Theatre
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Beatle Girls
Four Girls Who Ran Their Fan Clubs
By: - Oct 01st, 2026“Beatle Girls,” has its Sarasota premiere as the season-opening attraction at Tree Fort Productions.
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Snow Goose Lays an Egg
World Premiere at Goodspeed
By: - Oct 01st, 2026I tried so hard to like this adaptation of Paul Gallico‘s very short novella, The Snow Goose –a Story of Dunkirk, but some elements just made it difficult to do so.
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Black Billed Cuckoo at La Jolla
Watching Birds and Discovering Selves
By: - Sep 28th, 2026A Black-billed Cuckoo, is the second play written by Mat Smart as part of the DNA New Work Series at the La Jolla Playhouse. Smart, an avid birder himself, got the idea for the play during a birding outing after he didn’t see the cuckoo that everyone else saw. The play, directed by Shelley Butler, follows five bird-watchers over 24 hours in Prospect Park, Brooklyn.
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Carrie the Musical
Stephen King Classic on Stage
By: - Sep 28th, 2026In the story, Carrie has long been an outcast among her classmates, taunted for how she acts and what she wears, and she must deal with an oppressive relationship with her mother, Margaret, who has strong views on religion and how Carrie should be raised.
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Lincoln in the Bardo Preview
Death of ClassicL and Greenwood Cemetery Magical Partners
By: - Sep 27th, 2026Lincoln in the Bardo, a new opera by Missy Mazzoli, is based on George Saunders’s Booker Prize–winning novel. Previewed at Green-wood Cemetery, the opera will premiere at the Metropolitan Opera on October 19.
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Mary, Queen of Scots
Thea Musgrave's Tragic Opera
By: - Sep 26th, 2026At age 18, Mary returns to Scotland as queen, having grown up in France. Her several years of rule before abdicating are marked by constant internal threats. At various times, four powerful men close to Mary are murdered by other men close to her. The opera conveys the instability adeptly in its drama and music.
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Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest
The Movie as a Farcical Play
By: - Sep 25th, 2026During the Cold War, an advertising executive is mistaken by spies for a U.S government man of interest to their hostile country. A chase by plane, train, and automobile from New York to Mount Rushmore commences. The twist (and there is plenty of dance-like choreography) is that the underlying tension from the suspense is retained, but the action is played for laughs.
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What a Glorious Feeling by Jay Berkow
Musical Based on Making of Film Singing in the Rain
By: - Sep 23rd, 2026Early on in freeFall Theatre’s production of “What a Glorious Feeling!” two impressive performers playing Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen start tap dancing wildly inside a small Hollywood rehearsal studio. They’re creating steps that will become a crucial part of the tongue-twisting song “Moses Supposes” in their classic 1952 film “Singin’ in the Rain.”
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Simon Stone's Cherry Orchard
Park Avenue Armory Goes Korean
By: - Sep 21st, 2026What is striking about the current production of The Cherry Orchard at the Park Avenue Armory in New York is its musicality. You notice this quickly, because, if you’re like most of us, you don't understand the Korean language spoken in this version of the play. It was written by the brilliant director Simon Stone, who says he wanted to "pin words onto his actors." You clearly get the emotion of the phrases—they chirp and tinkle and chip away at the air like musical notes.
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Co-founder Dolly Jacobs Ousted from Circus Arts Conservatory
Sarasota Supporters Outraged
By: - Sep 18th, 2026In the days since Circus Arts Conservatory co-founder Dolly Jacobs’ Sept. 11 announcement that she had been terminated by the organization’s board of directors, fans of the legendary aerialist, supporters of the nonprofit and members of the Sarasota circus community have reacted with shock, outrage and vows to discontinue support for the organization.
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Come From Away at Sharon PLayhouse
A Timely Revival
By: - Sep 18th, 2026Though it seems as though everyone must know the plot of come from Away by now, it is set in Gander, Newfoundland on Sept. 11, 2001, and the days following. Gander, once a major refueling stop for cross Atlantic flights becomes one of the airports that flights that are in the air on 9/11 are directed to when the US airspace is closed. 38 jumbo jets, mostly originating in Europe, are told to land; the 7,000 passengers on board exceed the population of the town.
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Music Theatre of Connecticut
Harmony Opens Season
By: - Sep 18th, 2026The show tells the story of the Comedian Harmonists, a singing group of six men formed in Germany in the 1920s. Their close harmony and jazzy routines, as well as their humor made them an international success. Tours of Europe led to an appearance at New York’s Carnegie Hall in 1932. Best selling recordings led to movie contracts.
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Edith Wharton Play Roman Fever
Staged Reading at the Mount
By: - Sep 17th, 2026Set against the timeless backdrop of Rome, “Roman Fever” explores friendship, jealousy, betrayal, and the secrets that can reshape a lifetime. In Wharton’s sharply observed story, two longtime friends revisit their shared past, gradually revealing simmering tensions, long-buried secrets, and startling revelations. The reading brings Wharton’s razor-sharp wit and enduring fascination with the complexities of human relationships vividly to life.
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Don Giovanni
Opera San Jose's Fine Production of Mozart Classic
By: - Sep 15th, 2026Serial sex abuser Don Giovanni's downfall begins with his killing Donna Anna's father The Commendatore in a swordfight. Three of his conquests are joined by two male friends to bring an end to his reign. Meanwhile, we enjoy Mozart's fine music and an exceptional libretto from Lorenzo da Ponte that integrates comedy, tragedy, and fantasy in a matchless manner.
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Sarasota Players Fundraise for New Home
It Hasn't Been Easy
By: - Sep 15th, 2026At the Sept. 10 ceremony, the theater company broke with tradition to kick off the launch of Payne Park Auditorium and the fundraising campaign by plugging in a ghost light, which has been part of theatrical history and superstition since the 19th century.
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Norweigans by C. Denny Swanson
Launches Fall seasob for Shakespere & Company
By: - Sep 14th, 2026Launching the Berkshire shoulder season, Shakespeare & Company, is presenting a dark comedy, The Norwegians, on weekends in the intimate Elayne P. Bernstein Theatre. It's a rare treat to see the hilarious Elizabeth Aspenlieder sharing a stage with Peggy Phar Wilson.
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Boston Lyric Opera's Fiftieth Season
Launches with William Tell
By: - Sep 14th, 2026Although its overture remains among the best-known classical pieces ever written, Angus says, WILLIAM TELL also contains some of Rossini’s richest music, including soaring choral writing, expansive ensembles, and virtuosic arias that reveal a composer working on a far grander canvas than the comic operas for which he is often remembered.
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Baker Street Beginnings
Heckscher Theatre for Families Production
By: - Sep 09th, 2026Theatre Lab's annual family-friendly production this year is the humorous, thrilling, and endearing "Baker Street Beginnings." The production marks the world premiere of Gina Montét's new play.
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Noises Off
Farce at Barrington Stage Company
By: - Sep 03rd, 2026There were many challenges to Noises Off, as its director Gordon Greenberg explained in program notes. "It feels like a mountain to scale, honestly. Why does one want to climb Mount Kilimanjaro? Because its a challenge. And for people who love theatre as much as I do, it's not only a great challenge, but also a great joy."
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Forbidden!
U.S. Premiere at the Foundry Near Ft. Lauderdale
By: - Sep 02nd, 2026More than a century after it was nearly lost to history, South Florida's Plays of Wilton presents the American premiere of Forbidden! The play's original title in Dutch was "Wat Niet Mag!" or "Mustn't Do It!" Plays of Wilton's strong production runs through Sept. 27 in the intimate Foundry.
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Magnus at Theater for a New City
Wendy Biller Writes, Directs and Choreographs
By: - Aug 31st, 2026Theater for the New City is presenting Magnus, written, directed, and choreographed by Wendy Biller. It is an animated evening of theater, with the physical movements of the actors contributing a moving image to the story being told.
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Sarasota County Approves Arts Grants Without DEI Debate
Leaves Urbanite Behind
By: - Aug 29th, 2026When arts organizations in line for tourist tax grants were asked in July to acknowledge new diversity, equity and inclusion stipulations to receive public funds for 2027, most hoped the Sarasota County Commission would either provide more clarity or overlook the culture war issue.
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Batboy the Musical
Sarasota Players
By: - Aug 29th, 2026“Bat Boy: The Musical” is one of the most unusual and bizarre shows you’re likely to come across. That shouldn’t be surprising considering it was inspired in part by a 1992 story in the mostly fictional Weekly World News tabloid newspaper, about the discovery of a boy who was half human and half bat.
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Is The Snow Goose Broadway Bound
Musicals Take Years to Develop
By: - Aug 28th, 2026The goal is for The Snow Goose to go on to future productions, including, possibly Broadway. Hilton said that during its run in East Haddam, Goodspeed will be inviting and encouraging Broadway professionals – including producers – to see it.
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Eureka Day
Island City Stage's Hilarious Satire
By: - Aug 28th, 2026Island City Stage near Ft. Lauderdale has mounted a funny and touching production of the bitingly funny satire "Eureka Day." The production runs through Sept. 13 in Island City Stage's intimate black-box theater in Wilton Manors. This mounting marks the second production of "Eureka Day" in South Florida in less than six months. "Eureka Day" is the third most-produced play in the United States this season.
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