MSP has worked diligently to increase its audience base, carefully choosing productions for their overall audience appeal and tackling bold and relevant shows not often performed by a community theatre.
In 2022 MSP will welcome it’s patrons to a brand new facility just down the road on Main Street at 6812 in the former Victoria’s Secret store front.
#MIAMI LITTLE THEATRE PROFESSIONAL#
In 2017 MSP became a professional theater finally paying it’s actors with the help and generosity of it’s donors and supporters. In 2004, the alternative business name of The Community Theatre of Miami Lakes, d/b/a Main Street Players was adopted and the Main Street Playhouse opened for business. While the Main Street site was prepared, the group produced shows in the auditorium of Miami Lakes Educational Center. The Miami Lakes Town Council approved funds to allow the theater group to renovate the bookstore at 6766 Main Street into a black box theater, subject to the group re-adopting its earlier name, the Community Theatre of Miami Lakes, and returning to perform exclusively in Miami Lakes. The Graham Companies, founders of Miami Lakes, offered the space currently occupied on Main Street. In 2003, the Town of Miami Lakes came to the rescue. During the next three years, the group was “homeless” and put on shows wherever it found a temporary home. In 1999, the Hialeah City Council decided to renovate the Goodlet Theater, so the theatre had to move again. In 1987, the group incorporated as a non-profit Florida corporation, and later received 501(c)3 status as a charity for tax-deductible donations, a status it still maintains. The first show at Goodlet Theater was in November 1980. But when they heard that a new theater had just been completed at Goodlet Park in Hialeah, the group called it home and the name of The Community Theatre of Hialeah-Miami Lakes was adopted. In 1980, the group changed its name to The Community Theatre of Miami Lakes. Their first home was the “Old Barn” in Miami Lakes and, after the Old Barn was torn down, the Players Guild performed in the Little Theatre of Hialeah-Miami Lakes High School. In 1974, Joe Boyd, a greatly loved drama teacher from Hialeah-Miami Lakes Senior High School, founded an amateur drama group and called it The Miami Lakes Players Guild. The brief history below cannot give more than a glimpse of the hundreds of local actors, set builders, directors, and others who have dedicated their time and talents to making our productions possible and keeping our theatre alive. It found a way to do shows wherever it could to sustain the theatre, until it found its present home thanks to the generosity of the Graham Companies. The Community Theatre of Miami Lakes, as it was formerly known, survived despite the challenges of finding a permanent home. Student performer Gretchen Cleevely, nominated for the Irene Ryan Acting competition for her performance as Juliet, went on to win the National Irene Ryan award for the 1995 Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival in Washington, D.C.After 48 years as the longest running community theatre in Miami-Dade, the Main Street Players (MSP) has gone professional after staging quality productions – plays and musicals – for the community since 1974. Romeo and Juliet was selected to be performed at the Region 3 Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival, Green Bay, WI 1995 Jack of Dover won first place in the Kennedy Center/American College Theatre Festival National Playwriting competition, Washington, D.C. Student costume designs for The Impostor won first place in the 1997 Barbizon National Design Competition in Washington, D.C. Student costume and scenic designs for Miami University's production of The Impostor won first place in the Region III National Design Competition. The shows listed in the first three quarters of the twentieth century include those produced as Commencement Plays, Senior Class Plays, Homecoming Plays, and plays produced by Ye Merrie Players (the producing organization for the Department of Speech) Some History of KCACTF at MiamiĪrt was selected to be performed at the Region 3 Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival in East Lansing, MI 2011īourbon at the Border was selected to be performed as a showcase production at the Region III Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival in Normal, Il 2005Īs the first place winner of the ACTF Regional Playwriting Competition, Two Thieves in a Trap, an original one-act play by student Tom Gannon, was produced at the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival Region III, in January 2000, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.Īs the first place winner of the ACTF Regional Playwriting Competition, Good Business, an original one-act play by student Tom Gannon, was produced at the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival Region III, in January 1999, Indianapolis, IN Loren Gates became the first director of the theatre program at Miami, part of the Department of Speech in 1905.
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