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Critic’s Choice

The two major openings this weekend each explore sensitive topics: sex after sixty in A Round-Heeled Woman at GableStage, and race relations in Clybourne Park at the Caldwell Theatre. Clybourne Park is a message comedy with an intriguing premise, The …

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Dramaworks’ audience responds to Freudian therapy

Palm Beach Dramaworks has taken the unusual step (for a subscription house in Florida) of extending its production of’Freud’s Last Session until Feb. 13 because shows have been selling out. Tickets available at (561) 514-4042 or’www.palmbeachdramaworks.org.

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Broadway’s lights not so bright in February

Timing isn’t just everything in theater, but theater-going as well. I’m going to New York City in early February for the American Theatre Critics Association’s mid-year professional development conference, which is usually a tax-deductible way to go see theater. (Burglars: …

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“August: Osage County” casting partly announced

Everyone wants to know who’s going to be cast in Actor’s Playhouse production of August: Osage County, set for March 9 to April 10 in Coral Gables. Here’s the partial casting so far for the Pulitzer-winning play that runs three …

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Once more with Forbidden feeling

Forbidden Broadway is back at the Arsht Center in town through Dec. 26 for another run of parodies of The Great White Way featuring North Miami Beach native Gina Kreiezmar’s patent-pending impersonations of Ethel Merman, Barbara Streisand, Patti LuPone and …

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Two faces of the same old rudeness

If Sartre was right in No Exit and hell is other people, the next circle of hell would be a theater with rude people. If you’re on this website, you obviously share our hatred of audience members who seem to …

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Critic’s Choice

Three big openings this week: the world premiere of Michael McKeever’s South Beach Babylon (and the first full production by Zoetic Theatre); the Maltz Jupiter Theatre’s original musical Academy, and New Theatre’s Fizz, the story of the development of the …

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Young Voices having their theatrical say

Florida Stage’s 2010-2011 Young Voices Monologue Festival put the lie to the conventional wisdom that theater is a dying art form that only well-heeled Boomers, Gleeks and seniors care about. Students in grades 7-12 wrote and performed original monologues earlier …

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Gunzburger, Finstrom receive Jack Zink Spirit Award

Broward County Mayor Sue Gunzburger and longtime arts supporter Tony Finstrom have been named the 2011 winners of the Mosaic Theatre’s Jack Zink Spirit Award for having ‘demonstrated excellence in the areas of leadership, creativity, commitment and passion for the …

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Enter Stage Left

Some promising openings spice up the pre-holiday period. Don’t blink or you’ll miss the very limited run of Mad Cat Theatre’s Going Green the Wong Way, a one-woman comedy about the difficulty of being environmentally responsible, starring the playwright Kristina …

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