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And Make Our Garden Grow: Finding The Solutions
Who are we? Where do we want to go? What’s standing in our way? How do we prevail? The dwindling days before the season gears up are a prime time for us all, audiences to artists, to invest in a tough self-examination of South Florida theater. We’ll suggest concrete answers in three extensive essays every other day beginning today.
Ya Got Trouble Right Here in River City: The Challenges
Who are we? Where do we want to go? What’s standing in our way? How do we prevail? The dwindling days before the season gears up are a prime time for us all, audiences to artists, to invest in a tough self-examination of South Florida theater. We’ll suggest concrete answers in three extensive essays every other day beginning today.
On the Wheels of a Dream South Florida Theater: What It Is And What It Can Be
Who are we? Where do we want to go? What’s standing in our way? How do we prevail? The dwindling days before the season gears up are a prime time for us all, audiences to artists, to invest in a tough self-examination of South Florida theater. We’ll suggest concrete answers in three extensive essays every other day beginning today
Happy Birthday!
You’re invited to a birthday party today. Ours. One year. Florida Theater On Stage is celebrating and you’re invited. You don’t have to bring any gifts because you already have. Our very existence is due to you. We’ve been encouraged beyond our expectations by the more than 34,150 of you who have peeked at 108,200 pages, the 1,300-plus people who get out Facebook alerts and tweets. We’ve been blessed with your advertising. And we’ve been nourished by the warm feedback we’ve received from you everywhere we go.
Talkin’ in the Green Room With: Gregg Weiner
A colleague recently referred to Gregg Weiner as South Florida’s Gene Hackman – always working, highly-respected, focused, intense, funny, an actor who brings a character actor’s technique to leading man parts. Little do they know about his history with puppets, karaoke and perhaps a blow-up doll. Weiner is usually physically recognizable in a role but convincingly inhabits a wide variety of parts from a troubled spouse in Fifty Words to a corporate suit in TV’s Magic City to a sleazy wrestling promoter in The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity. This weekend, Weiner closes a run as a pragmatic lawyer in GableStage’s Race, the fourth role he has done for director Joe Adler this season.
Mad Cat’s Dog and Pony Show Won’t Be Your Parents’ Hamlet
South Florida playwrights Jessica Farr and Paul Tei hope that for all the philosophical profundity and political comment, their world premiere of The Hamlet Dog and Pony Show on July 26 delivers the wry, irreverent and idiosyncratic serio-comedy that Mad Cat Theatre has specialized in for 12 years.
Theater? Spectacle? The Arsht’s Donkey Show Prepares To Bray
The Arsht Center is laying a six-figure bet on The Donkey Show, a very loose version of A Midsummer Night’s Dream transmuted into the glitz and glitter of Studio 54. A hybrid of theater and the club scene with the performers working around the audience on the dance floor and at tables, The Donkey Show is an attempt to lure a broader clientele that would never think of Shakespeare as an entertainment option, says Arsht Executive VP Scott Shiller.
Talkin’ in the Green Room With: Antonio Amadeo
Unlikely but perhaps, secretly, Antonio Amadeo is actually a nasty misanthrope, but no one will ever believe it. Amadeo is widely-regarded as one of the nicest guys and quietly talented members in the local theater community, eliciting comparisons to a teddy bear (although Amadeo himself reveals that he’s Batman.) Over the decades he has built an enviable resume including The Elephant Man, The Pillowman and The Unseen, as well as co-founder of Naked Stage.
Talkin’ In The Green Room With: Harriet Oser
n this edition, we visit Harriet Oser who talks about a career that encompasses playing the bride in Blood Wedding while pregnant to wondering if a scene partner was going to collapse on stage. Having just celebrated her 80th birthday – she volunteered that piece of information – Oser is as busy as ever.
Hamlet Prince of Cuba Delivers the Bard in English and Spanish
Hamlet, Prince of Cuba is a new version adapted in English by Michael Donald Edwards, producing artistic director of the Asolo Repertory Theatre in Sarasota, and translated into Spanish by Nilo Cruz, the Pulitzer-winning playwright raised in Miami, playing at the South Miami-Dade Cultural Arts Center..
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