72 years ago, audiences were thrilled and horrified by a radio broadcast that took place Halloween night. Aliens were invading. No one was safe. The only thing was - it was all a creation of the brilliant Orson Welles and his Mercury Theatre. H.G. Welles' War of the Worlds went down as the most infamous radio drama in history.
MOSAIC THEATRE will present the Broadway Hit 'LOMBARDI' starring Ray Abruzzo (The Sopranos, The Practice, Dynasty) from November 10 - December 4
A play about sex set in Los Angeles in the new century before the crash. A collision of the famous: an interior designer, her film producer husband, their 20-year-old twins, and her sex therapist mother. The characters are on all amps in the boundary-less culture of distraction, disregard & deception.
The final play of Florida Stage's 24th subscription season is the world premiere of a darkly funny, electric and timely new play by Carter W. Lewis, The Cha-Cha of a Camel Spider. From the award-winning author of The Storytelling Ability of a Boy and Women Who Steal, The Cha-Cha of a Camel Spider asks the questions, what happens when our 'soldiers of fortune' outnumber our army troops and can art really make a difference in a corporatized world? The Cha-Cha of a Camel Spider continues Florida Stage's first season as the resident company in the Rinker Playhouse at the Kravis Center for the Performing Arts.
Celebrate New Year's Eve with GableStage Special 9pm Performance Friday, December 31st then join Sharon Gless and the Cast for a Champagne Buffet in the Prado Room of the Biltmore Hotel
The Silver Palm Awards committee, founded three years ago to honor theatrical excellence in South Florida, has announced this years's 16 recipients, which include for the first time a husband and wife acting duo: Avi Hoffman and Laura Turnbull.
The Silver Palm Awards committee, founded three years ago to honor theatrical excellence in South Florida, has announced this years's 16 recipients, which include for the first time a husband and wife acting duo: Avi Hoffman and Laura Turnbull.
For nine performances only, JACQUES BREL RETURNS ...The Music of Brel, Blau, Shuman and Jouannest en Cabaret will play The Triad, 158 West 72nd Street, NYC, beginning August 25th. Presented by Dan Whitten, Mark Beigelman, Peter Martin and Tiger Theatricals, JACQUES BREL RETURNS... is a new, 'en cabaret' production featuring highlights from Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris.
Caldwell Theatre Company completes their season with the timely production of Lisa Loomer's 'Distracted.' Fresh from its triumphant production at Roundabout Theatre in New York, 'Distracted' is a comedic look at the Cara family, coping with their nine year old son diagnosed with ADHD.
EQUUS by Tony winning playwright Peter Shaffer comes to New Theatre after its successful 2008 Broadway run. It is the primal and electric story about a 17 year old stable boy and the psychiatrist who seeks to understand the sexual and religious mystery which led the boy to commit an unspeakable and unbelievable act. Mr. Shaffer was inspired to write Equus after hearing about a crime involving a 17-year-old and set out to construct a fictional account of what might have caused the incident, without knowing any of the details of the crime.
Les Miserables at Actors' Playhouse at the Miracle Theatre in Coral Gables led the pack with a dozen nominations. Broadsword at Miami's Mad Cat Theatre Company and Why Torture is Wrong and the People Who Love Them at Plantation's Mosaic Theatre tied with five nods each as the most recognized plays for the annual honors to be held on Monday, April 12 at 7:30 p.m. in the Amaturo Theater at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts in Fort Lauderdale.
2009 could go down as the year of the musical with seven of the top 10 nominated shows edging out the edgier dramas for the 34th annual Carbonell Awards nominations celebrating the best shows and performances in Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties.
Caldwell Theatre Company presents Lauren Wilson's Chemical Imbalance: A Jekyll and Hyde Play. Embodying Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde is South Florida's premiere physical comedian, Tom Wahl. After years of perfecting his comedic skills with multiple productions nationwide of Sheer Madness, Mr. Wahl steps into the role of the strange doctor with tongue firmly planted in cheek.
For five performances only, Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's ‘Sunday in the Park With George' will come alive at the hands of the Caldwell Theatre Company in Boca Raton, Florida.
For five performances only, Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's ‘Sunday in the Park With George' will come alive at the hands of the Caldwell Theatre Company in Boca Raton, Florida.
New Theatre continues with its second World Premiere of the season with Michelle Rosenfarb's coming of age drama, The Gates of Choice making its debut on November 13, 2008. Set in Israel 's Ultra Orthodox quarter of Mea Shearim, a Hasidic young woman facing an arranged marriage finds refuge and answers in a taboo relationship to the secular world.
Set at the cusp of the Civil War, In Common Hours tells the story of Louisa May Alcott's unrequited love for Henry David Thoreau and her quest to find her own place in a patriarchal society that does not value female intelligence, years before she wrote Little Women.
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.
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