Main Street Players

Main Street Players is Miami Lakes’ community theater, operating out of the Main Street Playhouse at 6766 Main Street since 2004. The organization traces its roots back to 1974, when it was founded as the Miami Lakes Players Guild by drama teacher Joe Boyd. It later incorporated as a Florida nonprofit corporation in 1987 and obtained federal 501(c)(3) charitable status, and the current entity, Main Street Players, Inc., shows as an active corporation with the Florida Division of Corporations.

The theater states its mission as providing enrichment and entertainment to a multicultural audience while offering a professional outlet for artistic talent in the South Florida theater community. In practice, that means a season of staged productions performed at the Main Street Playhouse, along with programs that extend beyond the mainstage schedule: children’s camps, internships for young people interested in theater work, in-school residencies that bring theater instruction into area classrooms, and a rental program that lets outside groups use the playhouse space for their own events. The company also runs auditions for its productions and sells tickets to its shows directly through its website.

Being located directly on Main Street places Main Street Players in the middle of Miami Lakes’ primary commercial and civic corridor, alongside the town’s other Main Street retail, dining, and entertainment businesses. For a master planned town without its own museum, this playhouse is one of the few dedicated performing arts venues operating inside Miami Lakes proper, distinct from the multiplex movie theaters that also sit along Main Street. A community theater’s programming typically draws on volunteer and semi-professional local talent alongside working theater professionals, and productions can range from established scripts to original or youth-oriented works depending on the season, though specific current productions were not independently confirmed for this listing.

As a registered nonprofit corporation rather than a conventional for-profit business, Main Street Players operates differently from most entries in a business directory. It depends on ticket sales, donations, grants, and program fees rather than owner profit, and its board and leadership structure differ from a sole proprietorship or small LLC. That nonprofit status is worth noting for anyone using this directory to understand ownership structures, though it does not change the fact that Main Street Players is a long running, independently governed Miami Lakes institution rather than a branch of a larger regional or national theater company.

One address detail is worth flagging directly: the organization’s own website lists 6812 Main Street on its contact page, while its history page and outside directory listings consistently point to 6766 Main Street as the Main Street Playhouse used since 2004. The 6766 Main Street address is used here because it is the one corroborated by multiple independent sources and matches the historical description of the playhouse building itself.