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In the Wings

Florida Atlantic University’s theater department is presenting John Guare’s drama of emotional intrigue and introspection among the upper crust, Six Degrees of Separation, slated for Oct. 1-10 in the Studio One Theatre in the Boca Raton campus. The plot depicts …

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Grant Avenue

There’s good news and weird news announced by Theatre Communications Group. The 2010 Edgerton Foundation gave its New American Play Awards this month to 38 theater companies, including two Florida-related properties that will get money for developing a new work. …

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Silver Palm Awards announced today

The third annual Silver Palm Awards were announced today, recognizing outstanding work during the season that just ended in shows presented by members of the South Florida Theatre League. The 16 awards include the first husband and wife duo, Avi …

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Raising a Roof

Zoetic Theatre continues its fund-raising efforts 7 p.m. Monday with a staged reading of 37 Postcards, a comedy by Zoetic co-founder Michael McKeever. The play about family dysfunction has been performed around the country and Germany. The stage has been …

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Injured Thursday in car accident, actor to go on tonight in Mosaic Theatre’s “Hollywood”

The clich’ of ‘the show must go on’ has taken on a very visceral meaning for South Florida actor Erik Fabregat. Fabregat was injured in a car accident in Plantation shortly after leaving Thursday night’s preview of Mosaic Theatre’s Completely …

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Ground Up’s “Hurlyburly” cancelled

Ground Up & Rising’s production of the David Rabe drama Hurlyburly, slated to begin tonight, has been cancelled. Arturo Fernandez, producing artistic director,’wrote today, “Two principals that were already cast had to drop the show because of important conflicts that …

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Brian C. Smith 1940-2010

Pioneering South Florida theater impresario Brian C. Smith was one man housing a half-dozen clashing personas. He proudly produced commercial flypaper-thin comedies while bankrolling thought-provoking dramas. He was adored by many colleagues and fell out with others to the point …

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Palm Beach Dramaworks makes bid to move to Cuillo Theatre

Palm Beach Dramaworks, which has strained for years to escape its vest pocket theater, is close to finalizing a deal to move into the historic Cuillo Centre for the Arts building in downtown West Palm Beach by November 2011. The …

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GableStage sets a quirky, wide-ranging lineup

Several theater companies have announced some exciting prospects for the coming 2010-2011 season, among them Actors’ Playhouse mounting the monumental August: Osage County and the world premiere of local hero Nilo Cruz’s The Color of Desire. But in the last-but-not-least …

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Dame with the purple mane to return

The Arsht Center will host a purple-maned beauty from Down Under on April 13 and 14 in An Evening With Dame Edna. The lady’s visit to the Parker Playhouse a few years ago received a tepid response from the subscription …

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