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Dramaworks’ Alba Re-Envisions Lorca Classic With Cuban-Americans In 2001 Miami

Rewritings of classics to make them more accessible or stressing their themes’ universality are increasingly common, But Alejandro Rodriguez’s Alba at Palm Beach Dramaworks respects Lorca’s The House of Bernarda Alba, yet transmutes it into something worthy on its own terms.

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Opioids, Trafficking, Shoplifting: Theater Tours Warning Middle & High School Students

Three touring plays: prostitution after trafficking, opioid addiction with athletes, the lure of stealing. The audience: students. Palm Beach Dramaworks’ One Humanity Tour is unapologetically frank for rapt youngsters still learning algebra.

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Baker Street Beginnings Is Elementary Fun At FAU’s Theatre Lab

The true life origin of Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes is the springboard for Baker Street Beginnings receiving its world premiere at Theatre Lab commissioned for their Heckscher Theatre for Families production — a smart, hilarious, and thoroughly charming piece of family entertainment.

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Island City Stage Receive Von Mauer Carbonell Award

Island City Stage, the 15-year-old company that become a been a national leader in LGBTQ+ programming, is receiving the Carbonell’s Bill Von Maurer Award cited “for a theater company that exemplifies excellence by the totality of its programming, productions, educational outreach, developmental programs, and audiences served.”

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Elena Maria Garcia Receives Carbonell’s Hindman Award

Elena Maria Garcia, the actress-educator-playwright-director whose unique exuberance has enhanced scores of comedies and dramas across the region, has received the Carbonell’s Bill Hindman Award recognizing “onstage career achievement by performing artists based in South Florida.”  

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Ali Tallman Receives Inaugural Christine Dolen Carbonell Award

Ali Tallman, resident dramaturg at GableStage, has been named the first recipient of the Carbonell Awards’ Christine Dolen Award honoring the outstanding debut of a Carbonell-eligible performer, playwright, producer, director or designer.

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Miami-Dade Students Honored For Theater By Arshties

More than 130 students from 17 Miami-Dade high schools took center stage at the Adrienne Arsht for the inaugural Arshties Showcase. Top honors were awarded across 12 categories recognizing excellence in musical theater performance, music, dance, design, stage management and student achievement.

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Nothing/No One Is Who/What They Seem in World Premiere of Dramaworks’ Vineland Place

Sometimes theater is just meant to entertain, to seduce, to lure. The world premiere of Vineland Place at Palm Beach Dramaworks has no profound message, but it offers an intriguing psychological thriller-mystery akin to Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers.

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Gulfshore’s Beautiful Charts Carole King’s Having Courage To Follow Your Own Path.

Gulfshore Playhouse’s Beautiful isn’t only a celebration of Carole King’s music but of much of the pop music of that era. It’s also the story of finding your own voice and having the courage to follow your own creative path.

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My Take On: More Reviews of New York City Plays & Musicals

OUR REVIEWS OF SCHMIGDOON, THE LOST BOYS, SEAGULL: TRUE STORY, TWO STRANGERS (CARRY A CAKE ACROSS NEW YORK), FALLEN WOMEN, MONTE CRISTO, THE RECEPTIONIST

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