Tag Archives: Andrew Kato

Maltz Kicks Off $30 Million Campaign To Expand Facility Including Second Stage

The Maltz Jupiter Theatre on Monday publically kicked off a five-year campaign to raise $25 million to $30 million for a massive construction expansion to enable it to expand its offerings. The project’s headline facet would create a second smaller theater where more risky plays and new works can be produced.

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Sound Undercuts Joyful/Flawed Diva Diaries About Drag Queens

The latest edition of Diva Diaries about three aging drag performers lands inconsistently – sometimes entertaining or moving, other times feeling thin, perfunctory and artificial. But it;s hard to say because it was difficult to understand what anyone was saying or singing.

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Maltz Throws Every Theatrical Trick Into Lavish The Wiz

The Maltz Jupiter Theatre’s revival of The Wiz is among the most lavish spectacles ever put on by a regional theater in South Florida with its prime virtue being the boundless imagination of a huge team led by the vision of Maltz’s Producing Artistic Director Andrew Kato.

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Maltz Goes To Unusual Lengths To Cast Local Asian-American Actors For The King And I

When it came time to cast the roles of the King’s children for its production of The King and I, the Maltz Jupiter Theatre did more than just a casting call. They consulted data, sent more than 500 letters, reached out to schools and chambers of commerce and businesses – even some restaurants – all to find actors of Asian descent to play the children of the King.

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Maltz’s ’14-’15 Season: Fiddler, Les Miz, Les Wiz, Les Shue And @#$%^ Glengarry Glen Ross

The Maltz Jupiter Theatre has been nudging its mainstream audience for years toward relatively riskier fare, but the slate announced today for its 2014-2015 season includes one entry that will never be mistaken for Oklahoma: David Mamet’s scorching drama Glengarry Glen Ross.

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Maltz Jupiter Theatre’s Major Makeover Marks Next Stage

When the finished $2.5 million project is unveiled at an open house Monday, the transmogrified Maltz Jupiter Theatre will serve as a valediction and validation of its decade growing from Burt Reynolds’ local dinner theater into one of the premier producing houses in the state.

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Maltz Plans $2.5 Million Expansion With More Seats, Bigger Lobby, More Restrooms

The Maltz Jupiter Theatre plans a massive $2.5 million renovation that will include adding VIP seating, building a more elaborate lobby with 12-foot ceilings, expanding the building itself to the east, adding restrooms and other amenities.

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Palm Beach Theaters Dominate Carbonell Awards

Joy and uncertainty imbued the 36th annual Carbonell Awards on Monday night, reflecting a period marked by the greatest concentration of theatrical excellence in recent memory, yet also the closure of two companies and tenuous survival of others. The juxtaposition was no more evident than the Caldwell Theatre production, Stuff, earning three awards – four days after the company revealed it had hired a receiver and was postponing its last play of the season because of cash flow problems.

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Jerry Visits Dolly, New Theatre Goes Cruz-ing, Playhouse To Visit Other Desert Cities

Hello Jerry You’d think he’d have seen it enough times, but Jerry Herman, the composer-lyricist of Hello, Dolly!, dropped in on last Friday’s performance of his best-known work at the Maltz Jupiter Theatre. Herman, a University of Miami grad and …

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News Briefs: Carbonell Tickets, Dramaworks’ Summer Show, Kato Gets Promotion, Short Plays Reading, Free Shows

Anyone who doubts the quality of South Florida should buy a ticket (as should everyone else who loves theater) to the 36th Annual Carbonell Awards set for 7:30 p.m. Monday, April 2 in the Amaturo Theater at Broward Center for the Performing Arts.

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