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Wick Theatre Defies Odds To Reopen Boca Raton Venue
In the wake of shuttered troupes and emerging newcomers, the rising phoenix of the Wick Theatre and Costume Museum in Boca Raton is awash in patrons and professionals’ optimism and pessimism, welcome and suspicion, encouragement and derision. Workers and administrators are racing to transform the site in time for the first performance of The Sound of Music slated for September 19 and the first scheduled museum tour November 5.
Coconut Grove Project Gets County Okay, But Debts Could Still Sink Deal
The Miami Dade County Commission nudged the resurrection of the Coconut Grove Playhouse one step closer Tuesday by authorizing the mayor to enter into a lease with state officials to reopen a professional theater and educational complex on the site. But persisting problems with debts and claims topping $1.75 million could still scuttle the dream.
New Theatre Stages 16 Short Plays In Miami 1-Acts Festival
While some people may be broiling in the sun this holiday weekend, New Theatre is offering a cooler alternative with its inexpensive fund-raising program: its summer edition of the Miami 1-Acts Festival (M1A).These stagings of 16 one-act plays, mostly by local playwrights and writers whose works have appeared before at New Theatre, are in two different programs Friday, Saturday and Sunday with the possibility of seeing both on Sunday.
Conundrum Celebrates Five Years With Weekend Festival
Conundrum Stages celebrates its fifth year as a low-key presenter of staged readings in South Florida this weekend with Five So Far: The Conundrum Stages Anthology, a retrospective showcase of offerings drawn from its past seasons.
Veteran Playwrights Gather For Seminars At CityWrights
Playwrights Tina Howe, Lauren Gunderson, Robert Caisley and Steve Yockey are the headliners among an experienced group of speakers this weekend in Miami at the annual CityWrights conference for professional and aspiring playwrights as well plus entertainment lawyers and arts educators.
GableStage Season Features McCraney’s Antony & Cleopatra, and Durang’s Vanya & Sonia & Masha & Spike
GableStage’s 2013-2014 slate includes the just- coronated Tony winner for best play, Christopher Durang’s hilarious Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike. Equally notable is the debut of hometown hero Tarell Alvin McCraney’s reinterpretation of Antony and Cleopatra in a joint production with the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Public Theatre in New York City that is likely to attract international attention.
Breaking News: TTOPA Evicted After Current Show Closes
Tamarac Theatre of the Performing Arts will shut down, at least temporarily, after the end of its current show June 30 because its landlord is evicting the company after 13 years, said General Manager Bill Schmookler.
Women’s Theatre Project Celebrates Lesbian Themes With Girl Play Festival
If, as La Cage aux Folles’ Zaza suggests looking at life from a different angle, The Women’s Theatre Project’s annual Girl Play series of staged readings June 21-23 examines life from yet another point of view. Girl Play is comprised of three programs featuring readings of 16 short plays with lesbian themes, by straight and lesbian playwrights.
Think Tickets Cost Too Much? How About Free?
Members of the South Florida Theatre League are donating pairs of tickets in a revival of the Free Night of Theater lottery program this summer that encourages people to investigate theaters and/or shows they might not try on their own dime.
Theatre At Arts Garage and Dramaworks Stage Concert Musicals This Summer
If this seems to be a summer jammed with play readings across the region (at least 18 set so far and we have more to announce over the next few days), musical theater fans will be penciling in dates on their calendars as well, as early as tomorrow night. Palm Beach Dramaworks and the Theatre at Arts Garage are mounting “concert versions” of musicals – classics in Dramaworks’ case and new works at the Garage in Delray Beach.
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