Joe Adler and the cast of Blasted, which won Best Play for GableStage at Monday night's Carbonell Awards.By Hap ErsteinLast night’s 35th annual Carbonell Awards ceremony had a curious, unscripted recurring theme -- actor Todd Allen Durkin’s private parts.I guess we should have seen it coming -- the theme, not the naughty bits -- since he did appear full … [Read more...]
Theater preview: Tonight, Carbonells honor best in South Florida theater
By Hap ErsteinTonight, the South Florida theater community gets together for the 35th annual Carbonell Awards, the citations for excellence among area professional theaters that has been shrouded in controversy in recent years.Last year, as you may recall, the awards board of directors announced the program would be suspended to study and fix the perceived … [Read more...]
ArtsBuzz: Maltz, Actors’ Playhouse lead Carbonell nods with 18 apiece
Carbonell nominees Bret Shuford, Tari Kellyand Tom Beckett in Anything Goes.By Hap ErsteinThat helicopter musical, Miss Saigon, at Actors’ Playhouse, received 11 Carbonell Award nominations, the most of any professional production in South Florida, according to an announcement made today.Sarah Kane’s sordid drama Blasted pulled in seven nominations for … [Read more...]
Theater feature: For Palm Beach County theaters, a light haul at the Carbonells
Robert Creighton recreates a number from Cagney!,an award-winner Monday night for Florida Stage.(Photo by Tony Schreiber) By Hap Erstein If you are looking for Carbonell statuettes today, look southward. Monday evening’s 34th annual Carbonell Awards ceremony was a low-key, well-produced event that tilted strongly towards theaters in Miami-Dade County. In fact, to two theater … [Read more...]
Theater feature: ‘Les Miz’ leads Carbonell nominees list
The cast of Les Miserables at Actors' Playhouse.By Hap ErsteinThere was nothing miserable about the Actors’ Playhouse production of the epic musical Les Miserables, the nominating committee for the 34th annual Carbonell Awards said Tuesday as it showered the show with 12 nominations.The adaptation of Victor Hugo’s novel led the field vying for bragging rights of excellence in … [Read more...]
2009 Carbonell Awards ceremony: Downsized by necessity, and better off for it
Beth Dimon, who won a Carbonellfor her portrayal of Florence Foster Jenkinsin ‘Souvenir’ (above), sang at the awards ceremony.By Hap Erstein You can argue all night long about the relative merits of the winners at Monday evening’s 33rd annual Carbonell Awards — and don’t think that members of the South Florida theater community won’t expend the energy to do exactly that. … [Read more...]
ArtsBuzz: GableStage, Mosaic win big at 33rd Carbonells
The Mosaic Theatre's The Seafarer won the 2008 Carbonell for best play.By Hap ErsteinFORT LAUDERDALE -- In a year that saw a near-revolt among some of the participating theaters, several of whom charged that South Florida’s Carbonell Awards were broken and badly in need of repair, the 33rd annual awards for excellence in professional theater in South Florida were handed out … [Read more...]
Commentary: Carbonell nominations for 2008 announced
Tom Kenaston and Beth Dimon in Souvenir, from Palm Beach Dramaworks.By Hap ErsteinWhile most of the country puzzles over the upcoming Academy Awards, the local theater community is busy analyzing the nominations for the Carbonell Awards, which honor excellence in theater at South Florida’s professional companies during the 2008 calendar year.Announced today, they come after a … [Read more...]
Commentary: South Florida’s Carbonell Awards in jeopardy
By Hap ErsteinThe topic on the minds of most of the South Florida theater community at the moment, that has heated flurries of e-mails zapping back and forth through cyberspace, is the proposed suspension and likely subsequent demise of the controversial Carbonell Awards. Without consulting with or giving advance notice to the army of volunteer nominators and judges, the … [Read more...]