Aaron Krause
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To Fall in Love Front Page
A Southeastern Premiere at FAU's Theatre Lab
By: - Nov 29th, 2021Theatre Lab, the professional resident company at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, is giving Jennifer Lane's two-hander, "To Fall in Love" its Southeastern premiere production. In the play, an estranged couple turns to a study that scientists claim can help people fall in love in order to save their marriage. The study features 36 questions that each individual asks the other.
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The People Downstairs Front Page
A World Premiere at Palm Beach Dramaworks
By: - Nov 24th, 2021Palm Beach Dramaworks in South Florida will present the world premiere production of Michael McKeever's new historical drama, The People Downstairs. The play explores the challenges faced by the folks who hid Anne Frank's family during World War II as the Nazis attempted to round up European Jews.The People Downstairs runs from Dec. 3 to Dec. 19 at Palm Beach Dramaworks' playing space in West Palm Beach.
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Middletown: The Ride of Your Life! Front Page
A Co-production of Actors' Playhouse, Miracle Theatre and GFour Productions.
By: - Nov 22nd, 2021Middletown: The Ride of Your Life! is a touching and humorous tale of friendship, life's joys, and difficulties. Actors' Playhouse and GFour Productions is presenting the comedy-drama through Dec. 12. The play reminds us how we missed in-person human interaction and connection during the pandemic.
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Duncan Macmillan's Lungs Front Page
A New City Players Production
By: - Nov 21st, 2021Ft. Lauderdale-based New City Players presents Duncan Macmillan's drama, Lungs, in an uneven production running through Nov. 28. In Macmillan's play, a couple are trying to decide whether to have a baby in a world plagued by many problems. Lungs, which runs less than two hours with no intermission, speaks to a new generation of folks for whom uncertainty has become the norm.
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Arthur Miller's The Price Front Page
At GableStage in Coral Gables, a Miami suburb
By: - Nov 15th, 2021GableStage in Southeast Florida is opening its season with Arthur Miller's "The Price." New Producing Artistic Director Bari Newport is directing it, based on late Producing Artistic Director Joe Adler's notes. This production of "The Price" marked Adler's last directorial effort at GableStage, where he spent 20 years as Producing Artistic Director. GableStage has dedicated this production to Adler.
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Come from Away Front Page
National Touring Production in South Florida
By: - Nov 13th, 2021Come from Away is docked in South Florida before heading north. The musical relates the true tale of a small Canadian town that welcomed and cared for stranded passengers on Sept. 11, 2001 and the days after.
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Warrior Class Front Page
Highly-Charged Political Drama at Boca Stage
By: - Nov 09th, 2021The past stalks a candidate for Congress in the gripping political drama, "Warrior Class." The riveting production runs through Nov. 21 at Boca Stage in Boca Raton, Fla. Boca Stage, a professional theater company, is the new name for the former Primal Forces.
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War Words Front Page
What Does 'Thank You for Your Service' Really Mean
By: - Nov 06th, 2021The Atlantic Council has partnered with professional theater companies, veterans service organizations, and corporate sponsors to bring staged readings of War Words. This Pulitzer Prize-nominated play depicts stories of men and women who served in Iraq and Afghanistan. The production is traveling to different cities.
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Save Broadway from the Grinch Front Page
Upcoming Escape Room Challenges People
By: - Oct 30th, 2021Stuart Brown, a theater critic and founder of a 24/7 online radio station devoted to musical theater, has created an escape room through which you strive to save Broadway from the Grinch. The escape room will go live around the first week of December. To access the escape room, go to https://soundsofbroadway.com/escaperoom. The "save Broadway" escape room will join two existing ones on the website.
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Mamma Mia! Front Page
The Wick Theatre in Boca Raton
By: - Oct 20th, 2021A vibrant Mamma Mia! is running at The wick Theatre in Boca Raton through Nov. 14. The production features triple threat performers who are convincing in their roles. Mamma Mia is the first production the Wick Theatre has mounted since the company closed its doors due to the pandemic.
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Songs for a New World Front Page
Ft. Lauderdale's Slow Burn Theatre Company
By: - Oct 14th, 2021Slow Burn Theatre Company in Ft. Lauderdale has mounted a sizzling production of the musical theater show, "Songs for a New World." The production runs through Oct. 24 in the intimate Amaturo Theater within the Broward Center for the Performing Arts. This plotless hybrid of musical and song cycle features musical numbers connected by a theme. The composer and lyricist is Jason Robert Brown, of "Parade," and "The Bridges of Madison County" fame.
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The Helbing Mentorship Program Front Page
For LGBTQIA+ Arts Writers
By: - Oct 11th, 2021The American Theatre Critics Association (ATCA) announces The Helbing Mentorship Program. Under the program, LGBTQIA+ arts writers will work with leading theater critics to imrpove their craft and publish their work. The year-long program, which will begin in September 2022, includes a $5,000 grant.
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The Twentieth Century Way Front Page
At Island City Stage, near Ft. Lauderdale
By: - Oct 11th, 2021Island City Stage's first-ever production was of Tom Jacobson's play, The Twentieth Century Way. To kick off its 10th anniversary season, Island City Stage is reviving The Twentieth Century Way. The play focuses on two out-of-work actors in 1914 who hired themselves out to the Long Beach, Calif. Police Department to entrap "social vagrants (homosexuals)".
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A Different Kind of Self Portrait Front Page
A nine-and-a-half-feet tall mastodon
By: - Sep 16th, 2021Jess the Mastodon is puppet artist Jim Hammond's self-portrait -- kind of. Hammond designed Jess for Theatre Lab's production of The Impracticality of Modern-Day Mastodons. The professional company based on Boca Raton's Florida Atlantic University campus is staging the play about dreams coming true.
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The Impracticality of Modern-Day Mastodons Front Page
A World Premiere Production by FAU's Theatre Lab
By: - Sep 06th, 2021The Impracticality of Modern-Day Mastodons is a new play by Rachel Teagle receiving its world premiere production at Florida Atlantic University's Theatre Lab. The professional company's production runs through Sept. 19. Jess the Mastodon seeks to find her place in a world in which she seems out of place. A Mastodon is a large, extinct elephant-like mammal.
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Angela's Ashes: The Musical Front Page
An Irish Repertory Theatre Streaming Production
By: - Sep 02nd, 2021Angela's Ashes: The Musical is a new musical adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Frank McCourt memoir. The award-winning, Off-Broadway Irish Repertory Theatre will stream the show from Sept. 9 through Sept. 22. The online production follows an in-person, critically-acclaimed run in Ireland in 2017.
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George M. Cohan Tonight! Front Page
An Irish Repertory Theatre Streaming Production.
By: - Aug 19th, 2021The Irish Repertory Theatre (IRT) is streaming a shortened version of George M. Cohan Tonight! through Aug. 29. IRT gave the piece its theatrical debut in 2006. The original IRT production earned award nominations. While reservations are free, IRT suggests a $25 donation for those who can afford it.
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Maltz Jupiter Theatre Front Page
The Company's 2021-22 Season
By: - Aug 12th, 2021Maltz Jupiter Theatre in Southeast Florida will kick off this upcoming season by presenting "Jersey Boys" in a baseball stadium. The season opens on Jan. 11, with Jersey Boys running from Jan. 11-30. Maltz Jupiter Theatre will re-open following a $36 million expansion. Highlights of the theater’s expansion include a new larger stage.
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Wolf and Badger Front Page
World Premiere by Miami Lakes' Main Street Players
By: - Jul 26th, 2021Wolf and Badger is a tight and intense drama receiving its world premiere production at Main Street Players in Miami Lakes. The drama by Michael John McGoldrick shows what can happen drug use becomes habitual. The play takes place in 2006 in a working class neighborhood of Syracuse, N.Y. Main Street Players' strong production runs through Aug. 29. People can watch the play virtually if they choose.
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GableStage's 2021-22 Season Front Page
The First Under New Producing Artistic Director Bari Newport
By: - Jul 24th, 2021GableStage in Coral Gables will open its 2021-22 season with Arthur Miller's The Price. The nonprofit, professional theater company near Miami had planned to produce Miller's drama last season, however, the pandemic closed theaters. GableStage's 2021-22 season will be the first under new producing artistic director Bari Newport. Newport succeeds Joe Adler, a South Florida theater icon who has died.
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ATCA New Play Awards Front Page
Critics Group Announces Honors
By: - Jul 23rd, 2021The American Theatre Critics Association (ATCA) recently announced awards for authors of new plays.Her Honor, Jayne Byrne received the 2021 Harold and Mimi Steinberg/American Theatre Critics Association New Play Award. SHIP, by Douglas Williams, takes home the 2021 M. Elizabeth Osborn Award. Runners-up for the ATCA/Steinberg honor were Khat Knotahaiku for Graveyard Shift as well as Jason Narducy and Brett Neveu for the musical Verboten.
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Putting It Together Front Page
Broadway Legends to Discuss New Book
By: - Jul 21st, 2021James Lapine and Stephen Sondheim will talk during a digital event about Lapine's new book, Putting It Together: How Stephen Sondheim and I Created Sunday in the Park With George. This "intimate digital conversation event" will take place on the day of the book's release -- Aug. 3. Tickets are available at www.TheTownHall.org for the 7 p.m. EST, Aug. 3 event. Go to www.TheTownHall.org. Award-winning actress Christine Baranski will moderate the digital conversation.
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¡FUÁCATA! Front Page
Actors' Playhouse at Miracle Theatre
By: - Jul 17th, 2021Award-winning South Florida actress Elena Maria Garcia will mount her hilarious, one-performer show for a third time. ¡FUÁCATA! or A Latina’s Guide to Surviving the Universe features more than 20 characters, mostly Hispanic women. ¡FUÁCATA in English basically means a backhanded slap.
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Lines in the Dust Front Page
A New Normal Rep Production
By: - Jul 08th, 2021The online-only theater company New Normal Rep scores another hit with its riveting production of Nikkole Salter's riveting drama, "Lines in the Dust." The production is streaming on demand through Aug. 8. The play centers on a poor, single mother who commits residency fraud in an effort to give her daughter the best possible education. "Lines in the Dust" takes place in New Jersey in 2009-2010.
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Short New Play Festival Front Page
New York's Red Bull Theater Company
By: - Jul 06th, 2021Red Bull theater company's 11th Annual Short New Play Festival will take place virtually on Monday, July 12. A recording of the livestream will be available until 7 p.m. ET on Friday, July 16. This year's theme is "Restoration." Red Bull is a professional company in New York City. It “brings rarely seen classic plays to dynamic new life for contemporary audiences.”
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