Live theater on stage in South Florida is back.
We try to keep this calendar up to date, but it always will be a good idea to phone or email the company in advance. We advise that you read entries carefully for exactly when and where and how a production is available.
Jan. 18 – March 3
Schartt$ Creek
Empire Stage
1140 N. Flagler Drive
Fort Lauderdale
954-678-1496
The totally unauthorized comedy parody of the record-breaking, multiple Emmy Award winning comedy series Schitt’s Creek! Written by Jamie Morris (Mommie Queerest, The Facts of Life: The Lost Episode, The Silence of the Clams, Re-Designing Women, Gilligan’s Fire Island), Schartt$ picks up where the series leaves off. David is on his honeymoon. Patrick cannot make it. The entire Rose family arrives to cheer him up, and then proceed to make the entire trip about themselves.
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.Feb. 15-Mar.3
Memphis the Musical
Lauderhill Performing Arts Center
3800 N. 11th Place, Lauderhill
(954) 777-2055
Loosely based on the story of Memphis disc jockey Dewey Phillips, one of the first white DJs to play black music in the 1950s, and the black woman he romanced.
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Feb. 16-March 23
Lysistrata by Aristophanes
Main Street Players
6812 Main Street, Miami Lakes
(305) 558-3737
An ancient Greek comedy by Aristophanes, adapted by Vinecia Coleman; a comic account of a woman’s extraordinary mission to end a war between Greek city states.
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Feb. 22-March 10
Boeing Boeing
MNM Theater Company and Boca Stage
The Sol Theatre
3333 N Federal Highway, Boca Raton
(561) 300-0152
This 1960’s farce, which was revived on Broadway in 2008, features self-styled lothario Bernard, who has three fiancés, each a beautiful airline hostess with frequent “layovers.” He keeps “one up, one down and one pending” until unexpected schedule changes bring all three to Paris and Bernard’s apartment at the same time. Preview Feb. 22
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Feb. 22-March 31
Sea Men!
Ronnie Larsen Presents Plays of Wilton
The Foundry
2306 N. Dixie Highway, Wilton Manors
(954) 826-8790
www.ronnielarsen.com/buy-tix
A crazy, campy, sea-faring musical adventure that’s packed with Sea Men! Lots of Sea Men!: Contains nudity and sexual situations! 18 and over only!
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March-April
The Cemetery Club
Curtain Call Playhouse
Three Jewish widows meet once a month for tea before going to visit their husbands’ graves. Ida is sweet-tempered and ready to begin a new life. Lucille is a feisty embodiment of the girl who just wants to have fun. Doris is priggish and judgmental, particularly when Sam the butcher enters the scene. Doris and Lucille squash the budding romance between Sam and Ida but are guilt-stricken when this nearly breaks Ida’s heart. A touching and humorous exploration of friendship, loss and finding love again later in life.
March 23 & 24
At the Sunrise Civic Center Theatre
10610 W. Oakland Park Blvd., Sunrise,
954-747-4646
April 12, 13, 19, & 20
At the Willow Theatre in Sugar Sand Park
300 S. Military Trail, Boca Raton, FL 334
561-347-3948
April 6 & 7
At the Charlotte Burrie Center
2669 N. Federal Hwy, Pompano Beach
954-786-5566
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*March 1-10
Clue
Lake Worth Playhouse
713 Lake Avenue, Lake Worth Beach
561-586-6410
BoxOffice@lakeworthplayhouse.org
Based on the iconic 1985 Paramount movie which was inspired by the classic Hasbro board game, Clue is a hilarious farce-meets-murder mystery. The tale begins at a remote mansion, where six mysterious guests assemble for an unusual dinner party where murder and blackmail are on the menu. When their host turns up dead, they all become suspects. Come audition for your favorite character from the world-famous board game. Did he do it? Did she do it? Did they do it?
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March 5-17
Moulin Rouge! The Musical
Broadway in Fort Lauderdale
Broward Center for the Performing Arts
201 SW 5th Ave, Fort Lauderdale
(800) 764-0700
Pop the champagne, Moulin Rouge! The Musical is the winner of 10 Tony® Awards including Best Musical, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Award Winner
Enter a world of splendor and romance, of eye-popping excess, of glitz, grandeur, and glory! It’s a theatrical celebration of Truth, Beauty, Freedom, and – above all – Love. It’s more than a musical – it is a state of mind. A South Florida premiere.
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March 7-24
1,000 Miles
New City Players
Performing at Island City Stage
2304 N. Dixie Hwy. Wilton Manors
Tickets 954.376.6114
boxoffice@newcityplayers.org
World premiere play by Vanessa Garcia. About the walls that block our path and the new doors we try to open to save ourselves and those we love.
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March 8-10
New Play Festival
Theatre Lab
Florida Atlantic University
777 Glades Road, Boca Raton
(561) 297-6124
The New Play Festivals continues its tradition of providing opportunities for emerging and established playwrights to showcase their work in five readings with each accompanied by a post-show discussion and an opportunity to interact with the playwrights themselves, where they will discuss the process, inspiration and plans for future development.
March 8 7:30 p.m.
Eventide
Clara, a lonely nurse at Eventide Nursing Home in Miami, has a heart full of love and an equally full track record of disappointing relationships. When she makes a promise to a departing patient, her world takes an unexpected turn, propelling her into a whimsical love triangle and proving that the best relationships are often the ones we never see coming. Fate has a playful sense of humor in this whimsical comedy that celebrates the magic of unlikely connections. Gina Montet returns to The Lab for her third New Play Festival (The Prey 2017, Overactive Letdown 2020) with a new romantic comedy!
March 9 noon
LabRATS
Hear what’s on the minds of the next generation of playwrights! Theatre Lab’s educational outreach program, LabRATS (Rising Artists Theatre Society) provides highschool students from around Palm Beach County the opportunity to work with industry professionals to create and produce original work. This group of students in grades 10-12 were recommended by teachers at partner schools and spent the month of January working with playwright, Jeff Bower (The Impossible Task of Today), to create original short plays. Now, as part of the New Play Festival, these students will work with professional directors and actors to further develop their scripts for a first public reading – some of which will go on to be part of the one-night only performance of original student work in May of 2024!”
March 9 3 p.m.
Los Berliners
Taking inspiration from Dubliners by James Joyce, playwright Vanessa Garcia’s sets out on a deep-dive into her lifelong obsession with the fall of the Berlin Wall. As she retraces her relationship with pop-culture, Capitalism, her familial history, and the magic city of Miami, she discovers other “Berliners” – those who have fled their own versions of East Berlin and the “walls” which remain standing. As their stories mesh and meld, the true interconnectivity of the world is revealed along with the desperate need to free truth from the shadows to help break down the walls and let in the light. This reimagining of Ich Bin Ein Berliner, an audio play commissioned, developed, and produced by Theatre Lab in 2020, brings portions of the original story with brand new elements to the stage!
March 9 7:30 p.m.
As I Eat the World
A Latine man goes on a journey as to what brought him to a breaking point that may or may not destroy him. Navigating the ins and outs of the Latine culture, forced masculinity, and complete avoidance of mental wellness in order to be who he was expected to be, and what the outcome of that was – He confronts his eating disorders and mental health by attempting to literally EAT THE WORLD. Luis Roberto Herrera, fresh off the world premiere production at The Tank in NYC, presents his critically acclaimed one-man show.
May 10 noon
La Paloma
Journey into Miami’s Queer History and travel to La Paloma, which in 1937, was a gathering place for “homosexuals in evening gowns, trousered lesbians, and prostitutes.”” On November 15, 1937, the Ku Klux Klan stormed La Paloma, burned crosses outside, violently attacked the club patrons and staff, and threatened to burn the place down – all with the approval of the Dade County Sheriff. But that was only the beginning of the story. Two short weeks later, in defiance of the hatred and threats, La Paloma reopened with the promise of “spicier entertainment than ever. The 2023 Fair Play Initiative-commissioned Andie Arthur play returns to this year’s New Play Festival for continued development with a brand new version of the script inspired by feedback from the first reading.”
May 10 3 p.m.
Harold and Babs
Babs and Harold, a transgender couple in 1950s Virginia, think they’ve found the solution to their unhappiness: if in their transitions, they take on their spouse’s identity, they can live out their ideal lives with no one catching on. A perfect plan, with no potential complications… except for the pervasiveness of patriarchy. This wacky, genderful romp by D.A. Mindell aims to interrogate just how socially constructed the things we hold dear truly are – from gender, to law, to what it means to be happy.
March 8-24
Deathtrap
Pembroke Pines Theatre of the Performing Arts
17195 Sheridan Street
Susan B Katz Theatre
Written by Ira Levin in 1978, this black comedy has many plot twists and references itself as a play within a play. It holds the record for the longest-running comedy-thriller on Broadway, and was nominated for four Tony Awards, including Best Play.
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March 10
Black Angels Over Tuskegee
Arts Garage
94 NE 2nd Avenue, Delray Beach
artsgarage.org
An award-winning drama written and directed by Layon Gray that tells the story of six trail-blazing men who exhibited courage to excel in spite of overwhelming odds. The play follows the collective struggle of the first African American aviators in the United States Army Air Forces as they overcame Jim Crow-era injustices with intelligence, patriotism and brotherhood as they worked towards their dreams of an inclusive and fair society.
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March 12-17
Tina – The Tina Turner Musical
Kravis on Broadway
Kravis Center
701 Okeechobee Boulevard, West Palm Beach
(561) 651-4242
The inspiring journey of a woman who broke barriers and became the Queen of Rock n’ Roll.
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March 12- 31
42nd Street
Maltz Jupiter Theatre
1001 East Indiantown Road, Jupiter
go.jupitertheatre.org
(561) 575-2223
This love letter to Broadway is the ultimate show biz fairy tale of the chorus kid who becomes an overnight star. A1930’s backstage musical packed with plenty of pizazz and a hit parade of songs, including “Lullaby of Broadway,” “We’re in the Money,” “Shuffle Off To Buffalo,” and of course, “42nd Street
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March 13-24
Visiting Mr. Green
West Boca Theatre Company,
Levis JCC Sandler Center
21050 95th Avenue S., Boca Raton
561-558-2520
Mr. Green, an 86-year-old widower living in Manhattan, is almost hit by a car driven by young corporate executive Ross Gardiner. Found guilty of reckless driving, Ross is ordered to spend the next six months making weekly visits to Mr. Green, who, after his wife’s death, has retreated from life, letting himself and his apartment go to ruin. Ross is lonely too, but instinctively nurturing. The story starts as a comedy about two people who resent being forced together but develops into a gripping and poignant drama as family secrets are revealed and old wounds are opened.
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March 14-24
Belleville
Lake Worth Playhouse
713 Lake Avenue, Lake Worth Beach
561-586-6410
BoxOffice@lakeworthplayhouse.org
Amy Herzog’s play: Young Americans Zack and Abby have the perfect ex-pat life in Paris: a funky bohemian apartment in up-and-coming Belleville; a stable marriage; and Zack’s noble mission to fight pediatric AIDS. But when Abby finds Zack at home one afternoon when he’s supposed to be at work, the questions and answers that follow shake the foundation of their seemingly beautiful life.
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March 16
Conceived
Lauderhill Performing Arts Center
3800 NW 11th Place, Lauderhill
(954) 777- 2055
In the heart-wrenching play\\, we are introduced to Nia and her husband Kurt, whose lives were forever changed sixteen years ago when Nia experienced a traumatic sexual assault that resulted in her becoming pregnant. This event shook the foundation of their marriage and presented them with numerous challenges and emotional obstacles to overcome.
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March 14-24
Belleville
Black Box Series
Lake Worth Playhouse
713 Lake Ave, Lake Worth
866-811-4111
Young Americans Zack and Abby have the perfect ex-pat life in Paris: a funky bohemian apartment in up-and-coming Belleville; a stable marriage; and Zack’s noble mission to fight pediatric AIDS. But when Abby finds Zack at home one afternoon when he’s supposed to be at work, the questions and answers that follow shake the foundation of their seemingly beautiful life. Adult language and content.
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March 14-April 7
Cabaret
Theater Up Close
Adrienne Arsht Center with Zoetic Stage
1300 Biscayne Blvd. Miami
(305) 949-6722
The Tony Award-winning Broadway classic returns to South Florida!
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March 15-April 14
The Lehman Trilogy
Gable Stage
1200 Anastasia Avenue, Coral Gables
(305) 445-1119
This is the epic sized generation story story of a family and a company that changed the world …told with three actors portrayong all the family members across the decades.
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March 22-April 7
Merrily We Roll Along
Delray Beach Playhouse
950 NW 9th Street, Delray Beach
561-272-1281
Stephen Sondheim’s ground-breaking musical now enjoying a smash revival on Broadway. Turns the traditional showbiz musical on its head in this fable about friendship, compromise and the high price of success. Sondheim and George Furth expertly blend the excitement and energy of a backstage musical with a poignant and emotional and personal vision.
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March 22-April 3
The Taming of the Shrew
Thinking Cap Theatre
The Broward Center for The Performing Arts
201 SW 5th Ave, Fort Lauderdale
(954) 610-7263
This comedy epitomizes the age-old battle of the sexes in the tumultuous courtship of the characters Katherina and Petruchio. Shakespeare’s play adapted and directed by Nicole Stodard
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March 23-April 1
The Prom
Slow Burn Theatre Company
Broward Center for the Performing Arts
201 Southwest 5th Avenue , Fort Lauderdale
954.462.0222
Four eccentric Broadway stars are in desperate need of a new stage. So when they hear that trouble is brewing around a small-town prom because of a gay student, they know that it’s time to put a spotlight on the issue…and themselves. The town’s parents want to keep the high school dance on the straight and narrow—but when one student just wants to bring her girlfriend to prom, the entire town has a date with destiny. On a mission to transform lives, Broadway’s brassiest join forces with a courageous girl and the town’s citizens and the result is love that brings them all together. Winner of the Drama Desk Award for Best Musical,
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March 26-31
Six
Kravis on Broadway
Kravis Center
701 Okeechobee Boulevard, West Palm Beach
(561) 651-4242
This new original musical goes from Tudor Queens to Pop Icons, as the SIX wives of Henry VIII take the microphone to remix five hundred years of historical heartbreak into a euphoric celebration of 21st century girl power!
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March 28-April 14
America’s Sexiest Couple
MNM Theater Company and Boca Stage
The Sol Theatre
3333 N Federal Highway, Boca Raton
(561) 300-0152
In the 1990s, Susan and Craig were sitcom stars hailed as America’s Sexiest Couple, but as they reunite years later they face a lifetime of unresolved issues, longings and regrets. With rumors of a reboot of their old series in the news, can they move on from the past? Preview March 28.
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March 29-April 14
Death of a Salesman
Palm Beach Dramaworks
201 Clematis Street, West Palm Beach
(561) 514-4042
This Pulitzer Prize-winning, groundbreaking play changed American theatre in the person of its everyman tragic hero, Willy Loman, a dime a dozen, disappointed, disillusioned, and delusional traveling salesman with a skewed vision of the American Dream. All he wanted, the playwright wrote in his memoir, was “to count.” Or as Willy’s wife, Linda, implores, “Attention must be paid.”
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April 4-21
Hello, Dolly!
Lauderhill Performing Arts Center
3800 N. 11th Place, Lauderhill
(954) 777-2055
If you don’t know…..
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April 5-21
Ragtime
Lake Worth Playhouse
713 Lake Ave, Downtown Lake Worth Beach.
561-586-6410
lakeworthplayhouse.org
The classic musical aboout the evolution of America.
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Apr. 6–May 4
La boheme
April 6-9
Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts / Ziff Ballet Opera House
May 2-4
Broward Center for the Performing Arts / Au-Rene Theater
www.fgo.org
They’re starving for everything but love. Rodolfo loves Mimì, Marcello loves Musetta, Colline loves philosophy, Schaunard loves music, and they all love their eccentric Bohemian life in the garrets of Paris’ 19th century Latin Quarter. Starving artists all, this crazy cadre of young friends and lovers live, love, make art, and make their marks as Puccini’s divinely romantic score memorably illustrates the joys, struggles, loves, quarrels, triumphs, and tragedies of the true vie de bohème. Sung in Italian with projected translations in English and Spanish.
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April 9-21
Mrs. Doubtfire
Broadway in Fort Lauderdale
Broward Center for the Performing Arts
201 SW 5th Ave, Fort Lauderdale
(800) 764-0700
Outer Critics Circle Award Winner
Everyone’s favorite Scottish nanny is headed to Fort Lauderdale in an internationally acclaimed new hit musical. Mrs. Doubtfire tells the hysterical and heartfelt story of an out-of-work actor who will do anything for his kids. A South Florida premiere.
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April 10-21
Hamilton
Kravis on Broadway
Kravis Center
701 Okeechobee Boulevard, West Palm Beach
(561) 651-4242
The story of American founding father Alexander Hamilton then, told by America now.
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April 10-28
What’s Best for the Children
Heckscher Theatre for Families Production
Theatre Lab
Florida Atlantic University
777 Glades Road, Boca Raton
(561) 297-6124
Whit Forsyth has just been elected the first Black chairman of the State Schoolboard Committee, about to vote on critical measures on public education. But as he readies for his vote, several groups go to extreme measures to influence his decisions. A zany exploration of ideology and the American education system. A World or Rolling World premiere. Previews April 10, 12.
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April 11 – May 5
Pulp
Island City Stage
2304 N. Dixie Hwy. Wilton Manors
954-928-9800
md@islandcitystage.org
July 1956. A hot and humid Chicago. Enter Terry Logan-tough-talking, rebellious, seductive. When she takes up residence at The Well, a club run by women who love women, the trouble really begins. Nominated for four Joseph Jefferson Awards including Best New Work, PULP is a heartfelt, comedic love letter to lesbian pulp fiction and the Barbara Stanwycks of the world.
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April 17-May 12
Family Tree
Ronnie Larsen Presents Plays of Wilton
The Foundry
2306 N. Dixie Highway, Wilton Manors
(954) 826-8790
www.ronnielarsen.com/buy-tix
A gorgeous play about a gay son, Gavin, returning home to deal with a complicated family crisis that grows more complicated as long buried family secrets come to light in this taut 90-minute world premiere.
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April 18-May 12
Family Tree
Ronnie Larsen Presents Plays of Wilton
The Foundry
2306 N. Dixie Highway. Wilton Manors
A play b Erin K. Considine. A play about a gay son, Gavin, returning home to deal with a complicated family crisis that grows more complicated as long buried family secrets come to light in this taut 90 minute world premiere. Directed by Margaret Ledford. Starring Lindsey Corey, Brice Linser and Elizabeth Dimon.
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April 19-28
America’s Sexiest Couple
Boca Stage
Delray Beach Playhouse
950 NW 9th Street, Delray Beach
561-272-1281
Two actors, who were ‘America’s Sexiest Couple’ on a popular ‘90s sitcom reunite for the first time in 25 years. They face a lifetime of unresolved issues, longings, resentments, and regrets. Plus, the network wants to reboot the show. Career and personal aspirations collide – professionally and personally, where do they go from here?
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May 2-19
Cuban Chicken Soup when There’s No More Café
Theater Up Close
Adrienne Arsht Center with Zoetic Stage
1300 Biscayne Blvd. Miami
(305) 949-6722
World Premiere. From the creators of ¡FUACATA! A Latina’s Guide to Surviving the Universe, comes the next chapter in Elena’s life as her world takes unexpected twists and turns
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May 17-June 9
Laughs in Spanish
Gable Stage
1200 Anastasia Avenue, Coral Gables
(305) 445-1119
This play offers a light-hearted look at the struggles many Latinas go through to gain entry into cultural and artistic spaces that have historically excluded them.
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May 24-June 9
Trying
Palm Beach Dramaworks
201 Clematis Street, West Palm Beach
(561) 514-4042
In 1967, feisty Sarah Schorr, a 25-year-old from rural Canada, goes to work as secretary for 81-year-old Francis Biddle, the patrician former US Attorney General. The brilliant Biddle is now frail, sometimes befuddled, and always irascible. Inspired by the playwright’s experiences as Biddle’s secretary, the piece is a tender yet unsentimental portrait of two disparate people navigating their vast differences to form a bond of mutual admiration, consideration, and respect.
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May 30 – June 23
Skintight
Island City Stage
2304 N. Dixie Hwy. Wilton Manors
954-928-9800
md@islandcitystage.org
Reeling from her ex-husband’s engagement to a much younger woman, Jodi Isaac turns to her famous fashion-designer dad for support. Instead, she finds him wrapped up in his West Village townhouse with Trey. Who’s twenty. And not necessarily gay. But probably an adult film star. At least, according to Jodi’s son. Who’s also twenty. And definitely gay. Joshua Harmon (Bad Jews, Significant Other) brings neurotic family drama to the forefront as father and daughter contend with the age-old questions of how to age gracefully in a world obsessed with youth and where love fits into it all
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May to be announced
Daniel’s Husband
Ronnie Larsen Presents Plays of Wilton
The Foundry
2306 N. Dixie Highway. Wilton Manors
Michael McKeever’s award-winning play which has played in South Florida and off-Broadway. Mitchell Howard does not believe in gay marriage. His partner Daniel Bixby does. Life does what life does, as these two men learn. the consequences of their points of view. Directed by McKeever.
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June 8-23
The Spongebob Musical
Slow Burn Theatre Company
Broward Center for the Performing Arts
201 Southwest 5th Avenue , Fort Lauderdale
954.462.0222
Adapted from the iconic Nickelodeon series! SpongeBob, Patrick, Sandy, Squidward and all of Bikini Bottom face total annihilation—until a most unexpected hero rises to take center stage. The stakes are higher than ever in this dynamic stage musical, as SpongeBob and all of Bikini Bottom face the total annihilation of their undersea world. Chaos erupts. Lives hang in the balance. And just when all hope seems lost, a most unexpected hero rises up and takes center stage. The power of optimism really can save the world!
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June 11-16
Clue
Broadway in Fort Lauderdale
Broward Center for the Performing Arts
201 SW 5th Ave, Fort Lauderdale
(800) 764-0700
Subscriber Choice
Murder and blackmail are on the menu when six mysterious guests assemble at Boddy Manor for a night they’ll never forget! Was it Mrs. Peacock in the study with the knife? Or was it Colonel Mustard in the library with the wrench? Based on the cult 1985 Paramount movie and inspired by the classic Hasbro board game. A South Florida premiere.
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July 11- August 4
A Streetcar Named Desire
New City Players
Performing at Island City Stage
2304 N. Dixie Hwy. Wilton Manors
Tickets 954.376.6114
boxoffice@newcityplayers.org
The classic Tennessee Williams.
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August 4 –20
Oleanna
Empire Stage
1140 N Flagler Drive, Ft Lauderdale
www.empirestage.com
David Mamet’s riveting two-character play about a professor and a student in a tense relationshp.
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August 29 – September 22
Die! Mommie Die!
Island City Stage
2304 N. Dixie Hwy. Wilton Manors
954-928-9800
md@islandcitystage.org
Charles Busch’s comic melodrama evokes the 1960s “Grande Dame Guignol” films that featured aging stars such as Bette Davis, Joan Crawford and Lana Turner. Ex-pop singer Angela Arden is trapped in a hateful marriage with film producer Sol Sussman. Desperate to find happiness with her younger lover, an out-of-work TV actor named Tony Parker, Angela murders her husband with the aid of a poisoned suppository. In a plot that reflects Greek tragedy as well as Hollywood kitsch, her children slip her some LSD, provoking a wild acid trip in which many secrets are revealed.
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