Take in a show in vibrant South Florida region
The 2023-24 theater season in South Florida is in full gear with shows opening regularly. Below is a round-up of just a few offerings in the region. YI Love Jewish presents a reading of A People by LM Feldman, and starring Avi Hoffman, who is also directing. The...
Summer Shorts: Homegrown Edition entertains, highlights diversity
Photo courtesy of Morgan Sophia Photography Roderick Randle and Bretta-Raia Curah play a futuristic couple living in a world near collapse in the short play, And Other Dreams We Had. By AARON KRAUSE This year’s version of City Theatre’s popular annual short play festival, Summer Shorts, is a...
Pandemic prompts changes to Arsht program schedules
Photo by Matthew Murphy A tour of the Broadway musical Hadestown will now play in Miami at the end of 2022. Above, Andre De Shields appears in a scene from the Broadway production By AARON KRAUSE Broadway in Miami subscribers will have to wait for a song to, perhaps,...
Celebrating top ‘Shorts’
And the winner is — Webster’s Bitch. More specifically, it is the winning short play in Miami-based City Theatre’s annual National Short Playwrighting Contest. City Theatre staff chose Webster’s Bitch, and 24 finalists, from more than 750 writers. “The list comprises playwrights new to the company, alongside several writers who...
‘She Shorts’ empowers, delights
Photo courtesy of Thinking Cap Theatre and City Theatre An intense scene plays out in Webster’s Bitch, one of several pieces comprising the inaugural presentation of She Shorts. By AARON KRAUSE FT. LAUDERDALE — Looking back, the all-around beneficial collaboration seemed inevitable. To begin with, throughout its...
Get on the wild side with these Shorts
(Photo by George Wentzler) Marquise Rogers and Lawrence Buzzeo appear in Give Me Space, one of the short plays in a South Florida co-production of Shorts Gone Wild 5 WILTON MANORS, Fla. — “I will obliterate those who oppress and repress people they do not understand,” the ambitious,...