Features

Bit By Bit, Putting It Together: How Scenic Designers & Colleagues Create Worlds

In depth: Scenic designer Anne Mundell’s environments communicate an array of foreign and familiar times, places and character of their denizens from the moment the curtain rises.
Understanding her collegial process is an education into how you see what you see on stage opening night.

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Our Look Behind The Curtain Going Up Next Season — Plus List Of Full Titles And Dates

By Bill Hirschman and Britin Haller   Once again, the coming season of South Florida theater proves that in terms of artistic ambition – not to mention potential entertainment – the quality of local companies equals that of a majority of …

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Coming Comedy-Thriller Burst Aims At Corporate Issues Of Integrity, Responsibility

Rachel Bublitz likes to describe her play, Burst, as a “bullet train… a powerhouse barreling ahead at tremendous speed not noticing if it’s going to crash.” Yet the dark comedy’s central character is intent not on destruction but on saving the world. An inside look at the play opening July 11 at New City Players.

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Brevo Theatre Commits To Its Largest Challenge: The Musical Of The Color Purple

Brévo Theatre — faced with the tragic death of a lead actress but pressing ahead with its most logistically challenging effort – the African-American company is committed to opening the musical The Color Purple on Sunday.

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City Theatre Turns 30 By Adapting Summer Shorts To Current Challenges

City Theatre successfully marks its 30th anniversary as a game-forging force but its champions are determinedly adapting to surmount fiscal uncertainty with changes such as a one-night Summer Shorts

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Arshties & Cappies Train High School Theater Artists & Critics

The Arshties, celebrating its first year, and the Cappies, celebrating its 24th, will hold galas this month recognizing their training and encouraging high school artists and critics.

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Kim Ehly’s Baby GirL’s Play Re-Imagined As Velvet Green Summer

Family isn’t just something you’re born into or adopted into – it’s something you build and encompasses the people you love and who love you. Kim Ehly’s celebrated play, Velvet Green Summer, seeks to drive such messages home. Kutumba Theatre Project is bringing the pla, originally titled Baby GirL back to South Florida.

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My Take On: Reviews Of Current And Recent NYC Shows

A new feature “My Take On:: Short reviews of New York shows by Nunzio Michael Lupo, veteran journalist and an insightful appraiser of the arts. These pieces were first posted on his page at https://www.show-score.com/member/mrstrategery.  Some of these are still running as Oedipus, Marjorie Prime and Ragtime for you to see on your next trip; others have closed but remain interesting for his assessment.

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A List of Current And Former Theaters in The Region

The region is home to at least  66 professional or semi-professional companies, 15 community theater companies, 13 presenting houses and 11 university-based production companies – and at least 25 theater companies that have closed

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ON THE WHEELS OF A DREAM: PART THREE

On The Wheels of a Dream: Part Three:  Actually putting bodies on the stage may be the most formidable issue. Starting just with pure numbers, interviewees disagreed whether there are plenty of actors, or a dearth of actors, or a shortfall in talented actors, or a shortage of experienced actors. And each might be correct within limits.

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