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GableStage’s Penetrating Harry Clarke Asks Us Who We Are

The answer to the question posed by the title character of who is “Harry Clarke?” is to us, of course, who are we individuals in the audience.  With considerable humor, banked anger and penetrating insight, the powerful 80-minute monologue Harry Clark at GableStage depicts how we choose and craft an identity separate from whatever is our true inner self.

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GableStage Receives Bill von Mauer Award

GableStage has been named the recipient of the Bill von Maurer Award “honoring a theater company that exemplifies excellence for the totality of its programming: productions educational outreach, developmental programs, and audiences served, “ the Carbonells Awards program announced.

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Dramaworks and GableStage Add New Executives

GableStage and Palm Beach Dramaworks are entering the new season with new executives added to the existing management.

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Fat Ham Redux Amped Up In GableStage’s Turn With BBQ Alongside Will Shakespeare

Island City Stage’s production of Fat Ham last month was funny, topical, engaging. But in its co-production at GableStage this weekend, four weekends of performances and two subsequent weeks of fine-tuning have generated a significantly amped up edition that vibrates with dynamic energy.

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Comic ‘Fat Ham’ Echoes Hamlet Thru African-American Prism

Fat Ham, which tells of a young gay man at his Black family’s contentious backyard barbeque, is basically a huge grin. The fact that the ingenious plot intentionally echoes Hamlet does not cover up that this is simply a fun farce.

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Summer, 1976 Investigates Levels In The Bonds of Friendship

By Bill Hirschman One benefit of aging is the ability to see where we came from, where we have travelled, contemplate our past decisions, but most significantly to wisely re-evaluate the meaning, standing and worth of that journey’s elements. Summer, …

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Resentments, Perceptions and Racism Swirl in Ultimate Family Dysfunction of Appropriate

Imagine a half-dozen out-of-control freight trains howling and careening toward each other – a rough metaphor for the emotional collision after collision of egos and anger in the epic family dysfunctional play, Branden Jacob-Jenkins’ Appropriate, receiving an outstanding production at GableStage.

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Joni Mitchell-Leonard Cohen Revue Freshly Re-Covers Precious Music Of Decades Ago

The magic of Both Sides Now: The Music and Lives of Joni Mitchell and Leonard Cohen is that of a time machine. It instantly regenerates feelings and visions a half-century old as if they are happening here for the first time.

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Full Court Press In Gablestage’s King James Is As Much About Friendship As Basketball

Trust us, the considerable verbal dribbling and turnovers in Rajiv Joseph’s season opener at Gablestage is only the top layer over the profound examination of the underlying defining themes of friendship and betrayal and returning home to find peace.

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Laughs in Spanish at Coral Gables is oh-so Miami

By Raquel V. Reyes Laughs in Spanish is like a Friday night in Wynwood without the next day’s hangover. The one-act play by Alexis Scheer, Laughs in Spanish is making its Florida premiere at GableStage through June 23. The “all …

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