Monthly Archives: October 2012
Entrances & Exits This Week / Openings & Closings
Opening this week: Oct. 18-Nov. 18 Driving Miss Daisy Plaza Theatre 262 S. Ocean Blvd., Manalapan (former Florida Stage site) (561) 588-1820 www.theplazatheatre.net The Pulitzer Prize-winning play tells the story of the long-standing relationship between a stubborn Southern matriarch and …
Caldwell Building “Sold” To Mortgage Holder; Cholerton Says Theater Company Is Done
UPDATED AT 6 P.M. By Bill Hirschman The gleaming building that symbolized the Caldwell Theatre Company’s hard-fought dreams was sold at a foreclosure auction at 11:17 a.m. today, but its circumstances didn’t change because the winning bidder was the bank …
Era Ends With Caldwell Theatre At Cyberspace Auction Tuesday
The interested parties aren’t the usual suspects. A workout gym, a church, a charter school, a medical facility. Everything but a theater. When the house that the Caldwell Theatre Company built goes on the cyberspace auction block Tuesday, court records hold out little hope that the facility will end up hosting Shakespeare or Conor McPherson. More likely, the Boca Raton property will revert back to the bank that reluctantly holds two mortgages on the property and anxiously seeks a buyer, the records indicate.
A Question & Answer Interview With Michael Hall
Caldwell Theatre Company co-founder Michael Hall stepped down as artistic director in 2009, and has been travelling and writing ever since. But he returned to the Caldwell in February 2011 to direct the drama Last Fall. In an email interview …
New Briefs: 24 Hour Theatre Project Names Participants; Martinez Directing In Virginia
The All Night Strut The preliminary lineup of masochists has been announced for The Naked Stage’s 24-Hour Theatre Project 2012, currently slated for 8 p.m. Monday, Nov. 12, hosted at GableStage. The sixth annual fundraiser for the tiny company is always …
Godspell Gets Another Fresh Makeover at Actors’ Playhouse
The sparse crowd Saturday night at Actors Playhouse must be a result of people thinking, “Oh, I like it well enough, but I’ve seen Godspell.” But they’d be wrong, to their loss. This earnest troupe led by director David Arisco has reinterpreted and re-imagined for the umpteenth time the venerable warhorse so that it seems fresh and familiar at the same time.
Friday UPDATE: State Takes Over Title To Coconut Grove Playhouse; Future Uncertain
The state of Florida will take ownership of the shuttered Coconut Grove Playhouse Friday morning as officials warned a month ago, a state spokeswoman confirmed Thursday afternoon.
Rock (Of Ages) Redux At The Arsht Kicks, Well, You Know
By Bill Hirschman If Florida Power & Light is looking for an auxiliary source of energy to forestall another rate request , perhaps they simply ought to follow around the national tour of Rock of Ages and plug a cord …
Miami Native Pursues Theater And Rock Dreams As Lead In Rock of Ages At The Arsht
Is there a better high for a theater artist than to return home starring in a national tour of a hit Broadway show? Ask Miami native Dominique “Dom” Scott. When the Miami native takes the Arsht Center stage Tuesday to play the guitar hero in the spoofy musical Rock of Ages, it’ll be an artistic homecoming as well.
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