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Silver Palms & Theatre League Remy Recipients Announced

Eighteen Silver Palm Awards honoring theatrical excellence in South Florida during the 2011-2012 season will be presented Dec. 3, as well as two Remy Awards from the South Florida Theatre League.

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Godspell Gets Another Fresh Makeover at Actors’ Playhouse

The sparse crowd Saturday night at Actors Playhouse must be a result of people thinking, “Oh, I like it well enough, but I’ve seen Godspell.” But they’d be wrong, to their loss. This earnest troupe led by director David Arisco has reinterpreted and re-imagined for the umpteenth time the venerable warhorse so that it seems fresh and familiar at the same time.

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Peek Behind The Curtain: Season Preview 2012-2013

The 2012-2013 season of South Florida theater promises a continued arc toward more new works and thought-provoking titles ripped fresh off the New York stages, sprinkled with enough perennials and confections to remind us that theater is as much about entertainment as catharsis. Check out our season calendars (click here and here) which document about 250 of the even larger list of offerings.

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Who’s Playing Who This Season?

Regular South Florida theatergoers will recognize many local stalwarts headlining productions this fall as well as some folks new to these parts – and their parts. Palm Beach Dramaworks revealed much of its casting for the entire season this week, featuring the boldface name of Tony Award nominee and part-time local resident Maureen Anderman in December.

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Real Men Sing Show Tunes at Actors Playhouse is Frothy Fare Revealing Deepest Secrets

The world premiere musical comedy Real Men Sing Show Tunes…and play with puppets lazing through the summer at Actors’ Playhouse reveals men’s deepest darkest secrets, namely life-long confusion, anxiety and fear. T

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Dan Leonard Wins Page To Stage Playwriting Contest

Veteran South Florida actor Dan Leonard has won Actors Playhouse at the Miracle Theatre’s Page to Stage competition recognizing new plays. The three-time Carbonell nominee was selected for his play Aftermath Of A Boom which will be staged in a reading at the Coral Gables theater at 4 p.m. Sunday, June 17.

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Take A Ride In Wry & Rueful Becky’s New Car At Playhouse

Steven Dietz’s insightful script, David Arisco’s assured direction and a deceptively deft cast led by the ever-engaging Laura Turnbull deliver a thoroughly entertaining comedy in Becky’s New Car at Actors Playhouse that will give your mind something substantial to mull over long after the house lights come on.

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Actors Playhouse Fills Inside Straight With Parenting Musical

Rated P for Parenthood, an Off-Broadway musical comedy revue, will close out the 2012-2013 mainstage season at Actors’ Playhouse in Coral Gables July 10 – August 11, 2013. The theater described the 90-minute show in which a quartet of performers …

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Carb Clips, Maltz Garb, Fundraising, Sharp Blades, Waldon Honored, Students Rewarded

Links to videos and photos from 36th Annual Carbonell Awards The sights and sounds of the Carbonells, known to the industry as theater prom, are available at these links. http://ka.uvuvideo.org/_34My-Big-Fat-Carbonell34-Carbonell-Awards-2012/video/1710237/86294.html http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ey8IrJpln4 http://images.tonyschreiber.com/Events/Theatre/2012-Carbonell-Awards/22247153_jV2cMB#!i=1777150674&k=JhvMQdt http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYGg9GF3u28&list=UU_Uujeu3W3eXvoIwLSQC4_g&index=2&feature=plcp Thanks to Tony Schreiber, George Schiavone and …

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Palm Beach Theaters Dominate Carbonell Awards

Joy and uncertainty imbued the 36th annual Carbonell Awards on Monday night, reflecting a period marked by the greatest concentration of theatrical excellence in recent memory, yet also the closure of two companies and tenuous survival of others. The juxtaposition was no more evident than the Caldwell Theatre production, Stuff, earning three awards – four days after the company revealed it had hired a receiver and was postponing its last play of the season because of cash flow problems.

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