News

News Roundup: PPTOPA, Caldwell, Actors Playhouse, Mosaic, Maltz, Raul Esparza, Florida Follies, NSAL, Arsht, Kravis &Top Gun The Musical

‘Tis the Season Pembroke Pines Theater of the Performing Arts has roughed out its 2012-2013 season, although exact dates are still being finalized. The company will present the musical Annie around September-October, West Side Story (the recent version with some …

Posted in News | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Boeing Boeing Marks Long-Term Partnership For Promethean & Nova’s Theater Department

Book-learning and collegiate productions provide theater students the basics of the craft they hope to follow, but The Promethean Theatre is providing Nova Southeastern University students with real world experience that is far more rigorous and revealing than class work.

Posted in Features, News | Tagged , , , , , | Leave a comment

Mosaic Changes Season, Alliance Sets Season, Andrews Arts Hosts Show, Hirschman Honored With Zink Award

News Items

Posted in News | Tagged , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Carbonell Nominations Announced; Palm Beach County Theaters Score Big

By Bill Hirschman For those who like to read fortunes in tea leaves, the annual Carbonell Award nominations announced Sunday night provide plenty of seeming portents to extrapolate before the April 2 awards ceremony. The most obvious is the numerical …

Posted in News | Leave a comment

Stage Door / Costume World Deal Formally Falls Through

In another turn in a deal that has flipped repeatedly, the owners of the Broward Stage Door in Coral Springs announced Tuesday that its sale to Costume World of Broward County has fallen apart.

Costume World’s CEO Marilyn Wick confirmed Wednesday that the deal has “stalled,” although both parties said a slight possibility exists of salvaging the deal sometime in the future.

Posted in News | Tagged , , | 1 Comment

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.

Posted in News, StageBill | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 2 Comments

Rising Action Falls; Island City Stage Planned To Take Its Place

Rising Action Theatre, one of South Florida’s few theaters devoted primarily to gay-themed plays, is closing mid-season; but some staffers plan to replace it next fall with a new company, Island City Stage, said Andy Rogow, artistic director for both ventures.

Posted in News | Tagged , , | 4 Comments

Caldwell Gives Free Peek Behind The Scenes At Wednesday Open House

The Caldwell Theatre Company is offering a rare look behind the scenes Wednesday Dec. 14  during a free open house from 1 to 8 p.m. that will feature backstage tours of the facility, performances, discussions with the creative staff, door …

Posted in News | Leave a comment

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.

Posted in News | Tagged , , , , , | Leave a comment

Promethean Sponsors Theater for Kids

The Promethean Theatre, best known for its thought-provoking and irreverent fare, is continuing its children’s programming this season with Jingles, Jokes & Jollies: A Tropical Holiday on Saturdays this month. The one-hour program is designed to appeal to children ages …

Posted in General, News | Leave a comment