Tag Archives: Florida Stage

Regional Theaters Are The Country’s Primary Incubator of New Plays – Including SoFla

Indisputably, regional theaters have been a significant wellspring for new plays reaching back 30 years. But a quickening sea change has occurred quietly but demonstrably over the past decade: Regional theaters – once reliant on warhorses and the latest New York hit — have become the primary incubator and showcase for new work in America

Posted on August 13, 2017 by Bill Hirschman

Posted in Features | Tagged Actors Theatre of Louisville, All The Way, American Theatre Critics Association, Amy Rose Marsh, ART, Arts Garage, Barrington Stage, Becky's New Car, Berkeley Rep, Christopher Demos-Brown, Contemporary American Theatre Festival, Daniel's Husband, Deborah Zoe Laufer, Denver Center’s Colorado New Play Summit, Ed Herendeen, Eugene O’ Neill Theatre Center, Florida Stage, Gideon’s Knot, Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust, Humana Festival of New American Plays, I and You, Island City Stage, Jim Steinberg, Johnna Adams, Ken Ludwig, La Jolla Playhouse, Lauren Gunderson, Louis Tyrrell, Mad Cat Theatre Company, Michael McKeever, Nan Barnett, National New Play Network, New Theatre, Nilo Cruz, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Paper Mill Playhouse, Playwrights Horizon, Public Theater, Pulitzer Prize, Robert Schenkkan, Samuel French Inc., South Coast Rep, Steppenwolf, Steve Yockey, Steven Dietz, Sundance Institute, Theatre Lab at Florida Atlantic University, Zoetic Stage | 1 Comment

Nan Barnett Takes Exec Director Post At Atlanta’s Actor’s Express Theatre

Nancy Barnett, the former managing director of Florida Stage, has taken a job as executive director of Actors’ Express Theatre in Atlanta effective immediately.

Posted on August 21, 2012 by Bill Hirschman

Posted in News | Tagged Florida Stage, Nancy Barnett | 1 Comment

StageBill Blog: Looking Back At The Year of the Sea Change

In real life, we rarely have the clarity of identifiable watersheds as heroes discover in dramas. But five years from now, you’ll likely look back on the past 12 months and recognize not a turning point, but an unmistakable moment within a slow sea change in South Florida theater.

Posted on December 25, 2011 by Bill Hirschman

Posted in News, StageBill | Tagged Actors Playhouse, Adrienne Arsht Center, Alliance Theatre Lab, Broward Center for the Performing Arts, Caldwell Theatre Company, David Michael Sirois, Florida Stage, GableStage, Infinite Abyss, Joseph Adler, Michael McKeever, Mosaic Theatre, Naked Stage, Paul Tei, Tarell Alvin McCraney, The Women's Theatre Project | 2 Comments

Nan Barnett’s Essay on the Death of Florida Stage and the Personal Fallout

Nan Barnett, managing director of Florida Stage, has written a stunning essay for American Voices New Play Institute, revealing both the devastating and transformative effect the closure had on her life as well as the first extensive insider’s account of how it occurred.

Posted on September 26, 2011 by Bill Hirschman

Posted in General | Tagged Florida Stage, Nan Barnett | 2 Comments

Looking Back: The Best (and Worst) of the 2010-2011 Season

By Bill Hirschman (CORRECTED 9:47 A.M.) Theater reviewers must have a better than average ego to flatter themselves into believing that their judgment has worth, regardless of what anyone else thinks. So imagine critics asking each other for a reality …

Posted on September 15, 2011 by Bill Hirschman

Posted in Features | Tagged A Round-Heeled Woman, Actors Playhouse, Alliance Theatre Lab, August: Osage County, Barbara Bradshaw, Collected Stories, David Sirois, Erin Joy Schmidt, Fifty Words, Florida Stage, GableStage, God of Carnage, Gregg Weiner, Karen Stephens, Laura Turnbull, Michael McKeever, Palm Beach Dramaworks, Sharon Gless, The Brothers Size, The Light in the Piazza, Zoetic Stage | 4 Comments