For Skye Alyssa Friedman, there’s no down time, even in this moment of COVID-19. These days, the Jupiter resident is busy finishing her home-school classes, logging in to video classes on Zoom, interviewing with prospective colleges, reading plays, taking online dance classes and filming audition tapes. But perhaps that’s nothing new for the red-haired 18-year-old who’s … [Read more...]
Miami’s M Ensemble wins big at Carbonells
A low-budget African-American theater company in Miami was the big winner at the 42nd annual Carbonell Awards ceremony Monday night at the Broward Center. Although M Ensemble has been producing plays for 47 years, it had barely been recognized by the South Florida awards for theater excellence until that night. Its mounting of Kings of Harlem, about the struggles of a black … [Read more...]
Zoetic Stage is big winner at 41st Carbonells
It was a spread-the-wealth evening Monday, as nine South Florida theater companies took home Carbonell Awards at the 41st annual event at the Broward Center. Still, Miami’s Zoetic Stage was the big winner with six awards – three each for the Stephen Sondheim musical Passion and for Michael McKeever’s new play, After. Then again, judging by who walked off with the top awards, … [Read more...]
ArtsBuzz: Carbonell nominations, Oliveira contest, new PBG theater
The Maltz Jupiter Theatre again dominated the nominations for South Florida’s Carbonell Awards, recognizing excellence in resident professional theater, with 18 nods going to the company in northern Palm Beach County. Ten of those went to the Depression-era music hall show, Me and My Girl and another four went to the musical The Will Rogers Follies. The Maltz’s other four … [Read more...]