Family and theater community to celebrate the life of Miami arts champ Christine Dolen
Christine Dolen’s family, friends and the South Florida theater community plan to memorialize the veteran Miami Herald theater critic and Artburst Miami arts journalist in the most logical of locations: The theater.
Celebration of life details
▪ Celebrating the Life of Christine Dolen
When: 7 p.m. Monday, April 7.
Where: The Wick Theatre & Museum Club at 7901 N. Federal Hwy., Boca Raton.
The gathering is open to all to celebrate a voice who empowered live theater in South Florida for at least four decades. Dolen’s family, which includes husband John and their son Sean, requests that donations be made to your favorite South Florida theater in Christine’s memory.
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Friends remember a theater champion
Dolen’s colleague, former Herald architecture critic Beth Dunlop, spoke of her friend’s impact on the South Florida community in an interview shortly after Dolen died of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis on Feb. 2 in her Davie home. She was 74.
“After knowing her for well more than four decades, I am fully convinced that Christine made the most important contribution to theater in South Florida, encouraging and imploring it to grow, aim high, experiment, explore, be brave and flourish. Her commitment to regional theater was unparalleled. She held it to high standards,” Dunlop said.
“A once-in-a-lifetime storyteller, mentor and friend, let our industry forever celebrate her legacy by holding our standards as high as if she were in the audience,” said Actors’ Playhouse General Manager Brooke Noble. “South Florida theater is better because of Christine.”
This story was originally published February 25, 2025 at 5:26 PM.
