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Lombardo Play “High” About Addiction Gets Resurrection Tour With Kathleen Turner

It was surreal even by theater standards: Michael Lombardo’s drama about addiction High had broken box office records in its world premiere at Hartford’s TheaterWorks. And here they were, on opening night on Broadway in April 2011, already certain in the knowledge that the production was doomed. The result goes on display next week at Parker Playhouse, the second stop on High’s resurrection tour – this time co-produced by Lombardo.

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Playwright Matthew Lombardo’s Essay Coming Clean For “High”

This essay was written as a playwright’s note for his play High, opening this week at the Parker Playhouse.

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Talkin’ in the Green Room With: Barbara Bradshaw

In this edition, we talk with Barbara Bradshaw, one of the most admired stage and voice-over actresses in South Florida whose 200-plus roles include four Carbonell-winning performances. In this Q&A, Bradshaw reveals a young adulthood that few outsiders would suspect as well as her deep connection to the sea.

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Boeing Boeing Marks Long-Term Partnership For Promethean & Nova’s Theater Department

Book-learning and collegiate productions provide theater students the basics of the craft they hope to follow, but The Promethean Theatre is providing Nova Southeastern University students with real world experience that is far more rigorous and revealing than class work.

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Caldwell’s Chad Deity Is Unlike Any Show You’ve Ever Seen — Unless You’re A WWE Fan

It’s a safe bet that hardly any theatergoer in South Florida will have seen a play like The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity when it opens this week at the Caldwell Theatre Company. After all, rarely do rehearsals require actors learn World Wrestling Entertainment moves that while bogus are actually downright dangerous to the execute. Or where the director is flipped in the air by a burly athlete and lands flat on his back.

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Talkin’ in the Green Room With: Eric Alsford

In this edition, we talk with Eric Alsford is one of the best-known music directors in South Florida, usually shuttling from one job to another here, in New York and at regional theaters across the country. Among his current assignments is preparation for a massive undertaking that he has sought for months: Actors Playhouse’s production of the musical Next To Normal slated for Jan. 18-Feb. 12.

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Edgy Mad Cat Troupe Staging Children’s Theater? Sort Of

The very idea that Mad Cat Theatre—the embodiment of edgy, adult fare in South Florida – is doing what some might misclassify as children’s theater simply doesn’t compute. The explanation is that Macbeth & the Little Monster is not some rose-colored Disney fairy tale, even though a mother reinvents the Shakespearean tragedy as a bedtime story for her son. Angela Berliner’s play opening Dec. 28 is very determinedly designed to appeal to all ages, said director Paul Tei.

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Maltz’s Joseph Uses Technology to Wrangle a Cast of 240 — Kids

In what may be the first massive melding of junior thespians and advanced technology, the Maltz Jupiter Theatre’s staff has employed cyberspace and digital information to manage the logistical nightmare of creating and training eight separate children’s choirs for Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat

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Priming the Play: The Furious Competition that Fuels Red

In a play comprised primarily of complex insights articulated at the audience for nearly 90 minutes, what many people remember most about GableStage’s production of Red is a scene without words.

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Ray Abruzzo Finds His Voice in Mosaic’s Lombardi

Knock on wood, halfway through the run of Lombardi, Ray Abruzzo hasn’t lost his voice. Portraying the legendary coach whose booming pitbull voice reflected his full-out approach to everything from sports to relationships, Abruzzo spends a good chunk of the 90-minute play at the Mosaic Theatre shouting and berating everyone from his players to his wife, Marie.

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