Carbonell Announces Special Awards Honorees, Musical Numbers

There’s still time to get tickets to this evening’s 38th annual Carbonell Awards, South Florida’s celebration of the community’s theatrical excellence. The ceremony will feature a multimedia tribute to the best plays of the season, a live band led by musical director Caryl Fantel, and musical performances by cast members…

The Return of Miami Improv Takes the Comedy to Kendall

If you’ve read our interview with Michael Yo, then you might have guessed the latest big news — the Miami Improv is back! The Improv, formerly located in Coconut Grove, has come to the expansive Kendall Village Center’s 12,000-square-foot entertainment venue, Homefield Sports Bar & Grill. The official kick-off of…

GableStage’s The Mountaintop Is Brilliant and Disastrous

Martin Luther King Jr.’s feet stank. At least they did April 3, 1968, in playwright Katori Hall’s imagined scenario of the night before the great leader was assassinated. It makes sense. Yours might stink too after trudging back to your motel room in a torrential storm while wearing the same…

GableStage’s The Mountaintop Is Brilliant and Disastrous

Martin Luther King Jr.’s feet stank. At least they did April 3, 1968, in playwright Katori Hall’s imagined scenario of the night before the great leader was assassinated. It makes sense. Yours might stink too after trudging back to your motel room in a torrential storm while wearing the same…

Michael Yo Brings a Hot Mess to Miami

You’ve probably seen Michael Yo interviewing celebrities on E! News or Chelsea Lately. But staring at a screen is bad for your health, so this weekend you’ll be able to see Yo live. He won’t be interviewing anyone, because he’ll be onstage for his Hot Mess Comedy Tour, giving audiences…

A Kiss for Cupid at StoryCrafter Studio Through March 23

The love story between Psyche and Cupid is one of the most durable myths of all time; with appearances by Zeus, Venus, Zephyr, Pan, Ceres, and the oracle of Apollo, it’s pretty close to a greatest-hits collection of Greek mythology. At its most basic, it’s about two beings who will…

Spamalot at Actors’ Playhouse Through March 30

Spamalot, Eric Idle’s delirious farrago based on his own Monty Python oeuvre, has the reputation, like Avenue Q and The Book of Mormon, of being musical theater for people who don’t necessarily attend musical theater. This assessment sidesteps the clever parodies of musicals ranging from Phantom of the Opera and…

The Mountaintop at GableStage March 15 Through April 13

What did Martin Luther King Jr. do the night before he was assassinated? Did he have a drink, pick up a girl, pray, cogitate, read, write, practice his next speech, hit the pillow early? Whatever activities occupied his time in room 306 of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis on April…

17 Border Crossings at the Light Box: 17 Plays for the Price of One

Thaddeus Phillips hails from Denver, but it’s fair to say he’s a citizen of the world. His work takes you to places. Under the auspices of his theater company, Lucidity Suitcase International, Phillips has become a deft travel monologist, his stage projects feeding into his journeys and vice versa. In…