Coconut Grove Playhouse

Again,you awe and amaze,Mr.M.One word from me,who reads too many newspapers,and you are off on a Library of Congress research project.You always nail the essential truth.This place is a treasure.It can not be subjected to a muti-million dollar remake,as the idiotas in Richmond are doing with the Carpenter.First of all,they are very different venues.It’s like a super version of the San Marco in Jax., not Radio City Music Hall.Let them build a parking garage,not destroy the theater for someones ego.

a lovely theatre.
i recall seeing august wilson’s ‘fences’, the pre-broadway musical ‘urban cowboy’, ‘oh! calcutta!, barbara cook in concert, raul esparza perhaps as a pre-teen in a comedic play whose name i don’t recall, a musical called 'matador’, the thriller ‘corpse!’…
Past the lobby and prior to the main theatre there is ‘The Encore Room’; a performance space similar to an an off-bway n.y. theatre.
Many off-bway titles play here including Steven Fales in ‘X’d: Confessions of a Mormon Boy.'
Very well-known names have been involved in productions here for several decades.

Interesting article in the Herald today about the landmark comm.listing the entire exterior as precious.The board had only wanted to list the entranceway.The board seems to want to destroy the bldg,build a new theater and a commercial parking garage with bond funds.The desire of artsy commisions to go grande at the cost of historical integrity is a national illness that runs rampant through these type of individuals.I’ve been there and love the theater and the Grove.It is changing-and NOT for the better.