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Caldwell Theatre Opens Second Stage at Mizner Park Black Box
Pessimists’ jaws dropped this month when the Caldwell Theatre Company, struggling to whittle away at a hefty mortgage, announced that it was opening Caldwell 2@Mizner.Beginning next month, the Boca Raton troupe will produce an additional season of four plays in the second-floor black box theater inside the Mizner Park Cultural Center.
Looking presidential
The Caldwell Theatre will host TV and film star Ed Asner when he brings the national tour of his one-man show’FDR to Florida for seven performances June 1-5. The production depicts Franklin Delano Roosevelt looking back on his years as …
Actors’ Playhouse to mount dark, challenging musical “Next to Normal”
If you thought the Actors’ Playhouse production of’August: Osage County was taking a gamble outside its audience’s comfort zone, now comes news of a much bigger risk. Next to Normal, the rock-flavored musical about a suburban housewife struggling with bipolar …
Kravis Center announces 2011-2012 season
A family you don’t want to see move in next door, naked hippies, cross-dressing chorus boys (or girls), the ghost of Frank Sinatra and those singing revolutionaries will be bused in to West Palm Beach during next season’s slate of …
“Addams Family,” “Shrek” and “Lion King” among the Broadway shows next season at Arsht Center
A mildly creepy family will move into Miami just before Halloween this year, that bizarre collection of seeming refugees from a television series and more recent comic horror movie known as The Addams Family. The oddball musical of the same …
“Billy Elliot,” “Beauty and the Beast” coming to Broward Center next season
It took more than two years, but one of Broadway’s biggest hits,’Billy Elliot, is coming to South Florida as the headlining slot in the Broadway Across America-Fort Lauderdale’s tour schedule for 2011-2012. The uplifting musical about a working-class English boy …
Carbonell tickets on sale
Tickets are now on sale for the Carbonell Awards ceremony, that event known to insiders as Theater Prom when even stage managers and carpenters put on tuxes and gowns to walk down the red carpet, to pat each other on …
Maltz rakes in the moolah
Virtually every theater company in South Florida has been struggling in the current economy, but the Maltz Jupiter Theatre is celebrating a welcome financial boost reflecting what its administration hopes is increasing long-term support. Its eighth annual gala, ‘A Night …
Summer Shorts to undergo major alterations
Major changes are imminent at the venerable City Theatre in Miami which has produced Summer Shorts since 1996, said Producing Artistic Director Stephanie Norman. New plans include producing works beyond the summer, mounting longer works than the usual 10-minute playlets …
Slow Burn Theatre lights early fuse for next season
Even before the current season is half over, Slow Burn Theatre Company has announced its schedule for the 2011-2012 slate. Slow Burn, whose logo is a fuse burning down to sticks of dynamite, is a fledgling professional troupe in Boca …
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