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Loopy Durang Comedy Vanya And Masha And Sonia And Spike Is Insightful And Flat Out Funny

Under the vanities and inanities, the witty literary allusions and the silly sight gags, “Vanya and Sonia and Marsha and Spike” gently pokes fun at people who have wasted their lives. But don’t fret, mostly director Joseph Adler and his cast deliver a good old-fashioned, absurdist character comedy at GableStage.

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Slow Burn Expands Operation To Broward Center Next Season

Boca-based Slow Burn Theatre Company plans to expand during its sixth season this fall by producing a second series of shows in connection with the Broward Center for the Performing Arts.

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Zoetic And McKeever Skewer Hollywood As A Cesspool In Clark Gable Slept Here

Death, drug overdose, murder, lies, hypocrisy, soulless creatures willing to do absolutely anything for greed and glamour – you really shouldn’t be laughing this much or this hard. But after all, it’s Hollywood in Michael McKeever’s hilarious new play Clark Gable Slept Here getting its world premiere at Zoetic Stage.

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Spamalot Is Supremely Silly And Delightfully Demented Fun

A delightfully demented cast enhanced by the inventive imagination of chief jester/director David Arisco and choreographer Ron Hutchins make Actors’ Playhouse’s Spamalot a satisfying pleasure even on its fourth or fifth visit.

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Island City’s Secrets Of The Trade Examines Adulation

As the season heats up, we enter a period with many openings in the same week. That means reviews will only be in the top four positions for four or five days. To see earlier reviews, check out the red …

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Stage Door’s 9 to 5 The Musical Is Undemanding Pleasant Fluff

Enjoy Broward Stage Door’s 9 to 5 The Musical, an undemanding cartoonish musical comedy that provides a pleasant way to pass an afternoon or evening. This production works thanks to amiable performers, a droll concept and a score that waxes between infectiously peppy to affectingly earnest if not especially profound.

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Fear, Stress & Camaraderie, Not Caffeine Drives Naked Stage’s 24-Hour Theatre Project

Not quite as life-and-death as the TV series 24, but every bit as nail-biting, the Naked Stage’s 24-Hour Theatre Project is one of the most highly anticipated events of the theater season.

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Four Plays In Progress Get Readings Sunday In Miami

Fresh plays by four South Florida playwrights are showcased in a staged-reading format at a free event entitled “From Scratch” on Sunday in Miami.

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The Wick Theatre Woos Former Caldwell Patrons At Reception

The Wick family doesn’t want to exorcise the Caldwell Theatre; they want to embrace it – and its clientele. An open house Tuesday hosted about 200 former Caldwell patrons seeking a peek ahead of the Sept. 19 opening night of The Sound of Music.

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Summer Shorts Is, As Usual, A Daffy, Uneven, Goofy Smile

By Bill Hirschman Sometimes for actors, especially playing comedy, the only option is to jump off the cliff and see if you can fly. The miracle is that sometimes, as in City Theatre’s Summer Shorts, is that, indeed, they soar. …

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