(08/04/2010) - Yesterday, August 3, 2010, past American Idol contestants performed in concert with the American Idols 2010 tour at the BankAtlantic Center in Sunrise, Florida.
(07/19/2010) - Yesterday, July 18, models walked the runway at the Luli Fama show during Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Swim 2011 at Raleigh Hotel in Miami Beach, Florida. Luli Fama is a swimsuit brand established by designers Lourdes 'Luli' Haniman and Augusto Haniman. BroadwayWorld brings coverage of the event below.
(07/13/2010) - Last week the Adrienne Arsht Center was honored to host the Miami premiere of BABALU, Lucie Arnaz's loving tribute to the music of her father, Desi Arnaz.
(07/11/2010) - Author and actress Julie Andrews signed books during an event to promote her children's book 'The Very Fairy Princess' at Books and Books in Coral Gables Floriday on July 11.
(07/09/2010) - The Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County opened the special engagement of BABALU, a loving tribute and phenomenal stage show celebrating the extraordinary musical legacy of Desi Arnaz last night, July 8. The show will run through July 11. Created, directed, and hosted by Lucie Arnaz, BABALU's engagement at the Adrienne Arsht Center multiple Tony Award-nominee and Miami native Raúl Esparza, Broadway's Tony-nominated diva of dance Valarie Pettiford and in a rare, special guest appearance, Desi Arnaz, Jr. playing percussion on his father's classic hits. Below, BroadwayWorld brings you a preview of the backstage photo coverage. Check back soon for complete coverage of the event.
(07/07/2010) - Yesterday, July 6, Aventura performed at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Hollywood, Florida. Aventura is a Dominican-American band that was formed in 1994. Its members include Anthony Santos, Lenny Santos, Max Santos, and Henry Santos Jeter. The band had its big break in 1998 and have released 4 albums since including their latest album in 2009, 'The Last'. BroadwayWorld brings coverage of the concert below.
(07/02/2010) - Yesterday, July 1, the American Idol season 9 top 10 finalists will be touring North America as part of their 2010 American Idol Live! tour. The tour began yesterday with a concert at The Palace of Auburn Hills in Auburn Hills, Michigan. The American Idol season 9 top 10 finalists will be making 49 stops this summer. The winner of season 9 was Lee DeWyze and Crystal Bowersox was the runner-up.
(06/30/2010) - Yesterday, June 29, musician Ted Nugent performed at Revolution Live for his Trample the Weak, Hurdle the Dead tour in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. Ted will be touring with United States with Mick Brown and Greg Smith. BroadwayWorld brings coverage of the concert below.
(06/23/2010) - Yesterday, June 22, Kate Voegele performed in concert at Club Revolution in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Voegele first produced an album in 2003 and has been hard at work since. She now stars in the hit CW television show One Tree Hill while pursuing a career as a musician. BroadwayWorld brings coverage of the concert below.
(06/23/2010) - Yesterday, June 23, singer Jordin Sparks performed at Revolution Live during her Battlefield tour in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. Jordin Sparks gained her fame after her victory on the 6th season of American Idol. Since then she has put out an album titled 'Battlefield' and started her 'Battlefield Tour.' The tour is comprised of 21 scheduled performances across North America. BroadwayWorld brings coverage of the concert below.
(06/22/2010) - Broadway Tony-Award winning star Donna McKechnie debuted her brand-new incarnation of MY MUSICAL COMEDY LIFE in Australia, directed by Richard Jay-Alexander and presented by the Adelaide Cabaret Festival. She has wow-ed audiences, garnering rave reviews and multiple standing ovations in both Adelaide and Melbourne and now, just one stop remains in Sydney on Thursday, June 24th (see below for ticketing information), with the touring production presented by David M. Hawkins in association with the Adelaide Cabaret Festival. Here are a few special photos of one of Broadway's favorite leading ladies on, and back stage, delighting audiences down under, where we are hearing words used liked 'diva' and 'legend.' Early word is that the phone is ringing and offers are coming in from various markets and we're keeping our fingers crossed here for New York as well!
(06/16/2010) - Yesterday, June 15, Grammy award winning rapper 50 Cent (Curtis Jackson) performed a concert at the Fillmore Miami Beach at the Jackie Gleason Theater in Miami Beach, Florida. 'Black Magic' is 50 Cent's latest studio album. The new album inspired 50 Cent's 'The Invitation Tour,' which promotes his albums 'Black Magic' and 'Before I Self Destruct.' BroadwayWorld brings coverage of the concert below.
(06/11/2010) - Yesterday, June 10, the Cruzan Ampitheater hosted the kickoff concert of the Bret Michaels/Lynyrd Skynyrd summer tour. Bret Michaels is best known for his role as lead singer of the band 'Poison,' but has several solo albums as well. Two of his hits, Every Rose Has Its Thorn and Nothin' But a Good Time, are featured in the Broadway hit musical, Rock of Ages. BroadwayWorld brings coverage of the concert below.
(06/07/2010) - American Stage Theatre Company continues its first full season in the Raymond James Theatre with Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright David Mamet's new comedy, NOVEMBER, running June 9 thru July 4. 'Pay What You Can' night is Tuesday, June 15 at 7:30 p.m.
(06/01/2010) - American Stage Theatre Company continues its first full season in the Raymond James Theatre with Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright David Mamet's new comedy, NOVEMBER, running June 9 thru July 4. 'Pay What You Can' night is Tuesday, June 15 at 7:30 p.m.
(05/21/2010) - The Peacock Theater at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts was energized with the creative spirit of several hundred Miami-Dade high school students, parents, teachers and arts supporters on Saturday, May 15 as the national YoungArts program launched its new regional laboratory initiative, YoungArts Miami.
(04/05/2010) - American Stage Theatre Company will produce the Broadway smash hit musical that changed a generation, HAIR, during the theatre's 25th anniversary production of American Stage in the Park, April 21 thru May 16. Pay What You Can nights are April 21 and 22.
(03/22/2010) - 'THE 12', an original rock musical written by Pulitzer Prize winning playwright, Robert Schenkkan, with music, lyrics, and story concept by award winning composer, Neil Berg made its world premiere at Riverspace in Nyack, NY, from March 19 - 21, 2010 before opening the Broward Center for the Performing Arts, April 1st in Ft. Lauderdale, FL.
(01/22/2010) - American Stage Theatre Company continues its After Hours series with the return of its highest attended musical-comedy of all time, Jed Feuer and Boyd Graham's THE BIG BANG!, as part of its After Hours series, January 29 thru February 21.
(01/11/2010) - American Stage Theatre Company continues its first full season in the Raymond James Theatre with Noel Coward's hilariously classic farce, BLITHE SPIRIT, running Jan. 20 thru Feb. 14. 'Pay-What-You-Can' nights are Tuesday, Jan. 26 and Feb. 2 at 7:30 p.m.
(12/11/2009) - Merry Christmas to all, and to all a goodnight,' so ends the traditional poem and so ended the opening night performance and festivities of the new holiday musical ANOTHER NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS at Actors' Playhouse at the Miracle Theatre.
(11/20/2009) - In case the dismal economy has made you say, 'no, no, no,' to the 'ho, ho, ho' this year, Actors' Playhouse at the Miracle Theatre is providing a restoring boost of belief in holiday miracles with the heartwarming new musical, Another Night Before Christmas.
(10/20/2009) - Actors' Playhouse Musical Theatre for Young Audiences presents a little magic for the holidays this season with its acclaimed production of MADELINE'S CHRISTMAS, the delightful musical based on the popular Madeline book series by Ludwig Bemelmans.
(10/13/2009) - The Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center will present the World Premiere of Wonderland: Alice's New Musical Adventure. The production will debut in Tampa on Saturday, Dec. 5, 2009 in TBPAC's Ferguson Hall, the music for Wonderland is by Frank Wildhorn, the composer of The Civil War and Jekyll & Hyde, with book and lyrics by Jack Murphy. Gregory Boyd, artistic director of Houston's Alley Theatre, will direct. Rehearsals have begun and you can see the first pictures direct from the studio hall right here on BWW!
(05/08/2009) - Asolo Repertory Theater celebrates the diva in each of us with the hilarious musical - Souvenir: A Fantasia on the Life of Florence Foster Jenkins by Stephen Temperley. Real life Tony Award winning Broadway diva Judy Kaye (Phantom of the Opera & Mamma Mia!) makes a rare appearance in Sarasota in the lead role. Donald Corren (Torch Song Trilogy) plays her accompanist, the man who chronicles Florence's unlikely rise to cult status and unexpected success.
(05/05/2009) - Back with Asolo Repertory Theatre for a second World Premiere production, critically acclaimed playwright Jason Wells tackles controversy and political intrigue with his new play Perfect Mendacity, opening in Sarasota on May 15, 2009.
(04/03/2009) - Asolo Repertory Theatre announces Tome' Cousin as Director/Choreographer for its 09-10 season production of Susan Stroman's Tony winning musical, Contact. Cousin performed in and helped to develop Contact as part of the original Lincoln Center ensemble, both off-Broadway and on, from 1999-2002. As Supervising Director for Susan Stroman Productions of Contact, he is the only person sanctioned by Stroman to direct the production.
(03/06/2009) - Marcie Dodd comes directly from the Broadway company of WICKED, where she appeared as Elphaba. She has also performed on the North American tour and the Los Angeles companies of WICKED, where she was the standby for Elphaba. Other tours include Hairspray, We Will Rock You, and Grease as well as multiple projects and recordings with Disney Entertainment and Universal Studios
(02/16/2009) - Florida Studio Theatre brings back the popular summer hit Always...Patsy Cline for a special two week limited engagement. Patsy Cline was the original cross-over sensation with her acclaimed hit 'Walkin' After Midnight' in 1957 (#2 on the Country Charts and #12 on the Pop Charts) and followed in the early 60s with 'I Fall to Pieces,' 'Crazy' and 'She's Got You.' These songs and 24 others will pay tribute to the one-of-a-kind Patsy Cline.
Cline's rise to legendary stardom is told through personal letters shared with her best friend and biggest fan, Louise. From her performance at the Grand Ole Opry to her tragic death in 1963, Patsy Cline will 'always' have a place in country music and with music enthusiasts across multiple genres.
(01/27/2009) - Florida Studio Theatre opens Jose Rivera's Boleros for the Disenchanted in its continuation of the Winter Mainstage Season. 'Boleros for the Disenchanted is one of the most moving and life affirming stories of love and commitment I have seen on the stage in the past quarter century,' stated FST Artistic Director and show Director Richard Hopkins.
From 1953 Puerto Rico to contemporary America a young couple overcomes adversity and discovers a world of hope and love. Immigrating to the United States, Flora and Eusebio experience new adventures, obstacles and life lessons. In a mystical journey through the ages, they realize they have overcome the biggest obstacle of all...finding true love.
Boleros for the Disenchanted made its World Premiere at the Yale Repertory Theatre in April, 2008. Other productions include the Huntington Theatre in October of 2008.
Jos? Rivera's plays have been translated into six languages. His plays include Marisol (Obie Award winner for Best Play), References to Salvador Dali Make Me Hot (Obie Award), Cloud Tectonics, Each Day Dies with Sleep, The Promise, The House of Ramon Iglesia, Giants Have Us In Their Books, Sueno, The Street of the Sun, Sonnets for an Old Century, Brainpeople, and Adoration of the Old Woman. He studied with Gabriel Garc?a Marquez at the Sundance Institute and was writer-in-residence at the Royal Court Theatre, London, on a Fulbright Arts
Fellowship in Playwriting. Mr. Rivera's television work includes the critically lauded NBC series Eerie, Indiana, which he co-created and produced. He has also written teleplays, among them an adaptation of his own The House of Ramon Iglesia for PBS, as well as feature screenplays, including The Motorcycle Diaries (Academy Award Nominee). The native Puerto Rican also serves on the boards of The Sundance Institute and the Independent Feature Project.
The Boleros for the Disenchanted cast will include New York Actor Damian Buzzerio (Don Fermin/Older Eusebio). Buzzerio regional credits include Vinnie in The Odd Couple at the Carousel Dinner Theatre, Claudius in Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead and Gremio/Vincentio in Taming of the Shrew at the Shakespeare Theater of New Jersey. He has also been cast in leading roles in four NYC based Independent Films. New York Actress Rainbow Dickerson
(Flora/Eve) has played Kate in Taming of the Shrew and Juliet in Romeo and Juliet at Shakespeare Saturdays, Patriot ensemble in The Accidental Patriot at Stolen Chair Theatre Company and the Dalai Lama in The Buddha Prince for Tiger Lion Productions.
(12/29/2008) - Valerie Harper and Chad Allen star in the upcoming pre-Broadway showing of Matthew Lombardo's 'LOOPED.' BroadwayWorld's cameras were in the area and caught some shots of the marquee for the production.
(11/28/2008) - Florida Studio Theatre continues the Winter Mainstage Season with Opus, 'a smart, witty tribute to the trials and tribulations of working together as we follow the functions and dysfunctions of a world class string quartet.' said Artistic Director and Show Director, Richard Hopkins.
(11/24/2008) - The Tony Award-winning psychological thriller, Sleuth, starring Mark Jacoby from the originals; The Phantom of the Opera, Grand Hotel and Ragtime as well as revivals of Sweet Charity, Man of La Mancha and Sweeney Todd, will be onstage December 2 - 14, 2008 at the Maltz Jupiter Theatre. Director, Peter Flynn, returns to the Theatre where he won the prestigious 2008 Carbonell Award for 'Best Director' of Man of La Mancha.
(08/14/2008) - Gramercy Theatre and the historic Plaza Theatre opened their summer production of Disney's Aladdin Jr. on Friday August 8. Performances run through August 17 at the Main Stage Theatre of The Plaza, 425 North Bumby Ave, Downtown Orlando.
