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Arshties & Cappies Train High School Theater Artists & Critics

The Arshties, celebrating its first year, and the Cappies, celebrating its 24th, will hold galas this month recognizing their training and encouraging high school artists and critics.

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Kim Ehly’s Baby GirL’s Play Re-Imagined As Velvet Green Summer

Family isn’t just something you’re born into or adopted into – it’s something you build and encompasses the people you love and who love you. Kim Ehly’s celebrated play, Velvet Green Summer, seeks to drive such messages home. Kutumba Theatre Project is bringing the pla, originally titled Baby GirL back to South Florida.

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My Take On: Reviews Of Current And Recent NYC Shows

A new feature “My Take On:: Short reviews of New York shows by Nunzio Michael Lupo, veteran journalist and an insightful appraiser of the arts. These pieces were first posted on his page at https://www.show-score.com/member/mrstrategery.  Some of these are still running as Oedipus, Marjorie Prime and Ragtime for you to see on your next trip; others have closed but remain interesting for his assessment.

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A List of Current And Former Theaters in The Region

The region is home to at least  66 professional or semi-professional companies, 15 community theater companies, 13 presenting houses and 11 university-based production companies – and at least 25 theater companies that have closed

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ON THE WHEELS OF A DREAM: PART THREE

On The Wheels of a Dream: Part Three:  Actually putting bodies on the stage may be the most formidable issue. Starting just with pure numbers, interviewees disagreed whether there are plenty of actors, or a dearth of actors, or a shortfall in talented actors, or a shortage of experienced actors. And each might be correct within limits.

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ON THE WHEELS OF A DREAM: PART TWO

On the Wheels of a Dream: Part Two: The future of theater over the next three seasons will continue to be the result of the fragile juggling of balancing artistic vision and balance sheets,But part of the troubled aspect of the “artistic” equation is operating, administrative and production costs have risen steadily in recent years,

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ON THE WHEELS OF A DREAM: PART ONE

On the Wheels of a Dream: Part One of an in-depth three-part series about the future of Florida theater. As the curtain cautiously rises again this year in South Florida, profound questions are dogging about what the next three seasons will provide as local theaters grapple with rising costs, a mercurial talent pool, fluctuating funding and deciding how far to nudge the edge of the envelope.

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Thinking Cap Creates Shakespeare’s Multi-Genre Cymbeline This Month

Thinking Cap Theatre is creating a reimagined version of Shakespeare’s Cymbeline opening Dec. 5, what its director terms “It’s Shakespeare’s most thrilling—and, in my opinion, his funniest—work.”

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No Place Like Home For 2 SoFla Natives In Nat’l Tour of ‘The Wiz’

Two cast members on the national tour of “The Wiz” at the Adrienne Arsht Cente are performing on a stage where, as youngsters, they watched from the seats. Amitria Fanae’, who plays Addaperle, The Good Witch of the North and Kameren Whigham, a member of the ensemble, is

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 From Miami to Manhattan: Florida’s Ryan Crout Stars as John Belushi Off-Broadway

Saturday Night Live was a major part of South Florida performer Ryan Crout’s childhood. Understandably, then, he’s excited to perform in a play about the show’s beginnings – in New York City, the metropolis that birthed SNL. Crout is part of the Off-Broadway cast of Not Ready for Prime Time, which opens Oct. 20.

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