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GableStage's A Steady Rain: Well-acted, poorly written

Carbonell Awards Nominations Announced; Actors' Playhouse Gets Most Nods in Dade

​The Carbonell Awards, the Tony Awards of South Florida stage, announced their 2011 nominees last night (see the full list below). Palm Beach County gleaned a whopping 43 nominations, followed by Miami-Dade's 28 and Broward's 27. But one of our own theatre troupes, the Actors' Playhouse, proved a ... More >>

Literati Who Lunch

​The Carbonell Awards, the Tony Awards of South Florida stage, announced their 2011 nominees last night (see the full list below). Palm Beach County gleaned a whopping 43 nominations, followed by Miami-Dade's 28 and Broward's 27. But one of our own theatre troupes, the Actors' Playhouse, proved a ... More >>

No-Tell Hotel

​The Carbonell Awards, the Tony Awards of South Florida stage, announced their 2011 nominees last night (see the full list below). Palm Beach County gleaned a whopping 43 nominations, followed by Miami-Dade's 28 and Broward's 27. But one of our own theatre troupes, the Actors' Playhouse, proved a ... More >>

Great Depression

​The Carbonell Awards, the Tony Awards of South Florida stage, announced their 2011 nominees last night (see the full list below). Palm Beach County gleaned a whopping 43 nominations, followed by Miami-Dade's 28 and Broward's 27. But one of our own theatre troupes, the Actors' Playhouse, proved a ... More >>

Hitched In

​The Carbonell Awards, the Tony Awards of South Florida stage, announced their 2011 nominees last night (see the full list below). Palm Beach County gleaned a whopping 43 nominations, followed by Miami-Dade's 28 and Broward's 27. But one of our own theatre troupes, the Actors' Playhouse, proved a ... More >>

Slinging Rocks

​The Carbonell Awards, the Tony Awards of South Florida stage, announced their 2011 nominees last night (see the full list below). Palm Beach County gleaned a whopping 43 nominations, followed by Miami-Dade's 28 and Broward's 27. But one of our own theatre troupes, the Actors' Playhouse, proved a ... More >>

Sibling Rivalry

​The Carbonell Awards, the Tony Awards of South Florida stage, announced their 2011 nominees last night (see the full list below). Palm Beach County gleaned a whopping 43 nominations, followed by Miami-Dade's 28 and Broward's 27. But one of our own theatre troupes, the Actors' Playhouse, proved a ... More >>

Drama Queens and Kings

​The Carbonell Awards, the Tony Awards of South Florida stage, announced their 2011 nominees last night (see the full list below). Palm Beach County gleaned a whopping 43 nominations, followed by Miami-Dade's 28 and Broward's 27. But one of our own theatre troupes, the Actors' Playhouse, proved a ... More >>

Tarell Alvin McCraney returns to Miami at the Borscht Film Festival

​The Carbonell Awards, the Tony Awards of South Florida stage, announced their 2011 nominees last night (see the full list below). Palm Beach County gleaned a whopping 43 nominations, followed by Miami-Dade's 28 and Broward's 27. But one of our own theatre troupes, the Actors' Playhouse, proved a ... More >>

Notes From the Soundboard: A Broadway Bias

Notes from the Soundboard is a new column appearing weekly on Crossfade,  focused on pop music's history and ongoing evolution. Lee Zimmerman shares insights and observations on how music continues to connect with the weirdness of the world. Click here to read past installments.Okay, let me sta ... More >>

New Blood

Notes from the Soundboard is a new column appearing weekly on Crossfade,  focused on pop music's history and ongoing evolution. Lee Zimmerman shares insights and observations on how music continues to connect with the weirdness of the world. Click here to read past installments.Okay, let me sta ... More >>

Stage Capsules

Current shows

Honoring an American Master

Current shows

History Lesson

New Theatre pieces together Cooper's sprawling mess of a play

Without a Trace

A play that generates more questions than answers isn't such a bad thing

Unanswered Questions

Is Sam Shepard bogus? Why stage this play?

The Infinite Uterus

Put issues of cloning, birth, and exile into a womb and call it way-out theater

Loooong Day's Journey

Unfortunately this O'Neill play still doesn't have much to say

Imagine Nations

The Hispanic theater festival is full of Cervantes

Our Town?

Another take on anti-gay violence in small-town U.S.A.

Next Onstage ...

A decent local lineup, some standards, a few stars

Who's Afraid of Dialogue?

No one should be, when it's done this well

Dyke Cunt Fem Theater

You vaginas talk amongst yourselves; retch has something to say to everyone

BEST LOCALLY PRODUCED DRAMA

The Play About the Baby

GableStage

What's So Funny?

The Dinner Party has a hard time deciding whether it's farce or tragedy

Dream On

Nilo Cruz's latest story of love, loss, family, and dislocation is more than just another tale of Cuban-American woe

Fresh Seasonings

Up ahead, some lights at the end of the tunnel

Wit for Life

A lyrical ode to the life of the mind when the body begins to die

The Naked Truth

The all-female cast of Hombres explores sexuality in men's clothing; the two-person cast of The Blue Room does the same in no clothing

Up from the Ashes

On a metaphorical sea, rafters become more than refugees; they are symbols of rebirth and redemption

Play It en Español

Isn't It Romantic?

Best Stage Design

Rich Simone

Forest Dumped

This romantic comedy gets lost in the woods for a while before finding the right path

Much Ado About the Bard

It's not every day a proper Shakespeare fest comes to town

Mission: Unspeakable

The Laramie Project can't explain Matthew Shepard's death, but it succeeds nonetheless

Scenes from the Edge

Want real alternative theater? Take a walk on Biscayne Boulevard's wild side.

We Don't Aim to Please

Four thespian kingpins reveal their most elaborately staged fantasies

Short and Sweet

Festival of one-acts leaves audiences hungry for more

The Catastrophe of Success

Something Cloudy, Something Clear

A Wake-Up Curtain Call

A theater critic's farewell

Blah, Blah, Blah

Tom Tom on a Rooftop

Season Sleeper

Pvt. Wars

A Plague on Your Upper Houses

Pvt. Wars

Much Ado About Sonnets

Pvt. Wars

Spanish Word Plays

Pvt. Wars

Saved by the Actors

Pvt. Wars

The Powers That Be

Pvt. Wars

Psycho Analysis

Pvt. Wars

Worthy of an Oscar

Pvt. Wars