Theaters

Fresh from its Pulitzer Prize nomination, The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity is the comedic look into the world of professional wrestling but told through a thoughtful examination of race relations, geopolitics, and personal introspection. Unlike anything you’ve ever seen, one moment you’re awed by the spectacle, another you’re laughing uncontrollably and finally, you’re rethinking America’s place in the global landscape. Casting … +

Seven-time Emmy Award-winner Ed Asner (Pixar’s UP, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Lou Grant) and two-time Tony Award-nominee Johanna Day (Sweat, Proof) will star in the play reading along with Ned Eisenberg and Blair Baker. More than a half century after WW II at the desperate urging of a passionate survivor, a young investigative reporter finds herself caught between numerous versions of the same … +

Eric Lane’s poignant and hilarious play RIDE takes three teenage girls on a life-changing road trip. While Carrie and Molly would never hang out together at high school, the two form a fragile bond during their job at a local farm stand. Molly convinces Carrie to join her on an unexpected road trip, which deepens their connection. Sam, Carrie’s eleven-year-old sister, joins … +

Getting away with murder can be so much fun… and there’s no better proof than the knock-‘em-dead hit show that’s earned unanimous raves and won the 2014 Tony Award® for Best Musical. Coming direct from New York, where a most gentlemanly NPR critic said he’d “Never laughed so hard at a Broadway Musical,” GENTLEMAN’S GUIDE tells the uproarious story of Monty Navarro, a distant heir … +

Did you ever wonder what happens behind the scenes during the producing of a play? Well, we found your answer. Called the funniest farce ever written, Noises Off presents a manic menagerie of itinerant actors rehearsing and performing a flop called “Nothing’s On.” This uproarious farce features lovers frolicking, doors slamming, clothes being tossed this way and that, with both on stage … +

Actors’ Playhouse at the Miracle Theatre closes its milestone 30th Anniversary Season with EVITA, one of the most passionate and powerful musicals in theater history. The company will present the production in English from November 1 – 26, and then in Spanish from November 30 – December 17, with both runs featuring the same incredibly talented bilingual cast. Winner of seven Tony … +

An award-winning tribute to one of the great innovators of American popular music. Follow Williams’ rise from his beginnings on the Louisiana Hayride to his triumphs on the Grand Ole Opry to his eventual self-destruction at the age of twenty-nine. Along the way, audiences are treated to indelible songs like “I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry,” “Move It on Over,” and “Hey, Good … +

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Topdog/Underdog, is a dark comedy revolving around two African American brothers, Lincoln and Booth, whose names were given to them by their father as a joke before deserting them, but foretelling a lifetime of sibling rivalry and resentment. Now in their thirties, they must rely on each other for survival and company, coping with women, … +

At the turn of the century in the Deep South, the ruthless, moneyed Hubbard clan poison everything they touch. The Little Foxes is a 1939 play by Lillian Hellman, considered a classic of 20th century drama. Its title comes from Chapter 2, Verse 15 of the Song of Solomon in the King James version of the Bible, which reads, “Take us the … +

Written immediately prior to the recent presidential election, BUILDING THE WALL is a hard-hitting new play inspired by angry campaign rhetoric, and threatening promises made law, that leads to a terrifying escalation of horrifying events. It’s 2019 and the US has suffered another terrorist attack. Declaring martial law, the government has swept up and detained millions of immigrants. Rick is a former … +

Mad Cat kicks off their 18th season with their popular concert series Mad Cat Live performing Black Sabbath’s Vol. 4. Just in time for Halloween, this limited engagement will be a must-see live event for fans of Sabbath; a heavy metal band who began their dramatic 50 year history in Birmingham, England as a jazz-blues quartet called Earth, only to find themselves … +

In what the New York Post called “Shepard’s masterwork”, True West is a Pulitzer Prize finalist that explores what it means for humans to have a “double nature.” Two estranged brothers, Lee and Austin, meet up in their mother’s Southern California suburban home; Austin to work on his latest screenplay and Lee to scour the surrounding houses for valuable appliances. What ensues … +

CCEMiami and Microtheater Miami present the new season Theater Festival opening on August 3rd until September 3rd. This season Microtheater will have special working hours Thursday to Sunday 8pm to 12am. The theaters that participate are Trail Theater, Teatro 8, Koubek Center, Teatro Bellas Artes and Microtheater. La cueva Autor: Carolina Laursen Director: David Chocarro-Victoria Murtagh Elenco rotativo: Carolina Loyola, Salomon Barros, Lisa … +

Kindertransport by Diane Samuels and directed by Michael Andron takes the audience  between 1938 and the outbreak of World War II,  when almost 10,000 children most of them Jewish, were sent by their parents from Germany to Britain, including 9-year old Eva. When her parents fail to escape, Eva changes her name and begins the process of denying her roots. It is only … +

Minnie Cohen’s life has always evolved around her family, especially her two children, Amy and Ronnie. As Amy and Ronnie have become adults and moved away from Minnie and her husband, Harold, she has lost her bearings for life and her grip on the family. The kids are going through their own personal challenges and her marriage to Harold is slipping away … +

In the Heights is the first musical by Lin-Manuel Miranda (Hamilton). Winner of 4 Tony Awards including Best Musical,  it tells the story of an eclectic group of friends and families in the largely Dominican-American neighborhood of Washington Heights in New York City. It explores three days in the characters’ lives in this Manhattan’ Latino neighborhood where a bodega owner called Usnavi … +

Informed Consent by Deborah Zoe Laufer with Elizabeth Dimon, Betsy Graver, Jovon Jacobs, Francisca Munoz and Carlos Orizondo take the spectators into three different perspectives around human beings and their creation. Among the characters we find a genetic anthropologist, a children’ s book author and a Native American  who tells the ancient legend about how Grand Canyon came to be. The play … +

Every Monday through August 28, 2017 a South Florida Theatre League member will host a reading of a new play by a local playwright. Playwrights range from established local favorites, including Carbonell Award-winners and nominees, to emerging talents, with plays vastly ranging in subject matter and style. Schedule : July 31, 2017 Actors’ Playhouse, “All Together Now” by Philip Middleton Williams, 7:30 … +

  In Finding Mona Lisa, Carbonell Award-winning playwright Michael McKeever explores the history of the world’s most famous painting, including Leonardo da Vinci’s meeting of Senora del Giocondo (Mona Lisa) and his masterful creation of her indelible countenance. This historical, funny and intriguing new piece presents highlights throughout the painting’s infamous past, including her vandalism, her theft, her journey to America (at … +

Bad Jews by Joshua Harmon  chronicles the relationships between three cousins who are brought together following the death of their grandfather, a Holocaust survivor. Conflict ensues as the trio fight over a “chai” that belonged to their grandfather. As Daphna and Liam battle over who is more deserving of the memento, Liam’s girlfriend Melody and brother Jonah try to stay clear of … +

From musical theatre’s most renowned composer Stephen Sondheim, Company is largely regarded as a trailblazer of the dark-comedy, modern-musical genre and the winner of seven Tony Awards, including Best Musical, Best Score, Best Lyrics and Best Book. Stephen Sondheim’s game-changing musical is a sophisticated and honest look at modern adult relationships. Raymond F. Kravis Center For The Performing Arts 701 Okeechobee Blvd. … +