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New Briefs about Mosaic, Actors’ Playhouse, Chaz Mena, Fla. Follies, PB Theatre Guild, David Goldyn
Mosaic has a reading Tuesday, Chaz Mena has one-man show, Florida Follies does a good turn, David Goldyn bows out, Actors’ Playhouse has a sale, Palm Beach Theatre Guild gets new blood
South Florida Theater League’s Annual Festival Kicks Off Next Month
By Bill Hirschman Free theater tickets, a gala party, a marathon fund raiser, a panel discussion and open-mike storytelling are the major events in the South Florida Theater League’s sixth annual festival that takes place over three weeks in October. …
Two of Best Plays Yearbook’s Best Plays Are Heading To South Florida
After the Revolution and The Motherf**ker with the Hat, two of the plays slated to open in South Florida this season, are among the works that will be featured in the prestigious yearbook, The Best Plays of 2010-2011.
24-Hour Theatre Project Madness To Benefit Naked Stage and Promethean
The scrappy Naked Stage and Promethean Theatre and about 50 of their friends stage a coffee-fueled marathon jam for a mostly sleepless 24-hour period to produce and present from scratch an evening’s worth of skits, playlets, goofs and hoots. The curtain will rise on the fifth annual edition at 8 p.m. Monday, Oct. 3, in the Caldwell Theatre Company in Boca Raton.
News Briefs: Dramaworks Gets $2 Million; Gepner Goes to Papermill
The South Florida theater scene is so busy that often the news comes too fast for us to keep up with. From time to time, we’ll run a column like this one, containing several items. If we don’t get …
Ground Up & Rising Opens Season Saturday with Readings
Ground Up & Rising, the tiny company that has produced outstanding drama across Miami-Dade County despite having no permanent home, is ramping up its new season of edgy and cutting-edge theater pieces aimed at younger audiences.
Breaking News: Caldwell 2 Cancels First Show
By Bill Hirschman The first production of the new Caldwell 2 @ Mizner tentatively set to open a three-week run on Thursday has been cancelled, Clive Cholerton, artistic director of the Caldwell Theatre said Wednesday. The company had hoped to …
Breaking News: New Theatre to Lose Home in December
New Theatre is being evicted in mid-December from its Coral Gables home and is hunting for a new home in Miami-Dade County to continue operating indefinitely. The theater was notified “about a week ago” that all but one building on the west side of the block has been sold to a developer who plans to raze the entire property in early January.
Fight Cuts To Miami-Dade County Arts Budget
We’ve just received this letter from Adolfo Henriques, chair of the Miami-Dade County Cultural Affairs Council, trying to drum up opposition to proposed budget cuts in Miami-Dade’s arts funding. Dear Cultural and Community Leaders, We need your help today. The …
Tarell Alvin McCraney Comes Home — For A While
Tarell Alvin McCraney escaped a nightmarish childhood in Liberty City to become one of the most acclaimed young playwrights in the world. He’s returned home to direct The Brothers Size, the first time a professional South Florida company has produced one of his full-length works.
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