Tag Archives: Steve Yockey

Summer Shorts Finally Gets to Celebrate 25th Anniversary

Like death and taxes, one of the few truly dependable things in life is that the venerable Summer Shorts from City Theatre is going to be a satisfying mix of light comedy with a few mildly serious moments. And its silver anniversary production remains a thoroughly entertaining source of 10-minute plays executed by a seasoned cadre of pros.

Posted on June 8, 2022 by Bill Hirschman

Posted in Performances, Reviews | Tagged Alex Alvarez, Caryl Fantel, City Theatre, Daniel Llaca, Diana Garle, Elena Maria Garcia, Ellis Tillman, Eric Nelson, Gail S Garrisan, Jameelah Bailey, James Samuel Randolph, Jodi Dellaventura, Jovon Jacobs, Lindsey Corey, Margaret M. Ledford, Margot Moreland, Michael Yawney, Nicole Perry, Sandra Portal-Andreu, Stephon Duncan, Steve Shapiro, Steve Yockey, Summer Shorts, Tom Wahl | Leave a 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

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

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

Musicals Make A Mark In This Year’s Round Of Summer Shorts

City Theatre’s Summer Shorts, which only recently began showcasing musicals, includes three this year including one by Lin-Manuel Miranda.

Posted on June 7, 2017 by Bill Hirschman

Posted in Performances, Reviews | Tagged Arsht Center, Cassandra Zepeda, Chisa Hutchinson, City Theatre, David McGregor, David Nail, Irene Adjan, Jessica Farr, Karen Stephens, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Lindsay Lavin, Margaret Ledford, Paul Tei, Robert Strain, Steve Yockey, Summer Shorts, Susan Westfall | Leave a comment

Music Is The New Element In City Theatre’s Summer Shorts

Hardly unusual in musical theater, Meredith Bartmon strolls around the Carnival Studio stage singing passionately about her dreams and, later, her refusal to compromise those dreams. But this isn’t a two-and-half-hour epic on a national tour; this is one of nine 10-minute playlets in City Theatre’s 21st edition of Summer Shorts.

Posted on June 5, 2016 by Bill Hirschman

Posted in Performances, Reviews | Tagged Alex Alvarez, Cherise James, Chris Critelli, Christopher Wood, City Theatre, Elin Hampton, Elizabeth Dimon, Ellis Tillman, France-Luce Benson, Greg Waters, Jennifer Jasper, Jessica Farr, Jodi Dellaventura, Justin Landers, Karen Stephens, Kelly Younger, Margaret M. Ledford, Meredith Bartmon, Patricia Cotter, Paul Rudnick, Paul Tei, Preston Bircher, Steve Shapiro, Steve Yockey, Summer Shorts, Tom Wahl | Leave a comment

Annual Summer Shorts Will Feature The Sound of Music

The ever-developing Summer Shorts Festival, now entering its 21st year in Miami, will sound a bit different this year: two of the ten-minute works will be musicals.

Posted on June 1, 2016 by Bill Hirschman

Posted in Features | Tagged Alex Alvarez, Cherise James, Chris Critelli, Christopher Wood, City Theatre, Elin Hampton, Elizabeth Dimon, Ellis Tillman, France-Luce Benson, Greg Waters, Jennifer Jasper, Jessica Farr, Jodi Dellaventura, Justin Landers, Kelly Younger, Margaret M. Ledford, Meredith Bartmon, Patricia Cotter, Paul Rudnick, Paul Tei, Preston Bircher, Steve Shapiro, Steve Yockey, Summer Shorts | Leave a comment

20th Summer Shorts Even More Consistently Funny & Poignant

Intriguing premises are the jumping off points for the nine flights of theatrical whimsy in City Theatre’s annual festival of short plays, Summer Shorts. While no discernable thread runs through the disparate works, the deftly comic playlets are shot through with a striation of poignancy, and the moving entries are leavened with flashes of humor.

Posted on June 6, 2015 by Bill Hirschman

Posted in Performances, Reviews | Tagged Adrienne Arsht Center, Bechir Sylvain, City Theatre, Edith Freni, Elizabeth Dimon, France-Luce Benson, Holli Harms, John Manzelli, Karen Stephens, Kelly Younger, Margaret M. Ledford, Michael Uribe, Paticia Cotter, Paul Tei, R. Eric Thomas, Steve Yockey, Summer Shorts, Tom Wahl | Leave a comment