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Happy Birthday!

You’re invited to a birthday party today. Ours. One year. Florida Theater On Stage is celebrating and you’re invited. You don’t have to bring any gifts because you already have. Our very existence is due to you. We’ve been encouraged beyond our expectations by the more than 34,150 of you who have peeked at 108,200 pages, the 1,300-plus people who get out Facebook alerts and tweets. We’ve been blessed with your advertising. And we’ve been nourished by the warm feedback we’ve received from you everywhere we go.

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City Theatre’s Summer Shorts Seeks 10-Minute Scripts

City Theatre will begin accepting ten-minute play scripts next month for consideration for production in its annual Summer Shorts festival, highlighted by its National Award for Short Playwriting.

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StageBill Blog: Here’s To Savoring The Joy Of Discovery

Audience members have few joys as pungent as discovery. Which brings us to the fledgling Outré Theatre Company and Tuesday night’s staged reading of the ink-black comic drama Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead at Empire Stage– and Outré’s reading in May of the chamber musical tick…tick…BOOM.

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Deathtrap Remains Witty, Suspenseful At Stage Door, But Not As Vibrant As It Could Be

Miami Stage Door’s first season closer, Deathtrap, is a serviceable if not outstanding edition that understands Ira Levin’s black comedy, appreciates his Swiss watchmaker’s plotting and benefits from a solid performance by Kevin Reilley as a thriller playwright contemplating murder as the means of a comeback.

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Actors Playhouse Fills Inside Straight With Parenting Musical

Rated P for Parenthood, an Off-Broadway musical comedy revue, will close out the 2012-2013 mainstage season at Actors’ Playhouse in Coral Gables July 10 – August 11, 2013. The theater described the 90-minute show in which a quartet of performers …

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Stage Door’s Six Dance Lessons Needs Evenly Matched Partners

By Bill Hirschman Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks is a gentle message comedy about lonely people reaching out somewhat obliquely for human contact. But this occasionally charming pas de deux at Stage Door’s Miami Beach venue is thrown out …

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Lombardo Play “High” About Addiction Gets Resurrection Tour With Kathleen Turner

It was surreal even by theater standards: Michael Lombardo’s drama about addiction High had broken box office records in its world premiere at Hartford’s TheaterWorks. And here they were, on opening night on Broadway in April 2011, already certain in the knowledge that the production was doomed. The result goes on display next week at Parker Playhouse, the second stop on High’s resurrection tour – this time co-produced by Lombardo.

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Actors Playhouse’s Outstanding Next to Normal is Anything But

Perhaps God invented musicals just so someday we could be thrilled and troubled and moved and enriched by next to normal, Actors Playhouse’s finest work since Floyd Collins in 2003.

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Caldwell Theatre’s Chad Deity Has All The Right Moves

The Caldwell Theatre’s hilarious satire The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity by Kristoffer Diaz sneaks a critical rabbit punch at the solar plexus of society. The milieu of “professional” wrestling should not dissuade serious theatergoers, although the faux spectacle including brief grappling bouts will entertain anyone but a killjoy. The copious comedy is laced with cutting social commentary about demagogues exploiting our prejudices about race and nationality to make money or gain power.

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Soul Doctor Tale of Rock Star Rabbi Is Wildly Uneven

One of the most frustrating evenings in theater is The Mess. One moment, you’re moved by ineffable loveliness, the next you’re groaning at ham-handed ineptitude. Such is the careening quality of the new biographical musical Soul Doctor, subtitled The Journey of A Rock Star Rabbi.

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