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...]
Remembering Charlie Cinnamon, who gave South Florida theater its buzz
I was working at The Washington Times in the 1980s when I first met Charlie Cinnamon. He arrived at our newsroom flacking a new production company that brought Elizabeth Taylor to the stage in a revival of The Little Foxes. When I moved to South Florida in 1994, there he was again, representing the linked Broadway series of Palm Beach, Broward and Miami-Dade … [Read more...]