If a play is what you long to see, you have plenty of choices in Greater Miami - from traditional to avant-garde.

 

Actor's Playhouse at the Miracle Theater
280 Miracle Mile, Coral Gables
(305) 444-9293

The hip, newly renovated Art Deco-style Miracle Theater is home to a professional company that presents comedies, dramas, and musicals year-round. Musical theater productions for younger audiences are held in the 300-seat Children's Balcony Theater.

The Actors' Playhouse is Miracle Theater's resident theater company and managing agent. The Actors' Playhouse Theater Conservatory offers stage and camera training for kids, teens, and adults.

Theater productions include Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Brigadoon, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, and The Buddy Holly Story.

Area Stage
645 Lincoln Rd., Miami Beach
(305) 673-8002

This award-winning professional theater uses local talent and resources to produce contemporary American and English plays.

Coconut Grove Playhouse
3500 Main Hwy., Coconut Grove
(305) 442-4000

The playhouse is recognized nationally for a tradition of innovative productions. It presents world, national, and regional premiers on the Mainstage and in the more intimate Encore Room Theater.

GableStage
1200 Anastasia Ave., Coral Gables
(305) 446-1116

Classic and contemporary American and English plays are staged in this comfortable 154-seat hall adjacent to the Biltmore Hotel.

Miami Shores Theater
9806 N.E. 2nd Ave., Miami Shores
(305) 751-0562

A former Paramount movie palace, this theater produces lost classics and rarely performed pieces from the past 40 years.

New Theater
65 Almeria Ave., Coral Gables
(305) 443-5909

This cozy 50-seat theater produces classical and contemporary plays, with an emphasis on imaginative staging.