http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/theater/index.html http://media.miamiherald.com/images/logos/rss_sitelogo.gif http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/theater/index.html 140 25 News, sports and entertainment from MiamiHerald.com en-us Copyright 2008 MiamiHerald.com Theater 60 Sun, 11 May 2008 03:03:09 EDT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss McClatchy Interactive's PubSys miamifeedback@miamiherald.com http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/theater/story/527466.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/theater/story/527466.html Sun, 11 May 2008 03:01 EDT Like so many Americans of a certain age, Jeff Marx and Robert ''Bobby'' Lopez, the guys who dreamed up the Tony Award-winning musical Avenue Q, spent their youngest years watching Sesame Street. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/theater/story/525432.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/theater/story/525432.html Fri, 09 May 2008 03:01 EDT Lee Blessing's mysterious, award-winning play A Body of Water is a puzzle involving identity, relationships and shifting truth. Carbonell Award winners Kim Morgan Dean, Beth Dimon and Ken Clement star in the chamber piece opening Friday and running through June 1 at Mosaic Theatre in the American Heritage Center for the Arts, 12200 W. Broward Blvd., Plantation. Performances are 8 p.m. Thursday through Saturday, 3 p.m. Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday. Tickets are $32 ($27 seniors, $15 students... http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/theater/story/525649.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/theater/story/525649.html Fri, 09 May 2008 03:01 EDT Comedy and mystery entwine in Thumbs, a play by Rupert Holmes (yes, that Rupert Holmes, the guy who wrote Escape, aka The Piña Colada Song). Barbara Sloan and Angie Radosh team up to catch a serial killer in the play that opens Friday and runs through May 25 at Actors' Playhouse, 280 Miracle Mile, Coral Gables. Performances are 8 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday (additional matinee May 14). Tickets for the gala opening are $100. Regular prices are... http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/theater/story/520518.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/theater/story/520518.html Mon, 05 May 2008 03:01 EDT Harvey Fierstein, four-time Tony Award-winning actor, playwright and singer, has just turned down a part in an Adam Sandler movie. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/theater/story/516670.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/theater/story/516670.html Fri, 02 May 2008 03:01 EDT A severely depressed woman nearing the end of her life wrote 4.48 Psychosis, a play about a severely depressed woman nearing the end of her life. The script for Sarah Kane's final play has sparked a wildly imaginative production at The Naked Stage, one that is nightmarish and dream-like, deeply emotional and surreal (and for adults only). http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/theater/story/513434.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/theater/story/513434.html Wed, 30 Apr 2008 03:01 EDT As many a bride-to-be would tell you, a woman's wedding day is the stuff of dreams, meticulous planning and, quite likely, one of the costliest days of her life. Among the many steps toward the altar is the trip to a bridal boutique to find that just-right gown. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/theater/story/512275.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/theater/story/512275.html Tue, 29 Apr 2008 03:01 EDT Bernard Weinraub's The Accomplices, a play about the United States' pitiful response to the Holocaust as it was happening, is a history lesson come to life. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/theater/story/511413.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/theater/story/511413.html Mon, 28 Apr 2008 03:01 EDT Something rare -- rare for South Florida theater, anyway -- is happening now at The Naked Stage. Most of the region's companies play it realistic and straight, producing scripts that tell clear stories from beginning to end. That can make for engrossing, satisfying drama, but audiences usually don't have to work too hard to extract the play's themes. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/theater/story/509831.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/theater/story/509831.html Sun, 27 Apr 2008 03:01 EDT Think ''Orlando,'' and what comes to mind? The muscle of the mighty Mouse, a sprawling Disney presence that draws millions each year? The screams of kids on the roller coasters at the Universal Orlando Resort? http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/theater/story/507669.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/theater/story/507669.html Fri, 25 Apr 2008 03:01 EDT What the United States did -- and didn't -- do to try to help Jews fleeing the Nazis is the subject of Bernard Weinraub's The Accomplices, opening at 8 p.m. Saturday at GableStage. John Manzelli and Ursula Cataan, along with Howard Elfman, Scott Genn, Joel Kolker, Wayne LeGette, Jessica K. Peterson, Kevin Reilly and Gregg Weiner, tell a story of failure in the face of genocide. The play runs through May 25 at GableStage in the Biltmore Hotel, 1200 Anastasia Ave., Coral Gables. Weinraub, who... http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/theater/story/506876.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/theater/story/506876.html Wed, 23 Apr 2008 14:58 EDT Good drama is good drama. Period. Plays that last for decades or centuries endure because they so accurately depict timeless feelings, behavior and basic human truths that they resonate with us, even if they were written long before we made our entrance into the world. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/theater/story/502772.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/theater/story/502772.html Mon, 21 Apr 2008 03:01 EDT Dr. Endesha Ida Mae Holland experienced enough drama in her 61 years of life to justify a dozen plays. Born into poverty in Greenwood, Miss., she never knew for sure who her father was. At 11, she was raped by a white man whose granddaughter she was baby-sitting. He gave her $5 and sent her home, her childhood stolen. She became a teen prostitute. Spent time in jail. Had a baby at 16. And then, after a chance encounter with a civil rights worker, she found herself again. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/theater/story/496152.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/theater/story/496152.html Wed, 16 Apr 2008 03:01 EDT When Richard Alfieri's Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks had its South Florida premiere at the Coconut Grove Playhouse in the spring of 2003, it boasted a pair of stars (Rue McClanahan and Mark Hamill), a crowd-pleasing Florida story and obvious ambitions for a commercial Broadway run. With Hamill and Polly Bergen, the play hit Broadway that fall, where it managed just 54 performances. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/theater/story/494011.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/theater/story/494011.html Mon, 14 Apr 2008 03:01 EDT Inspiring and tender-hearted, Tuesdays With Morrie is a story -- told as a memoir, a made-for-TV movie, a two-character play -- that has touched millions upon millions of people. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/theater/story/494010.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/theater/story/494010.html Mon, 14 Apr 2008 03:01 EDT Remember Groucho Marx? Unless you're of a certain age, or unless you're a fan of the artfully anarchic black-and-white Marx Brothers movies, probably not. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/theater/story/490133.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/theater/story/490133.html Fri, 11 Apr 2008 03:01 EDT Mitch Albom was a workaholic sports columnist and television commentator before he reconnected with Morrie Schwartz, the man who had been his sociology professor at Brandeis University. Morrie was dying, but through weekly conversations, he helped teach his former student how to truly live. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/theater/story/490439.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/theater/story/490439.html Fri, 11 Apr 2008 03:01 EDT The tough, inspiring journey of a young black girl from poverty in Mississippi to rebellion as a young woman to leadership in the civil rights movement is the subject of From the Mississippi Delta, a play that begins performances at 8 p.m. Thursday at M Ensemble, 12320 W. Dixie Hwy., North Miami. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/theater/story/488457.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/theater/story/488457.html Thu, 10 Apr 2008 03:01 EDT Two powerhouse ''jukebox'' musicals, the people-and-puppets musical Avenue Q, the recent revival of A Chorus Line, the fanciful Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and a new show from the not-quite-family-friendly Dame Edna will make up the 2008-2009 Broadway Across America season at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts and the Parker Playhouse. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/theater/story/485923.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/theater/story/485923.html Tue, 08 Apr 2008 03:01 EDT During his long life, Jules Tasca has written more than 100 plays, taught playwriting at Oxford University, acted with a commedia dell'arte troupe in Italy, won a number of awards for his work. An admirable résumé, however, is no guarantee of a profound or even engaging result after a playwright turns out one more script. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/theater/story/487008.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/theater/story/487008.html Tue, 08 Apr 2008 03:01 EDT Six companies from South Florida's far-flung theater community rose to the top Monday when the 32nd annual Carbonell Awards for theatrical excellence were handed out in a glitzy ceremony hosted by Broadway star Christine Andreas at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts.