Mike Westrich News

The South Florida Silver Palm Theatre Awards, founded eleven years ago to honor theatrical excellence in South Florida, has announced that this year it will present the coveted award to 30 individuals and organizations.

Lynn University and Jan McArt, producer and director of theatre arts program development, today invited theater fans to the opening show of this season's Jan McArt's New Play Readings. Under the leadership and guidance of McArt, this program develops new plays by highly acclaimed playwrights through staged readings. Tony Finstrom is associate producer and Wayne Rudisill is resident director of this series, with readings held in the university's Keith C. and Elaine Johnson Wold Performing Arts Center.

Hedwig and the Angry Inch has kick stepped its way onto the Pompano Beach Cultural Center stage, with innovative emotional drives and unbelievable passions behind the two starring performers, which director Skye Whitcomb bond in a tirade of pained punk sincerity.

The Outre Theatre Company announces its final production of the 2017/18 season, the sensational Hedwig and the Angry Inch, book by John Cameron Mitchell, music and lyrics by Stephen Trask. Starring the multi-talented Mike Westrich as Hedwig and the award-winning Kat Gold as Yitzhak, Hedwig and the Angry Inch is a glorious celebration of the genderqueer and the outsider, and is a fitting capstone to Outre's sixth full season.

Bruce Lisner pulls together a star-studded cast of performers, each bringing their own personal blends onto the classic expectations. Despite some technical stumbles, MNM's Little Shop is a toe-tapping, smile-inducing injection for theatre-goers of any age.

Marcie Gorman-Althof and Michael Lifshitz, the producing partners behind MNM Productions, one of South Florida's hottest theatre companies, today confirmed that their fourth production this year, the comedy rock musical LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS, will open this Friday at the Kravis Center's Rinker Playhouse.

Marcie Gorman-Althof and Michael Lifshitz, the producing partners behind MNM Productions, one of South Florida's hottest theatre companies, today announced the cast of its fourth production this year, the comedy rock musical LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS, which will run December 1-17 at the Kravis Center's Rinker Playhouse.

Returning-MNM director/ choreographer Kimberly Dawn Smith's smart attention to the wondrously strong cast, and obvious love of the absurdity, power her Spamalot through the few brief stumbles to deliver a side-splitting evening.

Marcie Gorman-Althof and Michael Lifshitz, the producing partners behind MNM Productions, one of South Florida's hottest new theatre companies, today announced that Alpert Jewish Family & Children's Service raised more than $9,000 at the May 18 preview performance of its current production, Monty Python's SPAMALOT, which is running through June 4 at the Kravis Center's Rinker Playhouse.

Marcie Gorman-Althof and Michael Lifshitz, the producing partners behind MNM Productions, one of South Florida's hottest new theatre companies, today announced that Monty Python's SPAMALOT will open next week at the Kravis Center's Rinker Playhouse.

Several recent Carbonell Award winners are today announcing their first joint production.

Marcie Gorman-Althof and Michael Lifshitz, the producing partners behind MNM Productions, one of South Florida's hottest new theatre companies, today announced that Alpert Jewish Family & Children's Service will be the exclusive nonprofit partner for the May 18 preview performance of its next production, Monty Python's SPAMALOT, which will run May 19 through June 4 at the Kravis Center's Rinker Playhouse.

???????Marcie Gorman-Althof and Michael Lifshitz, the producing partners behind MNM Productions, one of South Florida's hottest new theatre companies, today announced the 20-person cast for Monty Python's SPAMALOT, the first of three productions in 2017, each of which will be presented at the Kravis Center's Rinker Playhouse.

There's a playwright missing in action this week at Boca Raton's Lynn University where, on Monday, 'Jan McArt's New Play Readings' series will present a staged reading of Michael McKeever's latest work, 'THE CAMP.'    

Celebrated South Florida playwright Michael McKeever's latest work, 'THE CAMP,' will be given a Staged Reading for one night only, as part of the award-winning 'Jan McArt's New Play Readings' series, at 7:30 PM on Monday, March 6th, 2017, in Lynn University's Keith C. and Elaine Johnson Wold Performing Arts Center, Boca Raton, FL.

Marcie Gorman-Althof and Michael Lifshitz, the producing partners behind MNM Productions, one of South Florida's hottest new theatre companies, today announced the leading cast members and production teams for its first three productions in 2017, each of which will be presented at the Kravis Center's Rinker Playhouse.

Island City Stage continues it's 2016-2017 season with the  blistering comedy/drama "The First Step - Diary of a Sex Addict".

???????Island City Stage continues it's 2016-2017 season with the "The First Step - Diary of a Sex Addict".

Silver Palm Award-Winning producers Matt May and Jenn Sierra-Grobbelaar ecstatically announce the release of "Party In My Pants," from their critically-acclaimed musical comedy Diego & Drew Say I Do.

'The tale of an eighteenth century Scandinavian king may sound dull, but this bit of history feels more like something out of 'GAME OF THRONES.'