By Mary Thurwachter
BOCA RATON — Jan McArt, Florida’s first lady of musical theater, died at her home in Boca Raton on Jan. 31.
The show business legend helped steer South Florida theater from its beginnings with verve and sparkle. As word of her pa
Local organizations hopeful even as future looks bleak
By Jan Engoren
ArtsPaper Contributing Writer
When the Cannes Film Festival is canceled and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City is projected to lose $100 million after closing down be
The winning dog was Parker, a 2-year-old golden retriever who gave Lake Worth Playhouse artistic director Dan Eilola a sniff during his audition for the role of Sandy. At right is Reese Lores, 11, one of two actresses who will play Annie in the music
By Jane Smith
Hamid Hashemi and three other men resigned from their executive positions with iPic Entertainment on Nov. 15.
It was the same day that its lender gained control of the iPic luxury theater chain through an affiliate, iPic Theaters.
The n
By Jane Smith and Mary Hladky
IPic movie theaters in Delray Beach and Boca Raton remain open two months after the company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
But iPic Entertainment founder and chief executive Hamid Hashemi has abandoned effort
Hamid Hashemi called delays in Delray Beach an important factor in iPic’s financial trouble. Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
Related Information: Delray Beach iPic incentives
By Jane Smith and Mary Hladky
One week after iPic Entertainment filed for Ch
Compiled by Jane Smith
The iPic movie theater sits just south of Atlantic Avenue, between Southeast Fourth and Fifth avenues. The downtown Delray Beach movie theater has received incentives from the city and its Community Redevelopment Agency.
Decemb
By Christine Davis
The big reveal for the new iPic Delray movie theater, the city’s first new movie theater in 40 years, was held last month for media and friends.
A showing of 2019’s best picture, Green Book, and a live magic show kicked off the th
A scene from the Boynton Beach Playhouse's production of Cliffhanger. The theater needs new headquarters after the Madsen Center closed to make way for Town Square. Photo provided
By April W. Klimley
It’s been two months since the Boynton Beach Play
By Janis Fontaine
Attention local high schools with theater programs:
Applications are being accepted through mid-September from high schools that want to have their theater programs participate in the first-ever Dream Awards, a program sponsor
Meri Ziev of Ocean Ridge often has roles at the Lake Worth Playhouse. This month she's Josephine Strong in Urinetown, The Musical. Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Mary Thurwachter
A decade ago, Meri Ziev’s children dragged her to an audition for
The university celebrated the opening of its Theatre Lab, which is dedicated to developing new work in American theater and providing a training ground for students interested in careers onstage, with a preview for guests and supporters. LEFT: (l-
Senior cast member Andy Yao (left) shares a heartfelt story about how Theater Director Teresa Vignau (center) impacted his life in a positive way as senior castmates Alyssa Moeller and Caitrin Assaf and junior castmate Caroline Manera try to hold bac
By Betty Wells
Luxury movie theaters and hotels are included in four development proposals for the old library property on Southeast Fourth Avenue in downtown Delray Beach.
Details about the proposals submitted to the Community Redevelopment Ag
By Ron Hayes
On Dec. 1, 1953, somebody in Lake Worth said, “Let’s put on a show!”
Six decades later, the Lake Worth Playhouse is still putting on shows.
That first production was Springtime For Henry, and theater-goers had to climb three flights of stai
By Scott Simmons
The Plaza Theatre has jumped into the ring to help patrons of Boca Raton’s beleaguered Caldwell Theatre.
The Manalapan theater, which opened in February, will honor tickets to Caldwell’s production of Our Lady of Allapattah, which firs
Middle school students at St. Joseph’s Episcopal School’s Acadamy of the Arts presented The Elves & The Shoemaker to students and the community April 25-27. This is the seventh year the school has performed a public production. Shoes used as props i
By Hap Erstein, http://www.pbartspaper.com/
Next week, Florida Stage was supposed to launch its 25th anniversary season, beginning with the return of the musical biography Ella and continuing with a slate of world and regional premieres.
But the
