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The Carbonell Awards has revealed the top finalists in 20 competitive categories for the 2024-2025 theater season. Learn more about The Carbonell Awards here!

Gary Schweikhart, board president of the Carbonell Awards, South Florida's Theater & Arts Honors, today announced the top finalists in 20 competitive categories for the 2024-2025 theater season.

Gary Schweikhart, board president of the Carbonell Awards, South Florida’s Theater & Arts Honors, announced the top finalists in 20 competitive categories for the 2024-2025 theater season.

GableStage will release single tickets for its 27th Season in August. The 2025/26 Season celebrates Jessie Wolfson and the newly named Wolfson Family Theatre. Learn more!

GableStage will present the Miami premiere of Appropriate by Pulitzer Prize finalist Branden Jacobs-Jenkins. This darkly comic American family drama plays at GableStage's historic Biltmore Hotel home.

GableStage will present the Miami premiere of Appropriate by Pulitzer Prize finalist Branden Jacobs-Jenkins. Learn more and see how to purchase tickets.

GableStage will release single tickets for its 26th Season on Tuesday, August 27th at noon. 

Discover the nominees for the prestigious Carbonell Awards 2022-2023 season, including Zoetic Stage and Maltz Jupiter Theatre. Learn more about the upcoming event and the best of South Florida theater.

Stage It and Stream It: Plays for Virtual Theater, edited by John Patrick Bray, has been published by Applause Theater and Cinema Books/Rowman & Littlefield.

What did our critic think of THE HUNT FOR MILO GATTO by tiny_Theatre?

 Florida Repertory Theatre has announced casts, directors, and stage managers for its 2023 PlayLab Festival, and the line-up includes ensemble members, returning guest artists, alongside many making their Florida Rep debuts, joining five playwrights from New York, Atlanta, and around the country.

The GB Public Theater 2022 mainstage opens with Public Speaking 101 (July 14 - July 24) a fun, turn-the-tables  comedy by the much loved, wonderfully accomplished and always engaging Berkshire-based playwright Mark St. Germain.

GableStage, the Coral Gables based theatre company that has made its home in the Biltmore Hotel for over 24 years, announced its 2022-23 season. Five new productions, which illuminate the company’s mission of “confronting today’s issues and ideas” will account for 130 performances from October - July. Find out the full schedule and how to get tickets.

Tiny_Theatre was created as a way for professional actors Rachel Burttram Powers and Brendan Powers to keep live performances alive through the pandemic, but it has become much more than that. 

Sleuthers unite! Penobscot Theatre Company will present a one of a kind online curiosity that lets audiences engage in the fun as they watch two detectives question six quirky suspects. With 20 live performances via zoom, the mystery of Who Killed Zolan Mize? runs online March 11 - April 3. 

Florida Repertory Theatre's 2020 PlayLab Festival of New Works kicks off Nov. 5th at 7 PM with the virtual reading of 'Spay' by Madison Fiedler, and continues with LIVE virtual readings on Nov. 12, 19, Dec. 3, and 10. The Festival also includes a Playwrights' Panel on Dec. 11 at 3:30 PM, where the festival playwrights talk about their craft and take questions from the audience.

Florida Rep has announced a whole slate of digital offerings as its Fall 2020 Virtual Season. The fall season includes the Stage@Home Virtual Talkback Series (through Oct. 30), the 2020 Virtual PlayLab Festival (Nov. 5-Dec. 11), and a streaming production of 'Clue' starring the theatre's ensemble of professional actors (Oct. 29-Nov. 1).

Florida Repertory Theatre will bring back its popular Stage@Home Virtual Talkback Series for four episodes beginning on Oct. 2nd at 3:30 PM. Held live on Zoom, the series takes audiences behind the scenes and introduces them to ensemble members, staff, technicians, and popular guest artists. The cost to register is $20/episode and $75 to access all four episodes.

In an effort to celebrate all of the amazing local theatre Southwest Florida did get to see prior to COVID-19 shutdowns, I reached out to local directors, actors, students, artists, etc., asking if they would answer a couple questions about their experiences with theatre from this past season and what they're most looking forward to next season.