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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.”

  • Brevo’s Beauty Pageant Is A Hoot But Also Biting Censure

    Fierce competition is a facet of even the funniest comedies about beauty pageants – and School Girls or The African Mean Girls Play certainly is an entertaining hoot. But Brévo Theatre’s production skillfully weaves in a condemnation of ego, ambition and obsessive entitlement that ravages everything in their way.

  • International Hispanic Theatre Festival Returns In 40th Year

    A renowned celebration of theater world-wide returns this month to South Florida with the 40th edition of the International Hispanic Theatre Festival of Miami. The event features 12 pieces ranging from epics to comedy to dramas to immersive theater to a unique reimagining of Hamlet,

  • 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,

  • 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.”

  • 1922’s Forbidden! — First Major Gay Play Seems Contemporary

    What do you do when who you are threatens to make you an outcast and shatter your family? That’s the question bedeviling a young man facing his homosexuality in Forbidden!, a 104-year-old play widely believed the first to portray an openly gay character as neither criminal nor amoral.

  • Arca Images Takes on the American Dream in Spanish ‘Death of a Salesman’

    Playwright Nilo Cruz and Arca Images founder Alexa Kuve bring Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman, to a Hispanic audience with a Spanish language translation through Sunday

  • True Mirage Provides Riveting, Thoughtful Carrie: The Musical

    Promotional material for True Mirage Theater’s riveting, realistic production of Carrie: The Musical tells audiences to “start Halloween season off right.” But audiences are also doing the right thing by asking “What does it cost to be kind?”

  • 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.”  

  • Comedy Plus Serious Side Of Politics In Island City Stage’s Timely Eureka Day

    Everything is political—especially now. Nothing, it seems, is beyond political scrutiny as shown in the equally funny, serious and timely Eureka Day at Island City Stage.