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GableStage Plans Annual Outdoor Winter Shakespeare Festival With McCraney and Royal Shakespeare Company

GableStage has been given seed money to start an annual Winter Shakespeare Festival that would team with the Royal Shakespeare Company and Miami native Tarrell Alvin McCraney, and involve building a temporary outdoor amphitheater in Miami-Dade County.

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News: Fund-raising Readings for GableStage & Mosaic, Remy Awards Announced, Carbonells Offer Scholarships, Staged Reading of Who Killed Joan Crawford, Laffing Matterz Returns, New on Iris Acker This Week

Fund-raising Staged Readings for GableStage and Mosaic Here’s an approach you’ve never seen before: two separate staged readings of the same play to benefit two local theaters. Television and stage actor Dan Lauria will star in staged readings of his …

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GableStage’s Red Explores the Nature of Artistic Creation

By Bill Hirschman One of the few unspoken tenets of painter Mark Rothko’s cosmology in John Logan’s play Red is that creating art is the highest and holiest purpose of human life. In GableStage’s fine edition, Rothko struts and strides …

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Two of Best Plays Yearbook’s Best Plays Are Heading To South Florida

After the Revolution and The Motherf**ker with the Hat, two of the plays slated to open in South Florida this season, are among the works that will be featured in the prestigious yearbook, The Best Plays of 2010-2011.

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Looking Back: The Best (and Worst) of the 2010-2011 Season

By Bill Hirschman (CORRECTED 9:47 A.M.) Theater reviewers must have a better than average ego to flatter themselves into believing that their judgment has worth, regardless of what anyone else thinks. So imagine critics asking each other for a reality …

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Ground Up & Rising Opens Season Saturday with Readings

Ground Up & Rising, the tiny company that has produced outstanding drama across Miami-Dade County despite having no permanent home, is ramping up its new season of edgy and cutting-edge theater pieces aimed at younger audiences.

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Tarell Alvin McCraney and GableStage Deliver Memorable The Brothers Size

By Bill Hirschman The initial temptation is to rave about playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney’s alchemy of poetic, profane and prosaic language. Or how the inventive production of his The Brothers Size at GableStage this month marks the first time his …

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Tarell Alvin McCraney Comes Home — For A While

Tarell Alvin McCraney escaped a nightmarish childhood in Liberty City to become one of the most acclaimed young playwrights in the world. He’s returned home to direct The Brothers Size, the first time a professional South Florida company has produced one of his full-length works.

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