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A New Company, Loxen, Bows Little Shop Of Horrors In Miami

It’s always commendable to have new theaters with emerging talent start in South Florida, especially when the goal is to feature local performers. Loxen Productions shows potential with its fourth production, Little Shop of Horrors, performed in its permanent home, the ARTime Theater in Miami.

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Part 4: I’m Still Here: SoFla Theater’s Epic Journey Through the Pandemic and Beyond

Part 4 of a 4-part in-depth series tracking South Florida theater’s arc of paralysis and pivot through the pandemic and into the future, certainties becoming uncertain, and an unquenched drive to not just survive but prevail, worthy of a Shakespearean epic. Today, theaters and artists plan for the what you will see and how it will be delivered.

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Area Stage’s Enveloping Beauty and the Beast Charms Again

Area Stage’s Giancarlo Rodaz’s visionary, deeply moving new production of Beauty and the Beast, a near identical production as it mounted last summer, but with two new leads, is as radical a restaging as John Doyle’s Sweeney Todd.

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I’m Still Here: SoFla Theater’s Epic Journey Through the Pandemic and Beyond

Part 2 of a 4-part in-depth series tracking South Florida theater’s arc of paralysis and pivot through the pandemic and into the future, certainties becoming uncertain, and an unquenched drive to not just survive but prevail, worthy of a Shakespearean epic. Today, theaters and artists begin their struggle back.

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I’m Still Here: SoFla Theater’s Epic Journey Through the Pandemic and Beyond

Part 1 of a 4-part in-depth series tracking South Florida theater’s arc of paralysis and pivot through the pandemic and into the future, certainties becoming uncertain, and an unquenched drive to not just survive but prevail, worthy of a Shakespearean epic

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Milk and Honey Is Charming Musical, But Very Much the ’60s

Unabashed charm is not a quality one associates with modern musicals, but it is the predominant and reasonably satisfying virtue if you take the Wick Theatre’s time machine back 61 years to the opening of Milk and Honey, the first full-length musical by promising newcomer Jerry Herman.

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Carbonells Name Winners of George Abbot Award and Others

An array of artists and administrators who have helped build South Florida into a nationally-recognized regional theater hub will receive the Carbonell Awards’ highest honors this fall. Among the recipients: The prized George Abbott Award will go to Michael Tilson Thomas and Barbara and Lawrence R. Stein.

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Hollywood’s Homophobic Hypocrisy Examined in The Code

The soul-killing inherent in the film dream factory’s deconstruction and then sanitized reconstruction of its icons has been a popular topic, from 1932’s What Price Hollywood to four versions of A Star is Born. But Michael McKeever’s incisive world premiere The Code at The Foundry attacks it from a different fresh angle that is painfully topical.

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Theatre Lab Postpones Next Show, Hoping to Outlast Surge

Joining dozens of companies locally and across the country hoping a delay will outlast the worst of the surge, Theatre Lab has postponed its premiere of Last Night in Inwood slated for Feb. 2.
Although not necessarily tied directly to positive tests, setbacks were aggravated by the spike. The company also postponed its New Play Festival from January to an undisclosed date in the spring.

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Savor the Flavor of This ‘Tootsie’ Pop at the Broward Center

Sometimes, all we want is to just sit in a chair and be entertained by full-throated singers, appealing actors, solid dancing and a script that offers more than a few laughs. That sheer entertainment factor is on the boards—spanglely red dress and all—in the musical Tootsie, at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts.

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