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Monday, September 15, 2025

2024-2025 Season's Unique Silver Palm Awards Announced by Bill Hirschman

The Silver Palm Awards for the 2004-2005 South Florida season have been announced. Envisioned as less structured program than the competitive Carbonell Awards, they honor outstanding contrib…

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Tuesday, September 9, 2025

GableStage Receives Bill von Mauer Award by Bill Hirschman

GableStage has been named the recipient of the Bill von Maurer Award "honoring a theater company that exemplifies excellence for the totality of its programming: productions educational outr…

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Thursday, September 4, 2025

Dramaworks and GableStage Add New Executives by Bill Hirschman

GableStage and Palm Beach Dramaworks are entering the new season with new executives added to the existing management. The post Dramaworks and GableStage Add New Executives first appeared on…

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Tuesday, September 2, 2025

Harvey Burstein to Receive Howard Kleinberg Award by Bill Hirschman

Harvey J. Burstein  and miamiartzine.com will receive the Carbonell's Howard Kleinberg Award honoring an individual or organization for contributions to the health and development of the …

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Sunday, August 31, 2025

Theater's Frank Wildhorn Moves Into Classical Music by Bill Hirschman

Brad Hathaway, whose column Theater Shelf which we published here at Florida Theater On Stage reviewed theater-related books, videos and recordings. Now, it returns for one more tip for our …

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Wednesday, August 27, 2025

For Better (But Not) Worse 'At The Wedding' on Island City by Bill Hirschman

Anyone who has been invited to, and maybe even attended, the wedding of an ex-love knows how emotional and triggering the event might be. And therein is where the comedy lies in Island City …

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Tuesday, August 26, 2025

Beverly Blanchette Receives Carbonell's Bill Hindman Award by Bill Hirschman

Beverly Blanchette, a theater artist and educator who has helped shape the cultural fabric of south Florida for over four decades, will receive the Carbonell's Bill Hindman Award honoring si…

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Tuesday, August 19, 2025

Alexa Kuve of Arca Images Receives Carbonell's Ruth Foreman Award by Bill Hirschman

Alexa Kuve, the actress, executive producer and artistic director of Arca Images will be the recipient of the Carbonell's Ruth Foreman Award "recognizing contributions to South Florida th…

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Wednesday, August 13, 2025

Kravis Begins Pay To Park by Bill Hirschman

Patrons of the Kravis Center for the Performing Arts accustomed to free parking will have to pay to park in its adjacent garage next month in tandem with an end to the free shuttle which man…

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Tuesday, August 12, 2025

Mary Damiano To Receive Charlie Cinnamon Carbonell by Bill Hirschman

 Mary Damiano, a long-time arts journalist and critic, will receive the Carbonnell Awards' Charlie Cinnamon Award honoring an individual who contributes significantly to the support of th…

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Tuesday, August 5, 2025

Michel Hausmann to be Honored With Vinnette Carroll Award by Bill Hirschman

Michel Hausmann, the co-founder and Artistic Director of Miami New Drama, reputedly the largest bilingual theater company in the country, will be honored in November by the Carbonell Awards …

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Saturday, August 2, 2025

McKeever Play To Travel Overseas Next Month by Bill Hirschman

Michael McKeever and Christopher Renshaw are going to London. And they're taking the code with them. Well, they're taking The Code with them, The Code being the acclaimed play that McKeever …

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Wednesday, July 30, 2025

Torch Song Is Not What We Expected  At Plays of Wilton by Bill Hirschman

Fair warning to anyone going to The Foundry for Harvey Fierstein's Torch Song because they want to see a play about a drag queen. Other than the lead works in drag for a living, but he could…

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Tuesday, July 29, 2025

New City Players to Receive Carbonells' Jan McArt Award by Bill Hirschman

New City Players, the vest-pocket theater company that has consistently produced memorable work since 2014 in Broward County,  has been named the recipient of the first Jan McArt Award fr…

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Friday, July 25, 2025

ASC's Immersive Tarzan Musical Surrounds You In The Jungle by Bill Hirschman

Area Stage Company's (production is not your childhood Tarzan. Yet it is still the story and music you know and love. This gripping immersive staging surrounds you with the world of the sho…

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Tuesday, July 22, 2025

Big Ideas Abound in Main Street Players' Revolutionists by Bill Hirschman

When assassin Charlotte Corday declares, "We are all in a play that someone else is writing," we know we're stepping into a world steeped in existential tension. We brace ourselves for big i…

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Monday, July 21, 2025

Plaza Suite May Be 60 Years Old, But It Hasn't Lost Its Charm by Bill Hirschman

Plaza Suite may be more than sixty years old, but it hasn't lost its charm. Little about it feels stale or outdated. Pembroke Pines Theatre for the Performing Arts' (PPTOPA) current professi…

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Sunday, July 20, 2025

USA Bow For Step By Step Deals With Friendship, Loss, And Middle-Age Fears. by Bill Hirschman

Step by Step, making its American premiere at Actors' Playhouse at the Miracle Theatre, is a comedy with an all-female cast dealing with friendship, loss, and middle-age fears. The post USA …

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Saturday, July 19, 2025

Distinctively Moving 'Spy For Spy' Engages With Unconventional Treatment by Bill Hirschman

You never know what you'll see when at Kutumba Theatre Project's Spy for Spy.  And that's a good thing.  Predictability causes us to disengage and leave the theater less than ins…

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Tuesday, July 15, 2025

Profile: Dramaworks' 25 Years Striving For Quality, Connecting and Staying in the Black by Bill Hirschman

The best theater profoundly affects the audience and the artists simultaneously. Over 25 years, Palm Beach Dramaworks has accrued wide acclaimed from audiences and donors for unusual consis…

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Monday, July 14, 2025

Racism and a Dozen Other Themes Dissected 160 Years Apart in The Confederates by Bill Hirschman

The complex confluence of resonating past and present in Dominque Morisseau's dense brilliant script interweaves with strong performances in New City Players' well-titled The Confederates. T…

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Sunday, July 6, 2025

Esteemed Theater-Film Critic Hap Erstein Died Saturday by Bill Hirschman

The theater community, our community as a whole has lost a force who helped forge all of them for decades. Hap Erstein, 74, died Saturday at an Aventura hospital where he had been since Mond…

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Monday, June 30, 2025

Upcoming Kutumba Theatre Project Blends LGBTQ+ Advocacy With Artistry by Bill Hirschman

After a long hiatus, Kutumba Theatre Project is back a with the East Coast premiere of Spy for Spy. Artistic Director Kim Ehly discovered this "playful, sophisticated, funny and heart…

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Thursday, June 12, 2025

Slow Burn's Bodyguard Musical Is A Welcome Surprise by Bill Hirschman

It's not necessary to be a fan of Whitney Houston's music, or the film to enjoy The Bodyguard the Musical, wrapping up Slow Burn Theatre Co.'s fifteenth season, proving that just about anyth…

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Wednesday, June 4, 2025

City Theatre Fights Government Funding Cuts With Imaginatively Rethought Summer Shorts by Bill Hirschman

South Florida arts organizations are struggling with government funding cuts. A prime example is how City Theatre iis scaling back with a good-natured thumb-your-nose attitude that acknowle…

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Tuesday, June 3, 2025

Latiné Theater Lab Debuts Unsettling Production of Mud by Bill Hirschman

For its inaugural presentation, Latiné Theater Lab has chosen to mount María Irene Fornés' Mud, a raw and unsettling drama that explores the limits of human aspiration in the face…

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Saturday, May 31, 2025

 Dying Gaul Explores Cost of Doing Battle at Island City Stage by Bill Hirschman

Like the ancient Roman statue upon which it is named, the ending of The Dying Gaul recognizes a hard-earned victory while exploring the cost of doing battle. The production at Island City St…

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Wednesday, May 28, 2025

Pompano Players' I Do! I Do! Returns To Follow Highs and Lows of a Half-Century Marriage by Bill Hirschman

 You are cordially invited to the wedding of Michael and Agnes at Pompano Players, just the beginning of the classic two-character musical I Do! I Do!, that tracks fifty years of the high…

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Dramaworks' Hayes & Beryl To Receive Carbonell's Highest George Abbott Award by Bill Hirschman

The Carbonell Awards recognizing excellence will bestow its highest honor, the George Abbott Outstanding Achievement in the Arts, to two of the founders of Palm Beach Dramaworks, married cou…

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Tuesday, May 27, 2025

Scores of Theater and Journalism Students Reap Cappies Awards by Bill Hirschman

Hundreds upon hundreds of students from Broward and Palm Beach counties cheered loudly enough to rattle the auditorium May 20 at the 23rd awards gala  recognizing achievements in theater …

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Sunday, May 25, 2025

Society's Failure To Help Impaired Children Is At Heart Of Dangerous Instruments by Bill Hirschman

Pain, despair and desperation deepen in a swirling descent into a dread-encrusted darkness in the premiere of Gina Montét's Dangerous Instruments at Palm Beach Dramaworks. Clearly, not a sp…

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2025-2026 BROADWAY SEASON
Jun 12, 2025: Call Me Izzy - Studio 54
Sep 16, 2025: Art - Music Box Theatre
Oct 08, 2025: Beetlejuice - Palace Theatre
Nov 13, 2025: Oedipus - Studio 54
Nov 16, 2025: Chess - Imperial Theatre
Mar 23, 2026: Giant - Music Box Theatre
Apr 06, 2026: Becky Shaw - Hayes Theater
Apr 16, 2026: Proof - Booth Theatre
Apr 26, 2026: Drama Desk Cut-Off