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One Night Only with a Dreamgirl

Hometown favorite Avery Sommers, who has sung on Broadway in Ain’t Misbehavin’ and Showboat, will perform her cabaret concert You’re Gonna Hear From Me, featuring show tunes and standards with a jazz and blues feel at the Caldwell Theatre in …

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Reminder

Flashlight Tales is a fund-raiser Tuesday for The Naked Stage’s The 24-Hour Theater Project. It’s an open mic opportunity to tell your favorite five-minute ghost story or scary tale not to mention enjoy music and a cash bar. The best …

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Politics and Poker

Miami-Dade’s County Commission proposed county budget cuts $2.3 million of support for the grants programs of the Department of Cultural Affairs. If enacted, this would reduce grants by about 25% to more than 400 cultural organizations. Combined with last year’s …

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Scary Storytelling

Antonio Amadeo, Katherine Paul Amadeo and their friend John Manzelli founded The Naked Stage three years ago years ago, using a tiny corner of Barry University as their stage. Now they’ve slated Flashlight Tales, an unusual fundraiser Sept. 21 benefiting …

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Family Affair

Some actors are greeted with applause when they make their big entrance on opening night, but Antonio Amadeo is likely the first person to hit the boards to the sound of a resounding ‘Daddy!’ Six-year-old Lara was sitting in the …

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“Follies” cast set

Casting is complete for Caldwell Theatre Company’s concert version of Follies slated for Oct. 1-3, the latest entry in its Broadway Concert Series. Laura Hodos, Wayne LeGette, Melissa Minyard and Stephen G. Anthony will play two married couples in late …

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Pandemonium to reign

Pandemonium: The Lost and Found Orchestra, which”opens its North American tour at the Arsht Center on Thursday is another theater-dance-concert-happening for the little kid in everybody on the order of Tap Dogs. The national tour kicking off here is another …

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Blind sibling rivalry

The Women’s Theatre Project presents a stage reading of Blind Spots by Colette Freedman as part of their Lesbian Play Reading Series beginning at 2 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 19th at GLCC Pride Center, Equality Park, 2040 North Dixie Highway in …

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Fast Track to the West Side

In April, Sarah Amengual was swinging on a rope around the set of the University of Miami’s production of Rent and singing the lead role of Mimi. In May, she graduated with a BFA in acting. On Sept. 21, she …

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More on “Mack and Mabel”

People who saw the original Broadway production of Jerry Herman’s musical Mack and Mabel may have noticed something different in the Broward Stage Door version playing this month. Director Michael Leeds got Herman’s permission to tweak the script to buttress …

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