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Center Repertory Company kicks off the summer with Lin-Manuel Miranda and Quiara Alegría Hudes' exuberant Tony Award-winning Broadway musical In the Heights. From the creator of Hamilton comes this jubilant story of New York's Washington Heights neighborhood and its vibrant community.

GableStage presents the witty dramatic comedy FADE by Tanya Saracho, a story about friendship, opportunity, assumptions, ambition, culture and betrayal. Directed by award-winning Miami-based actor, director and writer Teo Castellanos, FADE runs August 19, 2022– September 18, 2022 and it is available for streaming from August 24 to September 18.

City Theatre and the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County present the 25th Silver Anniversary season of SUMMER SHORTS, featuring a program of new short comedies, dramas and mini-musicals as well as fresh revivals of past Festival favorites written by the country's best playwrights.

The casts and creative teams have been assembled for Zoetic Stage’s inaugural Finstrom Festival of New Work which will be presented virtually from June 23rd thru 27th, on the theatre company’s Facebook page.

Pop TV, now fully owned by CBS Corporation, announced today that the critically-acclaimed series ONE DAY AT A TIME will continue with a new 13-episode fourth season premiering in 2020. The Network shared the news amid fan campaigns rallying behind the series. Produced by Sony Pictures Television, the fourth season of ONE DAY AT A TIME will air exclusively on Pop.

A wop baba lu mop, ahh wop bam boom! Broadway by the Bay continues their 2019 season with Grease - the beloved rock n' roll celebration of teen angst, fast cars and first loves all set in the fabulous fifties. This all-new production is on stage June 7 to 23 and features the irresistible songs from the Tony Award nominated Broadway show and hit movie, including 'Summer Nights,", "Greased Lightnin'", "Born to Hand Jive", "There are Worse Things I Could Do", and many more. So get out your leather jackets and pull on your bobby socks with Rydell High's senior class of 1959!

Imagine sitting with your best friend, drinking beers and watching the Oscars on TV when, all of the sudden one of the winners names you as the bully who tormented him and provoked his best friend into committing suicide. That's only the first few minutes of the explosive play, 'From White Plains' by Michael Perlman being given it's South Florida premiere at Island City Stage.

Imagine sitting with your best friend, drinking beers and watching the Oscars on TV when, all of the sudden one of the winners names you as the bully who tormented him and provoked his best friend into committing suicide. That's only the first few minutes of the explosive play, 'From White Plains' by Michael Perlman being given it's South Florida premiere at Island City Stage.

City Theatre (@citytheatremia) and the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County (@arshtcenter) are proud to present WINTER SHORTS, America's Short Play Winter Festival. WINTER SHORTS, the festive version of City Theatre's renowned Summer Shorts: America's Short Play Festival, runs from December 6-23 in the Arsht Center's intimate Carnival Studio Theater (Ziff Ballet Opera House), under the direction of City Theatre Artistic Director Margaret M. Ledford.

City Theatre (@citytheatremia) and the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County (@arshtcenter) are proud to present SUMMER SHORTS, America's Short Play Festival. Playing May 31-July 1, 2018 in the intimate Carnival Studio Theater (Ziff Ballet Opera House) and led by City Theatre Artistic Director Margaret M. Ledford, SUMMER SHORTS is an annual theatrical celebration that showcases the diversity of Miami through a variety of new short plays and musicals.

In FIRST FACE OF AMERICA, NOVA, a production of WGBH Boston, makes an incredible journey?from stunning Mexican caves to the Alaskan wilderness, to leading genomics and forensics labs?to pursue groundbreaking new finds that are rewriting the story of the forgotten First Americans who ventured into our vast continent.

NOVA: FIRST FACE OF AMERICA Premieres 2/7 on PBS

In FIRST FACE OF AMERICA, NOVA, a production of WGBH Boston, makes an incredible journey?from stunning Mexican caves to the Alaskan wilderness, to leading genomics and forensics labs?to pursue groundbreaking new finds that are rewriting the story of the forgotten First Americans who ventured into our vast continent.

'Zsa Zsa Gabor is my muse this year!,' says award-winning South Florida playwright Tony Finstrom. 'After doing some extensive reading-up on her, I've learned she was not only beautiful and glamorous, but also extremely naive, innocent, pure, and honest. And I've fallen in love!'

Single tickets to the four staged play readings at Lynn University comprising 'Jan McArt's New Play Readings' series for 2017-18 are now on sale to the general public, at the price of $10 each.

Island City Stage continues it's season with the debut of  Stuart Meltzer's smart and sophisticated semi-autobiographical comedy 'The Goldberg Variations' running June 15 - July 16. 

On Monday, June 19 at 7:30pm, Gablestage at the Biltmore, in association with South Florida Theatre League, will continue its 2017 Summer Theatre Fest Reading Series with 1000 MILES by Vanessa Garcia, featuring Alex Alvarez, Israel Garcia, Adele Robinson, Gladys Ramirez, Merry Jo Cortada, Erik J. Rodriguez, and directed by Michael Yawney.

These are the plays that comprise the 2017-18 'Jan McArt's New Play Readings' series, to be presented at Boca Raton's Lynn University beginning Monday, October 30th.

Island City Stage continues it's season with the debut of  Stuart Meltzer's smart and sophisticated semi-autobiographical comedy 'The Goldberg Variations' running June 15 - July 16. 

Me and My Girl, a splashy musical about a British bloke who discovers he's nobility, and The Royale, a powerful play by Miami native Marco Ramirez, based on the first black boxing champion, took their respective places in South Florida theatrical history as Best Musical and Best Play on Monday, April 3rd  when the winners of the 41st annual Carbonell Awards were announced. The lavish ceremony was held at Broward Center for the Performing Arts in Fort Lauderdale, and   featured performances from each show nominated for Best Musical.