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Here There Are Blueberries Originated At Miami New Drama Planned For Broadway

Here There Are Blueberries, the Holocaust-related play created and workshopped by Miami New Drama, i is planned to play on Broadway in November,

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Three Leaders of Youth Programs Receive Carbonells’ Howard Kleinberg Award

Gary Cadwallader of Palm Beach Dramaworks, Jairo Ontiveros of the Arsht Center and Lori Slade Sessions of the South Florida Cappies will receive the Carbonells’ Howard Kleinberg Award “For Outstanding Contribution to the Health and Development of the Arts in South Florida.”

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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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Lake Worth Playhouse To Use A $1 Million Donation As Cushion

The Lake Worth Playhouse has received the largest single gift in its history, but won’t use the $1 million on immediate operations. Rather, the money is going into a permanent endowment intended to provide long-term financial security.

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Margaret Ledford Receives Carbonell’s Ruth Foreman Award

Margaret M. Ledford, who has directed at nearly every regional theater in South Florida and helped found several, has received the Carbonell’s Ruth Foreman Award, recognizing “outstanding contribution to development of South Florida theatre.”

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Michelle Solomon Receives Charlie Cinnamon Award

Michelle F. Solomon, who has kept coverage of Miami’s art scene vibrant despite cutbacks at many venues, has been named the recipient of the Carbonell Awards’ Charlie Cinnamon Award for “outstanding support of South Florida theater and the Carbonell Awards.”

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Our Fund To Receive Carbonell’s Vinnette Carroll Award

The Our Fund Foundation, an LGBTQ-based group, has been named the recipient of the Carbonell Awards’ Vinnette Carroll Award for “outstanding achievement in advancing diversity, equality and inclusion in South Florida theater.”

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Brévo Theater To Receive Carbonell’s Jan McArt Award

Brévo Theatre, the black-centric company which scored a major success this season with the musical The Color Purple, has been named the second recipient of the Carbonell Awards’ Jan McArt Award honoring” Outstanding Achievement by a Small Theater.”  

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‘The Shark Is Broken’ Is Part Comedy, Part Musing Set During The Making Of Jaws

The title of Actors Playhouse’s The Shark Is Broken comes from a recreation of the making of Jaws in a sometimes broadly comic, sometimes dryly witty, sometimes rue-tinged exploration of fame, fathers and film seen from the three lead actors waiting for filming to continue.

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Two School Students Head to NYC for Jimmy Awards After Kravis Dream Awards  

Amid show-stopping numbers from over 130 students across 18 Palm Beach schools, theater students were honored last month at the Kravis Center Dream Awards, with two students headed to national competition.

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