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‘Burst’ Explodes As Integrity And Ambition Collide at New City Players Season Closer

Fury, frustration, deception, integrity, ambition and amorality combine and collide in a super-charged spiral downward that cements a cuttingly wry satire liberally seasoned with chuckles and giggles in New City Players’ all-too-well-titled Burst.

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Coming Comedy-Thriller Burst Aims At Corporate Issues Of Integrity, Responsibility

Rachel Bublitz likes to describe her play, Burst, as a “bullet train… a powerhouse barreling ahead at tremendous speed not noticing if it’s going to crash.” Yet the dark comedy’s central character is intent not on destruction but on saving the world. An inside look at the play opening July 11 at New City Players.

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New City’s A Case for the Existence of God Explores Complexities Male Friendships

New City Players’ A Case for the Existence of God explores the complexities of male friendships by focusing on two men whose deepening relationship at a critical point in their lives shatters their protective shells; it crackles with emotional energy, fueled by electrifying performances along with propulsive pacing and a keenly insightful script.

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ON THE WHEELS OF A DREAM: PART THREE

On The Wheels of a Dream: Part Three:  Actually putting bodies on the stage may be the most formidable issue. Starting just with pure numbers, interviewees disagreed whether there are plenty of actors, or a dearth of actors, or a shortfall in talented actors, or a shortage of experienced actors. And each might be correct within limits.

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ON THE WHEELS OF A DREAM: PART TWO

On the Wheels of a Dream: Part Two: The future of theater over the next three seasons will continue to be the result of the fragile juggling of balancing artistic vision and balance sheets,But part of the troubled aspect of the “artistic” equation is operating, administrative and production costs have risen steadily in recent years,

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ON THE WHEELS OF A DREAM: PART ONE

On the Wheels of a Dream: Part One of an in-depth three-part series about the future of Florida theater. As the curtain cautiously rises again this year in South Florida, profound questions are dogging about what the next three seasons will provide as local theaters grapple with rising costs, a mercurial talent pool, fluctuating funding and deciding how far to nudge the edge of the envelope.

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New City Players’ The 39 Steps Revels In Wicked Lampoon

Comic theater is a challengingly adroit meld of wry humor, physical slapstick, verbal timing, invisible stagecraft and a devotion to maximizing the opportunities for unscripted bits of business. All of this is delivered with an infectious joy in New City Players’ rendition of the ever-reliable The 39 Steps.

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New City Players to Receive Carbonells’ Jan McArt Award

New City Players, the vest-pocket theater company that has consistently produced memorable work since 2014 in Broward County,  has been named the recipient of the first Jan McArt Award from the Carbonells Awards program. The award recognizes significant achievement by a small theater.

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Racism and a Dozen Other Themes Dissected 160 Years Apart in The Confederates

The complex confluence of resonating past and present in Dominque Morisseau’s dense brilliant script interweaves with strong performances in New City Players’ well-titled The Confederates.

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Dynamic All My Sons Charts Domestic Descent Into Tragedy

What New City Players’ ensemble achieves in its dynamic production of Arthur Miller’s classic All My Sons is making totally believable the slow descent from the warmth of family gatherings to explosions of pessimistic rage and sorrow, The Kellers harbor a secret rooted in the abandonment of taking responsibility for their actions as a web of lies infects hope for the future.

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