Nilaja Sun wrote and originally performed the Off-Broadway smash No Child. For her creation and performance of No Child, Sun garnered a Lucille Lortel Award, an Outer Critics Circle Award, a Theatre World Award, an Obie Award, the John Gassner Playwriting Award, and was named the Best One-Person Show at the U.S. Comedy Arts Festival. Over the 2007-2008 season, she toured No Child to several regional theatres including the Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, American Repertory Theatre, Center Theatre Group, and Berkeley Repertory Theatre.
The 33rd annual Carbonell Awards, South Florida's oldest and most prestigious arts honors, were bestowed in a ceremony at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts in a benefit performance which raises scholarships for South Florida arts students.
At the end of last year, when the future of the Carbonell Awards seemed in doubt, the community rallied together to voice support for South Florida's oldest and most prestigious arts honors which applaud the best shows and performances in Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties.
At the end of last year, when the future of the Carbonell Awards seemed in doubt, the community rallied together to voice support for South Florida's oldest and most prestigious arts honors which applaud the best shows and performances in Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties.
On a Marine Corps base in North Carolina in 1971, two officers-one black and one white-are on a collision course over race, women and the high cost of doing the right thing. This riveting new work by the author of the Tony Award-winning Doubt is about power, love and responsibility-who has it, who wants it and who deserves it.
This Award-Winning play, with music by Joshua Schmidt and a libretto by Jason Loewith and Joshua Schmidt, is adapted from The Adding Machine, written in 1923 by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Elmer Rice. Generally considered to be the first American Expressionist play, it is the story of a man who, after 25 years of service to his company, is replaced by a mechanical adding machine.
GableStage at the Biltmore - in association with Jay Harris - will present the Southeastern Premiere of NOVEMBER by David Mamet - opening October 18th and running through November 16th
GableStage at the Biltmore - in association with Jay Harris - will present the Southeastern Premiere of NOVEMBER by David Mamet - opening October 18th and running through November 16th
Set in the Oval Office just days before a presidential election, this new comedy by Pulitzer Prize-winner David Mamet -- which premiered last Season on Broadway -- involves civil marriages, gambling casinos, lesbians, American Indians, presidential libraries, questionable pardons and campaign contributions.
In early 2007, George Packer published an article in The New Yorker about Iraqi interpreters who jeopardized their lives on behalf of the Americans in Iraq, with little or no U.S. protection or security.
McPherson's plays include Rum & Vodka, The Good Thief, This Lime Tree Bower, St. Nicholas, The Weir (Olivier Award, Best Play,) Dublin Carol, Port Authority, and The Seafarer (Tony Award nomination, Best Play.) Shining City received critical acclaim in London and New York and was awarded a Tony Nomination for Best Play.
Among the many real-life characters depicted are Peter H. Bergson (a Zionist emissary in the United States, born Hillel Kook,) prominent Reform Rabbi Stephen Wise, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Henry Morgenthau, Jr. (FDR's Secretary of the Treasury,) Breckenridge Long (FDR's obstructionist immigration overseer,) and Hollywood screenwriter Ben Hecht.
Touring productions of Monty Python's Spamalot and Lerner & Loewe's My Fair Lady evenly split eight of the 10 Stock Road Show Awards with Chita Rivera - The Dancer's Life and Camelot taking home one each.
Among the many real-life characters depicted are Peter H. Bergson (a Zionist emissary in the United States, born Hillel Kook,) prominent Reform Rabbi Stephen Wise, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Henry Morgenthau, Jr. (FDR's Secretary of the Treasury,) Breckenridge Long (FDR's obstructionist immigration overseer) and Hollywood screenwriter Ben Hecht.
This year's red carpet season got off to a shaky start as a strike derailed the glamour in Los Angeles and New York. South Florida shows the nation how to get it right as the 32nd Annual Carbonell Award nominations were released today along with details of the awards ceremony, which is one of the most anticipated events of the theatrical season. The Carbonell Awards, sponsored by The Law Firm of Broad & Cassel, P.A., will take place Monday, April 7 at 7:30 p.m. in the Amaturo Theater of the Broward Center for the Performing Arts.