The South Florida Theatre Festival is the annual celebration of live theatre throughout Palm Beach, Broward, Miami-Dade and Monroe counties. This year's festivities run from October 12th through 26th.
Forum
Free Night of Theater
Thursday, Oct 15, 2009 - Thursday, Oct 29, 2009
Theatres across South Florida are participating in the Theatre Communications Group's national program Free Night of Theater. Tickets will be available starting in October at www.freenightoftheater.net.
Lectures & Other Events
SouthFloridaTheatre.com's 2nd Annual Carbonell Awards After Party
Monday, Apr 12, 2010 - Monday, Apr 12, 2010 at 10:00 pm - 12:00 am
On April 12, 2010, the 34th Annual Carbonell Awards Ceremony will be held, honoring the best in South Florida theatre at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts. After the final acceptance speech is an echo, join us at Revolution Live - it's just blocks away from Broward Center and the party will go to midnight.
Theatre professionals and patrons alike are welcome to celebrate, mingle and network at this event.
Join us and receive complimentary welcome drink and a free drink ticket (with an option to continue drinking at a cash bar until midnight), an assortment of fine cheeses, and dip fruit and other goodies into the chocolate fountain.
WHAT: Carbonell Awards "After-Party" - sponsored by SouthFloridaTheatre.com
WHEN: April 12th, from 10:00pm – 12:00am
WHERE: Revolution Live!
200 W. Broward Blvd. (just blocks away from the Broward Center!)
WHO: Theatre Professionals, Patrons, and Lovers of the Art!
HOW MUCH: FREE - with Carbonell Awards ticket stub!
Carbonell Awards Ceremony is on April 12th
Tickets for the April 12th Carbonell Awards Ceremony, to be held at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts in Ft. Lauderdale, are now on sale.
Tickets ae $25 each, with $20 tickets available to groups of 10 or more.
Single tickets and non-theater group ticket sales should contact the box office at 954-462-0222 or purchase online at www.browardcenter.org where exact seating locations may be obtained.
Nominees should contact the theatres that produced their shows to arrange for their complimentary tickets and any additional tickets they may wish to purchase.
Staged Readings
24 Hour Theatre Project
Monday, Oct 12, 2009 - Monday, Oct 12, 2009
THE 24 HOUR THEATRE PROJECT, Miracle Theatre, Coral Gables – Naked Stage founders Antonio Amadeo, Katherine Amadeo and John Manzelli have made the program the inaugural event of the South Florida Theatre Festival 2009. Based on a pattern commonly employed across the country, the “24-Hour Theatre” concept returns to the Miracle Theatre, through the sponsorship of Actors’ Playhouse.
How does it work? At 7pm on Sunday, October 11th, nine playwrights will gather at the historic theatre and select a theme from which they must each write a short play to be staged, rehearsed and performed the next day. At sunrise on Monday, October 12th, their randomly distributed actors, directors and stage managers arrive, and spend the entire day bringing the writers’ works to life --a process that usually takes weeks! That night, at 8pm, an audience will arrive.
“It’s like the entire creative theatrical process on speed,” said Antonio Amadeo, a Carbonell Award winning actor & Executive Artistic Producer of The Naked Stage . Amadeo is working with Carbonell Award winning director & Artistic Director of Actors’ Playhouse David Arisco in putting on the creative program.
On Oct. 12, directors Clive Cholerton, Todd Allen Durkin, Barbara Flaten, Margaret M. Ledford, Amy London, Stuart Meltzer, Hugh Murphy, Kim St. Leon and Paul Tei meet in the wee hours with their playwright and cast. By 8 p.m., the fun begins for the paying public at the Miracle Theatre.
This year's actors are, as always, a top-tier bunch: Irene Adjan, Katherine Amadeo, Tracey Barrow-Schoenblatt, Cliff Burgess, Ken Clement, Michaela Cronan, Beth Dimon, Nick Duckart, Lela Elam, John Felix, Scott Genn, Maribeth Graham, Betsy Graver, Avi Hoffman, Sandy Ives, Christopher A. Kent, Wayne LeGette, Margery Lowe, John Manzelli, Lisa Morgan, Francisco Padura, David Perez-Ribada, Erin Joy Schmidt, Deborah L. Sherman, Adam Simpson, Barbara Sloan, Mark Swaner, Barry Tarallo, Laura Turnbull, Tom Wahl, Ricky Waugh and David Arisco.
And, this year’s playwrights include Andie Arthur, Chris Demos Brown, Elena Maria Garcia, Lucas Levya, Michael McKeever, Andrew Rosendorf, Juan C. Sanchez, and David Sirois
Tickets are $25, and will go on sale soon. Contact (305) 444-9293 or www.actorsplayhouse.org.
The Laramie Project: 10 Years Later at Florida Stage
Monday, Oct 12, 2009 - Monday, Oct 12, 2009
The Laramie Project, based on interviews with the town's citizens and Shepard's family, has been produced all over the United States in the past decade, was made into an HBO movie and has been seen by more than 50 million people. Now Moises Kaufman and fellow writers Leigh Fondakowski, Greg Pierotti, Andy Paris and Stephen Belber are taking another look at the tragedy and the town. The Laramie Project: 10 Years Later is an 80-minute epilogue dealing with the murder's long-term effect – including material from interviews with Shepard’s mother and one of his killers, Aaron McKinney.
More than 100 theatres across the country are participating in this event, including two in Florida -- Sarasota's Asolo Repertory Theatre, as well as Manalapan's Florida Stage.
Workshops
The Actors' Workshop of South Florida
Date TBD
Offering an 8 Week adult acting class starting October 5. Please visit www.theactorsworkshop.org or call 954-421-7469 for more details.
