Palm Beach County professional theaters, and particularly the Maltz Jupiter Theatre, dominated this year’s Carbonell Award nominations, which were announced Wednesday. Palm Beach companies received 62 nominations — nearly two-thirds of the total —followed by Miami-Dade with 28 and Broward with eight. The Maltz Jupiter Theatre, last year’s big winner, looks poised to have … [Read more...]
Maltz again dominates at Carbonell Awards
Maybe they should just call them the Maltz Jupiter Carbonell Awards. For the second year in a row, the Maltz Jupiter Theatre dominated the awards for professional theater in South Florida. Handed out Monday evening at the Broward Center were the 37th annual awards named for sculptor Manuel Carbonell, nine of which went to the Maltz Jupiter. An even more impressive measure of … [Read more...]
Maltz Jupiter Theatre leads Carbonell nominations
If you have the impression that 2011 was a particularly good year for Palm Beach County’s professional theater, you are right. Or at least you agree with the judges -- full disclosure: that includes myself -- of the Carbonell Awards, now in its 36th season of recognizing excellence in South Florida stage productions. Of the 98 nominations announced on Monday, 43 came from … [Read more...]
Carbonell haul is light for Palm Beach County theaters
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 companies in Coral Gables -- Actors’ Playhouse and Gable Stage -- which walked off with most of the booty: six and five awards, … [Read more...]
Carbonell Awards in jeopardy
Saturday, Nov. 22, 2008 The 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 … [Read more...]