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New City Players’ The 39 Steps Revels In Wicked Lampoon

Comic theater is a challengingly adroit meld of wry humor, physical slapstick, verbal timing, invisible stagecraft and a devotion to maximizing the opportunities for unscripted bits of business. All of this is delivered with an infectious joy in New City Players’ rendition of the ever-reliable The 39 Steps.

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New City Players to Receive Carbonells’ Jan McArt Award

New City Players, the vest-pocket theater company that has consistently produced memorable work since 2014 in Broward County,  has been named the recipient of the first Jan McArt Award from the Carbonells Awards program. The award recognizes significant achievement by a small theater.

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Racism and a Dozen Other Themes Dissected 160 Years Apart in The Confederates

The complex confluence of resonating past and present in Dominque Morisseau’s dense brilliant script interweaves with strong performances in New City Players’ well-titled The Confederates.

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Dynamic All My Sons Charts Domestic Descent Into Tragedy

What New City Players’ ensemble achieves in its dynamic production of Arthur Miller’s classic All My Sons is making totally believable the slow descent from the warmth of family gatherings to explosions of pessimistic rage and sorrow, The Kellers harbor a secret rooted in the abandonment of taking responsibility for their actions as a web of lies infects hope for the future.

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Peck to Direct Arthur Miller’s All My Sons at New City Players

It is safe to say that South Florida theater artist and educator Jason Peck knows Arthur Miller’s masterpiece, All My Sons. “I’ve read the play close to 100 times by now,” Peck notes. He’s about to direct it  for the fourth time at New City Players

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End of a Trilogy, Or Is It? New City Players’ The Last Christmas

New City Players; premiere The Last Christmas by Tyler Johnson Grimes is the supposed final installment in a trilogy of annual holiday comedies revolving around radio station WNCP in Fort Lauderdale. It’s Christmas Eve, 1999, and a little thing by the name of Y2K is on everyone’s mind, but before the employees have to worry about that, they must make it through this night first.

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Take a Ride on A Streetcar Named Desire With the New City Players

By Britin Haller Arguably one of the greatest dramatic plays in American theatrical history, and certainly of its time, A Streetcar Named Desire has rolled onto the Island City Stage with a bang. Timothy Mark Davis, the producing artistic director …

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New City Players Tackles a ‘Magical’ Streetcar Named Desire

  By Aaron Krause “South Florida is going to really sink its teeth into something that is going to be magical, musical, and monumental,” award-winning South Florida director Stuart Meltzer enthuses. And New City Players’ (NCP) Producing Artistic Director Tim …

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New City Players’ 1000 Miles a journey of the immigrant experience

  By Oline H. Cogdill The immigrant experience with its promises for a new start wrapped in the frightening reality of the suspicion of strangers, the fear of the unknown and the loss of what has been left behind are …

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New City Players’ A Blast From The Past in A Christmas Carol: A Live Radio Play

By Britin Haller Is there any literary character portrayed more than Ebenezer Scrooge? There are, but not many. The miserly grinch has been interpreted over many decades in myriad incarnations. But his message itself is simple and may be summed …

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