It’s that time of year; the theater companies are announcing their upcoming seasons.
Broward Center’s Broadway in America series has announced that the 2025-2026 season will include many South Florida premieres, including “Life of Pi,” “Kimberly Akimbo,” “Water for Elephants,” “& Juliet,” “Back to the Future,” “Hell’s Kitchen,” as well as the return of “Les Misérables” and “Riverdance 30 – The New Generation.”
Slow Burn Theatre Company has also announced its 2025-2026 season, featuring five stories of ambition, identity, and resilience: “Catch Me If You Can;” “Disney’s Frozen;” “Beautiful: The Carole King Musical,” “Hairspray;” and “Alanis Morisette’s Jagged Little Pill.”
Meanwhile, The Arsht’s still got “La La Land in Concert” followed by “Beetlejuice,” as part of Broadway in Miami. The Zoetic’s opening “The Comeuppance” at the Carnival Studio Theater. Then “Chicago” takes us into the summer. Next year’s Broadway in Miami has some regional premieres, “The Wiz,” “& Juliet,” the new interactive “Clue,” “Moulin Rouge!,” “The Notebook,” and closes with “The Book Of Mormon.”
Island City Stage, which has been stretching the boundaries of LGBT Theater, hasn’t inked all the documents yet, However, at this point, it looks like the season will start with the campy musical “Ruthless!,” and then switch gears with “The Little Foxes” by Lillian Hellman, “Light Switch” by Dave Osmundsen, followed by “Everything Beautiful Happens at Night” by Ted Malawer. They’ll end the season with a play that they’re not permitted to announce yet.
Up in Palm Beach Maltz Jupiter Theatre has “The Bridges Of Madison County,” and Island Theater at Maltz Jupiter Theater, not to be confused with Island City Stage, is focusing on small productions and cabaret performances. Among some of the more interesting shows are the one-man play, “Fully Committed,” Andrea McArdle’s “Confessions of a Broadway Baby,” and Donna McKechnie’s “Take Me To The World: The Songs of Stephen Sondheim.”
Lauderhill Performing Arts Center: Broadway At LPAC closes this season with “South Pacific,” April 10-27. As of our deadline, there was no announcement made about next year’s season.
Pompano Beach Cultural Center home to the Pompano Players, aka the new kids on the block, still has two shows left from this season: “And The World Goes ‘Round,” and “I Do! I Do.”
Dance fans can look forward to Arts Ballet of Florida’s Spring Ballet Gala on April 27 at The Broward Center, Les Ballets Trockadero des Monte Carlo is at The Parker, Miami City Ballet performs “Carmen” at The Arsht and Dimensions Dance Theater of Miami offers a Mother’s Day Dance Celebration at The Mianiaci Performing Arts Center.
The Kravis on Broadway series will include the new restaging of “The Wiz” (Oct. 21-26), “Kimberly Akimbo” (Nov. 11-16), “‘Twas The Night Before…” by Cirque du Soleil (Nov. 20-30), “The Choir Of Man” (Dec. 22-28), “Some Like It Hot” (Jan. 6-11), “MJ the Musical” (Feb. 10-15), “A Beautiful Noise: The Neil Diamond Musical” (April 7-12), and “The Notebook” (April 28-May 3). For tickets and more information, go to kravis.org.
