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Maltz Names Next Season: Other Desert Cities, Annie, Chorus Line, The King And I

The Maltz Jupiter Theatre, with its reputation as a quintessential mainstream house, will mix up its 2013-2014 season with titles dating back decades and the hottest play on Broadway last year: Dial M For Murder, Annie, A Chorus Line, The King and I and Other Desert Cities plus a benefit concert by Brian Stokes Mitchell.

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Alliance Faces Deadline Raising Money For Brothers Beckett

You have until just before midnight today (Thursday) to contribute to the Alliance Theatre Project’s online funding campaign to raise money to help pay for its revival of the acclaimed Brothers Beckett at the Arsht Center in March this spring. …

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Stephanie Powers To Sub For Ailing Valerie Harper In Return of Looped

By Bill Hirschman Illness has sidelined Valerie Harper from starring in the revival of Looped that was to kick off a new national tour at Parker Playhouse Feb. 26-March 3. The role of Tallulah Bankhead near the end of her …

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City Theatre Free Reading Of Summer Shorts Candidates

Looking for a peek at what might be part of next June’s Summer Shorts? City Theatre is holding a free reading of as many as six contenders at 6:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 1, on the second floor of the Key …

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Plaza Theatre Adds New Shows & Holds Birthday Celebration

The fledgling Plaza Theatre began its existence relying on musical revues and cabaret shows, although it has recently added plays like Driving Miss Daisy, Luv and Chapter Two. Now, the company based in a Manalapan shopping center is adding more …

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2013 Carbonell Nominations Honor New Companies And Theaters That Closed

The 2013 Carbonell Award nominations announced today mirror the changing face of South Florida theater. There are farewells for three companies that closed in 2012 and recognition of five troupes mounting their first works in 2012, plus community-by-community figures that presage shrinking theatrical options in Broward County.

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Complete Carbonell Nominations And Statistics 2013

Best New Work (play or musical) Baby GirL, Kim Ehly, Kutumba Theatre Project A Measure of Cruelty, Joe Calarco, Mosaic Theatre Moscow, Michael McKeever, Zoetic Stage Off Center of Nowhere, David Sirois, Alliance Theatre Lab roomies, Mark Della Ventura, Alliance …

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UM Law School Presents Reading Of Proposition 8

Law schools are not the usual sponsors for theater, but the University of Miami School of Law is presenting Jan. 27  a staged-reading of “8,” a play chronicling the historic trial of the federal constitutional challenge to California’s Proposition 8, …

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Outre Theatre Slates Reading Of Nicky Silver Play Tuesday

Outré Theatre Company has scheduled a staged reading of Nicky Silver’s Fat Men In Skirts at 8 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 22 at Empire Stage, 1140 N Flagler Drive in Fort Lauderdale. The plot is described as: “After their plane crashes, …

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Alliance Raises Money For Brothers Beckett With Bowling,Pasta and Indiegogo

The Alliance Theatre Lab is about to graduate to another level when its successful Gen-X comedy Brothers Beckett is revived in a co-production with the Arsht Center’s Theater Up Close series March 7-24. But the cost of such a production …

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