2025 Accolades

Congratulations to our incredible performers and designers! We’re thrilled to be recognized with year-end honors from the Orlando Sentinel—an outstanding 24 nominations, including 3 Critic’s Picks—celebrating the very best in regional theater.

Critic’s Picks

  • Poster for the play 'To Kill a Mockingbird' featuring a person with a serious expression, wearing overalls and a checkered shirt, at Orlando Sentinel Best of Orlando Theater 2024.

    Bethany Hemmans

    CHOREOGRAPHY
    Critic’s Pick
    For Colored Girls who have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf

    “Bethany Hemmans, who also performed as the show’s Lady in Yellow, devised movement for the play that provided a visual element to the deeply personal monologues being shared. Her work beautifully reflected the performers’ palette of emotions, while crucially not distracting from the tales they were telling.”

    — Matthew J. Palm, Orlando Sentinel

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  • Promotional poster for a theater show called 'Steel Magnolias' featuring Cynthia Beckert, with a woman on stage in a blue checkered jacket and light-colored blouse.

    Rose Lamarre

    FEATURED ACTOR, COMEDY
    Critic’s Pick
    Calendar Girls

    “In a gorgeously heartfelt performance, Rose Lamarre got everything right about her “Calendar Girls” character, a rule-following people pleaser who has been taken advantage of by everyone from her philandering husband to the women’s club leader. It was all there in the way her eyes dropped in shyness or self-doubt, in the quaver in her voice when she dared to step outside the lines she placed around herself and in the sense of freedom when she finally let loose.”

    — Matthew J. Palm, Orlando Sentinel

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  • Theater performance with young women in colorful costumes dancing on a stage with red lighting and a rustic background, featuring a sign that says "The Great Comet 1812."

    Adam DelMedico

    FEATURED ACTOR, MUSICAL
    Critic’s Pick
    Jesus Christ Superstar

    “Adam DelMedico gave High Priest Caiaphas an ice-cold sneer of triumph so chilling that it’s no wonder he was trusted to set the vibe for the entire show by opening it with the distinctive guitar lick. And the sadistically growling DelMedico kept that self-serving, power-hungry cruelty writ large across his face, until the show’s last moment when he brilliantly let his sneer crack into doubt.”

    — Matthew J. Palm, Orlando Sentinel

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Top Productions of 2025

Acting honors

Production team honors

A woman in a vintage style white wedding dress with long gloves stands on stage next to a silver microphone, illuminated by blue and purple stage lights.
Empty stage set with vintage sofa, rug, lamp, and a neon sign that reads 'TALK SHOW' illuminated in a brick-walled room with red curtains, stacked chairs on the right, and dim, colorful lighting.
An elderly woman and a man sharing a tender moment, holding hands, with the woman sitting in a wheelchair next to a table with a colorful quilt on it.
A person wearing glasses is shouting with mouth wide open, partially illuminated and wearing a shiny, reflective jacket.
Theater performers taking a bow at the end of a stage performance, smiling and applauding.