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Classic ‘Bernarda Alba’ Reimagined As Miami Cubans Reconnecting With Family

Audiences at a reading of Alejandro Rodriguez’s developing play, Alba, said it moved them to call a long-estranged grandparent. He hopes its world premiere at Palm Beach Dramaworks next week prompts you to talk about your own family members on the ride home from the theater.

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Miami Cuban Roots of Choreographer, Writer Help Shape Buena Vista Social Club

When playwright Marco Ramirez was growing up in Hialeah, music from Cuba’s great orchestras could be heard tat family gatherings. Now Ramirez’s grandfather will be in the audience awhen Buena Vista Social Club, the Broadway musical his grandson wrote, comes to South Florida

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Opioids, Trafficking, Shoplifting: Theater Tours Warning Middle & High School Students

Three touring plays: prostitution after trafficking, opioid addiction with athletes, the lure of stealing. The audience: students. Palm Beach Dramaworks’ One Humanity Tour is unapologetically frank for rapt youngsters still learning algebra.

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Arca Images Takes on the American Dream in Spanish ‘Death of a Salesman’

Playwright Nilo Cruz and Arca Images founder Alexa Kuve bring Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman, to a Hispanic audience with a Spanish language translation through Sunday

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Bit By Bit, Putting It Together: How Scenic Designers & Colleagues Create Worlds

In depth: Scenic designer Anne Mundell’s environments communicate an array of foreign and familiar times, places and character of their denizens from the moment the curtain rises.
Understanding her collegial process is an education into how you see what you see on stage opening night.

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Our Look Behind The Curtain Going Up Next Season — Plus List Of Full Titles And Dates

By Bill Hirschman and Britin Haller   Once again, the coming season of South Florida theater proves that in terms of artistic ambition – not to mention potential entertainment – the quality of local companies equals that of a majority of …

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Coming Comedy-Thriller Burst Aims At Corporate Issues Of Integrity, Responsibility

Rachel Bublitz likes to describe her play, Burst, as a “bullet train… a powerhouse barreling ahead at tremendous speed not noticing if it’s going to crash.” Yet the dark comedy’s central character is intent not on destruction but on saving the world. An inside look at the play opening July 11 at New City Players.

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Brevo Theatre Commits To Its Largest Challenge: The Musical Of The Color Purple

Brévo Theatre — faced with the tragic death of a lead actress but pressing ahead with its most logistically challenging effort – the African-American company is committed to opening the musical The Color Purple on Sunday.

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City Theatre Turns 30 By Adapting Summer Shorts To Current Challenges

City Theatre successfully marks its 30th anniversary as a game-forging force but its champions are determinedly adapting to surmount fiscal uncertainty with changes such as a one-night Summer Shorts

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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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