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Shorts weather begins with “Summer Shorts: Flipping the Script”

By Oline Cogdill The calendar dictates the official start of summer—this year it’s June 20—but for avid theater goers the season really kicks off with the first production of City Theatre’s Summer Shorts. The season definitely has begun with “Summer …

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Put Down Roots with Family Tree from Larsen Presents

The symbolism is as thick as smoke in the air in Family Tree by Ronnie Larsen Presents and the Plays of Wilton; this three-person, one-setting, one-act show is a masterpiece in how it’s done, so take note.  For anyone who’s ever lost someone inside themselves due to memory issues, Family Tree is hard to watch, but watch it we must

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‘Jacob Marley’ Gifts Welcome New Angle On Ye Olde Carol

For all of us who have seen 17 too many editions of A Christmas Carol, City Theatre gifts us a joy-inducing riff on Charles Dickens’ public domain property, the gospel according to Jacob Marley.

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Looking Back At City Theatre On It’s 25th Anniversary, Despite A Pandemic Pause

Next month was to have marked a milestone anniversary for City Theatre and the company’s much-admired Summer Shorts festival. This pandemic pause notwithstanding, it’s an appropriate time to look back and assess what City Theatre has accomplished.

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Summer Shorts 2019 Unusually Consistently Entertaining

This 24th annual Summer Shorts festival of short plays scores as the most consistent, polished and satisfying work beginning to end that City Theatre has produced in recent seasons.

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This Season’s Winter Shorts Is A Mixed Bag At City Theatre

Much like the holiday season itself, there are things to endure and other instances that are jolly. That’s the mixed bag of City Theatre’s Winter Shorts now playing at the Carnival Studio Theater at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts.

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In-Depth: State Cuts Will Affect What You See On Stage; Theaters Pledge To Fight Back

Some South Florida theaters are scrapping some of what they plan to put on stage this season or next. Some are leaving support positions unfilled. Some plan smaller cast shows. Some have sidelined plans for growth. Theaters are scrambling to cope with an unexpected 90 percent slash in state funding. But theater champions vow to fight back by organizing patrons and leading citizens to influence lawmakers.

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City Theatre To Send Its Work (And Local Actors) Around The World With ‘Shorts On Ships’

In a move that will spread the brand of Miami-based City Theatre around the world, the company begins this month producing collections of its short plays on Azamara Club Cruises luxury ships. The effort to maximize the extended use of its huge catalog of 10-minute plays represents what City Theatre sees a new producing prototype not just for itself but the theater industry.

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Shorts Gone Wild 5 Is Usual Mixed Bag — But With A Twist

Shorts Gone Wild 5, co-produced by City Theatre with Island City Stage, follows the same entertaining pattern eliciting guffaws, chuckles and a few choked back sniffles with risque and luight blue material. The acting and direction keeps improving year after year and those elements rescue scripts less deftly written. But this edition feels different for an intriguing reason.

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Musicals Make A Mark In This Year’s Round Of Summer Shorts

City Theatre’s Summer Shorts, which only recently began showcasing musicals, includes three this year including one by Lin-Manuel Miranda.

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