Features
Formal Training Available For Adults To Learn Backstage Skills
Sheridan Votech educators in Broward and theater professionals in South Florida partnered to establish a relatively speedy training program for adult students interested in learning the ropes of working backstage.
The Wick Theatre Woos Former Caldwell Patrons At Reception
The Wick family doesn’t want to exorcise the Caldwell Theatre; they want to embrace it – and its clientele. An open house Tuesday hosted about 200 former Caldwell patrons seeking a peek ahead of the Sept. 19 opening night of The Sound of Music.
Florida’s 2013-2014 Season Champions New & Newish Works
Encouraging trends emerge while poking among the entrails of the new season schedules for South Florida theater. Among them: an emphasis on new and newer works as producers and artistic directors try to seduce younger audiences, meaning people under 70.
Our Top Ten, Well 13, Shows To See In the 2013-2014 Season
So this is just a baker’s dozen that I personally rate as the most intriguing, promising or unarguably important opportunities to be entertained or moved by in the coming 2013-2014 season. But no refunds. No razzing a year from now, “What were you thinking?”
Talkin’ In The Green Room With Myself (And Patti Gardner Etc.)
When actress Patti Gardner suggested that it would only be fair if I was on the receiving end of a Green Room questionnaire, I took refuge in the journalist’s centuries-old rationalization : .” just like to watch.” But she persisted with a single-mindedness that would make Christiane Amanpour envious, to the point of collecting questions from folks across the profession. So I agreed, so long as I could edit out questions about my obsession with Angora sweaters and any reference to those embarrassing videos involving Giant Pandas.
Wick Theatre Defies Odds To Reopen Boca Raton Venue
In the wake of shuttered troupes and emerging newcomers, the rising phoenix of the Wick Theatre and Costume Museum in Boca Raton is awash in patrons and professionals’ optimism and pessimism, welcome and suspicion, encouragement and derision. Workers and administrators are racing to transform the site in time for the first performance of The Sound of Music slated for September 19 and the first scheduled museum tour November 5.
Wick Theatre Schedule
Sept. 19-Oct. 20: The Sound of Music Nov. 7-Dec. 22: White Christmas Jan. 9-Feb. 9: 42nd Street Feb. 20-March 23: The Full Monty April 3-May 4: Steel Magnolias: May 15-June 15: Ain’t Misbehavin’ Tickets are $58 per show. $52 …
Wick Auditions
The Sound of Music is cast but the theater is holding auditions for all other roles its other shows for both Equity and non-Equity actors . Sunday, Aug. 4, noon to 5 p.m. by appointment only for principals and singers …
Zero Hour’s Jim Brochu Honors Broadway’s Character Men In One-Man Musical Memoir
Veteran New York actor Jim Brochu — best known for his play about Mostel Zero Hour — wants to honor and memorialize people like his close friend David Burns, the original Horace Vandergelder in Hello Dolly.. So Brochu created a new one-man musical, Character Man, that bows Thursday for a month-long run at Broward Stage Door..
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