The Coconut Grove Playhouse News

54 Below will present Ashley Chiu in “Ashley Chiu: 10 Years in NYC, Thank You & Goodnight” on Saturday July 13th at 9:30pm.

International City Theatre will open its 2024 season with the world premiere of Yankee’s deeply personal comic drama, Marilyn, Mom & Me.

North Coast Repertory Theatre’s Artistic Director David Ellenstein, and Managing Director Bill Kerlin, have been named Laguna Playhouse’s new Artistic and Managing Directors respectively, effective immediately.

​​​​​​​Hostos Center for the Arts & Culture will present Dancing with Dictators, a solo work written and performed with music by the Emmy Award-winning writer Luis Santeiro on Thursday, May 4, 2023 at 2:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. on the stage of the Repertory Theater at Hostos Community College.

Palm Beach Dramaworks will ring in 2023 with one of its most popular events, the New Year/New Plays Festival, which runs from January 6-8 and features readings of five fascinating plays that are still in development.

Laguna Playhouse and its Board of Directors announced that North Coast Repertory Theatre’s Artistic Director, David Ellenstein, has been named to the position of Interim Artistic Director for the Playhouse for the period of October 3, 2022 through January 1, 2023.

Hello and Hola! I’m Marcy Roche, an actor currently based in Miami, FL, of Cuban and Irish heritage. Living in Miami, I enjoy a multicultural experience, ranging from sipping my cafecito to the occasional autumn pumpkin spice latte and learning of global insights.

According to the Miami Herald, Miami-Dade Circuit Court panel has just ruled against a 2019 veto from Mayor Francis Suarez, which nixed the demolition of the famed Coconut Grove Playhouse. The county announced plans to remove the historic theatre, which has not been in use since 2006, to make room for a new theatre space. 

Today's top stories: tune in to last night's virtual Broadway Barks hosted by Bernadette Peters, learn about an immersive production of Great Comet coming to Florida next year, and more!

Lucie Arnaz, star of stage, screen, and cabaret comes to The Corner for this week's episode of Cabaret Corner, a series devoted to having meaningful conversations with leaders in the cabaret community.

Theatre Communications Group (TCG) is pleased to announce the forthcoming publication of Exquisite Agony by Nilo Cruz. The play received its world premiere at Repertorio Español in New York in the summer of 2018.

After a highly-acclaimed tour to Australia, Norway, and South Africa this summer, and two sold-out runs at the Desert Rose Playhouse followed by a sold-out four-week encore run at Oscar's Cabaret earlier this year, award-winning solo performer/playwright Steven Fales returns to the Coachella Valley with his 'new and improved, updated, unbridled, and uninhibited'

The Wilbury Theatre Group opens its 2019/20 Main Series season with Samuel Beckett's existential masterpiece Waiting for Godot, which runs in performances September 26 - October 20.

Today's top stories: Waitress will close in January, Andrew Lloyd Webber's Cinderella is coming to Broadway, and more!

Mayor Carlos Gimenez Reaffirms the County's Commitment to the Coconut Grove Playhouse Project Mayor Carlos Gimenez issued a statement regarding the City of Miami Mayor's veto of the City Commission's action in support of the County-FIU Coconut Grove Playhouse project. Mayor Gimenez stated,

Luis Salgado is quickly becoming known as an acclaimed director and choreographer. He has just returned from Germany where he served as Associate DirectorChoreographer for Cirque du Solieil's PARAMOUR. Two years ago he directed and choreographed the Helen Hayes winning musical IN THE HEIGHTS at the GALA Hispanic Theatre. He is now returning to GALA with his own version of FAME, The Musical.

A 40th Anniversary reunion benefit concert of the 1979 hit Broadway production of They're Playing Our Song will be held on Monday, February 11th at 7:30 pm at the Music Box Theatre (239 West 45th St.) and will star the Broadway cast members Lucie Arnaz as 'Sonia Walsk' and Robert Klein as 'Vernon Gersch'.

Miami New Drama is proud to announce the world premiere of FAKE, a new play written by and starring Cuban-American, Carmen Pelaez. In a time in which we've come to experience the manipulation of facts to the point of extreme skepticism and distrust, this play encapsulates the themes of the moment.

Miami New Drama, the groundbreaking company transforming Miami's theaterscene, co-founded by artistic director Michel Hausmann, will continue as the residentcompany at Miami Beach's historic Colony Theatre for five more years. The renewed commitment from the City of Miami Beach will maintain the company at the Lincoln Road theater until 2023.

The Coconut Grove Playhouse revival project just received a major boost from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, which awarded $2 million to Miami-Dade County to complete the project. This major gift brings the return of regional theater at the Coconut Grove Playhouse one step closer to reality!