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Hilarious and Heartwarming is Morning After Grace at Pigs Do Fly

By Britin Haller Pigs Do Fly’s Morning After Grace is laugh-out-loud funny, with Carey Crim’s script chock with just about every adult theme imaginable, this is a big feat indeed. It’s early morning in a condo somewhere on Florida’s Suncoast …

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6 Dance Lessons/6 Weeks Returns From New ‘ArtBuzz Theatrics’ Company

ArtBuzz Theatrics’ compelling professional production of Six Dance Lessons In Six Weeks features impressively realistic, nuanced, and multi-faceted performances from veterans Larry Buzzeo and Lory Reyes.

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Capote Returns To Life As Unique &Complex As Ever In Tru

Tru, the play bringing the audience into Truman Capote’s living room for a chatty wit-lathered visit at a crucial moment in his life, entertains as Charles Baran evokes the engaging persona of the writer but does not tries to mimic his unique voice or other externals. But he succeeds in creating this outsized creature alternately, compassionate, cruel, haunted, indestructible and a dozen attributes.

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We’re Still Here: A Look Back at South Florida Theater 2022

Quite a come back year: World premieres, epic musicals, moving two-character dramas, you name it. Here’s not so much a “best of the year” list – no such list can be reliable or complete – but a random recognition of outstanding performances, productions, trends and just moments that theaterlovers will carry with them into 2023.

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In Fine Performance, Misery’s Annie Wilkes May Seem More Familiar Today Than You Recall

An unintended resonance echoes in Empire Stage’s production of Misery that Stephen King likely did not quite foresee. In a world where some people steadfastly, even violently believe whatever they want to believe, somewhere Annie Wilkes is shrugging and asking “What’s your point?”

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Bent’s Horrors Go Beyond Homicidal Homophobia; Asks What Would You Do If Targeted

Bent deserves honor for putting recognizable human beings amid Hitler’s decimation of homosexuals during the Holocaust – and re-reminding the public of this horror. But rising above the gender topicality of Sherman’s script in Empire Stage’s uneven, but ultimately scorching production are universal issues about the challenge of preserving yourself basic humanity in such times.

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Playwright-Actor Deray Tells of Real Inner Struggle in Premiere of Educating Asher

Eytan Deray’s courageous world premiere Educating Asher at Empire Stage – courageous not only because it has been drawn from the marrow of his being as playwright, but courageous because he also performs it, unreined and uninhibitedly without any self-serving censorship.

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Art is in the Eye of the Beholder in Empire Stage’s Production

A respectable production of an English language translation of the multi award-winning play, Art, is on stage through May 15 in Empire Stage’s extremely intimate playing space in Ft. Lauderdale.

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Empire Stage Mounts Last Premiere For Michael Aman

Local playwright Michael Aman, whose died of cancer in May and whose Poz won the Best New Work Carbonell for the 2015, will have yet one more world premiere this month with the bow of Off Balance.

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What South Florida Theater Will Look Like When It Reopens

As a handful of local venues gingerly tried to reopen in recent weeks and others prepare detailed plans for the future, a regimen of detailed protocols ranging from parking to popcorn to Playbills is emerging in documents that define what performing arts events in South Florida may look like for customers, artists, staff and vendors when theaters can reopen fully.

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