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News: Silver Palms, Alliance Reading, Shear-ed Madness

Details on Theater League Holiday Party The time, date and place have been set for the South Florida Theatre League’s annual holiday party and membership meeting: 7:30-10 p.m. Monday, December 3,  at the Copacabana Supper Club, 219 S. Andrews Avenue …

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News: Stage Door, AAPACT & Demos-Brown’s Allapattah

Someone Must Have Said, “Macbeth” Backstage The opening of Broward Stage Door’s return engagement of the bittersweet comedy Six Dance Lessons In Six Weeks was postponed last week when actress Phyllis Spear fell off the stage in dress rehearsal. The …

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Comic Actor Don McArt, Stalwart At Royal Palm Dinner Theatre, Dies In Boca Hospice

Comic actor Don McArt, visually memorable for his short stature and prominent ears, as well as his frequent appearances with his sister Jan McArt, died Tuesday in a hospice in Boca Raton.

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Long Night’s Journey Into Day: The 24-Hour Theatre Project

It’s likely a goodly number of actors, directors and certainly some playwrights slept in late this morning. They earned it. Many spent 7 p.m. Sunday to 10 p.m. Monday being creative at gunpoint. In other words, the sixth 24 Hour Theatre Project benefiting The Naked Stage has now melted in ephemeral history other than some digital photos and dog-eared scripts.

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Tarell Alvin McCraney’s American Premiere Of His New Antony and Cleopatra At GableStage In 2014

Tarell Alvin McCraney, the Miami-raised playwright who has forged an international reputation, is bringing a new Haitian-flavored adaptation of Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra to GableStage in January 2014. The American premiere will be sandwiched between its world debut at the Royal Shakespeare Company in November 2013 and its subsequent co-production at The Public Theater in New York City in late January 2014.

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Miami Theater Center Plans Three Sisters To Move Audience In More Than One Way

By Bill Hirschman What will likely have people talking as they walk into the Miami Theater Center this weekend for its new adaptation of Chekhov’s Three Sisters is where they’ll sit: a black riser taking up a third of the …

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Entrances & Exits in SoFlorida Openings & Closings Nov. 7-13

  Openings Nov. 9-Dec. 2 roomies Alliance Theatre Lab at Main Street Playhouse 6766 Main Street, Miami Lakes (305) 259-0418 thealliancetheatrelab.com Mark Della Ventura’s world premiere about five 20-somethings, who all just graduated from a four-year acting conservatory, in a …

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Entrances & Exits This Week / Openings & Closings

This may be one of the busiest opening weekends in quite some time. As a result, we will have a different review posted nearly every day beginning Friday morning.  We suggest checking the most recent reviews in the list of …

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Silver Palms & Theatre League Remy Recipients Announced

Eighteen Silver Palm Awards honoring theatrical excellence in South Florida during the 2011-2012 season will be presented Dec. 3, as well as two Remy Awards from the South Florida Theatre League.

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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.

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