Jeanette Farr, Jovon Jacobs, Margaret Ledford, Mark Harvey Levine, Steve Yockey, Winter Shorts | Leave a comment

Now The National Leader, City Theatre’s Long History Championing The Short Play

For some who view two-part events on Broadway and five-hour epic tragedies as the height of the theatrical form, the 10-minute play is condescendingly tolerated as the poor relation at the arts table. But not in Miami. City Theatre, a home-grown company created by three colleagues around a kitchen table 23 years ago, has become the leading purveyor of short-form theatre in the country.

Posted on December 12, 2018 by Bill Hirschman

Posted in Features | Tagged City Theatre, Karen Stephens, Nan Barnett, Stephanie Norman, Steve Yockey, Summer Shorts, Susan Westfall, Winter Shorts | 1 Comment

In-Depth: State Cuts Will Affect What You See On Stage; Theaters Pledge To Fight Back

Some South Florida theaters are scrapping some of what they plan to put on stage this season or next. Some are leaving support positions unfilled. Some plan smaller cast shows. Some have sidelined plans for growth. Theaters are scrambling to cope with an unexpected 90 percent slash in state funding. But theater champions vow to fight back by organizing patrons and leading citizens to influence lawmakers.

Posted on October 7, 2018 by Bill Hirschman

Posted in Features | Tagged Actors Playhouse, Americans for the Arts, Arts funding, ArtServe, Barbara Stein, City Theatre, Florida Children's Theatre, Florida Council on Arts and Culture, Florida Cultural Alliance, Florida Grand Opera, GableStage, Gobioff Foundation, Janeen Mason, Janet Erlick, Jaye Abbate, Joseph Adler, Maltz Jupiter Theatre, Margaret Ledford, Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs, Michael Spring, Palm Beach Dramaworks, Rick Scott, Sherron Long, Sue Ellen Beryl, Susan Westfall, William Hayes | Leave a comment

LGBTQIA Shorts Gone Wild 6 Comes Up A Little Short

No one could accuse the cast of Shorts Gone Wild 6 of being low energy. They spend the production’s interstitial moments cartwheeling, performing splits, engaging in slapdash chicken dances, telling jokes, winking through bawdy double entendres. But most of the plays are less memorable than their spirited introductions.

Posted on August 6, 2018 by Bill Hirschman

Posted in Performances, Reviews | Tagged Casey Sacco, Christina Groom, City Theatre, Daniel Llaca, Daryl Patrice, Gail Garrisan, Island City Stage, John Manzelli, Jovon Jacobs, Michael Leeds, Noah Levine, Shorts Gone Wild | 1 Comment

Miami’s Shorts Is Once Again A Welcome Summer Cooler

They make it look so easy.

The 23rd annual City Theatre Summer Shorts crew slip seamlessly from broad comedy with a hint of a moral to bittersweet drama with a soupcon of dry wit and back again in nine separate playlets.

Posted on June 5, 2018 by Bill Hirschman

Posted in Performances, Reviews | Tagged Alex Alvarez, City Theatre, Clive Cholerton, Daryl Patrice, Diana Garle, Elizabeth Dimon, Eric Pfeffinger, Gail S Garrisan, Greg Edwards, Jessica Farr, Ken Weitzman, Margaret M. Ledford, Mark Harvey Levine, Marquise Rogers, Michael Yawney, Scott Gibson, Sheila Cowley, Steve Yockey, Summer Shorts, Tom Wahl | Leave a comment

City Theatre To Send Its Work (And Local Actors) Around The World With ‘Shorts On Ships’

In a move that will spread the brand of Miami-based City Theatre around the world, the company begins this month producing collections of its short plays on Azamara Club Cruises luxury ships. The effort to maximize the extended use of its huge catalog of 10-minute plays represents what City Theatre sees a new producing prototype not just for itself but the theater industry.

Posted on February 6, 2018 by Bill Hirschman

Posted in Performances, Reviews | Tagged Barbara Sloan, City Theatre, Diana Garle, John Manzelli, Justin Schneyer, Margaret Ledford, Ricky J. Martinez, Royal Caribbean Cruises, Shorts On Ships, Susan Westfall | Leave a comment

A Last Look Back At 2017, A Fine South Florida Theater Season

One pleasure of a theater critic’s job are these year-end retrospectives that require looking back at reviews and be reminded, “Oh, yeah, that was really great. And right, there was that. And how could I forget that one?”

Posted on December 26, 2017 by Bill Hirschman

Posted in Features | Tagged Actors Playhouse, Anne-Marie Cusson, Area Stage Company, Bruce Linser, Cindy Pearce, City Theatre, Clay Cartland, Conor Walton, David Arisco, David Kwiat, Elena Maria Garcia, Elijah Word, GableStage, Greg Duffy, Gregg Weiner, Ground Up and Rising, Hannah Benitez, Island City Stage, J. Barry Lewis, Jean Josieu, Jessica E. Schulte, Jodi Dellaventura, Joseph Adler, Julie Kleiner, Karen Stephens, Kevin Black, Kevin Reilley, Kimberley Dawn Smith, Lindsay Bell, Main Street Players, Mallory Newbrough, Maltz Jupiter Theatre, Marcia Milgrom Dodge, Margaret M. Ledford, Michael Amico, Michael McClain, Michael Ursua, New City Players, Nicholas Richberg, Niki Fridh, outre theatre company, Palm Beach Dramaworks, Patrick Fitzwater, Shane Tanner, Slow Burn Theatre Company, Stuart Meltzer, Theatre Lab, Thinking Cap Theatre, Vicki Lewis, Wick Theatre, Zoetic Stage | Leave a comment

Winter Shorts: Welcome Holiday Warmth Against The Chill

Over 21 years, City Theatre’s ever-expanding enterprises have developed and maintained a brand-level reputation for entertaining theater; its return to cool weather programming with the current edition of Winter Shorts is just as diverting.

Posted on December 12, 2017 by Bill Hirschman

Posted in Performances, Reviews | Tagged Alex Alvarez, Arsht Center, Cassie M. Seinuik, City Theatre, Dave Corey, Diana Garle, Gina Femia, Ican Lopez, Jovon Jacobs, Margaret M. Ledford, Margot Moreland, Mark Harvey Levine, Patrick Gabridge, Rita Joe, Sheri Wilner, Vanessa Elise, Winter Shorts | Leave a comment