Tag Archives: Tarell Alvin McCraney

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.

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GableStage Plans Annual Outdoor Winter Shakespeare Festival With McCraney and Royal Shakespeare Company

GableStage has been given seed money to start an annual Winter Shakespeare Festival that would team with the Royal Shakespeare Company and Miami native Tarrell Alvin McCraney, and involve building a temporary outdoor amphitheater in Miami-Dade County.

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Tarell Alvin McCraney and GableStage Deliver Memorable The Brothers Size

By Bill Hirschman The initial temptation is to rave about playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney’s alchemy of poetic, profane and prosaic language. Or how the inventive production of his The Brothers Size at GableStage this month marks the first time his …

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Tarell Alvin McCraney Comes Home — For A While

Tarell Alvin McCraney escaped a nightmarish childhood in Liberty City to become one of the most acclaimed young playwrights in the world. He’s returned home to direct The Brothers Size, the first time a professional South Florida company has produced one of his full-length works.

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