By Gary Schweikhart

The 48th annual Carbonell Awards, South Florida’s Theater & Arts Honors, is hosting a glittery ceremony at FAU’s University Theatre in Boca Raton on Monday, November 17, 2025 at 7:30 pm. Awards will be presented in 20 competitive categories for the 2024-2025 theater season. Collectively, 129 nominations are distributed among 36 professional productions at 19 different theaters in Broward, Miami-Dade, and Palm Beach Counties.  

Maltz Jupiter Theatre earned 24 nominations, Slow Burn Theatre Company grabbed 23, Actors’ Playhouse at the Miracle Theatre and GableStage garnered 11 each, Arca Images and Miami New Drama both won nine, and getting seven each are Broadway at LPAC, New City Players, and Theatre Lab. 

Appropriate at GableStage is the show that earned the most individual nominations (10), followed by Lincoln Road Hustle by Miami New Drama (9), with Anastasia at Slow Burn Theatre Company, Jersey Boys at the Actors’ Playhouse at the Miracle Theatre, and The Lehman Trilogy at the Maltz Jupiter Theatre, each garnering eight.  

Four productions are represented by seven finalists each: All My Sons (New City Players), Once (Maltz Jupiter Theatre), The Bodyguard (Slow Burn Theatre Company), and Tres Veces Cruz/Three Times Cruz (Arca Images). Frozen at the Maltz Jupiter Theatre earned 6 nominations, and The Pillowman at Zoetic Stage picked up five. 

In addition to the competitive categories, the 48th annual Carbonell Awards will also present eight Special Awards selected by the nonprofit organization’s board of directors, including the prestigious George Abbott Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Arts to William Hayes & Sue Ellen Beryl, co-founders of Palm Beach Dramaworks, which recently celebrated its 25th anniversary of producing Theatre to Think About. 

Hundreds of actors, musicians, performers, writers, directors, back-stage technicians, producers, reviewers, designers, specialty artists, and diehard theater fans are expected to attend South Florida’s version of Broadway’s Tony Awards® under the leadership of Executive Producer and Director Andrew Kato, Coordinating Producer Eloisa Ferrer, and Associate Producer and Musical Director Caryl Fantel. Tickets for the ceremony and after party are $45 and may be purchased online at FAUevents.com, or by contacting the FAU Box Office at 561-297-6124.