Michelle Solomon

1 month ago | miamiherald.com | Michelle Solomon

As the demolition on the venerable Coconut Grove Playhouse auditorium began in April, lifelong resident William Hector was putting the finishing touches on his inaugural Coconut Grove Theatre Festival (CGTFest). The festival will feature new plays at the Woman’s Club of Coconut Grove Thursday through Sunday. “The idea first came to life in a phone call I had with Irene Munore, a member of the Woman’s Club of Coconut Grove Arts & Culture Committee.

1 month ago | yahoo.com | Michelle Solomon

As the demolition on the venerable Coconut Grove Playhouse auditorium began in April, lifelong resident William Hector was putting the finishing touches on his inaugural Coconut Grove Theatre Festival (CGTFest). The festival will feature new plays at the Woman’s Club of Coconut Grove Thursday through Sunday. “The idea first came to life in a phone call I had with Irene Munore, a member of the Woman’s Club of Coconut Grove Arts & Culture Committee.

2 months ago | miamiartzine.com | Michelle Solomon

If Florida Grand Opera’s latest production of “Carmen” is any indication of the direction the seventh oldest opera company in the United States is going, then the professional opera company in South Florida is on solid footing.

2 months ago | miamiherald.com | Michelle Solomon

There’s much at play in M Ensemble’s “Knock Me a Kiss” on stage at the Sandrell Rivers Theater. Notwithstanding, the company had to push back the production to April due to what it stated was “unforeseen delays with county funding.” While its season usually starts in February, this is the first production of Florida’s oldest still-operating Black theater company, now in its 54th season. It was worth the wait. Playwright Charles Smith gives André L.

2 months ago | wlrn.org | Michelle Solomon |Artburst Miami

When George Neary arrived in Miami in 1991 from New York, he began volunteering at the Miami Design Preservation League (MDPL), started in 1976 by Barbara Baer Capitman in an effort to preserve and save the Art Deco architecture in Miami Beach. “She was the voice for the architecture, for the buildings, for this whole neighborhood,” said Neary. “(In 1991) Nancy Liebman was the executive director,” he recalled, “and then she decided to run for the city commission, and she won.