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Looking Back At South Florida Theater’s 2015: Taking Chances Financially And Artistically

2015 produced a wild variety of snapshots to paste in the theatrical scrapbooks: a male Dolly Levi, a homicidal dimwit slicing carrots, a kidnapper forcing her captives to learn nonsense, a tsunami engulfing a Japanese village, a green-gunked survivor of toxic sludge singing love songs to his blind librarian girlfriend. You know, just another year for regional theater in South Florida.

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Year In Review: Encouraging Signs As Theaters Bet On Recovering Economy

Like the rest of the country, South Florida theater took tentative steps throughout 2013, banking on the promise of a recovering economy and a durable demand for art. Evidence was visible across the three counties: theaters mostly opening not closing, established companies moving into new venues, young companies finding audiences, runs extended, a continued commitment to riskier experiments .

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National Arts Institute Signs Lease To Re-Open Royal Poinciana Playhouse

The Royal Poinciana Playhouse may yet rise again as a professional regional theater. A non-profit group known for its youth programs signed a long-term lease with the property’s landlord, according to the group’s producing artistic director.

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